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Remembering the Future with Qudus Onikeku, Titilope and Tunde Jegede

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 allows us where we are supposed to be in spite of the colonial past.

Cia Qudus Onikeku - My Exile in My Head

Posted by PASS on Wed, 22 Jun 12:17
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Wura Samba

Wura Samba is a seven member band based in Lagos, Nigeria and led by Abiodun Abraham Oke. They use traditional percussion instruments in a modernized way. Abiodun Abraham Oke, a versatile, talented and experienced drummer and percussionist, plays his instruments with such dexterity and passion that lends the band its uniqueness. Samba’s music can be characterized as a fusion of traditional African folk songs and rhythms with a classical and modern usage of various percussion instruments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUiM3mU_zmw    ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Wed, 22 Jun 11:48
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PASS landing at Kallio Library, Helsinki

  Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative? In April and May 2016, Chimurenga’s installation Chimurenga Library and pop-up radio station Pan African Space Station infiltrated the Kallio Library in Helsinki. The intervention was a continuation of Chimurenga’s ongoing exploration into the utopian moment shortly after African independences, when a series of Pan African festivals staged in Dakar, Algiers, Lagos and Kinshasa functioned as laboratories for the development of new, …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Mon, 20 Jun 16:09
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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRTUNSJO7Qs  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Mon, 20 Jun 15:42
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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 …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Mon, 20 Jun 15:37
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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 …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Mon, 20 Jun 15:23
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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 …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Mon, 20 Jun 14:38
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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 …  ( continue reading

Posted by PASS on Mon, 20 Jun 14:28
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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? …  ( continue reading

Posted by Lindokuhle Nkosi on Wed, 13 Apr 13:27
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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 …  ( continue reading

Posted by Lindokuhle Nkosi on Wed, 06 Apr 21:26
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