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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 04.26.2024 

… songs for the change, the turning over   

New sonic salve and struggle sounds  from Aziza Brahim  (Occupied Western Sahara), La Dame Blanche (Cuba/France),  Use Knife (Belgium / Iraq),  Thandiswa (South Africa), Hizbut Jámm (Warsaw/Senegal/Burkino Faso), EEG Coherence (NYC / Montréal / Estonia) & Cyril Cyril (Geneva),   more [+] mayday dub and re-[volution]-mix(es) 

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 04.19.2024 

… a bouquet, wildflowers of rhythm, melody rising up   

Lullabies and lunar blooms from Ebo Krdum (Stockholm/Sudan), Arooj Aftab (Lahore/Riyadh/Brooklyn),  Shabjdeed / Al Nather (Palestine),  Nduduzo Makhathini (South Africa), DeLaSi (Koforidua, Ghana) & Dele Sosomi (Ghana/London), Isaiah Collier and the Chosen Few (Chicago), [+] earthday dub and remix, our vibrational humanity 

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
حب للإنسانية  انسانیت سے محبت   אהבה לאנושות मानवता के प्रति प्रेम = love of humanity [in 4 languages]

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 04.12.2024 

… a poem for Gaza,  as all there is to be said,  

from this month’s poet Beverly Dahlen

Cries and radical epiphanies, queer joy and ecstatic resistances from FUSE / Gabriella Smith (Amsterdam/Berkeley), Yair Elazar Glotman/ Mabe Fratti (Berlin/Mexico DF),  Rajesh Mehta’s Sky Cage Quartet  (Chennai/Chicago/Germany),  Steve Dyer (South Africa), Bruno Berle (Brazil), Cruza (Orlando), Amanda Magaña (San Francisco),  & beyond, sounds for survival, keeping love 

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 03.29.2024 

.. . the good word, collective endeavors and news from:

       Lalin St. Juste, KKING BOO, Blu Moon, and Madre Guía of the 7000 COILS collective, a new label and gender-expansive, Black-owned nexus of Blackness/Queerness/Wellness (with a big all-day showcase this weekend)

       Rohan Krishnamurthy and the ALAYA PROJECT, Carnatic Indian Jazz fusion pioneers, also throwing down this weekend
 

…  checking in with Bay family, all the happenings and fresh music far beyond borders, ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 03.15.2024 

…  Opïum Sábbáh,  San Francisco producer / hip-hop educator/activist comes through with a new track and an international radio premiere,  for the freedom of Leonard Peltier, and talk of actions we can take

Plus news of victory and a land back celebration

And Ides of March portents from

  MESTIZX (Bolivia/Chicago),  Three Eyed Raven (San Francisco) ganavya (Tamil Nadu/Cambridge, MA.), Avalanche Kaito (Brussels/Burkina Faso), Jembaa Groove (Ghana/Berlin), Kamasi Washington (LA),  The Halluci Nation (Six Nations/Ottawa), & more, 

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 03.08.2024 

… some sonic movements for winter's waning

rain-walk notes and new meander frequencies from Meklit Hadero (San Francisco), Ausecuma Beats (Melbourne/Bamako/Dakar),  Mohammad Syfkhan (Éire/Kurdistan) Reyna Tropical (LA/DF), Bolis Pupul (Belgium/Hong Kong), Leyla McCalla (NOLA/Haiti), Amaro Frietas (Brazil), & more, 

a derivé ...  

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 03.01.2024 

… featuring CAROLINE DAVIS,  exploring her new abolitionist jazz,  'Alula: Captivity', digging into ideas of art and thought and change, sonic offerings to morph our present situation, appearing @ SF Jazz,  Friday 3/8

 all new emancipation sounds and first Friday poetics for freedom:      Omar Sosa / Tiganá Santana (Cuba/USA/Brazil), The Soil / Nduduzo Makathini (South Africa), Nabihah Iqbal & Amy Gadiaga & Cassie Kinoshi (all rad UK women), making beauty in the service of liberation …

… And more broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 02.23.2024 

… featuring MALI OBOMSAWIN, in conversation,and digging into their broad and deep music. Composer, bassist, songwriter, from the Abenaki First Nation at Odanak, Obomsawin merges indie rock, American roots and jazz traditions. In their interweaving of free jazz and traditional music, their music inherits and expands a historical musical dialogue with the realities and resistance to colonization and genocide. 

    yes, we both go deep and geek out on the music, in advance of next week’s show at Yoshi’s. 
 

PLUS the usual rad tickets and new international and indigenous sonic liberation:     Deerlady (NYC/Odanak First Nation), Hataałii (Navajo Nation), Azu Tiwaline (Tunisia), Asher Gamedze (South Africa), Saïd Chalaban (Morocco/Hungary), and breath and resilience…

 …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 02.16.2024 

… two kinds of  ‘MISSION LOVE’,  all COMMUNITY!

      Ray Balberan and the legacy of Mission Media-arts, in the house, screening crucial histories Sunday

       Julie Rulyak Steinberg, of SF Community Music, reopening the Mission Center, bringing music to the people

PLUS  brand new international frequencies of joy:     Little Simz (Islington, North London), Yuhan Su  蘇郁涵 (Taiwan / NYC ), Blick Bassy (Cameroon/Cantin, Hauts-de-France ), Vinicius Cantuaria (Rio de Janeiro), Fabiano do Nascimento / Sam Gendel (Rio de Janeiro / LA),  Hermanos Gutiérrez (Ecuador-Switzerland), Konkolo Orchestra (Zürich), Pietro Santangelo and PS5 (Naples), Helado Negro (Ecuador/South Florida/Brooklyn) … all this and wherever the heart may take us, all

 …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 02.09.2024  

…new moon music, 

           How we go on…

new sonic sustenance:     Eki Shola  (Sonoma), SUPERGOOD4UTHING (Oakland), Ustad Noor Baksh &  Jaffar Hussain Randhara (both Pakistan), groundsound / Gavsborg and Riddim Writer (Jamaica), Ibibio Sound Machine (Nigeria/UK), Franck Biyong (Cameroon), Bosq & Kaleta (Colombia & Paris), Newen Afrobeat (Chile), Les Amazones d'Afrique (west Africa), Palka (France/Panamá),  La Yegros (Buenos Aires) … and more, moving forward,

 …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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