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Aired on May 24th 14:30 CEST 2025
Cisterns (A)
Genre: Electroacoustic music, Sound - Text
Duration: 30 min
Cisterns ( A )
Part III of "The Catastrophe" trilogy by Asher.Zax

Sections:
drain
blow
pierce
smash
empty

The Catastrophe - Al-Nakba - is a term used specifically to refer to the destruction and occupation of Palestinian homeland and the displacement of the majority of Palestinians by the Israeli state. The word, and the act of, Nakba resonates from 1948 to the present day. The Catastrophe continues. It also expands its reach to infect present-day Israeli society.

Cisterns is a musical setting of a poem written by poet Tal Nitzan. The poem, inspired by Massimo Berruti’s photograph, portrays two little children carrying a water tank in the ruins of a bombarded building in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, on their way to a water distribution point shortly after an Israeli air-force attack on Gaza in 2014.

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Cisterns / Tal Nitzan
(translated from Hebrew by the poet)

See the poem in the image.
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For Cisterns Asher.Zax were joined by the musicians of the experimental music ensemble Musica Nova, percussionist Raimund Engelhardt and Contrabassist Nadav Masel. The composition draws its origins and inspiration from Raga Lalit, which is one of the ragas of the hindustani Dhrupad tradition.

Meira Asher - Voice, Structure
Eran Sachs - Electronics
Raimund Engelhardt - Pakhawaj
Nadav Masel - Contrabass
Adi Snir - Contra-alto Clarinet
Maayan Tsadka - Trumpet, Objects,
Hydrophone

Poem by Tal Nitzan
Translated to Arabic by Idan Barir
Translated to English by Tal Nitzan
Photograph: Gaza, Beit Hanoun 2015
by Massimo Berruti

Live at Hazira JLM-al-Quds
Poem read by Tal Nitzan
Sound by Eyal Lally Bitton
Recorded by Ido Mandil
Mixed by Daniel Meir
Mastered by Ricardo Mazza
Tape cover design: Nadav Levi
Text assistance: Liam Evans

Released March 21, 2023, Raash Records

Aired on May 24th 15:00 CEST 2025
Cisterns (B)
Genre: Electroacoustic music, Sound - Text
Duration: 30 min
Cisterns (B)
Part III of "The Catastrophe" trilogy by Asher.Zax

Cisterns Continues

The Catastrophe - Al-Nakba - is a term used specifically to refer to the destruction and occupation of Palestinian homeland and the displacement of the majority of Palestinians by the Israeli state. The word, and the act of, Nakba resonates from 1948 to the present day. The Catastrophe continues. It also expands its reach to infect present-day Israeli society.

Cisterns is a musical setting of a poem written by poet Tal Nitzan. The poem, inspired by Massimo Berruti’s photograph, portrays two little children carrying a water tank in the ruins of a bombarded building in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, on their way to a water distribution point shortly after an Israeli air-force attack on Gaza in 2014.

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Cisterns / Tal Nitzan
(translated from Hebrew by the poet)

See the poem in the image.
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For Cisterns Asher.Zax were joined by the musicians of the experimental music ensemble Musica Nova, percussionist Raimund Engelhardt and Contrabassist Nadav Masel. The composition draws its origins and inspiration from Raga Lalit, which is one of the ragas of the hindustani Dhrupad tradition.

Meira Asher - Voice, Structure
Eran Sachs - Electronics
Raimund Engelhardt - Pakhawaj
Nadav Masel - Contrabass
Adi Snir - Contra-alto Clarinet
Maayan Tsadka - Trumpet, Objects,
Hydrophone

Poem by Tal Nitzan
Translated to Arabic by Idan Barir
Translated to English by Tal Nitzan
Photograph: Gaza, Beit Hanoun 2015
by Massimo Berruti

Live at CCA Yafa-Tel Aviv
Sound by Adi Snir
Recorded by Meira Asher
Mixed by Daniel Meir
Mastered by Ricardo Mazza
Tape cover design: Nadav Levi
Text assistance: Liam Evans

Released March 21, 2023, Raash Records

Featuring:

Asher.Zax

Asher.Zax (2013 – ) – Meira Asher and Eran Sachs are two sound artists/experimental musicians whose work is intimately tied with respective researches, both of which sway between the explicitly political and the highly personal. Unapologetic, direct, at times fierce and at others graceful, they are using their media of voice, text, modular and chaotic systems to force a path to the raw human substrate.

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