[Exclusivité] Joseph Sannicandro + Stefan Christoff – Orbiting Mercury in a Dream (Vidéo)
Qui de mieux placer que le réalisateur Guillaume Vallée pour mettre en image la douce et tendre complicité musicale qui existe entre Joseph Sannicandro et Stefan Christoff? Probablement personne, puisque Guillaume sait faire défiler les couleurs et les formes d’une manière totalement fusionnelle avec les élans de nostalgie que nous lancent les deux musiciens avec tant d’aplomb. La sublime vidéo pour Orbiting Mercury in a Dream nous berce avec des éclats de souvenir qui nous atteignent directement au cœur. Cette exclusivité que nous sommes très fébriles de présenter sur le site est issue d’une toute nouvelle parution du duo sur l’étiquette macédonienne élan vital. Ce disque soigneusement intitulé La Lumière Du Soleil Dans Un Demi Sous-sol pourrait difficilement mieux porter son nom, car il agit sur nous tel un rayon qui perce les rideaux et qui vient nous apporter du réconfort dans cette période de crise. Alors, laissez-vous réchauffer par cette fabuleuse union entre sons et images et n’oubliez surtout pas d’écouter l’album en entier par la suite. Bonne écoute!
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Paru le 6 mai 2021 sur élan vital.
Texte officiel de la vidéo:
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.
Stefan Christoff plays music, creates media and is a community organizer. Playing piano, organ and guitar Stefan is a multifaceted musician who also works in soundscapes. He has collaborated with many musicians and has releases coming out this year with Lori Goldston and Sam Shalabi. Hosts a weekly community radio show on CKUT 90.3fm called Free City Radio. Stefan has also been deeply involved in social justice movements and campaigning against colonial capitalist systems of injustice, from Turtle Island to Palestine, but also in the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement in support of Palestinian liberation. He has worked as a cook, cleaner, home-care assistant, waiter, dishwasher, doorman, delivery person, painter, journalist, photographer and community radio coordinator. Lives in Montréal, studying history at Concordia University and has Macedonian roots.
Joseph Sannicandro is an artist and writer based in Montréal. Working with field-recordings and various recording media, his soundscapes explore the relationship between sound, positionality, and place. As a scholar, his work explores creative labor and (un)popular culture, encompassing the philosophy of technology, media theory, and institutional critique. In addition to his duo with Stefan Christoff, Joseph also records under the moniker the new objective and under his own name, as well as with the Anarchist Mountains Trio. He is co-founder of the music blog A Closer Listen, and producer of Sound Propositions, a series of audio documentaries profiling musicians and sound artists.
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