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MSAFIRI KAFIRI – a conversation and listening Session on the roots and routes of Tanzanian hip hop with Seth Markle
We are pleased to be hosting Pan African scholar and educator, Seth Markle. In session, Markle will take us through the underground hip-hop scene of Tanzania, tracing the movement through a key selection of music, interviews and insights from his current project with on-the-ground artists-activists for whom hip-hop has long been a form of survival, expression, and cultural way of being.
Thursday, 01 August, broadcasting live from 6pm. Tune in at www.panafricanspacestation.org.za
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Category: Liberation Radio, News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Bi Kidude, hip hop, James Wamba, Julius Nyerere, Juma Nature, KBC, Kikosi cha Mzinga, King Kiki, Kwanza Unit, Langa Kileo, Mejah Mbuya, Seif, Seth Markle, Sista Carrolla, Squeeza, taarab, Tanzania, Ujamaa, Wamaba dia Wamba, zeze
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Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival
We are proud to announce the 2nd edition of Ubuhle Bendalo,“the beauty of creation/nature”,an annual community arts festival organised by multi-disciplinary artist Breeze Yoko in collaboration with pan-African arts platform Chimurenga from 16 – 18 February 2024. Consisting of exhibitions, talks, workshops, performances and more, this year’s edition aims to bring our arts community together by providing a platform for engagement, collaboration and play. It features some of the country’s leading radical creators, including Mzwandile Buthelezi, Loyiso Mkhize, The Ninevites, …
Category: Live Events, News, Pass Blog, Pass Pop-up, Pass Radio
Tags: Breeze Yoko, Community Arts Festival, Ubuhle Bendalo
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A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE
We’re delighted to host a listening with Lagos born, Pitori based rapper/producer Damola Owolade on PASS, Friday, 24 November from 7pm. Damola is one-half of the celebrated Pan Africanist prog-rap-folk duo Deep Dive Set, who harness the archaeological function of the hip-hop art form: excavating samples like fossils, fragments of forgotten history resurrected and immortalized by the very act of their discovery. The raw materials of Damola’s production come from sakara, apala, juju, fuji, highlife and other sounds in the …
Category: Live Events, News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: apala, Damola Olowade, fuji, highlife, juju, sakara
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LIVE ON PASS THIS WEEK
FIELD RECORDINGS Groundings with Shabaka Hutchings on the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Sons of Kemet, Ancestors and more. Wednesday, 22 February 2023 – from 6pm Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za In preparation for Grounation – a tribute to The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on 24 Feb. Get your resale tickets via Quicket (qkt.io/EvMmff).
Category: News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation, Shabaka Hutchings
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LIVE ON PASS THIS WEEK
Category: News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Count Ossie & The Mystic Revel, Grounation
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The Music Mind of Greg Tate: Sonic Syllabus for a Patternmaster
We were honoured to present a 5-hour music selection in Greg Tate’s memory on his arrival day – 14 October – live on the Pan African Space Station. The music was lovingly selected by DJ Lynnée Denise, Elisa Blount Moorhead, and dream hampton, who collectively spent hours, days, and years processing, listening, describing, and testifying about music with him. The mix is assembled and introduced by DJ Lynnée Denise. DJ Lynnée Denise Greg Tate was a jazz historian, a scholar …
Category: News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: DJ Lynnée Denise, dream hampton, Elissa Blount Moorhead, Greg Tate, Lynnée Denise
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we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming (Listening Session #2) – live on PASS – 06 Oct 2022 from 8:30pm
[Sketch by Myriam Pruvot courtesy of archive of Yasmina Reggad] With ‘Listening Session #2’, Yasmina Reggad extends an invitation to historian, researcher and performer Saphia Arezki (Marseille, France) to dive together into her sound archive gathered during the artist’ long-term research we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming, that investigates the liberation movements’ broadcasts aired by the Algerian National Broadcasting Company (RTA) in the 60s and 70s. Drawing on her previous polyglot and polyphonic sonic productions that echoed …
Category: Liberation Radio, News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Saphia Arezki, Yasmina Reggad
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Euredice Zaituna Kala’s JE SUIS L’ARCHIVE / I, THE ARCHIVE – live on PASS – 13 Sep 2022 from 6pm
Euridice Zaituna Kala is the archive. The archive is entangled in the pores of her skin, the folds of her memory and her recollections of meetings, texts and journeys. A word/sound piece by Euridice Zaituna Kala – live on PASS, Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 6pm.
Category: News, Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Euredice Zaituna Kala, I - The Archive, Je suis l'archive
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LIBERATION RADIO: DAR ES SALAAM – 14 AUGUST 2022 from 2pm
2pm – Liberation Dance: When Tarzan Met the African Freedom Fighter An ongoing exploration of struggle music – literally, music produced by and through the movements and people involved in Africa’s liberation struggle, rather than about it. “Struggle Music” is also a misnomer, it designates collective expression which, although musical, refuses to be “music” – or the process of individuation that produces it. It helps us demarcate from what is customarily called “protest music” – which, at times, may be …
Category: Liberation Radio, News, Pass Blog, Pass Pop-up, Pass Radio
Tags: Amandla Thomas-Johnson, ANC, Ethel Minor, Frantz Fanon, FRELIMO, FROLIZI, Kwame Ture, Mahmood Mamdani, Malcom X, Maria Shaba, MOLINACO, MPLA, PAC, Radio Cairo, Radio Free Africa, SWAPO, Tanzanian Broadcasting Corporation, Toivo Asheeke, UNFL, ZANU, ZAPU
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LIBERATION RADIO: DAR ES SALAAM – 13 AUGUST 2022 from 2pm
[The mighty band Afro 70 in performance in Dar es Salaam, 1970s] 2pm – Liberation Dance: Toyi-Toyi & Struggle Songs An ongoing exploration of struggle music – literally, music produced by and through the movements and people involved in Africa’s liberation struggle, rather than about it. “Struggle Music” is also a misnomer, it designates collective expression which, although musical, refuses to be “music” – or the process of individuation that produces it. It helps us demarcate from what is …