Friday | 16.9 | 14:00
ANALOG with El Khat featuring Riff Cohen and a cassette music party with Khen Elmaleh
Barutina’s Peak event!
Hansen House, 14 Gdalyahu Alon St
The show will close the 7th Jerusalem Art Conference at Hansen House
Conceived and led by Eyal El Wahab, El Khat combines handmade musical instruments masterfully crafted from scraps. The band, which takes its name from the leaf common in the Arabian Peninsula, plays original music and psychedelic funk cover versions of traditional Yemeni music.
The show will feature singer-songwriter Riff Cohen who elegantly travels between Paris and Tel Aviv, North African beats and classical music. With cosmopolitan charm and the grit of real cassette music, El Khat and Riff Cohen will join forces in an exceptional collaboration.
Before and after the main show – the Maghreb Princess Khen Elmaleh in a rare DJ set, paying homage to “cassette music” and celebrating Arab, Mediterranean, and North African music.
As the Boiler Room put it when hosting Elmaleh in 2015: “As a resident women DJ and activist Khen Elmaleh symbolizes a new hybrid DJ, embodying local contradicting dualities and illuminating the Arabic component in her Mizrachi identity, while giving new and contemporary perspectives to Middle Eastern musical selections on the dance floor.”
Throughout the event, you can find Barashi Records pop up store with a selection of second-hand mint condition albums.
Artistic director: Noa Melamed Vazana
Producer: Alina Alexa Osipova
Manofim Festival artistic director: Rinat Edelstein
El Khat works in collaboration with the Association for Society and Culture Documentation and Research.
With the support of the Municipality of Jerusalem, the Culture and Arts Department – the Department of Visual Arts and the Department of Music
Sponsored by 
Digital to Analog Converter
The time has come to go back, to shift from the digital world to the analog world. To sail among countless chance musical moments and clear and measured technological moments. Back to the future.
The social world is moving towards, or perhaps reverting to, fragmentation into communities. Anyone can join a virtual community and find their place in it, while in real life, we hardly every meet anyone around us.
As its name suggests, The Mixer allows us to connect and reorganize the things that matter most, as we would like to see them happen. This year in Jerusalem, with its many communities and identities, with the hottest local music and freshest international music we’ll try to translate what is happening online to the real world, connect between remote connections and personal connections and bring artists together their audience.
The Mixer will guide us through the ins and outs of electronic music with all the possible transformers towards pitches of soul music to red-hot local cassette music. In the hope that we will leave the online virtual community for a human encounter of the closest kind.
