Playing with electricity (vol5): In praise of the Hammond
From Jimmy Smith’s blues through Ra’s space organ and Alice Coltrane’s prayers to Jackie Mittoo’s ska and the Soul Brothers and Stimela and D’Angelo naked sweat, the B3 remains at the heart of creative black music. Some selections. Tracklist will follow.
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Live from Limbe satellite (4pm, Mon-Fri)
In a double-take on the relationship between sound and spatiality, frequencies and territories, and in collaboration with Atlantic Studio, PASS extended its sonic territory to Limbe – a coastal town on the south west of Cameroon, on the much-contested border with Nigeria and the southern slopes of Mount Cameroon. Currently we broadcast daily (Mon-Fri, 4pm) content live from Atlantic Studio – which is primarily a recording studio but rejigged with the help of Blue Cow (who designed the PASS studio …
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Playing with electricity (vol4): Electric Ladyland
The Voodoo Chile departed 40 years ago – found gone. We pay tribute via his last and arguably most lasting work. The Ladyland in full in your player. [display_podcast] And here, in full, Brother Greg Tate (greetings!) on the meaning of Jimi (first published in Chimurenga Magazine, vol 5): MEDITATIONS ON JIMI HENDRIX All roads lead to Jimi Hendrix. As all roads veer off from Hendrix, guiding us toward whatever promised land, crossroads, or dystopia we may choose to imagine. …
Playing with electricity (vol3): Space is the Place
Not to be confused with the album by the same title released by Impulse, this is the full soundtrack of the blaxploitation movie featuring Sun Ra as interplanetary saviour of black people (by liberating them from The Overseer, as pimp-overlord wh rules their lives on earth). [display_podcast] The soundtrack, a collage of Arkestra tunes funky sound-art, was hastily recorded in 1972 during the shooting of the film – and remains the only illustration Ra’s take on film scoring (besides his …
MORE MORE MORE…FUTURE
We’re proud to announce Kisangani based dance collective Studio Kabako’s “More More More…Future” as the opening show of the PASS 2010 Live Platform. A collaboration between world acclaimed Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula, Afro-punk fashion pioneer Xuly Bët and famed guitarist Flamme Kapaya and his band, and based on the words of dissident poet Antoine Vumilia Muhindo, More more more…Future simply defies categorisation. It is a pre-Sputnik space travelogue that splices age old rhythms with cyber-punk polemics, explosive dance with experimental …
Playing with electricity (vol2): a tribute to Robbie Jansen
[display_podcast] Writer and activist Steve Gordon expresses below how we feel about the man: The reputation of Robbie Jansen, hailed variously as “a son of Table Mountain”, “the Cape Doctor” and the “Bad Boy of Cape Jazz”, preceded him as surely as it now survives him. He was acknowledged nationally but the intimacy and depth of his audience rapport was amplified in his home, Cape Town. Jansen entertained, cajoled and inspired generations on the southern tip of the continent, whether …
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Crazy Nigger
You know we love the work of revolutionaly composer Julius Eastman @ PASS. Here an excerpt of “Evil Nigger (for 4 pianos)”. Respek.
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