Free City Radio

On Free City Radio 115 we hear a conversation with filmmaker Rami Farah speaking about the film "Our Memory Belongs to Us," the work is described this way: "How do you survive? By forgetting or by remembering? This eternal question is still very alive for the three Syrian activists Yadan, Odai, and Rani. Before the war they were, respectively, a law student, a lover of literature, and a volleyball...

Eduardo Brechó + Spirodon mix For Radio alHara @radioalhara Track listing: (Artist, Track Title) 01. Alfia - Salve Geral 02. Taiguara - Público 03. Gonzaguinha - A fábrica de sonhos 04. Visão de Rua - Meu Filho Minhas Regras 05. Racionais - Negro Drama 06. Olodum - Revolta Olodum 07. @thenarcicyst - Time (feat. Mashrou' Leila) 08. Nomadic Massive (@nomadic-massive-official) - Bon Bagay 09. @waahli...

An Anarchist Mountains mix for @radioalhara in Palestine. June 2022. This mix is to celebrate the recent release of "Fire Waves" out on Oxtail Recordings in Australia. Anarchist Mountains is Stefan and Jordan Christoff, accompanying art work by Julian Demoulin which is also the cover for the album, info on the release here: https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/fire-waves 01. @anarchistmount...

This week on edition 114, I am sharing a conversation with Loren Cardeli from A Growing Culture speaking on the neo-colonial realities that shape food systems globally. Loren offers a critical vantage point toward thinking about the ways that the corporatization of agriculture as shaped by both the practices and ideological frameworks of the "green revolution," are today enforcing a reality for gl...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from historian Michael Zhang who offers research based reflections on the legacy of John Redpath, founder of Redpath sugar and also a colonial business mogul who was deeply involved in the construction of the Lachine canal, a process through which many workers lost their lives. In this exchange Zhang highlights the complicity of Redpath in the context of...

For the June 2022 edition of Stefan Christoff's monthly artist interview for Radio AlHara we hear a conversation with cellist Lori Goldston. Lori is an amazing cellist based in Seattle who tours globally and has collaborated in many contexts over decades. Lori describes her practice this way, "Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston...

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from longtime housing rights activist François Saillant (speaking in French) who works with Le Front d'action populaire en réaménagement urbain (FRAPRU) over decades to organize protests and popular power to fight for social housing and gentrification. François speaks in French about the broader social implications of gentrification and the importance of...

dj krem + Spirodon mix For Radio alHara @radioalhara Thank you to Marija Balubdžić @umbra-balubdzic for this collaboration. Track listing: (Artist, Track Title) 01. Asher & Jordan - Carol (via @crashsymbols) 02. Roh Yugen x Nemerov - Con Grazia – Allegro Molto 03. Lars Warn - Menial Reality (via @youngbloods) 04. Alone - Zara (via Žrtva stilizacije) 05. Ben Wheeler - Spider Crab (via @crashsymbol...

Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix For Radio alHara @radioalhara Track listing: (Artist, Track Title) 01. 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real 02. Fadi Tabbal - The New And Improved Guide To Birdwatching Vol. 2 03. Asher & Jordan - Ripples (via @crashsymbols) 04. Michael Pisaro - A mist is a collection of points Part I 05. ZA! - Sancha 06. Ramsey Lewis - Dear Prudence 07. Oddjob - Kali Ma 08. Urban Tribe - T...

An interview with Kendra Cornejo of Make the Road New York speaking about the intersectional community organizing work that the grassroots community organization is working on surrounding housing rights, the rights of public school students and undocumented people. Kendra speaks about the efforts that Make the Road New York undertook to demand relief support for undocumented people within the cont...

A joint mix with musician David Parker For Radio alHara @radioalhara 22/05/2022 Track listing: (Artist, Track Title) 01. Jeff Parker - Suffolk 02. Sunnsetter @drewmcleod - Liminal Space 03. Heart Structure Quartet - Hum Rhythm Hum Hymn 04. Naná Vasconcelos - Africadeus (excerpts) 05. Mary Lattimore @maryphilly - Thirty Tulips 06. Pauline Anna Strom - The Equatorial Sunrise (via RVNG Intl.) 07. Ga...

Listen to artist Ian Kamau speaking about the recently released film "We Went Out." The film has been described this way: "We Went Out is a short film about the world racialized youth create for themselves when the world tells them there is limited space. Moreso, it appears to be about the lifelong relationships built out of need and love within self-formed communities that ultimately live as memo...

Listen to the latest edition of Free City Radio an interview with activist and author Mostafa Henaway (@mostafa-henaway) speaking on contemporary workplace struggles at Amazon corporation. Mostafa highlights Amazon as a representation of contemporary labour struggles. Reflecting on the ways that logistics corporations, like Amazon, occupy a central space within the reality of labour and contempora...

On this monthly edition of Stefan Christoff's monthly artist interview series for Radio AlHara we will hear from Nonoko Yoshida, a Japanese saxophonist and improvisational player who has worked on many ensemble and solo projects between Japan and New York City. This interview is from the archives and was recorded during the Suoni per il Popolo festival under some trees on St. Laurent street in Mon...

On this edition of Free City Radio we feature an interview from the archives. Willy Mitchell, a songwriter originally from the Algonquin community of Kitigan Zibi speaks about working as an Indigenous singer song writer and also about the experience of being featured on the Native North America album series, out on Light in the Attic Records. Also Willy speaks about the album Sweet Grass Music. Th...

A joint mix with artist Tanha Gomes For Radio alHara @radioalhara Track listing: (Artist, Track Title) This mix includes soundscapes curated by Tanha Gomes for an exhibition, Une pensée pour toi, a collaboration with artist Sandrine Côté. Recently this work showed in São Paulo for the DO write [right] to me - Uncool Artist exhibition. https://uncoolartist.com/do-write-right-to-me The accompanying...

A soundscape this week on Free City Radio. A visit to the more experimental side of radio. This work includes sounds recorded in Lebanon by photographer Tamara AbdulHadi, Jad Hajjar and filmmaker Samer Najari. The soundscape was originally created to include in a live performance with @thenarcicyst that I participated in at the Aga Khan Museum. The event was great, I played piano, but we didn't ge...

A joint mix with musician Sarathy Korwar @sarathykorwar For Radio alHara @radioalhara, Sunday, April 24, 2022 Track listing: (Artist, Track Title) 01. @nicolas-jaar, Ali Sethi, Faiz Ahmed Faiz - Yakjehti Mein 02. Way Deep (@copcarbonfire + @jordanchristoff) - Freaks 03. Dayin - Wasting Water On Dry Whispers (via @amekcollective) 04. Conclave ft. Sharin - All That I Need (@photay Remix) 05. Weaving...

Today on Free City Radio, an interview from the archives with trumpeter, composer, researcher and academic Wadada Leo Smith. Wadada speaks on the project "Ten Freedom Summers," and details works that speak to specific moments in Black liberation struggles in the US, particularly the case of Dred Scott in St. Louis. Broadly Wadada has played with musicians and performed globally, for compositional...

Listen to a conversation with filmmaker Mia Donovan on the film DOPE IS DEATH. The film is described this way: “In 1973, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America. This form of radical harm reduction was a revolutionary act toward the government programs...

In the 104th edition of Free City Radio, author, activist and academic Jack Z. Bratich on the book, "On Microfascism, Gender, Death, and War," published by Common Notions press. The book is described this way: "Fascist and reactionary populist forces have undeniably swelled in the US in recent years. To effectively counter fascist movements, we need to understand them beyond their most visible and...

On the monthly artist interview for Radio AlHara @radioalhara produced by Stefan Christoff for April 2021 we hear an interview from the archives with Beirut-based artist Joan Baz speaking about a project "I Went Looking for Palestine" that was presented in Lebanon and involved a linocut counting booklet and also an installation in Beirut. In this interview Joan speaks about the inspiration behind...

Spirodon w/ Tim Daisy [31.03.22] - Radio Ma3azef راديو معازف 01. @tim-daisy - Five Echoes 02. Tim Daisy - North Winds 03. Hamid El Kasri - Moulay Ahmed 04. Ray Lema + Professeur Stefanov - Po droum mome pobegnalo 05. @pillowdiver - Just 06. RETE - Temporal (excerpt) 07. Tim Daisy - Solitario 2 08. Tim Daisy + Ikue Mori - Second Station (excerpt) 09. Vox Arcana - Silver Light 10. Vasco Trilla & Tim...

On this edition of Free City Radio David Barsamian, host of Alternative Radio, speaks on war in Ukraine and the military-industrial complex. A critical look at who benefits from war and also the historical context to the conflict between Russia and the U.S. A look at these contextual issues are not rooted in any attempt to minimize the urgency of focusing on the war crimes being committed against...

Underground Sounds mix, 28/03/2022, @radiockut 01. 't Geruis - gracieux 02. 't Geruis - het einde zet in (via @losttribesound) 03. Adrian Copeland - No Heat No Light 04. Alapastel - Flight Over Utopia 05. Alapastel - Goodnight, Valley of the Roses @lukas-bulko-654539883 06. ARROWOUNDS @ryanoftsavo - Antarctica's Spherical Anomalies Leave Residual Trails (Edit) 07. @copcarbonfire - repurposed 08. c...