Classic City Vibes

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This weeks episode of ARLS's Classic City Vibes consist of wonderful duo Sparkle Trauma.  Athens is a city in, among other places, the US state of Georgia. Sparkle/Trauma are there.
They would like you to be aware that the sound
they offer is a Style Independent Genre - or SIG Wave.
Sparkle/Trauma are, perhaps, the first to intentionally promulgate formally the SIG Wave identifier. 

Find out more about them and the music they play at:
https://sparkletrauma.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/SparkleTrauma/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwAIRlX450my1wPGhSKs2ZA

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This weeks guest is singer songwriter Trisha Adams.  Trisha is a third generation musician who grew up playing with her parents and grandparents, in church, at the local pub, in living rooms and backyards and the occasional sock hop too.   Don't miss this weeks great conversation and check out some of the links to Trisha's work below!

https://trishaadamsmusic.com

https://trishaadamsmusic.bandcamp.com

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This week  we are joined by local rapper Seline Haze.  Seline is a healer through music and an unapologetically carefree black woman. Since a child, Seline has always had a love for the arts. Using poetry as a coping mechanism and to heal her own depression and anxiety, her poetry evolved into music after she fell in love with the craft.

She brought with her as special guests three of her Mindvomit members: Jamee Cornelia, jimmy., and Blvcklvrd.  It was a great conversation.  Warning this episode contains explicit language.

For more info on Seline go to https://www.selinehaze.com/

You can follow mindvomit on Instagram at @Mind Vomitatl 

Seline https://selinehaze.bandcamp.com/album/haze
 Jimmy.  https://z6jimmy.bandcamp.com/
Jamee  Cornelia  https://jameecornelia.bandcamp.com/
Blvcklvrd: https://soundcloud.com/lvrdknows/tracks

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This week we are joined by author Josina Guess.  Josina writes about faith, race, family, violence, activism, and home rooted in the rural and urban landscapes of her life and memory.

You can find out more about Josina as well as find links to some of her writing at https://www.josinaguess.com/.   She is also on twitter @josinaguess and you can an see about her farm life on Instagram @stillrisefarm. 

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We are joined by the Hip Hop Ambassador of Athens, Montu Miller.  Montu runs ATHfactor-Liberty Entertainment, is on the board of the non-profit Chess and Community, puts out the Classic City Wax series, and much more!  There is no one better to learn about the exploding Hip Hop scene than Montu.  

https://www.facebook.com/athfactor/

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Shane Parish devotes much of his time to developing his singular and expressive voice on the guitar. A self-taught musician, he communicates through emotion, unexpected melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuanced sense of form, and rich timbral variety. He is known for his work fronting the electric band Ahleuchatistas, as well as for his uniquely beautiful finger-style acoustic guitar work.

https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/

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Xeke Zayer of Gypsy Farm Collection and of the band "The Humms" joins us to talk about his work with "The Humms" and the evolution of Gypsy Farm.  You can find more info about Gypsy Farm at:
https://gypsyfarm.net/

The Humms at:
https://gypsyfarmrecords.bandcamp.com/music

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This week we sit down with Musician and local Activist Beto Cacao.  You won't want to miss this one.
Beto Cacao is an artist, organizer and activist who has been performing in Athens, GA for over 20 years. His album Undocorridos and his collaboration whit Killick Hinds The Art that gives us strength to face tyrant. In Oct 2020 release it's new album Voces en Pandemia, a collection of 5songwriters, telling the stories of the migrant families lives during the pandemic and their own perspective

https://betocacao.bandcamp.com/community

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DQ Nguyen Bio

Born in 1975 , at the end of the Vietnam war is where my journey began.  Attending Virginia Commonwealth University and majoring in painting and printmaking I graduating with a BFA. This is where academically I fully studied the evolving history of art, At an early age I started copying comic book characters and began learning about compositions, color, figurative, space.  From this point on I began studying more about different artist and began painting .  What I mostly strive to do is to constantly push the boundaries and explore where my paintings can develop. When I predetermine my subject matters I try to universally keep them relevant to today's culture. Even when I paint purely abstract my goal is to pushes for new ground and discovery as art evolves and rebirths.  

For more info on DQ check out his website at https://dqnguyenart.com/

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Annie Leeth is a producer and violinist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She left Richmond,  Virginia to pursue an undergraduate degree in music at the University of Georgia, and found  herself in the world of composition, production, and technology. In 2018, she began working at  Chase Park Transduction as a session violinist and producer, as well as at the Georgia Theatre as  a monitor engineer. Now working as the house engineer at Maze Studios in Atlanta under Ben  Allen, she continues to self-produce her own projects and participates as a session violinist to  artists in both Athens and Atlanta.

https://www.annieleeth.com/