A joint mix with James Goddard for Radio AlHara

Track listing below

(artist name / track name)

01. Jeff Majors - Room 400

02. Whatever The Weather - 4°C

03. Lina Filipovich - G. F. Handel - Sarabande

04. Emeka Ogboh - No Counterfeit

05. RA Washington / Jah Nada - Hands

06. dumama + kechou - umzi

07. nao otsuka - Improvised Piano Solo 4.21.2023

08. Stefan Christoff - Flying Organ

09. Totenbaum Träger - Fleur de néon I

10. NAKAMURA Hiroyuki - Chimaera

11. La Forêt rouge - Voulez-vous danser (excerpt)

12. Holobody - Round the Ring

13. jankyy tyygr - eye dididin eye take 1

14. Relic - Be My Valentine

15. Saeed Kamjoo + Stefan Christoff - Duet In July

Photo by Tamara Abdul Hadi

http://www.tamarabdulhadi.com

On this edition of Free City Radio we feature a conversation with Sami, a Palestinian team member and student coordinator at BDS NL, the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement in the Netherlands.

Sami started his activism in university in the UK and is now leveraging his experience to support and empower student groups across the Netherlands, involved in the Palestine justice movement. This interview is a window into the logistics and details of organizing around the BDS movements in the Netherlands and more broadly within the EU context.

Specifically this interview outlines the importance of projects like the #DontBuyIntoOccupation report that focuses on investigating and highlighting "the financial relationships between business enterprises involved in the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and European Financial Institutions (FIs)."

https://dontbuyintooccupation.org

This interview was recorded at the OCCii space in Amsterdam, thank you to Sarah Teixeira St Cyr for helping to coordinate this interview. This program includes an excerpt of a track from the Amsterdam based artist Zea, more info:

https://zeamusic.bandcamp.com

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays and broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

On this edition of Free City Radio we highlight a conversation with filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal on the documentary film Into the Weeds. This film is described this way:

"INTO THE WEEDS follows groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson and his fight for justice against Monsanto (now Bayer). Johnson’s case was the first to go to trial in a series of lawsuits involving tens of thousands of plaintiffs claiming Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup, or its industrial counterpart Ranger Pro, contributed to their cancer. The film follows this groundbreaking trial, while also stepping back to consider the systemic effects of the world’s most widely used herbicide."

I first came across the film, Into the Weeds, within the context of my organizing work with Cinema Politica's screening series at Concordia University at which we projected this film for a community screening event.

Info on the activism surrounding this film:

https://www.intotheweedsimpact.com

Music on this edition is by Daniel Lanois.

Thank you for listening ! - Stefan.

Free City Radio airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays and broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from community radio host Mohamed Bah, based in Amsterdam, who founded the project City Rights Radio. This is an initiative created by asylum seekers to give voice to the direct perspectives of migrants experiencing and also doing community organizing within the context of the migration crisis in Europe today. The project in Amsterdam is supported by the organization Here to Support in The Netherlands. In the interview Mohamed speaks about his own journey as a refugee from Guinea and the efforts to create alternative media as a pathway to create alternative narratives in the media landscape that both humanize and empower the direct experiences of refugees and migrants in western Europe today.

Thank you to Sarah Teixeira St Cyr for helping to coordinate this interview.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays and broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

Thanya Iyer + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

For @radioalhara

Broadcasting on Tue May 9, 7am eastern time and 2pm in Bethlehem on radioalhara.net

This is a joint mix with musician Thanya Iyer, learn about Thanya's music here: http://www.thanyaiyer.com

Track listing

Artist name / Track name

01. Wayne Shorter - Ponta de Areia

02. NNAMDï @nnamdiogbonnaya - Grounded

03. Jeremy Dutcher - Mehcinut

04. Florist - Sci-fi Silence

05. Macie Stewart - Finally

06. KAINA @kainamusic - Good Feeling (feat. Sen Morimoto)

07. Thanya Iyer - Leave the room and face the waves

08. Joni Void @joni_void - Hi-Hatsss Nightsss

09 David Parker @slowmantofu - A Murder of Crows at Dawn

10. Sarah Pagé @sarahpageharp - Premiers pas au Marécage

11 Mark Trecka - Loping Breath (as Bells) -with Chaz Prymek and A-Y-dancers- - Eventual Peace - Kazuo Speaks (long excerpt)

This is my third monthly mix on Root Radio @rootradiolive, the joint mixes air on the second Monday or each month. This month I am sharing a solo mix.

Thank you to Root Radio for broadcasting this mix !

Track listing

track name / artist name

01. Joni Void @joni_void - Artsss/Craftsss

02. Aidan Baker @aidanbaker & Jörg Schneider - Douse

03. Anarchist Mountains Trio (@thenewobjective @jordanchristoff @spirodon) - In 1985 (via @amekcollective)

04. Andrea Bellucci & Matteo Uggeri - A Gift from a Debt

05. Anthony Sahyoun @asahyoun - The New World

06. Asher & Jordan - Ripples (via @crashsymbols)

07. B R A H J A {aka Devin Brahja Waldman} - Querencia

08. Badawi - Ocean Of Tears (1996)

09. Crasher - Window Washer

10. @devenir-ensemble - Mouvement 8 - Retrouvailles

11. Devenir-ensemble - Mouvement 9 - Retour à la normale

12. Esse Ran - Rêve étrange (Interlude)

13. gran où lée - Ehrenbreitstein Field Recordings (Anniversary Edition) - Ehrenbreitstein Field Recordings (excerpt)

On this months artist interview for Radio AlHara I am sharing an interview with percussionist and musician Jim White who speaks about his creative practice, engaging in live improvisation and composition. Jim specifically highlights the project Xylouris White and their recent album The Forest In Me.

Music on this edition is by Xylouris White, listen to the recent album here:

https://xylouriswhiteshop.bandcamp.com/album/the-forest-in-me

Thank you to Peter Burton at Art in the Margins for helping set-up this exchange.

A conversation with Sjoerd Stolk about the OCCii independent cultural space in Amsterdam. Sjoerd speaks about independent music, art, squatting and activism in Amsterdam today in a historical context of the impacts that squatting movements in the 1980s have on the urban landscape today in the city.

Info on OCCii https://occii.org

Music on this edition is Soon All Cities by The Ex.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays and broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

On this edition of Free City Radio we visit an alternative historical narrative and location that flips the narrative around artists as being the shock troops of gentrification in major western cities. In this story, one based in the Lower East Side of New York, artists were on the actual frontlines of community battles to protect squatted buildings and abandon lots that were turned into community gardens. The results are living vibrant spaces in the area, including one of the largest networks of community gardens in North America within an urban setting and a number of buildings that were once squats and that are now legalized as housing and public spaces. This episode features the voices of Bill Di Paola a founding member of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) in New York and Yasmeen Abdallah who is involved in ABC No Rio in New York.

Music on this edition is by Dave Switchenko.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays and broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

Radio Nopal Mix

Adriana Camacho and Stefan Christoff

April 26, 2023

01. Adriana Camacho and Stefan Christoff - En El Parque

02. Loope (aka Adriana Camacho), Anne Waldman - Paraiso 1| Mancia | En el vientre

03. Rêves sonores - Hearken

04. Rêves sonores - Mondial

05. Ben Brown - shimmer shimmer

06. Christian Carrière - Static

07. Jordan Christoff - Torn

08. Anarchist Mountains - Organs

09. Matmos - Cobra Wages Shuffle / Off! Schable w gurę!

10. Anarchist Mountains - Three

11. Adriana Camacho and Stefan Christoff - ?Los Amigos Son Eléctricos?

12. Loope (aka Adriana Camacho), Zazil Collins - Manos de gorila

13. Loope (aka Adriana Camacho), Zazil Collins - Caminos de argento

14. Loope (aka Adriana Camacho), Anne Waldman - Anarquía | AmorDesamor

15. Adriana Camacho and Stefan Christoff - ¿Los Amigos Son Eléctricos?