I find your music's unique sound to be refreshing and captivating.

Title track from the CD "Open Doerr". In 2014, I commissioned a guitar built by master luthier Tom Doerr. After receiving the guitar (pictured), I worked through the next year to produce an instrumental CD of original tunes on this guitar as a way to pay tribute to this amazing instrument built with Lucky Strike Redwood and Cocobolo. 
This track is an Mp3 file from that CD. 
Thanks for listening!

Unknown album (4/9/2015 4:58:41 PM)

"OPEN DOERR"

Friendship Case Documentary
https://youtu.be/fiC6qmcdCvA

Strange Universe 3
Out Now on Component Recordings
https://componentrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/jvox-strange-universe-3

09 Amicizia

Nada

This is actually the first track I recorded by myself since early 4-track recordings decades ago. Recorded at the start of lockdown on an iPad before I discovered Ableton; cleaned up in 2023 for a new airing. Always saw it as a sonic future-scape that is a little rough around the edges but worth sharing again.
Image: AI via Lexica.

El Futuro Es...

Automation - Mission Control March [22nd 1968]

Allure

Broken Souls

Pascal Hennig - Broken Souls

Es war

Alegoría

10012023 Beat

Stefan Christoff and Jarrett Martineau
A Turbulent Sky
PYR-048
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Limited cassette/digital
https://pyramidblood.bandcamp.com/album/a-turbulent-sky

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A1 - Lightening
A2 - Prism
A3 - Ghazal
B1 - Atavistic Rites
B2 - Eclipse
B3 - Cloud Formation

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Apolinar

Write your dreams as soon as you wake -
fictionalize, make the narrative clearer, filling the gaps
that were so obvious until moments ago.

A sigil written on every coin and banknote that it
may find the pocket of who needs it most.

Gently wipe the dust off the leaves of your house plants
while remembering Apolinar
talking about music, standing next
to your table at the tostadas place. He saw you
and thought you might need a metro card.
He saw you and thought maybe you were from Spain.

Nathaniel Kennon Perkins

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This album emerged from a collaborative process that began years ago through conversations about the Idle No More movement for Indigenous land rights. Jarrett and Stefan met at Camas Books & Infoshop (Unceded Lekwungen Territory) at a discussion about the connections to be made between the Quebec student strike uprising against neoliberalism in 2012 and other social movements locally and globally.

Over the years, Jarrett and Stefan kept the connection going, and in 2023 they finally began collaborating on music. This album is the result. It mixes lo-fi piano recordings, synth and digital processing, and field recordings. This album was created on unceded Indigenous territories and largely took place as Jarrett and Stefan corresponded about respectively finding ways to express solidarity with the Palestinian people in their creative practices and art, and joining the protest movement to lift up Palestine in their respective city places (Vancouver and Montreal). This album happens in this context and is a testament to careful and thoughtful engagement and friendship over many years.  

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Mixed by Stefan Christoff and Jarrett Martineau
Mastered by Marcus Miller (Holosuite Mastering)
Artwork by Laine Butler

Mexico City-based writer Nathaniel Kennon Perkins wrote the original poem that accompanies this album 

Released April 11, 2025

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https://spirodon.bandcamp.com
http://jarrettmartineau.com
http://instagram.com/laine_butler
https://nathanielkennonperkins.com

Stefan Christoff and Jarrett Martineau - Lightening

Sonoptera is an experimental project of organic sound and rhythm explorations by means of electronic instruments, the human voice and field recordings.

Es war

Sonoptera

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