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Chimurenga Library preview night
Ntone Edjabe and Kodwo Eshun selecting records from the library, as King Sunny sings: Welcome to Nigeria…
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Hello Skinny with Marshmello
At the #PanAfricanSpaceStation controls as bodies start to fill the Chimurenga Library: Tom “Hello Skinny” Skinner with a bag of records from Blue Notes to Kongotronics. Marsha “MarshmeLLo” Smith beside him.
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Pepper Coast in the mix
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
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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 …
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Tags: Binetou Sylla, Congo, Congolese Sounds, PASS Paris, Syllart Records
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