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Georgia Anne Muldrow

With a vocal style long abandoned by her contemporaries for cloying Cola pop; Georgia Anne Muldrow summons her lyrical base from a sincerity last heard ringing somewhere around the kitchen sink, the stoep (veranda) and sometimes church.

It seems Ms Muldrow demands the same perfectionism in the delivery of her in studio content, designing as she has, her own album covers and with the above video evoking a 70’s television nostalgic grainynes evident in her lyrical excursions.

Of her latest Jazznic album Octotea, Frolab says: ” Ocotea is a new frontier for Georgia Anne Muldrow’s sonic discoveries.” Teaming up with her life partner Dudley Perkins/Declaime, this funk-stress (JSM) is set to blaze PASS Live stages on the 30th of September and the 2nd of October, for now enjoy this short video.

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Relive the Pas(s)t

I go, we go. The music keeps playing. On the way we keep a log-book, an audio record of impressions, sensations, memories, and new encounters. Missed the ambidextrous verbal exchanges of the Writer’s Stokvel?  Simphiwe Dana’s in studio conVERSEation with Jennifer Bryant? Andy William’s vertiginous energy and enormous musical erudition? DalaFlat Music’s musical arch-aeology? DJ Ntone playing with electricity? Kolade’s consciousness-raising word-sound lessons? Replay PASS with the latest PASSCASTS.  ( continue reading

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PASSports!!!

The wait for Passes is over. Computicket is now open for you to grab your PASS pass. On the Computicket site search for Pan African Space Station, this will lead you to our events dates and venues, select the show you want to see and purchase your ticket. Playing one night only Theo Parrish  at the Albert Hall, Woodstock on the 29th September and Studio Kabako plays at City Hall on the 28th September.  ( continue reading

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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 …  ( continue reading

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Funafuji live TONIGHT in studio

Pictured below with a bandit backdrop, Funafuji is a veteran Dubstep DJ whose claim to fame does not crutch on her being one of the first females  in the genre but rather on her reputation for beat selection that draws the crowds from the exit back onto the dance floor. “Funafuji’s style is eclectic; from reggae and funk to dubstep and blues and just about anything with a fat warm bass line. You can find her playing at trance parties …  ( continue reading

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A message from Radio Continental Drift

greetings, hope the little message below might be well placed in to the audio dramatist’s hands & ears… please PASS it round: Greetings comrade listeners in CT, i’m delighted seeing & hearing your activities & productions over there. Beautiful work! I’d like to send you some links to playlists of clips from East Africa. They are featuring the voices, concerns, activities & productions of audio, radio & oral producers of many kinds in Nairobi, Kampala & Gulu; excerpts from a …  ( continue reading

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Plantation Miners on a Saturday trot

Plantation Miners is artistic approach to the voice of the social ills of our society today, giving a voice that is honest and thought-provoking to the human dyanmics of existence through soundscapes, movement and spoken-word. This is an all-engaging musical concept which is something these young artists have spent time and heart putting together as they have a placed a piece of themselves in parts of this art. It also draws in the visual by showcasing videos of events or …  ( continue reading

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Unmasking the face of PASS 2010

She’s out in the city, today we finally received prints of PASS 2010 posters- when you see her please remember chivalry died. You are allowed to stop- point-shoot and MMS forward. Gawk- your oohs and aahhh are just what she expects, whistles are completely acceptable and are in fact the preferred space lingua franca.  ( continue reading

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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 …  ( continue reading

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PASS 1 PASS ALL

PASS 2009 gave way for some creative constructions at a poetry slot called ‘Dreaming Wide Awake’ (hosted by Nonkululeko Godana). This year, the slot moves from Sunday afternoons to Thursday evenings and features the works of some these creative collaborations as well as other poets who have been met along the course of the year. The first session, called ‘Pass One Pass All’ comes at a time where the education system of the country is experiencing an epic #FAIL (from …  ( continue reading

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