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SUN. 04.23.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

     … earth love and ancestor whispers. The oceanic

         incidental poetry, found in the silences between notes and in the necessary actions of those whose backs are to the wall, those hearing depth. In the words/music that only form after

       ...  new sound and action from Fatoumata Diawara (Côte d’Ivoire/Mali), Tinariwen (Saharan Mali), Salami Rose Joe Louis (San Francisco), Wadada Leo Smith (New Haven), Ekiti Sound+Aunty Rayzor (Lagos/London), and Zeke Nealy (Oakland, rise in power), and rediscovered deep  from Milford Graves

 [exhalations]… 

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

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SUN. 04.16.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

fire-spirits, transformations: 

 ...  new music from María José Montijo (Borikén/Chochenyo-Ohlone-territory/ Oakland), Meshell NdegeOcello (Wiekagjoc-territory/Hudson River Valley), La Dame Blanche (Cuba/Paris ) , Choro Qom Chelaalapi (Toba-Qom territories / Argentina), Mourning [A] BLKstar (Lenape, Oneida, Ottawa, and Wyandot lands / Cleveland), Flock (UK), words for a People's Earth Day, for the rising

 spring sounds broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 04.02.2023 !

 ...  experimental-guitarist  Ernesto Diaz-Infante   bringing his mantra transformations, accompanied by amplified flautist Marjorie Sturm.

 ...  and with more transcendent [notes], waxing gibbous into a pink [noise] moon, midnight beauty  … 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

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SUN. 03.12.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

Tongo Eisen-Martin, SF poet laureate and our second Sunday's poet, reading work … and talking about the 2021 racist murder of his cousin AJ Stewart in St. Paul, MN., upcoming hearings and the pattern of injustices and increasing violence they represent. Ways and words forward.

 ...  and our poet's playlist, new music for justice and awakening,

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

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SUN. 02.12.2023 ! 

… our second Sunday poet, Nia McAllister, in interview and reading from her work, as artist, activist, amplifier 

 ...  a poet's playlist, new music from Debashish Bhattachrya  (India),  Faten Kanaan (Brooklyn/SWANA),  Koki Nakano (Japan), Bokani Dyer (South Africa) Dele Sosimi  (London / Nigeria), WITCH (Zambia) , y más

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

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SUN. 01.08.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

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… another second Sunday (on the 3rd) , honoring (and rewinding) last years’ poets:  

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, James Cagney, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Norman Zelaya, Flavia Elisa Mora, Fernando Martí,
       

 ...  some poetic playlist material, language jazz, jams for justice, words awakening and dancing with language, broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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SUN. 01.01.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

NEW YEAR's NIGHT !

… year’s end, new beginning.  cognitive and aural dissonance, purposed polyphony, 

 ...  rewinds and unplayed tracks from ’22 albums I loved (there is an already outdated list somewhere…)  plus new sonic celebrations, collaborations from:     Thandi Ntuli (Johannesburg), Seun Kuti / Black Thought (Lagos / Philadelphia), Valentina Magaletti / Fanny Chiarello (London), Ebo Krdum  (Stockholm/Sudan), João Selva (Rio de Janeiro / Lyon) y mas … moving forward, and…

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

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SUN. 12.25.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific

… peace  

 broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

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SUN. 12.18.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific

…  solstice darkening hours, some music for returning light still in depths of night   .   

 ...  sonic sweetness and dulces sueños from:    Abel Selacoe (South Africa),  Okra Playground (Finland), Esperanza Spalding (Portland), Super Parquet (Auvergne, FR), Erol Josué (Haiti), Chelsea Carmichael  (London),  ... y más, sin fronteras

 broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

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SUN. 12.04.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific

… woman, life, freedom.  Sounds for people rising worldwide, sounds to inspire in the dark,

 ...  sonic solidarity from:    Mali Obomsawin  (Abenaki First Nation / Odanak),  Carlos Niño & friends (LA), BRAHJA (NYC), Lamin Fofana (Sierra Leone / NYC), Ashkabad (Avignon), Muriel Grossman (Vienna), Oscar Jerome  (London), KRMU (Nairobi/Berlin) ... y más

 broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone  territory.

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