Today on the show: we talk about anything Minnie Riperton to the Ohio Players, Handwiches, FOMO, and Believing in Love with the Brooklyn / Jersey based alt-r&b duo.

Check out their music at https://sundrop.bandcamp.com/

A couple months ago I was on the phone with a friend and I heard noises on the phone. Beautiful, beautiful noises. In their living room was the one and the only Ramona Córdova, as I would find out days later. My conversation with Ramona was as wonderful as their music. If you gain some insight or value from this please reach out to Ramona and listen to one of their latest songs or watch one their intimate and revolutionary music videos.

In this episode Ramona Córdova talks about

— Breaking The Gender Binary

— Growing Up as Jehovah's Witness

— Living In France as an artist of color and much more...

www.ramonacordova.net

www.ramonacordova.bandcamp.com

Crafted entirely on a Casio Tonebank keyboard and a digital delay pedal, Ramona Córdova's third album On Paper invites us into a world awash with sonic nuances, where vocals slash at us with soothing, bleeding, cuts. A world where the melodies of keyboard, violin, and a broken megaphone, peak out like soft beams of sunlight from behind an ominous blanket of clouds.

Born, Ramón Vicente Alarcón, February 17, 1984, in the Mohave Desert of Kingman, Arizona; this peripatetic, self-taught, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter & composer, better known as Ramona Córdova, has performed over 400 shows in 20 countries around the world, including South Korea, Russia, China, Japan, Taïwan, México, Canada, The United States of America, as well as throughout Europe and Scandinavia; Opening for artists such as, Cat Power, Seu Jorge, Dirty Projectors, Mt. Erie, Ariel Pink, and Four Tet.


Ramona Córdova's new album On Paper is now available worldwide via iTunes, Spotify, Deezer & all of your favorite downloading & streaming platforms.

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Okayché (aka Oché Williams) is a rap artist / producer from Cleveland, Ohio. On today's episode we talk about Knowing That You Are Limitless, The Mick Jenkins Story, and Embracing Vibrance In Fashion.

Connect with Okayché on:

https://soundcloud.com/theysayche

https://www.instagram.com/theysayche/

Okayché  has multiple alias including: The Artistic Introvert / Yung Pretty / God Of the Lames, the P.$ ( PRE$$URE $QUAD) member formerly known as both TVN ( The Vizual Nostalgic) and Cliché ( a play on his birth name Oché Williams) Okayché is an artist / producer from Cleveland, Ohio born on September 18 1996, who started producing when he was 12 back in 2006 at his grandparents house and rapping and singing when he was 14 in 2010 on his school provided macbook. Inspired by the individuality and versatility of multi talented artists like Kanye West, Childish Gambino and Tyler, The Creator, Okayché saw his chance and decided to start taking music more seriously and dropped out of college twice after graduating high school to pursue it.

As people of color in the music world how do we navigate and respond the contemporary issues of race, gender, sustainability, and mental health while still making a living doing what we love most? On Libations we introduce you to the POC (people of color) who are reinventing and redefining the independent music industry, the art of songwriting, sound sculpture, and audio production. Director and host of Libations; Jarrod Cann engages musicians that are all too worthy of our attention, yet often remain undiscovered by popular culture -- asking questions that bring about our curious, ecstatic, and often subversive selves. Libations means “the pouring out of a drink as an offering to a deity”, so we offer Libations to the musicians who vibe out, bring joy, and drop wisdom in search of liberation.