Articles
LISTEN: THE CHRONIC – DIPALO BY NEO MUYANGA
CHIMURENGA LIBRARY
In 2011 we invited the composer, sound artist and librettist Neo Muyanga to compose a mixtape to accompany the first edition of the Chimurenga Chronic – the publication was imagined as the once-off edition of a newspaper-as-time-travel-machine that transported readers back to the peak of the xenophobic attacks across SA in May 2008.
Muyanga responded with a 45mn suite titled “Dipalo – a mixtape for those who practice counting”. The mixtape includes the following 12 tracks:
a) 1+1= (a re-composition of a 5000-year-old offering to Lord Ganesha, an opener of sorts)
b) 4:7 (heaven’s on the ocean is a proportional refrain on reaching nirvana, the 7th grade, via the mundane material world)
c) 3sin= rθ (sino projection technology theme)
d) 3(x)n (illegal border crossing and migration theme. composed for dancers)
e) e=mcx \rightarrow \infty (a true story about an explosive riot day with SADF soldiers who attacked Soweto on June 16th, 1985. Composed for those who got hurt)
f) ƒ:X→Y (horizon heart aflame. Composed for a lover)
g) (a summing of random themes theme)
h) 4x+2 (the 2 or 4 step theme)
i) y~ 6/8 (a travelling theme in 6 parts over eight. Composed for puppets)
j) y\ge \!\, 6/8 (a running theme in 6 parts over 8 )
k) 1/4° (a kota bread theme. Composed for skolies and thieves)
l) (a perpetual circle. Composed for an apartheid-era multi-racial soccer club)
Join us to re-listen.
Wednesday, 15 April 2026 from 7pm
Live on the Pan African Space Station
Tune in!
LISTEN: “MORE MORE MORE… FUTURE” BY FAUSTIN LINYEKULA AND STUDIO KABAKO
Category: Articles, Liberation Radio, News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Faustin Linyekula, Studio Kabako
Leave a comment
PASS Pop-up in Paris
From September 17 – 19 2015, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) Pop-up was installed inside the gallery of Fondation Cartier, Paris with live programming that explored the past-present-future of Congolese music cultures. This intervention was a part of the exhibition Beauté Congo – 1926-2015 – Congo Kitoko. Participating artists in the PASS Pop-UP in Paris included Ray Lema, Elikia M’bokolo, Syllart Records, Afrikaada Magazine, Baloji, Shenguen Shegue, Kongo Astronauts, Christine Eyene. Contributions will also be beamed in from New York, Montreal …
PASS Lagos Daily Runnings: Sunday, 26th June 2016
Pan African Space Station at Freedom Park in Lagos, 23rd -26th of June 2016 The PASS pop-up studio as an intimate, improvisatory live space becomes one for entangling different realities and experiences – with participants and listeners prompted by ideas of utopia and oppression, history and the future, borders, time, art and technology. Recordings from the live sessions culminate in an archive of experiments: speaking, listening, playing, partying and community. From June 23-26, PASS descends on Freedom Park in Lagos, …
Category: Articles
Leave a comment
Bantu Hour with Ade Bantu and guests: Show Dem Camp(SDC), Falana & Bez
Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu (born 13 July 1971 in Wembley, London), is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist. He is best known as the founder of the Afro-German musical collective and NGO Brothers Keepers and as the front man of the 12 piece band Bantu. He received the Kora Award (the Pan-African equivalent of the Grammy) for his album “Fuji Satisfaction” in 2005. On Sunday’s show, he features Show Dem Camp, Falana and Bez The Show Dem Camp duo, both born …
Lyricism and Lagos: Jumoke Verrisimo with Edoato and Awoko
Lyricism and Lagos with Nigerian poet and writer Jumoke Verissimo. Featuring a live performance with musicians Edoato (Afrogenius Band) and Awoko. Jumoke Verissimo is the author of two poetry collections. The award-winning I am memory (Dada Books, 2008), and well-received The Birth of Illusion (Fullpoint, 2015). Her novel manuscript was longlisted for Kwani prize in 2012. Verissimo has travelled performed her poetry at major world festivals. She currently works as a content strategist, writer and editor in a Public Relations Company. Agbeniyi Edaoto is the leader of …
Category: Articles, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Awoko, Edoato, Jumoke Verrisimo, PASS Lagos
Leave a comment
Speed of Thought with Tam Fiofiri and Funsho Ogundipe
THE SPEED OF THOUGHT is a discussion that examines the mental process that triggers the mind into the realm of spontaneous creativity as well demonstrated during solo improvisations in jazz music and, in stream-of-thought literature as well. Using music, poetry and historical references the panel will explore the Sun Ra Cosmic Equation which philosophises that, “Imagination is a magic carpet/Upon which we may soar to different lands and climes/If we came from nowhere here/Why can’t we go somewhere there?” This …
Fuji Music with Akintayo Abodunrin
The Jezebel Spirit with 9ja Feminist
Ayodele Olofintuade (9ja Feminist) is a writer, feminist (intersectional) and human rights advocate. Her first book, Eno’s Story, was the first runner up in the NLNG Prize. She’s written several books for children and teenagers. Her first full length novel for an adult audience, Lakiriboto Chronicles, will be published in 2017 by Farafina Books, Lagos, Nigeria. She has several publications online (both fiction and non-fiction). She presently runs an online blog, 9jafeminista, an intersectional platform providing space for the discussion …