Like most multi-genre music fans, London-based Ruby Savage approaches DJing through a wide-angle lens. Whether she's touring, playing her post-punk disco party, In Flames, or hosting her monthly show on NTS, the Amsterdam native opts for warm, bouncy tunes that traverse dub, jazz and '80s proto-house. As she once Mixmag, she isn't beat-matching but "heartbeat-matching." For her, a dance is a means to feeling the full spectrum of emotions in a healthy way.

Years spent behind-the-scenes at influential institutions have added to her understanding of energy and flow. She's worked the counter at Honest Jon's Records, managed Theo Parrish's Sounds Signature label (plus created the Wildheart Recordings sister label) and Gilles Peterson's Brownswood imprint, in addition to helping the Worldwide FM don launch Arc Records. When she's not DJing, Savage is spearheading community initiatives like Don't Be A Creep, an educational platform about club safety, as well as Artist Recovery Club for creative growth among music-makers.

For her RA podcast, the vinyl enthusiast crafted a house music odyssey through soul, disco and gospel-inflected cuts like "Glory" by Waajeed and Dames Brown. It's an uplifting excursion through joy, catharsis and self-affirmation, relayed straight from the heart.

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RA podcast

RA.895 Ruby Savage

In 1999, almost 30 years before ethnomusicologist Paul Berliner began his research on Zimbabwean mbira music, he organized a U.S. tour with mbira artists he had worked with over the years. Billed as the Mbira Masters of Zimbabwe, the ensemble presented Shona spiritual music as never before on American stages. Revered vocalists Hakurotwi Mude and Beulah Dyoko fronted an ensemble that also included Cosmas Magaya, Chaka Chawasarira and Berliner himself. Afropop Worldwide documented the tour and took it as an opportunity to take a deep dive into one of the most beautiful traditional music traditions in Africa. Produced by Banning Eyre.

APWW #327

Spiritual Journeys: The Soul of Mbira

A beautiful scape of sounds curated and mixed by Moyoswrld ushering in 2024

HOTPINK 2024 Mix by Moyoswrld

Cake Fountain - live dj set @ Format (dusk jockey 29102023)

LETS DO AN MJ COLLAB

Edward George: Listening to D’Angelo. Hearing Voodoo – Part 2

MOTHER POPCORN is the music and art collaborations of Anna Luisa Petrisko and Adee Roberson.
This was recorded by Jason Grier.



MOTHER POPCORN "NEON WAVES"

“Divine music is a curative virtue; it is a gift from God that brings healing and comfort to the soul. This music can uplift one’s spirit up to a higher dimension of being that is filled with peace and joy. Divine music is the sound of true life, wisdom, and bliss. This music transcends geographical boundaries, language barriers, age factors; and whether educated or uneducated, it reaches deep into the heart and soul, sacred and holy, like an Infinite sound of glory entering the Lord’s sanctuary.” – Alice “Swamini Turiyasangitananda” Coltrane (1937 – 2007)

Around 14 years ago, I first glimpsed Alice Coltrane on the cover of her 1972 album World Galaxy. She was wrapped in robes and framed by the psychedelic figures of artist Peter Max. From her radiant gaze I knew I had encountered a high spirit. When I dropped the needle and heard the music my world was blown apart. Between the newly shattered pieces Alice injected a shimmering light. Her string arrangements, lush and majestic, dissolved at points, giving way to intimate moments that burned and swung then swelled skyward again.

Alice’s early Impulse! Records output was jazz music infused with an air of the divine. She was paying tribute to and continuing the legacy of her departed husband John Coltrane while offering the world a glimpse of her blossoming spirituality. Her song titles alone let us know where her mind was: “Journey in Satchidananda,” “Galaxy in Turiya,” “Jaya Jaya Rama,” or simply “Mantra.” These were cosmic love songs, and although her great Earth lover was gone, her universal love was growing.

Alice was a woman of constant transformation. She was born Alice McLeod, to became Alice Coltrane then eventually shed conventional names to become Swamini Turiyasangitananda (Sanskrit for “the highest song of God,”). Earlier on, Alice had embraced the teachings of the guru Sathya Sai Baba and shades of her spirituality were reflected on a string of gorgeous albums from the late 60’s through 1970’s on Impulse! and Warner Brothers. In 1983 she retreated from secular life altogether and founded the Vedantic Center Sai Anantam Ashram tucked deep into the Santa Monica Mountains bordering Los Angeles. Her musical output seemed to silence but in actuality the waves were building.

Turiya (Alice) had given up secular music to focus on pure devotion. Her songs of praise came in the form of Vedic Chants. These were not muted, whispered prayers. They were ecstatic praise in full swing. The sessions were released as worship tapes & cds available through her Ashram’s Avatar Book Institute: Turiya Sings (1982), Divine Songs (1987), Infinite Chants (1990), Glorious Chants (1995). They are a total revelation for any Alice Coltrane fan and a missing link of sorts in her musical story.

These four albums are collections of purely devotional songs. The verses are Vedic Chants repeating the names of deities. These swirling, meditative mantras are sometimes sung solo with serene fragility by Turiya and at other times rise in magnificent, gospel-like form from the Ashram Singers. Throughout, the magic element is Turiya’s synthesizer, which dives, sweeps and rises like a million stars cradling all in ancient, blissful light. These are the tones of a luminous glow that is gentle but powerful. It is music made by a woman and her devotees who were in full, astonished love with the immense universe and the tranquility they found within it. Although these songs were cosmic in scope they have been largely unheard by the world. I hope you choose to explore further and even if the flames do overtake this music it will continue to ring on in your heart and beyond.

SONGS:
“Er Ra” from Divine Songs
“Keshava Murahara” from Divine Songs
“Rama Guru” from Infinite Chants
“Gopala” from Infinite Chants
“Hari Rupa & Siva Mantra” from Infinite Chants
“Journey to Satchitananda” from Glorious Chants
“Charanam” from Turiya Sings

The Ashram Tapes of Alice Coltrane : a reflection and mix by frosty

Genesis

YAZMINE - I KNOW THEY HATIN/FRE$H FACE (FEAT. EYEDRESS)

Wally Badarou's charismatic flavor and touch is something wholly his own, and it's had an impact on generations of music. His signature synth heavy and boppy sound can still be heard on records being produced to this day, getting people to dance and move to the music.

Whether he’s working alongside acts from the likes of Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, Sly & Robbie and The Talking Heads or releasing solo projects, its good stuff. Enjoy.

TRACKLIST:

Wally Badarou - Keys (Artist, Producer)
Wally Badarou - Hi-Life (Artist, Producer)
Black Uhuru - Chill Out (Synths)
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing (Keyboards)
Wally Badarou - Mambo (Artist, Producer)
Barry Reynolds - Till The Doctor Gets Back (Keyboards)
Wally Badarou - Chief Inspector (Artist, Producer)
Wally Badarou - Spiderwoman (Novela Das Nove) (Artist, Producer)
Gwen Guthrie - Peanut Butter (Larry Levan Mix) (Synths)
Level 42 - Starchild (Synths)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Lady O K’Pele (Synths, Lyrics, Backing Vocals)
Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On (Keyboards)
Grace Jones - Use Me (Keyboards)
Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven (Larry Levan Mix) (Keyboards)
Wally Badarou - Back To Scales Tonight (Artist, Producer)
Wally Badarou - Canyon (Artist, Producer)
Alain Chamfort - Bambou (Arranger, Keyboards)

Wally Badarou Mix

visual and sound artist based in los angeles
www.adeeroberson.com

MOTHER POPCORN "NEON WAVES"

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