FREQUENCY UPLIFT !
SUN. 10.10.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.
   
SF's poet-laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, in interview and reading from his new book,  "Blood On The Fog" .
   …   our second-Sunday's poet, and a poet's playlist and brand new music, from the stanzas of the people's imagination,  the musical language of liberation.  From the future now.

plus Monk's 104th birthday
plus ...

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    SUN. 10.03.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

Some balance, sonic harvest, music unifying across polarities.

     …  brand new music, local and farflung, from Mónica María (Oakland),  with a chat introducing her new single “Córrele”, and from Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna (Chile), King Champion Sounds  (Amsterdam/Chicago), KOKOKO! (Kinshasa), Muzi (Durban), Daniel Casimir (London), and an abundance,

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   SUN. 07.11.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

Tongo Eisen-Martin and Josiah Luis Alderete  …in interview and reading from legend SF poet Q.R. Hand (rise in power), his last work  “Out of Nothing’,  words for change  

     …  and, premiering a new (US-debut) track 'Blind Spot' from Matters Unknown (UK), and short interview with Jonny Enser, rad releases from Orchestre Gold (Oakland/Mali), Yndi (Brasil/France), Bongeziwe Mabandla (South Africa), and some other new beauty missed last week from Yasser Tejeda (Dominican Republic),  Kamasi Washington (LA) y más ...

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   SUN. 07.04.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

Declaring liberties ! …in interview with Seth Eisen and Tina D’Elia,  creators/actors in OUT-of-SITE / HAIGHT, embodying hidden queer histories and radical legacies,  

     …  and, some new ecstasies from the Narcotix  (Brooklyn), Spellling (Oakland), Lido Pimienta (Colombia/Canada),  Pat Kalla et Le Super Mojo (France), Amethyst Kiah (Tennessee), Thiago Nassif/Cornelius (Brasil/Japan), and Theon Cross (UK)

…come spin with us

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   SUN. 06.27.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

Pride.  “it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken” (Audre Lorde)

     …  and new music breaking barriers, from Soltrón (SF),  Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek (Turkey/Germany), Guy One (Ghana), Weedie Braimah (St. Louis/NOLA/Ghana), L’Rain (Brooklyn),  Fatoumata Diawara (Mali), Cheikh Ibra Fam (Senegal),and SAULT (UK)

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   SUN. 06.13.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

poet Kim Shuck, in conversation and reading from her new collection  ‘Exile Heart’,  tracking our waters, mapping our diasporas and transits, to all our homeplaces… as SF poet laureate emerita, bead worker and weaver, activist and this second Sunday’s poet.  

     …  plus, new music from all over the map .  ¡ UPLIFT !

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  SUN. 06.6.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

jazz pianist/composer VIJAY IYER, in conversation, on his new trio and music ‘Uneasy’,  on creating art and social change, on challenging the political and cultural moment.  

 …  plus, some props for the Mission’s FLOR y CANTO festival, some local jazz heads,  music from the beautiful contested future, and for Xochipilli .

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   SUN. 05.23.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

A LIVE NIGHT of UPLIFT!  

Debuting 2 new bands and brilliant new creative projects, in 2 very different styles. 
[... a post-recording-disaster sonic reconstruction, missing the underwriter spots and most back-announcing] 

    FROM THE UK, Jonny Enser (of Nubiyan Twist), in conversation and premiering new band MATTERS ! and debut track ‘A Beginning’     [segment starts @ 36min]

     But first, SF’s OWN Kyle Ranson live-in-studio,  with his new ‘seasoned weirdo’ band YEARS ! …fresh out of the studio !

¡UPLIFT!

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   SUN. 05.16.2021 > 10pm-12m.

      Songs beyond borders, from the heart and from struggles from Palestine to Colombia to here in Yelamu, Ramaytush Ohlone territory 

         …  new releases from Sons of Kemet, Almas Fronterizas, Anbessa Orchestra, Amaro Freitas, AfriCali, Marquez, Angelo Moore & the Brand New Step  and music from the beautiful future.

¡ UPLIFT!

Frequency Uplift! Sun.05.09.2021
Second Sundays poets
  ... hosts Josiah Luis Alderete, a full blooded Pocho Spanglish-speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama's Mexican restaurant. First performing his poetry in San Francisco's Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar, he was one of the founding members of San Francisco's outspoken word troupe, The Molotov Mouths. A fellow radio insurgente, he also hosts/curates the monthly Latinx reading series 'Speaking Axolotl' at Nomadic Press, Oakland. Josiah's first book of poems, 'Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos', is just out from Black Freighter Press. 
         Tune in for a reading , conversation and some of the poet's old punk favorites, music in solidarity with Colombia, and a few rad new tracks from Muzi (South Africa), Bomba Estéreo (Colombia), Krak In Dub/La Perla (France/Colombia), Lucas Santtana (Brazil),  songs for moms and more against all borders.

¡UPLIFT!