On this edition of Free City Radio we continue with the series of interviews focused on the organizing work of the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal to support garment sector workers who were facing the outsourcing of their work to the global south. In this context the interviews look at a specific company, Lamour Inc., who between 2006-2008 was outsourcing jobs to contexts where workers could be paid less and more easily exploitable.

Info on the series here:

https://deindustrialization.org/voices-of-the-iwc

For this edition we hear from Yumna Siddiqi, current board member of the Immigrant Workers Centre who was involved in this campaign to support Lamour Inc. workers.

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 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

The accompanying photos was taken by Tatiana Gomez.

182, Yumna Siddiqi on campaigning with garment workers in Montreal

On Free City Radio edition 184 we continue with our series of interviews focusing on the organizing work of the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal to support garment sector workers facing the outsourcing of their work to the global south. In this context the interviews look at a specific company, Lamour Inc., who between 2006-2008 was outsourcing jobs to contexts where workers could be paid less and more easily exploitable. Workers organized together to demand just compensation, with support from the IWC and were successful. 

Info on the series here:

http://deindustrialization.org/voices-of-the-iwc

For this edition we hear from Mostafa Henaway, a community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre who was directly involved in this campaign to support Lamour Inc. workers. Mostafa recently published the book "Essential Work, Disposable Workers," for more information visit:

https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/authors/view/mostafa-henaway

The accompanying photos was taken by Tatiana Gomez.

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 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

184, Mostafa Henaway on organizing with immigrant garment workers in Montreal

Reverberations d’une crise / Sounding the housing crisis
Métro Laurier, public speak out
Suoni per il Popolo festival
10 June 2023

Broadcast @n10-as Thursday May 5, 1pm, on @cjlo1690am May 2, 9am, on CKUT 90.3 FM @radiockut Friday, June 28, 5pm on Radio Renoviction and on the May 8 edition of S.A.N.E, 8-9pm on CKUW 95.9 FM Winnipeg. Photo by Ivan de Jacquelin. Sound system support at event by Danji @anabasine 

https://suoniperilpopolo.org/fr/horaire/reverberations-dune-crise-une-enquete-sonore-sur-le-logement-a-montreal

A mix of a creative speak out organized by contributors to the project Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal (https://www.reverberationscriselogement.org). This event took place during Suoni per il Popolo festival. This soundscape draws from audio recorded at the action registered by sound artist Joseph Sannicandro @thenewobjective, edits by Joseph, with music editing by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and synth by Jordan Christoff. Joseph writes:

"This audio work documents a community speak out against the housing crisis in Montreal, held at the public plaza in front of Metro Laurier on 10 June 2023 under the auspices of the Suoni per il Popolo arts and music festival. Selections from each of the many contributions are edited into a melange of speeches and screams and music and urban noise.  Reflections on gentrification, sovereignty, and the complexities of living on indigenous land. The recording taken directly from the mixing board is augmented with binaural recordings made while walking around the event. Thus headphone listening might present a unique perspective. I sometimes layered contributions, in order to share more from some contributors. For instance, allowing Jason Blackbird to accompany his voice with his own trumpet playing, or layering multiple vignettes of Stella’s powerful words. As editor and co-producer of the Reverberations d’une crise podcast, an eight episode series weaving together contributions from a collective of Montreal tenant sound artists, I reworked contributions from all the participants into a collective collage. The episode ends with a composition by collective member Jordan Torres Bussière, performed on site at the end of the event, as well as the final section of my collage, played back on portable speakers in various configurations at Metro Laurier later that night. - Joseph Sannicandro"

In this piece you hear these voices:

A sound work by Stefan Christoff featuring community activist François Saillant 

Hubert Gendron-Blais (sound artist)
https://www.hubert-gendron-blais.org/

Deanna Radford (poet)
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poets/deanna-radford

Paula Dykstra (poet) 
+ Philippe Battikha @philippebattikha (musician)
https://www.philippebattikha.com

Alejandro Saravia (poet)

Jason Blackbird Selman (poet / musician)
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poets/jason-selman

Members of Syndicat des locataires autonomes de Montréal (SLAM)
https://linktr.ee/slam.matu

Moh Abdo, Comm-Un https://comm-un.org

Sandra Wesley, Director of STELLA Montreal
https://chezstella.org

Theo Lyons
+ Jordan Arsenault
https://thedutymyth.blogspot.com

Gaurav Sharma
Organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre
https://iwc-cti.ca

Bengı Akbulut
Academic and activist
https://explore.concordia.ca/index.php/bengi-akbulut

Stella Adjokê (artist)
https://stellaadjoke.com

Juhi Sohani 
Community advocate

zLadyBug (poet)

Liz and Jay
Members of Wolf Pack Street Patrol
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/wolf-pack-hits-montreal-streets-protect-vulnerable-indigenous-women

Pierre Parent
Indigenous street outreach worker and formerly incarcerated person

Jordan Torres Bussière @jordantorresbussiere (sound artist)
https://soundcloud.com/jordantorresbussiere

Joseph Sannicandro / Reverberations d’une Crise collective - sound collage guerrilla installation
(reworking sounds from Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal collective)

Réverbérations d'une crise speak-out on the housing crisis in Montréal

A mix for the program Underground sounds, airing Mondays from 8-10pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, below is the track listing, thank you for listening!

Artwork is from the DIY for Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) benefit compilation (https://lumpensoup.bandcamp.com/album/diy-for-dulf) and is by Toast (https://www.instagram.com/crustytoast.art)

01. Goats And Lasers, Why Oh Why Bry Lovejoy Goats Amp Lasers Remix
02. Cranberry Virgin, Evermore Bathroom
03. PISS,  a little girl's horse craze betrays her
04. Emma Goldman, Irrational Exuberance or Something Like That
05. TJ Felix, I'VE SEEN THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION DIE PREVENTABLE OVERDOSE DEATHS
06. Goats & Lasers, lottery
07. Roach McGuirk, Coulrophobia
08. The Heterosexuals, If
09. Magda Baker, Bon's Off Broadway
10. Natlak, Vermin with Badges
11. Lumpen Soup, The Tower
12. 2 Dollar Jesus, thirteen forty-two
13. Low Dead Space, Die in Vancouver
14. TJ Felix, Throw my Ashes at the Sun
15 M01E, W.A.A.O.D
16. Girlwife, Church-State
17. June Hawthorn, punch
18. Chaos Disorder & Panic, Homes not Games
19. Soledad Coyoli, Quédate
20. Andrew Hurst, Lonely Hunter
21. Julia Cohen, When You Spot The Shore, The Palm
22. Matthew Blair, In A Windowless Room At Dusk
23. Philippe Battikha & Mitch Van Dusen, Bludgeon
24. Errance, Fulminance
25. Errance, Nord
26. Errance, Et si elles n'y arrivaient jamais...
27. Errance, Sans aller
28. Errance, Les possibles finalités
29. Errance, Rage
30. Errance, Lorsque se dispersent les tempêtes
31. Errance, Fracas de nous
32. Totenbaum Träger, EyIran, blown-out
33. Totenbaum Träger, Escalades

A mix for Underground sounds on CKUT 90.3 FM, 01/2025

Jeremy Young presents “With all our knowable ills, ...” [mix]

Our next guest is Stefan Christoff (@spirodon) a Montreal-based activist and artist active in various experimental musical projects revolving around the intersection of sound and activism. Stefan helps coordinate #MusiciansForPalestine and collaborates with musicians from around the world, including Sound Dreams, Sam Shalabi, Lori Goldston and Anarchist Mountains. He also hosts Free City Radio (@freecityradio) on several Canadian radio stations and works with several cultural and social justice spaces in Montreal.

www.operator-radio.com

Mutant Modality w/ Stefan Christoff - 26th May 2025

A mixtape shaped by tracks from the Make Fuzz Not War compilation benefit for Palestine, info on the project here:

01. Philippe Battikha - Lascia ch'io pianga
02. anthéne - illuminated
03. D. Marion - Ey Iran, blown-out
04. Jakob Rehlinger - Baṭṭīkh Threnody
05. Hazy Montagne Mystique x Melina Spiga - Quand les voix se rejoignent au crépuscule
06. Stefan Christoff - Appel à la manif
07. M. Mucci - Defuse the bombs, destroy the guns, and clip the wings of all the drones
08. Joël Lavoie x Érick d'Orion - Gambit
09. Pierre-Yves Martel - Mayday (excerpt)

MAKE FUZZ NOT WAR mix for راديو الحارة

Skramz. Screamo. Emoviolence.

Welcome to emotive hardcore, a sound that has no definitive origin but is a blend of a variety of settings and tones. 

I'm honored this round to be joined by two very excellent friends, Geoff Rickley of the band Thursday and GENG PTP aka King Vision Ultra. Each of us have curated different snapshots of origin stories, packed living rooms, harsh and melodic sounds, and one big middle finger to America.

We're all ready proud of this. It came from an organic dialogue and if we weren't restricted with time limits probably could've gone on for at least another hour. 

Expect a positive ferociousness.

STRAW:
Rodan - Bible Silver Corner (intro music)
Rites of Spring - For Want Of
Moss Icon - As Afterwards the Words Still Ring
Slint - Nosferatu Man
Universal Order of Armageddon - Mud
Evergreen - Trudy Pushpin
Bessie Smith - See if I'll Care
Indian Summer - Woolworm
Mohinder - Expiration
Drive Like Jehu - Here Come the Rome Plows

GEOFF: 
Frail - Love
You and I - Seascape
Saetia - The Sweetness and the Light
Q and Not U - End the Washington Monument (Blinks) Goodnight
pageninetynine - Richmond is a Hole
Heroin - Meaning Less
Jeromes Dream - Reminders to Parallel
Usurp Synapse - "Man, That's a Big Ass Shirt!"
charles bronson - Marriage Can Suck It
Reversal of Man - Bless the Printing Press
COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN - My Spine! My Spine! My Spine!
Ink + Dagger - Full Circle

GENG: 
The Judas Iscariot - Thespian Imperative
Murdock - Sweet Stuff
Countdown To Putsch - Coke Okay
Merel - So Lovely Warmth
Policy Of 3 - 1%
Iconoclast - Tales of Vicious Rabbit
MAKARA - Missing Green
Guyver-One - Zero (Version 2)
Yaphet Kotto - Fact Or Fiction
Shroomunion - Bubble Gum Tears And Bloody Fears
The Hareste - pain in decibels
Inkwell - Wash
circle takes the square - We're Sustained by the Corpse of a Fallen Constellation
Portrait - Less Sugar
Off Minor - Remainder
Born Against - Five Dollars An Hour

STRAW + requests*:
At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor*
Envy - Left Hand
Piri Reis - When Life Hand You Grenade
Peace of Mind & Anomine - I Want My Life (And I'll Get It!!)
Crochet - You Have Destroyed My Flower-Like Life
Braid - A Dozen Roses

Cause & Effect: Emotive Hardcore (with Geoff Rickley & GENG PTP)

Ukrainian Field Notes - 30 May 2025 - Oleksii Podat

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
 Tracklist
* Oleksii Podat - I Regret Everything I Have Ever Done Online
* Oleksii Podat - Learning to Stumble Oleksii Podat - my mom sends me photos from relatively safe places (version 2)
* Adaa Zagorodnya - Beznazva Syoma
* Oleksii Podat - to commit, to let go
* Oleksii Podat - If I die here I was murdered by daytime television
* Oleksii Podat - Golden Hour


Ukrainian Field Notes - 30 May 2025 - Oleksii Podat

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's long-awaited debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations, the first of ten mixes this week. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's collaborative party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2020). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come back. On RA.1000, you'll hear Theo in his element.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by image-driven marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. Theo, once again, proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

A live discussion at the Suoni per il Popolo festival in Montreal in June 2025 that was streamed live on Radio AlHara in Palestine. This discussion focuses on various projects, actions and campaign initiatives in Montreal to lift up and support the Palestinian struggle for liberation. There is a particular focus on the role and importance of cultural workers engaging in the struggle here. 

Thank you to Joseph Sannicandro for the technical support in Montreal and to Ibrahim Owais for the technical support in Palestine. 

This panel includes the participation of the following voices:

Tara Alami, writer and organizer with the Palestinian Feminist Collective

Razan AlSalah, filmmaker, educator and member of collectif Regards Palestiniens

Sonya Ben Yahmed, activist, writer and researcher

Jasmin Ghorbani, academic and organizer with Cinema Politica Concordia 

Ehab Lotayef, community activist and poet

Sanaz Sohrabi, artist and researcher of visual culture

Kiva Stimac, artistic director of the Suoni per il Popolo festival 

Zoë Thomas, doctor and musician who will play a live set on violin 

Yasmine, an organizer from the Gaza solidarity encampment at McGill University 

Dominic Marion, of the Make Fuzz Not War project via Tall House Recordings

Aymen from Bikers for Palestine


Palestine solidarity organizing in Montreal - Radio AlHara x Suoni per il Popolo

Since 2012, A Closer Listen has claimed a specialized niche in the music industry: instrumental album reviews!  By concentrating on this above all else (singles, videos, concerts, interviews, lyric albums, announcements), we’ve built a healthy fanbase and a strong reputation.

If music is recorded and nobody listens, does it still make a sound?

Jeremy Young presents “With all our knowable ills, ...” [mix]

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