PASS radio 2010

PASS radio, a unique freeform radio station, is back with 30 days of cutting edge music streamed live online. The station features themed shows, live performances and readings, sound art, interviews and much more.

This year PASS radio expands its sonic territory. In a double-take on the relationship between sound and spatiality, frequencies and territories, it will broadcast from studios at 44 Long Street, Cape Town, as well as a satellite studio in Limbe, Cameroon.

In the build-up to the festival, throughout September, the daily radio programme features live performances at PASS studios on Long Street. These live sessions run between 7-9pm and are guest-curated by musicians, DJs, poets and artists.

PASS radio’s broadcast programme launches on September 12 (Steve Biko Day) with Songs for Biko, a 24-hour marathon performance by many of Cape Town’s leading musicians and poets. Songs for Busi, a musical tribute to the late singer, space-queen and healer Busi Mhlongo, closes the broadcast on October 12.

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Just How Cold Was It? PASS Mix

[display_podcast] WANLOV THE KUBOLOR Live at PASS 2009 CULTURE MUSICAL CLUB Live at PASS 2009 KAMAU BRAITHWAITE: “Negus” – from Praise Poems, 57 Productions TOUMANI DIABATE Live at PASS 2009 UDABA Live at PASS 2009 MOTUKI – a deep and groovy modern afro soul track featuring the golden voice and words of South African singer NEO MUYANGA and recorded with the help of BIBI TANGA and the Selenites in le PROFESSEUR INLASSABLE’s Parisian studio. FRANCK BIYONG & MASSAK Live at …  ( continue reading

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Bheki Khoza Interview

Composer and director Bheki Khoza, trombone player Siya Makuzeni & Stacy Hardy talk War Chorale, a chorale work based on a novella by pioneering Chilean academic, visionary, writer and revolutionary Fernando Alegría that premiered at PASS 2009.  ( continue reading

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Real Rozzano

Digging in the Rozzano’s crates (6 Oct 2009) [display_podcast] 1) god made me funky – headhunters 2) ashley’s roachclip – soul searchers 3) scorpio 4) funky drummer – james brown 5) hicky brrr – bill cosby 6) blues 4 me – mel brown 7) black cow – 8 ) love tko – teddy pendergrass 9) easin in – ojayz 10) what i feel – pacific express 11) madelaine – toni schilder 12) sakhile – sakhile 13) manasse – caiphus semenya …  ( continue reading

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DJ Andy Williams – The Final Aftermath

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Udaba / Nothembi Mkhwebane / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER: Udaba / Nothembi Mkhwebane / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ Guga S’thebe pics by Kadiatou Diallo  ( continue reading

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Culture Musical Club live

Culture Musical Club live @ Slave Church [display_podcast] WHERE/ WHEN: Slave Church (Sat Oct 3, from 7pm) Culture Musical Club began life as part of the youth organization of the Afro Shirazi Party during Zanzibar’s struggle for independence back in 1956. Today, CMC is Zanzibar’s most prolific and successful taarab orchestra. The club performs widely at concerts in Zanzibar’s Stone Town, but also frequently takes its music to the rural areas. Their international tours and CD-releases have made the name …  ( continue reading

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble live

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble live @ Guga S’thebe [display_podcast] With: GABRIEL HUBERT/HUDAH (trumpet); SAIPH GRAVES/CID (trombone); TYCHO COHRAN/LT (sousaphone); AMAL HUBERT/BAJI (trumpet); JAFAR GRAVES/YOSH (trumpet); SEBA GRAVES/CLEF (trombone); TARIK GRAVES/SMOOV (trumpet); UTTAMA HUBERT/ROCCO (euphonium) WHERE/ WHEN: Guga S’thebe (Sat Oct 3, from 12pm) The nine members of HBE, eight brothers and a cousin, come from an extraordinary musical family. All sisters, brothers and mothers are professional musicians, and Philip Cohran, their father, has roots running back to Mississippi, his time in …  ( continue reading

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Nothembi Mkhwebane

FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER: Nothembi Mkhwebane at the Centre For The Book Pics by: Kadiatou Diallo  ( continue reading

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Culture Musical Club / Toumani Diabate

FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER: Culture Musical Club / Toumani Diabate at St George’s Cathedral Pics by: Kadiatou Diallo & Gregory Franz  ( continue reading

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