RADICAL RESEARCH MIXTAPE, Convergence VII-2016, a journal of
undergraduate and community research. This year marks the first
edition of the mixtape, bringing together audio interviews, music,
sound art, spoken word, and poetry highlighting various forms of
grassroots knowledge, produced by Lillian Boctor, Amy Darwish & the
Convergence Editorial Collective. Cover art by Ensley Chau.

TRACK LIST
1. Councillor Norman Matchewan, Algonquins of Barriere Lake First
Nation, recorded by Steve Baird at the Barriere Lake Land Protection
Camp

2. Elder Michel Thusky, Algonquins of Barriere Lake First Nation,
recorded by Steve Baird at the Barriere Lake Land Protection Camp

3. Trumpets, Street Sounds & Community Voices for Justice, Free City Radio, produced by Stefan Christoff. Soundscape compiling a trumpet duet between Jason Blackbird Selman & Marcus Braithwaite-Selman recorded during sound check for Wired on Words at Casa del Popolo; sounds from the 7th annual vigil commemoration for Fredy Villanueva,  an 18-year-old from Montreal North shot to death by police while unarmed with friends in a park, w the voice of Emrical at  event; guitar by Stefan Christoff; & Parc X sounds. 

4. #WhichBlackLivesMatter, poetry/spoken word by Shanice Nicole, performed at the March 29th, 2016 Montreal rally in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatterToronto and the #BLMTOtencity @thatswhatshasaid

5. The 3 Fates, Strange Froots
Strange Froots is a trio of singers-songwriters, musicians and
beatmakers, comprised of Mags, SageS and Naïka Champaïgne. These 3
young women were brought together under NoBad Sound Studio to
participate in a women-run workshop, in the hopes of encouraging more girls and young women to express themselves musically in an environment dominated by the masculine gender. The supposed series of music workshops, turned into the forming of a band, each member being an artist in their own right. No Bad Sound a été créé en 2007 à l’initiative de la Maison des Jeunes de Côte-Des-Neiges avec l’intention d’offrir aux jeunes musiciens en herbe un lieu où ils peuvent développer leurs talents musicaux et s’exprimer artistiquement.

6. My Hijab, poetry/spoken word by Rana Salah, https://missrana.wordpress.com

7. Solidarity Across Borders- Month Against Deportations report,
produced by Avi Grenadier & Marie Deckers for monthly
CLAC-Montréal Abécédaire show on CKUT. Voices of Amy Darwish &
Rosalind Wong, June 2016

8. Excerpts from April 5, 2016 QPIRG Concordia & CURE Community
Round Table, bringing together community organizers from groups
working on migrant justice to prisoner solidarity and
beyond. The event featured a discussion about grassroots knowledge
work, social justice organizing and the importance of community
accountability and self-determination. Voices include Elena Stoodley,
Emilie Savoie, Milena Gioia, a member from the Non-Status Women’s
Collective of Montreal, Olivia Dumas, Bridget Tolley and Gift Tshuma.
Recorded and produced by Lillian Boctor, with excerpts from track Gods Among Us by Engone Endong from the album #OKENG

9. Interview w Native Youth Water Protectors by Lillian Boctor on December 6, 2016 in Standing Rock. Daniel “Danny” Grassrope is a 25-year-old Kul Lakota from Lower Brule South Dakota and part of the International Indigenous Youth Council and Lawrence Lind is from the Cheyenne River Sioux.

10. New Gene, Engone Endong, #OKENG
Raising from his Hip-Hop beginnings in Libreville, Gabon, Engone
Endong moved to Montreal, Canada, in 2005 where he honed his craft as
a producer-beatmaker-scientist of sound. He released his first album,
Colored Dust Lite, (Atsie Sun Orchestra) in 2011 which led him to
write the score for “United States of Africa” experience virtuelle.
Influenced by African Tradition, Japanese Shinto and futuristic
sounds, #OKENG, meaning “SWORD” in his mother tongue Fang, and is an
initiatic journey into the African Culture through samples from Mvett,
Highlife, Bwiti and Afrobeat. https://endong.bandcamp.com/

Radical Research Mixtape - Convergence VII 2016

RADICAL RESEARCH MIXTAPE, Convergence VIII-2017, a journal of
undergraduate and community research. This year marks the second
edition of the mixtape, bringing together audio interviews, music,
sound art, and spoken word  highlighting various forms of grassroots knowledge, produced the Convergence Editorial Collective. Cover art by Hikaru Ikeda.

TRACK LIST

1. Introduction and Land Acknowledgement, by Hannah Brais- member of the Convergence 2017 Editorial Collective.

2. Back to Cairo, by Nazim Elnur.

3. Mohamed Barry on Stopping Guinean Deportations. Recorded by Stefan Christoff.

4. Alfred Woodfox in Conversation with Robyn Maynard. Recorded by Prison Radio.

5. Until We're All Free: Building Indigenous-Labour Solidarity in the Colonial Apocalypse, by Molly Swain.

6. Prison Abolitionist Kids. Recorded by Prison Radio.

7. Café Marché Petite-Bourgogne: Food Justice and Community, by Kabisha Velauthapillai.

8. Seeds, by Kiwi Illafonte.

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