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tunnel (rmx) - Artists Without Borders

Friend / bandmate / composer / Tehrantologist @mahmoodschricker (@linkmusiclab, Toronto) presents an hour of deep jazz cuts, postmodern classical, his recent soundtrack work for "Fremont", and other musics of the Persian diaspora.

VHM Projekt - The Second One (In Four Movements) [Self-released, 2016]
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Der Heimatlose Wanderer [Unknown, 1963]
Alice Coltrane / Pharoah Sanders / Joe Henderson - Ptah, The El-Daoud [Impulse, 1970]
nour - Never Saw Me Smile [Self-released, 2022]
Shaho Andalibi / Aria Rostami / Naghmeh Farahmand - Beshno Az Nay [Link Music Lab, 2020]
Mahmood Schricker - Globe Scene [Fremont, 2023]
Alireza Mortazavi & Carson Teal - Underground Flights [Link Music Lab, 2023]
Soft Verdict - Gorf [Les Disques Du Crépuscule, 1982]
Lera Lynn - My Least Favourite Life [Harvest, 2015]
Negar Bouban - The Last Turn [Self-released, 2011]
Elsa Maurus - Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen [Sony Classical, 1996]
Laurie Anderson - Washington Street [Nonesuch, 2001]

Days Of Steam 010: Mahmood Schricker

Intense introspections from beau mensch of many hats Simon St-Louis (Système (Loose Screws x Air Supply) x Moab x Necklace) - restrained guitars and drum machines crawl inexorably along the Bowery, plaintive abstractions for the soul, suffocating Southern ambience, inverted psychedelia, staring at the horizon a la récherche du temps perdu

Jackie-O Motherfucker - The Cage [2000, Ecstatic Peace!]
Troth - Kind Of Cure [2021, Digital Regress]
Hysterical Love Project - Glass (I Want More) [2021, Self-released]
Joanne Robertson & Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Doll [2021, Tenderbook]
Megabasse - Dark [2023, All Night Flight]
Ben Bondy - Pool [2023, Good Morning Tapes]
Niecy Blues - The Nite B4 [2023, Kranky]
Rat Heart Ensemble - Liar’s Eye [2023, Shotta Tapes]
A Bad Diana - Chant d’Amour/Da Mort [2007, United Jnana]
Unknown Artist - Unknown Track [Unknown Year]
Mark Fry - Rehtorb Ym No Hcram [1972, IT Records]
Hizumi Hirakawa - 太陽の彼方* (Movin’) [2021, Pink Layke]
 * taiyō no kanata (au-delà du soleil)

Days Of Steam 011: Faux Sommets

a mix dedicated to 2023, some of the music that I played most and that best captures the spirit of the year for me

MMXXIII

TRACKLIST

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - “[Tuning]” (The Lab, San Francisco, CA May 2023)
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown ~ “Scaring the Hoes” (Scaring the Hoes)
Matana Roberts - “no way chastened” (Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden…)
Blockhead featuring Armand Hammer - “Give Thanks” (The Aux)
Nappy Nina feat. Moor Mother - “Stone Soup” (Mourning Due)
Aho Ssan feat Nicolas Jaar - “Le Tremblement” (Rhizomes)
Giuseppe Ielasi - “A3” (Down on Darkened Meetings)
Andrea Belfi - “setteottavi” (Eternally Frozen)
Tim Hecker - “Anxiety” (No Highs)
Alexander Grawoig  - “Movement 3” (So Little Remains)
Moor Mother, Nicole Mitchell, Nduduzo Makhathini - “One for Archie”
Roper Williams feat. Fatboi Sharif - “Hooptie” (Infinity Victory Loop)
Statik Selektah feat Pos. of De La Soul - “Round Trip (for Dave)” (Round Trip)
Cruel Diagonals - “Intuit Sensate” (Fractured Whole)
Joni Void - “Negative Loop” (Everyday is the Song)
Dustin Wong - “Elegant Stumbler's Atelier” (Perpetual Morphosis)
KING VISION ULTRA + Desde - “Cold Hex” (SHOOK WORLD)
Chuquimamani-Condori - “Engine” (DJ E)
Fatboi Sharif x Roper Williams feat ft. E L U C I D - “Scrabble Board Pieces” (Planet Unfaithful)
Irreversible Entanglements - “root = branch” (Protect Your Light)
jaimie branch  - “world war ((reprise))” (Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (​(​world war​)​))
Flora Yin Wong - “Nectar Dripping” (Cold Reading)
d/p/i - “drogado” (Maldita Vita)
Kofi Flexxx feat. ganavya - “increase awareness” (flowers in the dark)
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - “Seen from above”  (The Lab, San Francisco, CA May 2023)
billy woods x Kenny Segal- “houdini” (Maps)
liv.e - “our father” (Girl In the Half Pearl)
MIKE, Wiki, and The Alchemist  - “mayor’s a cop” (Faith is a Rock)
KVU + lord kayso - “media training” (SHOOK WORLD)
H13R (maassai and JWords) feat Quelle Chris - “down down bd” (Headspace)
Fielded feat Pink Navel (prod. by Kenny Segal) - “The Way It is” (Plus One)
matana roberts - “how prophetic” (Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden…) 
B. Cool-Aid (Pink Siifu & Ahwlee) feat Quelle, Denmark  - “Brandy, Aaliyah” (Leather Blvd.) 
KMRU - “room” (glim)
Lucy Liyou - “april in paris” (Dog Dreams)
MIKE feat. Earl Sweathshirt - “plz don’t cut my wings” (Burning Desire)
SEC_ - “orogenesi” (Tutto A Posto Niente In Ordine) 
Lorraine James - “Fruit 1”  (5 a day)
AGF - “MOVEbuild” (poemproducer)
sharif x dove - “think pieces” (Decay)
danny brown - bass jam (Quaranta) 
Child Actor - “wife was adopted” (AJAI II instrumentals)
Armand Hammer feat Pink Siifu and Moor Mother  - “Don’t Lose Yr Job” (WBDTS)
Liv.e (prod. MNDSGN) - RESET! (Girl In the Half Pearl)
Shapednoise feat. Armand Hammer - “Family” (Absurd Matter)
KVU + Nakama. - “Swing!” (SHOOK WORLD)
aesop and woods - “Living Curfew” (Integrated Tech Solutions)
woods and aesop - “waiting around” (Maps)
KVU + maassai - “clean facelift” (SHOOK WORLD) 
Armand Hammer (prod. Kenny Segal) - “Total Recall” (WBDTS)
Matana Robets - “But I Never”  (Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden…) 
Off World - “Orientation” (Off World 3)
AGF - “fieldWORK” (poemproducer)

best of 2023 mix

thenewobjective presents MMXXIII

Asphalt

AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed. Channeling her internet name into her first proper solo studio album since SOLIDCITY (2017), Poemproducer is built around mutating bass, freeplayed rhythms, and subtle field recordings. We discuss the evolution of her musical practice, her interest in pedagogy, feminism, collective politics and much more. 

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

AGF  - “Oops for understanding iii” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)
SP Intro
AGF - “SKINgame”  (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
AGF - “POEMproducer” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AG.F3 & SUE.C - “Lazy” (MINI MOVIES, Asphodel, 2006)
AGF - “Thoughts On Rojava feat. Zeynep Kurban, Dilar Dirik, Zaher Baher, Havin Guneser, Memed Aksoi” (Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution, female:pressure, 2016)
AGF - “background & processes ⇻ explained by AGF” (rec-on : feminist sonic technologies, 2023)
AGF - “recon - rec-on.org ƒollow @reconsonic” (Soundcloud, 2021)
Laub -  “Wortspur” (Filesharing, Kitty-Yo, 2002)
AGF - “fieldWORK” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Sonic Wilderness - “Medley” (DOCUMENTATION: #SONICWILDERNESS #NUSASONIC Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2018)
Antye Greie-Ripatti - “mycelium sonicification video clip” (Vimeo, 2017)
Audience Participation - “Collective Mycelium Hum” (SonicEX10sion, AGF Producktion, 2018)
AGF - “sideNESS” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
AGF - “Live excerpt” (Presented by Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston, November 18, 2023)
AGF - “FIREmushroom” (DISoriented MINDsets, 2017)
KING VISION ULTRA feat. Dreamcrusher - “UNTRAPPINGS” (SHOOK WORLD, PTP, 2023)
Moor Mother - “Deadbeat Protest” (Fetish Bones, Don Giovanni, 2016)
AGF - “MIGration” (SOLIDICITY, 2017)
AGF - “Chorizon” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AGF - “Source Voice” (Beatnadel, AGF Producktion, 2011)
AGF - “words are useless” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)
RyJ - “RyJ [excerpt]” (Studio Mix, 2014)
RyJ / Nicki Minaj (Pickle Juice Mix, 2012)
J Dilla - “Bounce” (Beat Tape #3, 2002)
AGF - bassPOETess (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Vladislav Delay - “Ele” (Ele, Sigma Editions, 1999)
Craig Armstrong x AGF - “Remix of Memory Takes My Hand” (Memory Takes My Hand - Exhibition Music, Chester Music Ltd., 2006)
AGF - xenakISS (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
The Lappetites - “Avoiding Shopping” (Before The Libretto, Quecksilber, 2005)
Dadub - “Life (Rrose Remix)” (Preternity, Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2013)
AGF - “BONUS_ Westernization Continued 2013 [excerpt]” (Westernization Completed, 2003/2013)
AGF - “şamaran [kurdish]” (uttu EP, 2023)
PINKCOURTESYPHONE + KID CONGO POWERS - “Inflame (Sludge Dub)” (Move To Trash, 3particles, 2015)
Kevin Richard Martin /  KMRU - “If (Dub)” (RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, PTP 2024)
Ka Baird - “Gate VI” (Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, RVNG, Intl., 2024)
AGF - “Regional Distinctions” (Futurism Ain't Shit To Me, Kyo, 2004)
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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Sound Propositions S04e05

SP* Episode 35: DIS/CONTENT - with AGF [podcast]

I first encounter Stefan though through Casa Del Popolo, the Main’s main den of épatering the bourgeoisie since the 90s, when they booked me for what was only the second Days of Steam night after the first at Rye Wax. The old booth was set up like you were in a chapel, dim as hell for me but enough of a remove from the audience without being too removed. They’re a longtime organizer in Montréal activist circles, the mind of @freecityradio, with a CV too long to summarize here but one that shows genuine belief and investment in the causes he champions. I’d seen them years back before we knew each other, as part of the city’s experimental undercurrents, with releases of introspective piano for Howl Arts alongside local luminaries Sam Shalabi and Peter Burton and mainstays d’la marge like Aural Canyon and Beacon Sound. Tapestries of field recordings and plunderphonics, part of a long tradition of musique actuelle in the city without intentionally trying to be so. The mix he sent over is almost entirely as of writing recent pieces, with compositions (what they all feel like more than ‘pieces’ or ‘tracks’) from Berkeley, Brooklyn, Brazil, Houston, Jaffa, Milan, Montréal - the sound of the uncertainty and rage of the now, but never restoring to despondency, moreso righteousness.

"It is my pleasure to share these tracks with you. On a basic level these tracks were shared mostly by friends in the context of exchanges and ongoing collaborations with folks in cities all over the place, around creating content for Radio AlHara in Palestine and beyond. I love that this mix jumps between vibes and styles. I also included a couple of tracks from recent releases that I worked on. I hope you enjoy the mix. – Stefan."

Notnef Greco - Scooter Riding in Bombay [2024, Sublamental]
Grimório de Abril - A Torre Poligonal do Astrólogo Caldeu [2024, Subliminal K7]
Matteo Uggeri - ...for You Bleeding Goddess [2024, 13 Records]
Totenbaum Träger - Fleur de néon VI [2023, Cuchabata]
Stefan Christoff - Guitar in Griffintown [2024, Cuchabata]
Matteo Uggeri - ...for Daughters and Sons [2024, 13 Records]
Stefan Christoff - Chalga Remixed [2024, Samizdat]
Grimório de Abril - The River Used to be a Signal  [2024, Subliminal K7]
Stefan Christoff - In Burgas [2024, Samizdat]
Azraq - Baby Please Don't Go [2021, self-released]
Badawi - A Curse on All Murderers (Extended Dub) (excerpt) [2024, self-released]

Days Of Steam

Days Of Steam 013: Stefan Christoff

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.

alejandro saravia & walking in diaspora

Free City Radio explores the intersection of social activism and the arts.

The weekly program features interviews on contemporary political currents in Montréal, Canada and around the world, highlighting creative voices involved in struggles for transformative social change. 

This Free City Radio page also features contemporary music mixes contributed to stations around the world. 

The 30 minute weekly Free City Radio is produced and hosted by Stefan Christoff and airs weekly 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.

alejandro saravia & walking in diaspora

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