A Magical Substance Flows Into Me

Robert Lachmann was a GermanJewish ethnomusicologist In the 1930s his radio show Oriental Music explored the musical traditions of Palestine and included regular live performances by musicians from different ethnic and religious groups Inspired by Lachmanns musicological studies Palestinian artist Jumana Manna travels through Israel and the Palestinian territories of today with recordings from the programme What do these songs sound like now when performed by Moroccan Kurdish or Yemenite Jews by Samaritans members of the urban and rural Palestinian communities Bedouins and Coptic Christians