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SUN. 05.07.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

poet soledad con carne,…co-editor of Acid Verse, unofficial poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley, now co-repping La Misión, zine-maestrx, reading and in interview, and spinning

... their poet's playlist, …raising a ruckus and other new voicings from Asher Gamedze (South Africa), AroMa (Oakland), African Head Charge / King Ayisoba (UK/Ghana), Jazz Mafia (Oakland), Tony Allen /JID-crew (Lagos/London/LA. rise-in-power), and more music for our collective beauty, brilliance

… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 03.26.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

A special guest DJ set and chat with visual artist Charles Dabo, exploring the cross-fertilization of African musics and Western psychedelia / soul, digging into his Senegalese ye-ye movement roots.. and on into the future

...  with more transformative (notes), deep cuts, classic rewinds + more+more love …

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 10.29.2023 !

> 10pm-12m Pacific

songs for ancestors, and lullabies

penultimate Sunday UPLIFT!

new beauties, full moon light, everpresent ghosts from                                                  

Esotérica Tropical (Oakland/Borikén), Pausis (Thessaloniki),  Isaiah Collier  (Chicago), Rammy Essam (Cairo), Jawa (Aleppo),
 and persistent music from Adnan Joubran (Paris/Ramallah), Rim Banna (Nazareth), checkpoint 303 (Bethlehem/Tunis/Paris),

songs for a different future 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 10.15.2023 ! 

> 10pm-12m Pacific

lotus-pad earth. 

frog-croak and dripping  

some kind of noisy,

messy enlightenment, songs for peace from 

Ambrose Akinmusire (Oakland), Nihiloxica (Kampala / London),  Matana Roberts  (Chicago), Mary Lattimore (LA), Hania Rani (Warsaw), Abel Selacoe (Manchester/Johannesburg), Esperanza Spalding (Portland)  … hearing a deep breath

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 10.01.2023 ! 

> 10pm-12m Pacific

notes on edge of night

'Aareh flight and song-stories

blessings and confrontations from 

Ezequiel Borra (Argentina), Haïdouti Orkestar (Turkey / Paris), Okan (Cuba/Toronto), Newen Afrobeat / Dele Sosimi (Chile / Nigeria / UK), Jason Singh & the Banwasi Collective (Rajastan), ÌFÉ (NOLA ), Nana Benz du Togo (Togo), Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet )  … and more lunar frequencies just past full, 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 09.24.2023 ! 

> 10pm-12m Pacific

on the balance of the year

Wire-walking from 

Dobet Gnahore (Côte d’Ivoire / Paris),  Kimi Djabaté  (Guinea-Bissau / Lisbon), ONIPA (diasporic London), Titanic / Mabe Fratti y Hector Tosta (Guatemala/Mexíco DF), Gerald Cleaver (Motor City / BKN) Sessa (São Paolo), Leyla McCalla (NOLA / NYC), Karney (San Francisco)  … and breath and pause, in these longer nights

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 09.10.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

poet Darius Simpson

 … New Afrikan writer, educator, performer, revolutionary and skilled living room dancer based in Oakland, a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and the author of Never Catch Me, words dedicated to liberation 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 09.03.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

[for Kala] 
 time and notes, the present we rest in and that passes

marking the moment

 … with new frequencies/from around the latitudes/time-zones from Mali Obomsawin / Magdalena Abrego (Abenaki First Nation / NYC ),  Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan (Turkey/Israel), Danûk  (Syria / Kurdistan), Roxane Métayer (Belgium), L'Rain (Brooklyn), Bixiga 70 and Xis (both  Brazil), Humazapac (Kichwa nations, Ecuador), we have ... 

no time and all the time in the world,

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 08.27.2023 ! 

a near full green corn moon, fern moon. 

...voicings and new sustenance from Spellling (Oakland), Non Plus Temps (Oakland), Mari Kalkun (Estonia), Namian Sidibé (Mali), Lebeha Drummers (Belize), Anoushka Shankar (UK), song centering women's voices and ending dubwise

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 08.20.2023 !  

First harvests in, creating sound beauty in crop susurrance

More new succulence, amid the thorns and thistles from 

Beth Custer  / Will Bernard (San Francisco),  Badiâa Bouhrizi (Tunisia), Heretic (Kyoto),  Laliboi & Spoek Mathombo and Muzi (all South Africa), Alabaster DePlume and Kay Young (both sides of London), Lon Moshe & the Southern Freedom Arkestra (New Afrika, USA, coast to coast, and the legend past), and as creative pollinators, we’ll end dancing, and... 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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