Jef Stott has been deftly navigating the realms of the global remix for over a decade. A founding member of both LUMIN and STELLAMARA, he has gone on to become a sought after producer working primarily with artists from the Middle East living in diaspora. He recently produced the debut release from MC RAI, and is now at work with the Persian fusion group SOMMA. He has been commissioned to write for television and
film, the popular Sims Video Games and composed for several modern dance and theater productions.

As a trained anthropologist, he has studied with master musicians from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Iran and Turkey which led him to become accomplished on several traditional stringed and percussion instruments of the Middle East. These instruments figure prominently in his composition and production work as well as inform his sensibility about cultural relativism and issues of appropriation.

His work has been released on several record labels including
Universal, EMI, Six Degrees, Hearts of Space, Triloka and City of Tribes. He has performed at festivals and concerts in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Istanbul, Edinburgh, London, and Mexico.