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Barby Asante with Larry Achiampong
Highlife edits and originals!
sorryyoufeeluncomfortable: From Africa to Future
‘They go say I don’t be woman!’ With Fela being referred to as ‘the last political musician,’ this show explores how the male figure is so often centred in music. Starting by unpacking the term ‘political music,’ this is a conversation on how music can become divided into gendered binaries due to masculine definitions of power and intellect. We attempt to rectify this by centering the feminine across different genres and looking at how women from the African Diaspora have …
Reeds & Drums by Harmony Holiday
From the Afro/Astrosonics Projects: In the summer 1970, reeds master Rahsaan Roland Kirk founded the Jazz and Peoples Movement in order to promote the visibility of the artform on mainstream television. Jazz musicians wanted to re-assert the dignity of their work to the very powers that threatened that dignity— a privately owned mass media that aggressively censored natural black inventions like collective improvisation. Their tactic: to collectively interrupt live tapings of talk shows, most notably the Merve Griffin Show and …
something(s) about John Coltrane
Category: News, Pass Radio
Tags: Alice Coltrane, Bugz Bayfield, DJ Mighty, Jitsvinger, Texito Langa
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Kongo Music, African Pop Music with Binetou Sylla
C’est soir: Binetou Sylla avec the producer Charles Tabu, singer Lodia H2O, and Charlotte Kalala. Discussing Koffi Olomide and and and… Final hour live of PASS Pop-Up in Paris. Lock in for the finale. Still time to ndombolo. Friday featured a stack of Syllart records and some with Binetou Sylla guiding us from Paris-Kinshasa-Baranquilla with Yondo Syster from Soukous Star, guitarist Dally Kimoko and DJ Yannick Do. Thursday’s focus: Congolese rumba. History lessons avec Nico, Franco, Tabu Ley and co. DJ, broadcaster, label-boss Binetou Sylla …
Category: Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Binetou Sylla, Congo, Congolese Sounds, PASS Paris, Syllart Records
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Afrikadaa: Silence Break On Air
Do not adjust your stream. Afrikadaa are at the controls. Joining Pascale Obolo tonight: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Michele Magema, Compagnie BonneEnfant and DJ Reyz (aka Dudley Slang). Merci Christiane Prince, Claude Grunitzky, Lord Eraze and all who’ve contributed so far. More on Afrikadaa’s journal and various goings-on here.
Boddhi Satva DJ set
Moziki na Quartier
Baloji and Dizzy Mandjeku
Discussions and improvisations between Baloji and guitar legend Dizzy Mandjeku. Next up: the final chapter of Moziki na Quartier.
Category: Pass Blog, Pass Radio
Tags: Baloji, Congo, Congolese Sounds, Dizzy Mandjeku, TPOK Jazz
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