listen to an interview with indigenous artist Beatrice Deer, who speaks about the Beatrice Deer band project & the importance of expressing Inuit culture through the arts. Beatrice speaks about the ways that historical colonial injustices toward Inuit peoples shape her work & the focus of her work.

info on Beatrice Deer : http://www.beatricedeerband.com/music

accompanying art work by Janice Deer.

listen to a night walk in parc x recorded on may 13, 2016, photo taken at dawn on de l'épée just off parc ave.

listen to an excerpt of a poem by alejandro saravia, recorded at home last summer, mixed with a nighttime walk in parc x. montréal may 13, 2016.

alejandro writes ...

« always be capable to feel deep inside of yourself an injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world ... and it is here where we recognize ourselves, the children and grandchildren of all the coups d'état, of all the civil wars. »

photo taken in spring 2015 2016 by stefan christoff. on a night bus ride from montreal to nyc.

listen to a soundscape mixing sounds recorded on parc ave. in montreal on may 12, 2016 along side an electric bass / piano rehearsal between peter burton & stefan christoff recorded in winter 2016.

photo taken by stefan christoff in griffintown on ottawa street in 2000.

listen to an interview with Tom Law from the Ethical Journalism Network who speaks on the realities of repression against journalists taking place in Turkey today.

specifically this interview focuses on the recent cases of Cumhuriyet newspaper journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, Gul for five years and Dundar five years and 10 months. the BBC recently reported that these journalists reported that "Turkey's intelligence services were sending weapons and ammunition to Islamist rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad," this reporting has landed them in prison.

in this interview Tom Law speaks about how this case illustrates broader systemic repression against media workers in Turkey today.

this interview was recorded & produced for broadcast on CKUT fm in Montreal by Stefan Christoff @spirodon accompanying photo is from when the Turkish state riot police stormed the important opposition newspaper Zaman in Istanbul.

listen to some late night organ experimentations recorded at home in this city on the hill above fleuve st. laurent.

listen to an interview with Kristen Brown speaking on the El Corazón de Mejunje documentary film project by Friki Films collective.

El Corazón de Mejunje : "In a country where freedom of expression was once so suppressed that punk rockers self-injected with HIV to live freer lives in sanatoriums and homosexuals were sent to forced labor camps, a man named Ramón Silverio had a BRIGHTER VISION of REVOLUTION. He dreamed of a place where people of all kinds, of all orientations and beliefs, could truly be free.

Built from the ruins of an old hotel, his fantasy became the Mejunje. For over thirty years, the Mejunje has been a lifeline to marginalized individuals in Cuba who converge in this music venue and community center in Santa Clara to perform punk rock, drag shows, troubadours, dance, theatre, hip hop, spoken word and more."

info : https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/el-corazon-de-mejunje#/

listen to an interview with Robin Yassin-Kassab & Leila Al-Shami two Syrian writers living in London who recently published the book "Burning Country : Syrians in Revolution and War," currently being toured around North America. I recorded an exchange with both of them on parc ave.

for more information on their book :

https://plutopress.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/burning-country-syrians-in-revolution-and-war

calligraphy by mouneer al shaarani.

listen to a violin / organ recording done at home in parc x. with violin played by fern o'dactyl and organ by stefan christoff, thanks for listening.

listen to an organ recording done at home in parc x. in late winter 2016 inspired by catherine ribeiro + alpes song 'paix'. this is not a full track or composition, but was playing some organ after listening to the track on repeat after work one night. thanks for listening. -- stefan.