Musical Album Shtírekh u-Granát

A cycle of ritual novellas, songs "Styrax and Pomegranate" is a ceremony set on the shore of a salt lake.

https://dagmargertot.bandcamp.com/album/sht-rekh-u-gran-t-2

 It functions as a surrealist opus that examines the contract between beings and landscape. The album consists of vocal and instrumental improvisations with electroacoustic elements and field recordings. 

It employs a constructed language based on mixed Near Eastern phonological models and uses it to organise vocal structures independently of conventional semantics.

 The work approaches the Song of Songs as a practical protocol, a model of attention, reciprocity and bodily coordination within the recording process. 

The material was assembled during movements between several cities.

Shtírekh u-Granát

1

 Zel’abbël na-tikh suhlam ëm’shaqat ishkè-lah

 (My ankles are licked by the salty lake of Zeil Ab-El.) 

2

Bahril az-zunúr meshgora bel-nakhra da’at saqál

 (My belly is washed with fat by the ancient bird.) 

3

 Eresht shamsa be-or yebeth el-Rákh yom Yaqqam

 (My eyes are scorched by the desert sun and the God in the milk of the jaguar and the yak.)

 4 

Talqat surím ben-dakal rimur lemáh tesheta

 (He has grown teeth for my unskilled mouth.) 

 5 

Hadrúni le-Zal’at ti-marshá! 

(Come into my salty wharf!)

 6

 Tsafrumi! Nakhayoth sel’athíru be-mehshen!

 (Gather and nest, you strange birds!)

 7 

Shivráni tahat siláh min-ashmúr tevla

 (Lie under the shade of the age-old fig trees.)

 8 

Shtírekh u-Granát!

 (Styrax and Pomegranate!)

 9

 Yehalél shabbóra ve-rachám

 (Let it be filled with song and dance.) 

10 

Be’khatùn sel-tabákh ay’lehash! 

(My bay prepared for festivity!)

credits

released December 4, 2025 

voice, panduri, piano, igil, accordion, electronics, field recordings, hybrid language 

Recorded across Venice, Tbilisi, Barcelona and London.