FREQUENCY UPLIFT !
SUN. 03.28.2021 > 10pm-12m.

    … sounds of making home and refuge,  sounds of us making our freedom

    … plus some brilliant new collaboration, some music from that special spot, from Omar Sosa (SF/Barcelona/Cuba), Pharaoh Sanders / Floating Points / LSO (SF/UK),  Witch Camp (Ghana), serpentwithfeet (Baltimore/Brooklyn/LA), Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés (Barcelona), Rhiannon Giddens / Francesco Turrisi (Éire/North Carolina/Italy), Caroline Chung / Citizen’s Jazz (Oakland), and elsewhere homeward bound
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT !
SUN. 04.4.2021 > 10pm-12m.

     … sounds making for it all new,  resilience and resurrection, to our common humanity. 

     … plus some newly-arisen music from all over the map, from Angelique Kidjo / Yemi Alade (Benin/Nigeria), La Doña (SF), Reyna Tropical (Mexico/US), Gavsborg / Equiknoxx crew (Jamaica), Speaker Music (Alabama/NYC),  Jupiter & Okwess (DR Congo) y más  y otra, rad reissues from Ghana, Mauritius; the new dawn just over the horizon, in the western sky… 

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT !     SUN. 04.18.2021

    …a show for memory and resistance, for those lives stolen and for too many names:  Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Roger Allen, Breonna Taylor, Steven Taylor, Luis Góngora Pat, Philando Castile, Elijah McCain,  Tony McDade, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Botham Jean, Tamir Rice, Willie McCoy, Ronell Foster, Tyrell Wilson, Laudemer Arboled, Angelo Quinto, Sean Monterrosa, Erik Salgado, Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Mario Woods, Jessica Williams, Alex Nieto, Oscar Grant, George Floyd… saying their names, honoring their memories

   … a recitation and new uplift sounds from iPhupho L'ka Biko (South Africa), Alsarah and the Nubatones (Sudan/NYC), Sunny Jain (NYC), , a tribute to Sonny Simmons, and perhaps some of what we missed last week:  Ya Tseen (Sheet’ka/Sitka, AK),  Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek do Rüstəm Quliyev (Turkey/Azerbaijan), Christine Salem (Réunion) and other communal … 

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SUN. 11.28.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

 …  some gratitude sounds. 

     …    new music from  Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O (South Africa), Susana Baca (Peru), Sofia Res (Argentina), Quantic & Nidia Góngora (UK/Colombia), Negro Leo  (Brazil) and beyond, to peace, to life, broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT !
SUN. 11.14.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.
        …  second Sunday’s poet Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Tongan scholar, storyteller and community activist

       …   & new music from across the Pacific and Oceania, and beyond, broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

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West of Twin Peaks Radio [radiobob subbing in]

Friday , 8/20/2021, 10am - 12n 

hosting Malian psychedelic rock  (via Oakland)  band Orchestra Gold, Mariam Diakité and Erich Huffaker in the house !  plus more rad music from the Bay to the world !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !
SUN. 11.07.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific

…  in conversation and centering the new solo piano (and wide collaborations) of pianist, electronic musician and composer/improviser Craig Taborn
  …   & additional incidental autumn's experimentalism from Jally Kebba Susso (Guinea/UK), Asta Hiroki (UK),  The Brother Moves On  (South Africa)…  sounds for the waning light, bathed in a crescent moon.

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT !
SUN. 10.31.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

…  Glasgow /COP26 special, news from the frontlines of the global climate justice struggle. interviews with activists Matt Leonard (Oil and Gas Action Network-US) & Chris Saltmarsh (Labour for a Green New Deal-UK)

   …   & songs for the change from all over the globe and from Moor Mother (Philly), Tune-Yards (Oakland), Yoko Ono & Anonhi (NYC), all commissioned work on this critical moment, and other musics from Theon Cross (London),  Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange  (Australia), Lakou Mizik  (Haiti)…

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FREQUENCY UPLIFT !

SUN. 10.24.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

 …  staying up through the storm, water songs and lullabyes, for rising seas, for our struggles

     …   & fresh rain-drenched songs from Namgar (Buryat-Mongolia), Saba Alizadeh (Iran), Chelsea Carmichael (UK), Helado Negro (Ecuador/Brooklyn),  Sonia Aimy  (Nigeria/Italy), Kahil El’Zabar  (Chicago), Alim Qasimov (Azerbaijan) 

… and for some peace, after the deluge.

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SUN. 10.17.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

 …  some music from la Misíon, then heading south and farther, with a call -in from Dos BandOLEros (Raúl Vargas and Alberto Gutiérrez), introducing their new/debut single ‘Malos Tiempos’. …rumba internacional para el pueblo

     …   & then some sweet taste and better times from Cimafunk (Cuba), Dos Santos (Chicago), Money Chica, y  Los Pirañhas ( both Colombia), Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble / Lua Preita  (Cologne/Angola/Poland, collabs and remixes elsewhere),  Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp  (Geneva), Remi Wolf  (LA) and rewinding ÌFÉ  (Puerto Rico/NOLA), more love songs than usual, because…

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