CALM ROOTS

I've had a little haitus from the radio, but I'm back now <3 
I Hope you enjoy this show as much as I did. 
I will upload the one's missing from earlier this spring as well. 
Thank you all so much for listening <3
Let me know your favourite track!:)
(also,all these incredible pieces of music can be found on Bandcamp. Please support the artists if you can)

Track list: 
Ulla - Both Feelings
Ulla - Clearly The Memory
Channelers - soft billow
Ben Seretan - Fog Rolls Out Rabun Gap
Matt Bachmann - Spider Dribble
Ulla - Far Away
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 1
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 2
x.y.r. - Underwater Jungle
Clariloops - Clouds
Maarja Nuut & Sun Araw - 144.00 Rose Petals
Brin - Calm Like a Balm
Carlos Nino & Friends - Ripples, Reflection, Loop (w.Laraaji, Jamael Dean, Sharada)
Zac Colwell - Summer Sprinklers
Patricia Wolf - Dawn Chorus One
Ishmael Cormack - June 28th
Matt Bachmann - Wave Hello
Teebs - Slumber
O Yuki Conjugate - Crosswise
K-LONE - Happened - Cool Maritime
The Humble Bee - Technical Press
Charlatan - On The Cheek
Jason Kolàr - 05.09.19
COCONUT DEALERS - Tropical Miasma 1

Calm Roots 16 w Alex Rita

Calm Roots 13 w Alex Rita

Rejuvenated after 3 weeks of climbing waterfalls in Jamaica, it feels so good to be back on the airwaves/NTS radio after a long 4 month haitus from the show.
I hope you enjoy listening back as much as i did recording this episode.
Let me know your favourite track in the comments <3

Tracklist:

1  Francesco Cavaliere & Tomolo Savage - Rainforest Synthesis -

2 Joseph Shabason - 0-13

3 Kelsey Lu - Ever New (Kelsey Lu's Transportation

4 Francesco Cavaliere & Tomolo Savage - Twin Emerald Dolphins

5 Natalia Baylis - Rain Recording no.23

6 Lightbath & Mike Effenberger - Three Tales Is Two Tales Too Many

7 Tomin - love

8 Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy - Son

9 Kirk Barley / Church Andrews -  Parallels A5

10 Jeff Parker - Flour Of Fur

11 Fuubutsushi -Bolted Orange

12 By Foot By Sea

13 Mizan - New Song

14 Mellow Ginger - Vintersol

16 Laraaji - Being Here

16 Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - Belt of Venuss

17 Sunmoonstar - I Love Trees

18 Area 3 - Petal patch

19 Lonnie Holley - The End of the Film Era

Calm Roots 19 w Alex Rita

Calm Roots 20 w Alex Rita

My last show of the year. Thank you all so much for listening with me for the last 3.
Love and light

Track list:

N KRAMER - Noguchi (feat. J Foerster)
Texture Harvesting - Zzzzzzzzzzz
felix taylor - i'll be back [from I'll Be Back by Hope Strickland]
Landon Caldwell & Friends - New Way of Seeing Feeling
Driver - Coral
ulla - Marina
zuho - Initiative
Tomin - Love [Alternate Take]
Bestias - absurdo vii: círculos
Almanacs - Mamba Negra
Carlos Niño & Friends - Commend, NYC Peace 2
Dravier - A Glass Steam Bath
Nate Mercereau - Ive Got What I Need
Multi-Surface - Light Shines In
Surya Botofasina - Surya Meditation

Calm Roots 24 w Alex Rita

My first show back, after 6 rejuvenating weeks on the coast of Kenya.
I enjoyed recording this show so much. A couple of friends in the mix too <3
All songs/artist from this show can be found on bandcamp. Please support the artist directly if you can.
As always thank you to NTS Radio for giving us all a space to share the increible sounds of the world.

TRACKLIST

Kirk Barley - Island
Carlos Niño and Friends feat: Nate Mercereau and Josh Johnson - Thankingtheearth LIVE
PJS - Malahat
Elijah Maja - Always
Urner - Lasting
Coby Sey - Eve (Anvummerɛ)
Felix Taylor - a hospitable memory
Richter Band - Dvanáct hodin
Nyokabi Kariuki - Subira
Maia - Zincali
Australian Art Orchestra - Star Song
Noah Klein - sunset from venice beach
Felbm - Soil
Kirk Barley - Bathe Pt3
Parker Sprout - Peace and Love
Richter Band - Nic
Zuho - the light behind my little door
Sora - La Cathédrale Engloutie
Multi-Surface - View of Foothill
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Dream
Nate Mercereau - Start With You

Calm Roots 25 w Alex Rita

My second show of the year. Thanks so much for tuning in live. Hope you enjoy listening back. 
All songs/artist from this show can be found on Bandcamp. Please support the artist directly if you can as its so much better than streaming.

As always thank you to NTS Radio for giving us all a space to share the incredible sounds of the world.

Track list:

Davier - Fisheye
KMRU - options
Mike Tamburo - Grammy
Piotr Kurek - Istm
Lamina (Vica Pacheco/Eve Aboulkheir) - Azur
Youngest Brother - lazy Window
Wadada Leo Smith, Ed Blackwell - Seeds of a forgotten Flower
Sterion Music - Kalimba intro
KMRU - Motley
Ideophone - freedom
Greg Foat & Gigi Masin - Viento Calido
MTMBO - Days end (live)
Melo-Zed - fourth coming
Lionmilk - open your eyes
Lionmilk - delicate heart
Lionmilk - dancing cumulus
Lionmilk - can't give up now
Matthewdavid - Norns
PJS - Turbo pause
Felbm - Sustain
Nyokabi Kariuki & KMRU (feat. Chris O'Leary) - Uncertain
Carlos Ferreira & Ki Oni - Hidden Information
Phil Stroud - Alpha State

Calm Roots 26 w Alex Rita

Im sorry it's taking me so long to upload my show from August. I gave birth 5 days after i recorded this episode, so my time has been dedicated to this little new life who is now earthside. It has been the most transformative experience of my life as you can probably imagine. He is my sun, in all his light and warmth.


I hope you enjoy listening.

TRACKLIST:
Inkarose - Cloud Waltz
Lamin Fofana - Tune of Departure
Fabiano Do Nacimento - Aurora
J Foerster / N Kramer - Tone
Kallie Lampel - Falling Guitar 5
Aden - Step Correct
Masahiro Akashi - Trees Sleep At Night
Kirk Barley - Lake of Gold
Nate Mercereau - Thank You All Great Spirits
David Moses - Bliss Echos Eyot Tapes - Grog
Andrew Pekler - Moon Velvet (Shadows, Whispers, Rivers, Windmills)
Mansores - I Lost myself along the way
Roméo Poirer - Haut Lieu
Emma-Jean Thackeray - May There be peace
Masahiro Takahashi - Silky Lake
Mark Templeton - Reporter Missing
D’Monk - (Dawn) unreleased
Eyot Tapes - Jungle Tapes
Tony Njoku - llashe Beach
Brian Hargrove - Ep.16: Muse (Ft. Anthony Parnther) Cole Pulice - If I Don’t See You In the Future, I’ll See You in the Pasture

Calm Roots 27 w Alex Rita

Info and Interview at:
http://www.gal-dem.com/guest-mix-003-alex-rita/
https://www.instagram.com/galdemzine/

tracklist:
United Vibrations - intro
Ronald Snijders -Dagoe Sji Jorka
Aka Pygmées - Dikoboda Sombe I
Roland P. Young - Crystal Motions
Eberhard Weber - The Colours Of Chloë
The Pyramids - Queen of the Spirits
The Rationals - Glowin’
Black Star - Brown Skin Lady
Quinteto Ternura - Baby
Edmony Krater - Tijan
Nujabes - Windspeaks (feat Uyama Hiroto)
Milton Banana Trio - Jesus Cristo
Dwele - A Pimp's Dream
Digable Planets - Black Ego
SIlenJay x Jace XL - Rockabye
Duval Timothy - Passing

ALEX RITA 4 GAL-DEM - MIX 003

My 4th show live from Balamii Radio in Peckham South London.

Tracklist: 
Milton Nacimento - Minas
james Vincent - Space Traveller
Hiatus Kaiyote - The Lung
Jorge Ben - Charles Jr
Alice Coltrane - Sivaya
Flying Ibex - You Dared Me
Victor Sabas Quartet
Joe & Bing - Daybreak
Ensemble Al-Salaam - Optimystical
Victor Sabas Quartet - A Pou Zot
Penny Goodwin - Slow Hot Wind
Shelly Manne - Africa
Theadora Ifudu - Hello There
EKO - Kilimandjaro my home
The Reality Band and Show - Gangster Boy
Alex Isley - Loss For Words
Metal Fingers - Mandrake
SIlenJay x Jace XL - Rockabye
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Sans Vacay
Kyle Hall - Damn I Feel Real Close
Uffe - unreleased demo
Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet
Laraaji - Staccato 
TOKiMONSTA - Feel
Wendell Harrison - Winter
The Piano Choir - Jacoobies March

RITA'S RHYHTMIC REMEDIES #4

A sonic ode to the morning sunlight <3

FULL TRACK LIST @
http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/11/28/monday-morning-mixtape-149/

Image by Rupprecht Geiger

morning sunrise

"The 5th Mix in our DJ Directory series comes from Alex Rita; one half of Okapii, member of Touching Bass, Radio host for NTS and Balamii Radio and all round creative spirit...
Alex Rita (Balamii/Touching Bass) — the Copenhagen-born, London-based selector, illustrator, singer and designer — is a talented seamstress in more ways than one. Her passion for stitching together patchworks of percussive grooves and organic sounds stemmed from her regular. Listeners can be blessed with everything from spiritual jazz and soul to broken beat and warm house grooves in one sitting.
For more info on Alex Rita and the DJ Directory, head to www.dimensionsfestival.com/dj-directory"

dancing in dimensions

rita's rhythmic remedies #15

My show from july on balamii radio, peckham, south london
photo by: carlota guerrero ©

summer dusk

The amazing new "the vagina series podcast" asked me to do a mix for them themed around self-care. It took me a while to put this mix together as i wanted it to reflect what to me is one of the strongest ways you can actively practice self-care: meditation. 

I hope you will just lie and close your eyes to this.. calm your roots.

<3



artwork by: cody rocko ©

calm roots

Im so excited to share this new mix I’ve done for the incredible talented designer Nicholas Daley , premiered via The Vinyl Factory feat an unreleased live recording from N. Daley AW18 presentation with: Yussef Dayes, Shabaka Hutchings and Alfa Mist:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/unreleased-shabaka-hutchings-yussef-dayes-live-session-debuts-on-new-nicholas-daley-x-touching-bass-mix/

ABOUT THE MIX:
A musical response to his latest menswear collection Red Clay inspired by Freddie Hubbard’s album of the same name
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Red Clay is earthy, rich, deep and organic, in its actual form or as a metaphor
.
Drawing inspiration from Hubbard and that 70s era, Nicholas’ AW18 presentation combined four players who embody that same level of richness. On many occasions, the strokes, notes and riffs of Yussef Dayes, Alfa Mist, Shabaka Hutchings and Mansur Brown have made me cry. To me, they have an incredibly special ability to connect, channel and transcend emotions that touch the most inner of our beings. The ability to move, uplift or simply hold us is to me, the greatest gift of all; the highest currency.
I hope this mix captures that very special energy while also paying homage to those that have provided us with the foundation to build on; intertwining the past and the present like having musicians from distant eras playing in one room.
Thank you to all the makers and creators who inspire me every single day and to all the cats from the 70s for creating some of the best music of all time
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A special thank you to:

Marion Jones
Sshabaka Huthcings
Billy Harper
Alfa Mist
Earl & Carl Grubbs
Mansur Brown 
George Duke
Joe Henderson
Yussef Dayes 
Earth Wind & Fire
James Massiah & 
Nicholas Daley 🙏🏽

Alex Rita presents: Nicholas Daley: Red Clay-AW18 MIX w. Vinyl Factory

I have finally started my own show on NTS radio, playing the music I don't get to play out much. Some of the music I love the most.
Meditative, repetitive, transformative, HEALING

CALM ROOTS

Hope you enjoy it :) xx

Calm Roots 1  w Alex Rita

Second installment of my new show CALM ROOTS on NTS radio- playing all the music I don't get to play out much as  DJ. 
Some of the music I love the most. 
Meditative, hypnotic, transformative, HEALING
<3

Calm Roots SHOW #2 041119

Calm Roots 2 w Alex Rita

Third installment of my new show CALM ROOTS on NTS radio- playing all the music I don't get to play out much as DJ. 
Some of the music I love the most. This show features the new release on our Touching Bass Label - the NUNU mixtape by Clever Austin: https://touching-bass.bandcamp.com/ 
Hope you enjoy these two hours :)
Meditative, repetitive, transformative, HEALING


Artwork by me

Calm Roots 3 w Alex Rita

At the beginning  in January I went on a life changing deeply inspiring journey through the South of Ethiopia with some of my most loved people - from Addis Ababa to Bale Mountains we drove through Oromia lands all the way down to Omo Valley - this is what our more than 1000km long drive felt like to me - my ode to the mesmerising changing lands and people of 🇪🇹 ✨ .

Calm Roots 4 w Alex Rita - From Addis Ababa to Omo Valley

Calm Roots 5 w Alex Rita - The Quietest One

recorded live from my living room during lockdown , for NTS Radio - hope it makes you feel something <3

Calm Roots 6 w Alex Rita

Hearts are so heavy right now. They’ve been heavy for generations.
The past many days I’ve been trying to prepare this show I have felt so completely lost. Feeling like I have so much to say, and at the same time nothing at all. Not sure how to convey it with this music. We talk so often, of the horrific journey some of our ancestors were forced to take across the ocean. So I’ve decided I wanna try and tell a different story. The story of going home. That journey is driven by hope, it is soft and no one has to take it alone.

Calm Roots 7 w Alex Rita - Black Spectrum

Calm Roots 8 w Alex Rita - Like Floating

thank you for listening and thank you NTS RADIO for giving me a place to feel free in sound

Feat music from:
Demae
Duval Timothy
Slow Attack Ensemble
Clever Austin
Lion Milk
Carlos Niño
Anthony Ferraro
Yialmelic Frequncies
Kirk Barley
Cktrl
MJ Lallo

<3

Calm Roots 9 w Alex Rita

Wauw, my 10th show already. Thank you so much for listening. And thank you NTS for providing a space to gather in sound through these times

Music from:

Area 3
R Beny
Gianni Andreatta
N Chambers
Satoshi & Makoto
Eun & Demae
Bobby Hutcherson
Georgia Anne Muldrow
Cktrl & Duval Timothy

Calm Roots 10 w Alex Rita - Looking In Looking Out

Thank you for listening <3

TRACK LIST

Neighborly by Ned Milligan Afternoon
Esplanade (Live) by Yoshio Ojima
Untitled IV by Deep Magic
hints by Lionmilk 
epilogue by Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe
Track3a(2waynice) by Keith Fullerton Whitman
Masking Fish by Robert Turman 
II by John Carroll Kirby 
#1 (11-02) 7:30 Yoshio Ojima 
Clouds by Christoph El' Truento
Unreleased
Flius by Yoshio Ojima 
cry by Christoph El' Truento
Part V by Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson 
Part VI - Into Eternity by Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
Emotional Part by Sebastiano Carghini
Sleep Helix by Cole Pulice
Bright Sky Blue Window by Robert Turman 
Lush Islands by Magnétophonique

Calm Roots 12 w Alex Rita

Touchingbass / Calm Roots
I sometimes  make things.
Grew up in in a forrest by the sea. Atm residing in south east London 

bookings : info@touchingbass.co.uk

Alex Rita

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