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Tunde Jegede
Tunde Jegede is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is a master kora player, and specializes in the West African classical music tradition which dates from the period of Sundiata. He is a prolific song writer and has worked across several genres both as a performer and producer.
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Bantu Hour with Ade Bantu and guests: Temi Dollface and Brymo
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. In Thursday’s programming, he features singers Temi Dollface and Brymo. Temi Phil-Ebosie better known as …
Remembering the Future
A conversation three ways (dance, music, poetry) between Qudus Onikeku, Titilope and Tunde Jegede in which they explore the following questions: How do we attain grace within the muffling burden of memory? What has the past got to offer the future beyond history and memory? How do we forget the past in order to remember our future? It is an attempt to rewrite our myths, and through that re-imagination of the past, design a new kind of destiny that can …
Tam Fiofiri- The Speed of Thought
It is said that Sun Ra introduced the Moog synthesizer to the jazz world. The man who introduced Sun Ra to the Moog is Tam Fiofori, a little known Nigerian journalist, photographer and historian – then Harlem based, but better known in Lagos as “Uncle Tam”. Fiofori is also one of the first critics to write seriously about the most famous citizen of Saturn – his essay in Downbeat Magazine “Sun Ra’s Space Odyssey” (1969) is a founding connection between …
Temitope Kogbe
Temitope Kogbe is a DJ from Lagos with interests in photography, music and African history. Temi also collects vinyl of post-highlife West African music and genres it birthed. Temi’s interest in music started with his dad’s large collection of LPs from the 70s and 80s. His family later moved to Paris during the boom of the Jazz era where he eventually caught the bug, attending as many concerts as he could and taking drum lessons from jazz drummer, Sangoma Everett. Temi …
PASS x Kallio Library in Helsinki Daily Runnings: 13 April 2016
Today kicks off the first day of the programme streaming from the Kallio Library in Helsinki. Opening the day at 15hoo (Helsinki time) are Arta and Husla from the Third Space Collective, who’ll be experimenting with sampling, chop and screwing as they mix and remix live in studio. This is followed by Aino Korvensyrjä with Tricont exploring how a group of young people in Helsinki began to see itself as active supporters of Third World liberation movements, civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles? …
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Losing Language
Curator Ahmed Al-Nawas and Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim talk the loss of national archives and Blasim’s search for music. Hassan Blasim is a poet, filmmaker and short story writer. He lives in Finland since 2004. His debut short story collection,‘The Madman of Freedom Square’ was published by Comma Press in 2009. It was long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010. ‘The Iraqi Christ’,his second collection of short stories were published by Comma Press in 2013 and it won …
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Babatunde “Aiyekooto” Akerele in conversation with Ntone Edjabe
Babatunde “Aiyekooto” Akerele leads a Helsinki-based band called Aiyekooto & Afrobeat International. Nigerian born afrobeat musician, composer, arranger and lead singer Babatunde Akerele aka Aiyekooto (b.1966) moved to Finland in 2005, with the assistance of Finnish colleague, guitar player and recording artist Seppo ”Paarma” Salmi. Back in 2003, in Nigeria, they had released a single together, Falana (mind your own business). It got a positive response and radio play on the local stations. When they settled to live in Helsinki, the …
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Third Space with Sasha Huber
Sasha Huber is a Swiss-Haitian visual artist based in Helsinki who works with performance-based interventions, video, photography, publications, and a compressed-air staple gun – aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon. Her work often draws attention to historic trauma and its ramifications in the present. She is known for her artistic contribution to the long-term project “Demounting Louis Agassiz”, which promotes awareness that the Swiss-born Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a proponent of scientific racism, and a pioneering thinker of …
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Rereading the African Writers Series – The Otolith Collective with James Currey
Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Collective/Group (profiled here) and publisher James Currey discuss the Heinemann African Writers Series, George Hallett, Bessie Head, Dambudzo Marechera and routes (with)in the Chimurenga Library. Recorded for Pan African Space Station at The Showroom, London 2015.
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