This concert emerges after many conversations, a postponement and is now taking place as a cross border gathering of different sonic and musical worlds.

Nour Sokhon will present a solo set to open the night and will also be joined for a piece by Stefan on piano. This live duet takes place in the lead up to their first duet release, out soon on cassette via the Beirut based Ruptured Records.

Aidan Baker and Stefan Christoff will play a live public set for the first time, building off recording of a duet album last winter, released first in 2024 on Time Released Sound on vinyl (now sold out) and re-released recently on cassette by Cruel Nature Records in England. For this concert they will be joined by the wonderful Andy Aquarius on harp.

This event is about creating space to listen together and also to build community connections that celebrate the power of sound to travel across borders. The artists joining this event also are part of efforts in the arts that challenge how borders and their militarization undercut our collective understandings of solidarity in this era of immense neo-colonial violence.

Andy Aquarius is a sonic alchemist and devotee of mystical folklore. “Being a multi-instrumentalist and exploring a wide range of genres, he laid out the path ahead with his debut album ‘Chapel’, which only features his Celtic harp and voice. The record takes you on a ‘transcendental journey through the outer realms of ambient, classical, new age, and folk music.” –– Alex Ruder, Hush Hush/KEXP. Andy’s live performances are of a peaceful simplicity and thick atmosphere, putting all the intent towards a sincere delivery of his bucolic canticles and meandering instrumentals. https://www.andyaquarius.com

Aidan Baker is a Canadian musician living in Berlin making ambient/experimental/slowcore music, both solo & with such groups as Nadja, Hypnodrone Ensemble, & WERL. https://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com

Stefan Spirodon Christoff is a pianist, media maker, community activist and artist living in Montréal. Stefan hosts Free City Radio, broadcasting weekly on seven campus / community radio stations and shared globally as a podcast (Spotify + Apple Podcasts). Stefan helps to coordinate Musicians for Palestine and makes music with many people globally, including Rêves sonores, Sam Shalabi, Lori Goldston, Adriana Camancho, and Anarchist Mountains. Stefan is on the board of the Immigrant Workers Centre in Côte-Des-Neiges and works with Cinema Politica Network. Stefan is working with the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University.

Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist based between Beirut, Lebanon and Berlin, Germany. Her creative practice is centered around exploring different methods of working with artistic research including interview material, field recordings and recorded material from an organized site specific intervention. The research is then translated into sound/music compositions, performances, interactive installations and moving image work.