Judah - Wangol
Sko: What's happenin family? Let's see…

Matter is Minimal

DuSable City promo

heartbeats to breakbeats
skins, traps & steel
[pans] & wheels
emerging voices from the global south
on peoples’ sovereignty,
ethics & human rights
speak with Drum Language
news, views & music
dispatches from the corner
hoods barrios & favelas

more here http://bit.ly/1h88w8h

Colonial Man-
Masekela
KPA Fuca-
Keziah Jones
Cálice-
Criolo
Street Sounds-
Charlie Hunter Quartet ft.[Yasiin Bey]
Fight to Win (for Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap) -
@AgentOfChange
Tropicalia (@A-Tribe-Called-Red Remix) -
Caetano Veloso
Time-
Hemisphere
Hurricane (Instrumental) -
DJ @DviousMindZ
I Am A Storm-
Gina Athena Ulysse
Black Skin No Value-
Cody ChesnuTT
Natasha Bachata-
Wyclef Jean
Love Jones (Extended Version) -
J Dilla

DrumLanguage Nimewo 1

There are a few real fronts out here these days
One of these is food.
There are multiple registers of sovereignty
In this consumptive world system
A free people must needs feed themselves

You are now attuned to Drumlanguage
Seeds #nogeeMO
I pray you will be both 
moved & fed

more here http://bit.ly/1ddtoa7

Footworkin On Air-
Traxman
Konbit Zaka-
Boukman Eksperyans
Earth Song vs Sorrow Tears & Blood (Rich Medina Edit) -
Michael Jackson, Fela Kuti
Rise (Swizz Beatz Remix) -
Seun Kuti
Tables Will Turn (DJ @HardHittinHarry Afrobeat Mix) -
Foxy Brown ft Baby Cham
Egbe Mi O / Black Man's Cry (Medley) -
Lever Brothers Gay Flamingoes
Beans & Cornbread-
Louis Jordan & the Tympany 5
Bread & Butter-
The Roots ft Truck North
Eat to Live-
Talib Kweli
Green Garden (New Life Remix) -
Laura Mvula
Mango Meat-
Mandrill
Ingenue-
Atoms for Peace
100 Zulu Warriors (Black Coffee Vocal Mix) -
100 Zulu Warriors & Roland Clark




DrumLanguage 2 : Seeds #nogeeMO

touched down in Brooklyn for a cipher with 
Tanisha K. Douglas MSW, activist, teacher, & healer
& Marlon Peterson, Peopleworker
but this is DrumLanguage
so call it a DrumCircle
love pain truth & hope all in it

more here - http://bit.ly/1czUStu



Radio Freedom intro-
The African National Congress and the People's Army Umkhonto We Sizwe
Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)-
Jorge Ben
Piè Aleman Batala Lemiso-
Lakou Badjo
Sunshine of Your Love-
Bobby McFerrin
Everybody Loves The Sunshine-
Seu Jorge And Almaz
Brooklyn & Jamaica-
Morgan Heritage
Locked Up For Being (@Brotha-Onaci #Not1More Hip Hop Edit)-
Luis Tubens
Dying to Live-
Blitz the Ambassador feat. John Forte
Angola, LA & The 13th Amendment-
Christian Scott
Run Mary Run:Jubilee @ Weeksville Heritage Ctr-
Rashida Bumbray & Dance Diaspora Collective feat. Adenike Sharpley
Mandela [Listen to What the Drums Say]-
@JasiriX


DrumLanguage 3 : Cages #allsystemsgo

part 2 - DrumCircle with 
Tanisha K. Douglas MSW, activist, teacher, & healer
& Marlon Peterson, Peopleworker

debts to Lupe, Tony Williams, Nina, The Temptations, Marz, Dilla & Jimi. Abridged tracklist is as follows

My Life (The Renegades' Mix) @DynamixRecords, LLC - Mary J Blige
Rosie - C.B. & axe gang [Alan Lomax]
Old Slaves - Stephen Marley
Let my People Go - Darondo
Penitentiary Philosophy - Erykah Badu
Victims - Steel Pulse
Hold On, Be Strong - Outkast
Strength/Kangpe (J.Period Dubplate) - Nneka
Broken in Brooklyn - Jahdan Blakkamoore
Pep La Vilnerab - @ZingExperience
There Will Be Tears - Frank Ocean
Titans (Prod. by MLHAVS & STNKMNR) - @Sun-Ka Productions LLC
Soldier Of Love - Sade
One Mic (Live at the Highline Ballroom) - Nas

 
once more, shouts to MC, Sangodara & Kiese

DrumLanguage 4 : Cages #TheHealers

Come To Anger

5 years on, @Ayinsko Thunderer & @ManoliaLive offer #AyitiNanMenNou(Haiti in our hands)
deeply personal & communal, woven with the words & work of Haitian spirit-workers, artists, activists, diplomats & scholars whom we have interviewed, shared stages, broken bread, spilled rum, & built family with
a new narrative, b/c gods know Ayiti needs some 

sit with it, for the time it takes

"Le Negre Marron No. 3" Acrylic on paper 2013 - 
Euzhan Marjani Lauture Sims
by permission of artist
http://euzhansimsart.weebly.com

voices of #AyitiNanMenNou at https://twitter.com/i/lists/193507696?s=20

Kay La Mande Rouze live at MR Feb 2010 - @PaulBeaubrun
excerpt from “Three Years Later, Haiti Endures” (Jan 2013) -@ManoliaLive
Kay La Mande Rouze - Zing Experience(@PaulBeaubrun)
The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti
TEDxUMich - Gina Athena Ulysse
Skin Castles - Gina Athena Ulysse
CHRONIQUE RFI Erol Josué, directeur du bureau national d'ethnologie, défenseur du vaudou - @AmelieBaron
Gédé Nibo ft. Erol Josue - @Vjeanty
Remixxxxx by dj sauce batida indiana and john steve brunache - @paul-erick-claude
Ayiti (Haiti) - @OkaiMusik
#AyitiNanMenM w/Jimmy Jean-Louis
Ogou - @TedBeaubrun
Rasin feat. Sherley César(@Kreyol-Queen) - @Vjeanty
The Freedom Cry - @Monvelyno
2000 Seasons - @TheSeshen
Scream 4 Peace (Vokal Retouch)- @DeepJust AQuaBeaT
Manyole - Chouk Bwa Libète - @Lakou-Mizik
Gran bwa (James Germain Cover from Kreol Mandingue album)- @CyberLive
Edwidge Danticat Reads “Tourist” by Felix Morisseau-Leroy
@Marc-Bamuthi-Joseph w/ @DanielRoumain at Activating Networks
Aliens - @LenelleMoise & Karla Mosley
Enmi Pep - Blacka Ft. @2Goutan & Manno Charlemagne(prod. by @Dadou-Vag-Beats)
WNYC Soundcheck performance - @CecileSalvant
Lecture de Tout bouge autour de moi - Dany Laferriere
E Si'l Pavle Vini - @tiga-jean-baptise
Femiel - @DanielRoumain
Ports of Sorrow interview & reading - Patrick Sylvain
Edem Chante - Boukan Ginen(@DZgot Afrodized Remix)
As Yet Untitled x Ezili Brooklyn Museum rehearsal tape - @Ayinsko Thunderer & Zing Experience (@PaulBeaubrun & @peyizanproduction)
#AyitiNanMenM w/Emeline Michel
Freedom Bound - Emeline Michel
Timoun - Emeline Michel

DrumLanguage 5enk : AyitiNanMenNou

intergenerational dialogue for right now
Fiercely urgent

we been the future for a long time,
#PeopleWeReady

De La Soul & Chuck D - The People
Eddie Kendricks /Jay Dilla/ Erykah Badu - My People...Hold On
Kamau Brathwaite - Caliban
Ayinsko Thunderer - The People [a definition in progress]
Common - The People
Margaret Walker - For My People
Black Classical meets Sarah Webster Fabio - Jubilee
Chris Hodgson / Mos Def - Umi Says
Mos Def & Black Jack Johnson - For My People
The Pharaohs ft Sulanya (Sue Conway) - People Make the World Go Round
Eddy François - Mize Pep Sa
Chuck Fenda - Rise Up My People
Seal/ Aretha Franklin [J. Period Mix]/ William Parker ft Amiri Baraka & Leena Conquest - People Get Ready
OhNo - The People [Ayinsko Thunderer intervention]

DrumLanguage 6ixxx : For My People

राम

Grandad: “[laughter] So from where you want -- from where you want me to start now?”
Aisha: “Uhhhh, I guess from India”
Grandad: “Right, right. The first part from India, I don’t know exactly what part of India she came from... I know she say she came from Calcutta. But you know it something like this...(inaudible) after they picked these people to come to Trinidad, they moved them from place to place to get the train, before they get them (inaudible) to come here, she was Panjabi. 
she was a Panjabi so that mean to say is where they get them from and when they bring them here they don’t know exactly -- some people know where their parents come from and they go back and look for them and all kind of ting but it’s not someting we could have done that. Because if I had known exactly where you come from... 
But she said that her husband uncle, he was one of the agent gettin people.  They make commision on that.. They send people here and tell them tings good and tings wasn’t that good, a lot of people had worked some time and went back and ting yuh know.
See what happen, they uh sending people here, a lot of these people they doesn’t be, some kind of, they look for the poor people and send them here.
 I think it’s the SS Armand or something was the ship someting [like that] was the name of the ship that was the name of the ship.  That’s all we could talk about it... (inaudible) the only thing we had from by my mother was a small paper, that she get then.. that she finish her indenture.

Well my grandma was Ma Emmie and she was dark, she was from Martinique, my um grandfather he was a kind of Spanish- Negro mix he was from Venezuela so my father was a mix-up then he was mix, and then Mama had come from India so it made us a whole mixture.
is I alone now (inaudible) because we wasn’t a big family.... I had two brothers... well my mother had 5 children... (inaudible) passed on only two of us remain, three of us  I was out the last one, I was the last one.
She send me to learn to dance when I was 7,8  years, in a crew, but then we move from one place to other place and the whole thing finish. That’s why the singing and the Indian and thing I like the singing part because of the things I could do... [fade in tassa drummers] knew some of the words and some of the songs yuh know?
It good to hold on to little things..”

राम [Ram] remastered

for Trayvon and Rekia and Renisha and Islan and Jordan and Ramarley and Sandra and Tamir and all the too-soon ancestors, may we tell their stories and make the world better for when they are reborn

Inspired by Viola Davis

To Be Young, Gifted and Black feat. Cody ChestnuTT	Meshell Ndegeocello
Is There Anybody Out There?	Laura Mvula 
True Blues 1	The Last Poets
Bloodletting (Original)	Saul Williams
Saints At Congo Square	Francisco Mora Catlett[AfroHorn]
Eating the Dead	Kamau Brathwaite
Akel Dama (Field of Blood)	Me'Shell Ndegéocello
Body Down	Novel
Gone	Mikkey Halsted & Lupe Fiasco
Blackberry Molasses	Mista
Casket Pretty	Noname
If You're 17 (Trayvon Martin Tribute)	Wyclef Jean
Itutu Song (Funerary Rites)	Traditional
LetUSLive	Erthe St. James
Scroll Call /Come Alive	Cody ChesnuTT									
Scroll Call (Danny Swain's OKplayer Remix)	Cody ChesnuTT

Exhumation

SJGold
6.8.18

Gentleman	Meshell Ndegeocello
let it shine	T.O.K.
The Glow	Willie Hutch x @jcashonthetrack
Shango	Angélique Kidjo
Pyramids	Common
Universal Mind Control (feat. Pharrell)	Common
Stand Tall	Childish Gambino
Jump Hi (feat. Childish Gambino)	LION BABE
Chief Don't Run (feat. Roman GianArthur)	Jidenna
Makeba	Jain	
Traveling Light (feat. Anderson .Paak)	Talib Kweli
Hey Black Child	The Black Fairy Cast
Behold, The Only Thing Greater Than Yourself	 Roots Score	
Every Time I Feel The Spirit	Paul Robeson
So Flute (Mozambo Remix) St Germain
Shango	Waajeed
Flight of the Ancestors  @FPTheShit
3 MUJERES (Iború Iboya Ibosheshé)	Ifé
Disparate Youth	Santigold
Get Ready (feat. M-1)	Young Paris
This Is America	Childish Gambino
The Light (feat. Bilal, Robert Glasper Jr., Kenneth Whalum, Burniss Earl Travis II)	Big K.R.I.T.
So a Child May Follow	Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
Tell Me	Corinne Bailey Rae
We Are Here to Change the World	Michael Jackson
Sango	Babatunde Olatunji
Fire for Fire (feat. Kojey Radical)	Poté
Red Riddim (feat. Eastern Eagle)	A Tribe Called Red
Blessings (feat. Jamila Woods)	Chance the Rapper

Likkle Tunderah

…this started as a workout, but spirits kept loud talkin all in my ear. I decided to submit again… 

forces out here
proscribing folks’ existence
telling you who you should be
runnin round talkin bout: get like me

thing is,
we have the power to flip they whole demo
reject the false lights & reach down
deep inside for our own spark
mimic the sun & come back on ‘em
manman’m tap di mwen: bayo limyè w
my ancestors avenged the new world
dis generation can avenge the whole world
mwe got that fire

1ce more
again/anko
you are all attuned to DrumLanguage
— let it move you

All soul / No gold	~sko
Emerald City Sequence	The Wiz [Original Soundtrack]
Lights Out	Santigold
Street Lights	  Kanye West
All Of The Lights	Kanye West
Return of the "G"     Outkast
Banm Yon ti Limyè 	Manno Charlemagne
Phantom of the Synths    J Dilla
Light the Way	Africa Hitech
Youlogy	   Shabazz Palaces
Lightwork	Lupe Fiasco
Our Bright Future	Tracy Chapman
Hero (Intro)	Michael Kiwanuka
Dedication (feat. Kendrick Lamar)	Nipsey Hussle
Limyè	Bokanté
we nah finish [Up ya Lighter]	~sko									
Light My Fire	J Dilla
From a Spark to a Fire	Damon Locks & Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble
Streets on Fire	Lupe Fiasco	
Life In Marvelous Times	Mos Def
Chimen Limyè	John Steve Brunache
Lindelani	Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Sing to the Moon	Laura Mvula

Limyè

let us greet the 1st minutes of a new day... in extreme lyric

[visual assist by Yego Moravia]

XlyriK

uses of the erotic or ...the one about you

Love In 2020 (beta)

uncle to superheroes...
https://www.instagram.com/thebee_boyz

opening lightly adapted from bell hooks' Be Boy Buzz

Bee Boyz Buzz

Heal Me (an ABSTRKT AFRIKEN interpretation)	@DeepJust AQuaBeat (GetOpen Sessions Music)		
The Dark End of the Street	Lee "Scratch" Perry	
Rectifiya	KeiyaA	
Blessing _ Troubled Waters (Interlude)	Iman Europe	
Bright Lights Bigger City	CeeLo Green
Love On the Dub	Casual Connection
Billie Jean (feat. Jean Rodriguez) Tony Succar
Billie Jean (Long Version)	Michael Jackson			
Avenues [Instrumental]	Refugee Camp All Stars
All Night Long (All Night) [12_ Version]	Lionel Richie	
Dancè	Machel Montano & Jacob Desvarieux
Bobby McFerrin - Thinkin About Your Body Virgin Magnetic Material Remix 	Li L Le		
Lo Que Quieras Tú	ChocQuibTown
Sweet in the Mornin'	Bobby McFerrin	
Helicopters _ Beware	Jidenna	
Oysters	Meshell Ndegeocello	
19.10	Childish Gambino	
Fight For You H.E.R
Wonderful	Burna Boy

Soft / Suavé

$upport goes to compensating collaborators & remote engagement infrastructure

son of #DuSableCity.
raised at the feet of tall Blacks.
ready to grow into the space they leave if you
ready to carve the space we need.

@Ayinsko

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