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2021 élan vital recordings 

Sounds record a moment, a sliver of time in the cosmos on earth. Joseph’s field recordings recall visits to other places on the globe, recalling memories and the ways that our memory mixes with dreams, it is complicated, actually. Stefan is playing an old organ here, one gifted by Bashar, a Palestinian friend who works with a moving company in the city, the organ was going to be thrown out, so Bashar came by to gift the old organ. Stefan also is playing an acoustic guitar. This recording is based on an exchange in sound and also an exchange in friendship, in experimentation and recalling stories of generations past by two sound artists who grew up on Turtle Island, but have roots in the Mediterranean.

Improvised live session recorded on an afternoon in July 2018 at Spiro’s space. Mixed and edited in January 2021 by Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff.
Mastering: Renato Grieco, KU Studio, Napoli
Cover images from family archives of Stefan Christoff; photos taken in Macedonia 1958. 
Cover design: Toni Dimitrov
Video: 'Orbiting Mercury in a Dream' by Guillaume Vallée; 'A Window Memory in Alphabet City' by Samer Najari 

Release date 5th May 2021
Order at https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/la-lumi-re-du-soleil-dans-un-semi-sous-sol

Joseph Sannicandro + Stefan Christoff - Orbiting Mercury In A Dream

Byjayr - Eden

Format: CD
Pre-order: 12th January 2024
Release date: 19th January 2024

On November 5, 2022, Daniel Carter and Stefan Christoff improvised together at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, a community space, with strong connections to migrant justice activism, that is also a temporary home for many newly arrived asylum seekers some of whom sat to listen to the musical exchange. 
This session was the first encounter between Carter and Christoff that resulted in musical explorations. Remaining from this session were a couple of audio fragments which Christoff shared with a network of musicians globally who remixed and reimagined them. In Astronomy is the resulting album.
Thank you to Leina Bocar for helping to arrange the recording space, to Devin Brahja Waldman for helping to facilitate the connection with Daniel Carter, to Juan Carlos Ruiz at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church for welcoming this project, to Jessie Stein for hosting me in NY on the weekend of this session and to all the awesome participating artists!

Copyright © 2024 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. Daniel Carter & Stefan Christoff - In Astronomy (remixes) | ROHS!

Palestine shining in our hearts

Human voice, just like the sunlight calls for and witnesses Palestine each and every day
A joint mix by Yousef Anastas and Stefan Christoff for broadcast on NTS and Radio AlHara. Half an hour first from Stefan, follwed by Yousef

After I got a chance to meet Yousef in person in Paris in early November 2023 I could feel why we were connected for the past years through a shared love for Palestine and our common space shared through Radio AlHara. Yousef and a network of amazing Palestinian artists launched this incredible vehicle and space online, Radio AlHara, which is both a space to act together for Palestine but also to share our collective dreams. What a gift. I worked on this mix to celebrate Radio AlHara at this time of collective revolt and protest toward the ongoing Israeli state moves to colonize and rip apart Palestine. The Israeli state project, backed by im... 
https://www.nts.live/shows/debt-refuge/episodes/debt-refuge-21st-february-2024

Palestine Shining In Our Hearts w/ Yousef Anastas & Stefan Christoff 210224

listen to a recording from 1999, a band that I played in called The Light Machine, recorded in analogue on a reel to reel 8 track machine. thanks for listening. -- Stefan.

Light Machine

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

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-bel-m


A series of solo piano recordings registered in Belém, Brazil at a cultural centre in the Praça da república run by the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) downtown. I had a 1 hour window to record one evening thanks to Margaret Refkalefsky. This series of recordings took place in the moment and also was mediated by the sounds of the city. I was listening intently to the city's soundscapes while playing. My friend, musician and producer Nick Schofield, generously took these recordings and worked with them to bring out some of the rich tones that were registered simply on a Zoom H4n recorder. 

Thank you for listening. – Stefan Christoff

releases July 21, 2025 

Recorded by Stefan Christoff 
Mixed by Nick Schofield 
Artwork, “Vistas” is by Ionaldo Rodrigues 
Thank you to Margaret Refkalefsky 

SHM 349 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

Stefan Christoff - In Belém VI

“Conspiracy Means Breathing Together” is the first single from “La terre et la force” by Anarchist Mountains Trio. Due on February 15 on tape & vinyl via Amek Collective: http://amekcollective.bandcamp.com

Anarchist Mountains Trio - Conspiracy Means Breathing Together

Stefan Spirodon Christoff plays piano, guitar and organ.