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SUN. 07.10.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

 second Sunday poets,  Mission District voices... the song of the City, the stories of the People:

 Norman Antonio Zelaya, reading from his upcoming second book 'Gente, Folks',  out on Black Freighter , in discussion on holding our stories and throwing down some serious old skool poetic and sonic funk [in the first hour]

 Leticia Hernández-Linares, reading new work and poems from 'Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl ', and talk about the YBCA's  'Dream Seeds' exhibition, spinning resistance sounds and words past and future [in the second hour]

      ...  y más new sounds, classic ballads and poet's picks,        

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SUN. 07.03.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

some flowers from the farside… [those rockets' red glare]

'creative improvised musics' and those adjacent forms, circling and facing outward.
      some back-to-the-wall newness and 'jazz'- adjacency / decolonization from Moor Mother  (Philly), Tanya Taqaq (Ikaluktutiak /Nunavut),  Mark de Clive-Loew (Japan /Aotearoa/LA), Tomaga (London), Dan Berkson (Oakland ),  y màs.

          … and a dive into new South African sounds (and a tribute), from IzangoMa, Thandi Ntuli, Linda Sikhakhane, Yugen Blakrok, 

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JUNETEENTH !

SUN. 06.19.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

EMANCIPATION syncopation, exhultation…

  Reprising some unheard words, with Chief Adjuah on identity and naming, some new recorded poems from Tongo Eisen-Martin, incitation, celebration. 

… and  new sounds for liberation and beautiful sunny days from Irreversible Entanglements (Philly/ Brooklyn),  BKO (Mali), Muzi (South Africa), Juçara Marçal (São Paulo),  Nancy Mounir (Cairo), and Bill Ortiz (San Francisco) some missed intended musics but deep frequencies for remembering the past; forging a path forward. 

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SUN. 06.12.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

FLAVIA ELISA MORA,  poeta, muralista, interdisciplinary artivist and educator, our second Sunday and Pride month poet, in reading and discussion...

..  y más new sounds from Moor Mother/Melanie Charles (Philly/ Brooklyn), Muito Kabala/Lua Preita (Northern Europe / Angola / Poland), Chamir Bonano y el Hijo de Borikén (Puerto Rico/ Borikén),  Moonchild Sanelly (South Africa/Azania), Daniel Villareal (Chicago), Kokoroko (London),   ... and some Mission District soul, some old school and poet's choice. 

revolution comes from the heart. 

love is the practice, descolonizando el corazón

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SUN. 06.05.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

some summer flowers

..ephemeral new sounds from Sonido Gallo Negro (Mexico DF), Mitsune (Berlin/an idea of traditional Japan), Dendê Macêdo  (Brazil/ presenté),  A.B. Crentsil's Ahenfo Band (Ghana/ the voice of experience ), DoomCannon (London),  Saltpond City Band (Ghana /never enough highlife says uncle Ebo ), DoomCannon (London), Altin Gün (Istanbul/Amsterdam). . ... and Camellia Boutros (San Francisco), 

stretching out in the sonic meadow, 

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SUN. 05.22.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

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word and sound. thinkers and their resonant chambers. vibrations to shake foundations

… [new and otherwise] from Angela Davis/Sameer Gupta (past/future/global.revolution), Lollise (Botswana/Brooklyn), Charlie Chaplin/HEADBOLT (the commons/Madison,WI), Douglas Kearney/Val Jeanty(Minneapolis/Brooklyn/Haiti, fury), Fred Moten/Brandon López/Gerald Cleaver (Detroit/NYC, the imagination), Gideon Nxumalo, for Early Mabuza  (South Africa, presenté),  African Head Charge (London), Sudan Archives (Cincinnati/LA) and mejiwahn (Oakland), YEARS (San Francisco) 

sound.making.power

noise.

perhaps art.

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   SUN. 04.11.2021 > 10pm-12m.

   ..featuring this second Sunday’s poet, Oakland’s Ayodele Nzinga, 

the WordSlanger, author of ‘Sorrowland Oracle’, theatre artist and activist, reading and in conversation 

  … and some other new musical brilliance from Les Filles de Illighadad (Niger), Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble (Chicago), Sons of Kemet (UK), Afro Yaqui Music Collective (Pittsburg, PA.), and … 

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT !  SUN. 02.28.2021 > 10pm-12m. 

  … building and bridging. some news from a fossil-free future,

speaking with Maureen Katz, of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations, on the Minnesota Line 3 pipeline-resistance, and frontline-resisters’ words from Winona LaDuke, of  the Water Protectors’ Camps and HonorEarth.org,   standing up for Earth in the dead of winter 
            

     … and some new music from our common planet

#HonorTheTreaties  #StopLine3    

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   SUN. 03.14.2021 > 10pm-12m.

  … loud unapologetic voices, us, m(us)ic. polyrhythms and poetics. rituals and revolution. …and an honoring set for Jewlia Eisenberg [rise in power]  

  … plus some new music from the S.W.A.N.A. world and from bass masters Daniel Casimir (UK) & Charnett Moffett (US), Dobet Gnahoré (Côte d’Ivoire), Kasai All-Stars (Dem.Rep. of the Congo),  Felukah (Cairo/Brooklyn), and a midnight ghazal for Nowruz.

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SUN. 03.21.2021 > 10pm-12m.

   … spring equinox, our brief sonic balance, our universal language. … some more sound and poetics for lengthening days and budding change

… plus some new music,  holding the dark and the light,  from Toumani Diabaté / LSO (Mali/UK),  Vijay Iyer / Linda Oh / Tyshawn Sorey (US), Throttle Elevator Music (SF+LA), Hiatus Kaiyote (Australia), Delgres (Guadaloupe / NOLA / Paris), José Carlos Schwarz & Cobiana Djazz (Guinea-Bissau) and a few impulsive spring choices 

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