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Mother and other tongues

Genre busting sounds from the PASS universe featuring women all Saturday afternoon into the evening. Listen out for Lady May, Busi Mhlongo, Fatima Bramme Sey, Ms Meshell Ndegeocello, Tracy Chapman, Donna Sommer, Nina Simone and much more…

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Ragas & Rhythms

Eastern rhythms collide with jazzy improvisation… Guitarist composer Reza Khota and friends mine the musical links that criss-cross the Mediterranean and Indian oceans. More on Reza here.  ( continue reading

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Unbound sounds

Ancient-futuristic pan-African sounds for your aural pleasure.  ( continue reading

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It’s church!

DJ Ntone presides: hypnotic pan-African grooves, soulful house, unheard hip-hop, electro boogie, deep jazz, all the funk and much, much more. As Pharoah Sanders put it, ‘The Creator has a Masterplan.’ In Berlin next week? Catch him at Gretchen Club.  ( continue reading

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We Travel The Space Ways

The Ghost journeys the PASS universe to bring you intergalatic Pan-African sounds…  ( continue reading

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Ethan Smith Trio

The Ethan Smith Trio featuring Ethan Smith (Sax), Brydon Bolton (bass) and Claude Cozens (drums). Raw, spiritual, earthy – elegiac Eastern melodies, folk forays, deep funky grooves and joyous Afrocentric jazz harmonies.  ( continue reading

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Khayelitsha Blues Live @ Tagore’s

Warongx features Wara on guitar, mouth organ, and voice and Ongx guitar and voice. This is Khayelitsha Blues – a raw, loud and proud mix of wide warm blues yodelling, homegrown field hollering, revolutionary lyrical dexterity and soul-drenched, jazzy playing. Check out their previous PASS Studio Sesssion here, watch them in The Creators doccie or visit their myspace page.  ( continue reading

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A tribute to the life & work of Franco

François Luambo Makiadi—best known simply as Franco—needs no introduction. Guitarist, singer, bandleader, composer, Congo colossus, sorcerer of the guitar, the Grand Maitre. Together with his band, Tout Puissant Orchestre Kinois Jazz, or TPOK Jazz, he transformed music – combining African sounds, Caribbean rumba and American jazz and R&B into the sweet exuberance, and palpable, contagious optimism, dense polyrhythmic textures and sharp social and political critique of Congolese rumba and soukous. Twenty three years after his death in Belgium in 1989, …  ( continue reading

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From musical cravings to more cravings for this music

We are here to be witnesses to goodness in our music presentations. Give a listen and be a witness also; plus, i have it on good word that there will be a huge section of the playlist featuring Stevie Wonder in all his glory… included will be some others who feel the same.  ( continue reading

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Ethan Smith Trio

The Ethan Smith Trio featuring Ethan Smith (Sax), Brydon Bolton (bass) and Claude Cozens (drums). Raw, spiritual, earthy – elegiac Eastern melodies, folk forays, deep funky grooves and joyous Afrocentric jazz harmonies.  ( continue reading

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