With William Dalrymple’s From the Holy Mountain as his on-again, off-again guide, Tyler Stiem spent a couple of weeks seeking out the points of intersection between Islam and Christianity in Turkey and Syria. Here, he adds to his collection of sound recordings of muezzin calls to prayer.

While in Sin Jawn’s I learned that friend Dave Bidini would be playing at his buddy Haddon’s house in nearby CBS. It was a grand, friendly and properly rowdy night. Dave, of the now defunct Rheostatics, has evidently been playing solo shows armed with only an acoustic guitar, but when I mentioned I didn’t know [...]