This is 🔥. Where can I find more Chona Cruz?!

Tune into Across 110th Street live every week on 89.9 FM (NYC) or via WKCR.org from 12-2 PM EDT!

Tracklist:
“African Rock” Licky
“Robot Dance” Marvin Wright
“Magic Carpet” High Fidelity
~Break
“Feel The Spirit (Long Disco Version)” Foster Jackson Group
“New York’s Movin’” Ahzz
“It Ain’t No Big Thing” Donna McGhee
“Mr. Bindman” Donna McGhee
“Take Me I’m Yours” Mary Clark
~Break
“Funky Thing” The Sons of Darkness
“Who’s Gonna” Otis Turner
“Shake off that Dream” Eddie Owen
“Determination” Eddie Owen
“Doin’ It All Night Long” Cloud One
“Charlie’s Angels” Oral Caress
~Break
“Dance Freak” Chain Reaction
“Dance, Dance, Dance” Marta Acuna
“Out of Work” Jesse Gould
“Ain’t It Time” Queen Yahoo
“Got You Dancing” Karisma feat. Jocelyn Brown
“We are Making Music” Michael Campbell, High Volt

Pictured: Patrick Adams (Cloud One)

Across 110th Street 8/21/21

Afro House pioneer and father of Ancestral Soul, Boddhi Satva presents his new album, ‘Manifestation’, on BBE Music offshoot Batakari.

With ‘Manifestation’ Boddhi Satva brings to a close a trilogy of long players. Following 2012’s ‘Invocation’ and 2016’s’ Transition”, this new opus completes its first cycle of Ancestral Soul.

This most conceptual of Afro House’s producers offers an ode to lovers of the genre with a project that is both easy-listening and club-ready, with more urban sounds (R’n’B, Soul, Trap, Amapiano) intertwined with the frantic rhythms of large African cities such as Bamako, Dakar or Nairobi.

In the making of ‘Manifestation’, Boddhi Satva has once again surrounded himself with artistic friends, each as talented as the next, joined by a shared need for music and magic in these dark times of global pandemic. Boddhi Satva has thus multiplied his already-prolific number of collaborators to almost thirty on this album.

On this concept project Boddhi Satva set out to break the rules by showcasing atypical voices that will send listeners on a journey from the United States through South Africa, East and Central Africa as well as many European countries. Once an Afro House ‘enfant terrible’,
it turns out Satva grew up to be a respectable boss, patiently mentoring new generations of producers.

Boddhi Satva maps, through the course of ‘Manifestation’, a path he has been tracing for two decades: bringing together people from different musical genres and backgrounds, all contributing to his singularly focussed musical and spiritual vision. In fact, more than simply a ‘Manifestation’, Boddhi Satva has signed his manifesto here.

In Boddhi Satva’s own words: “Manifestation truly represents my musical evolution through my 21 years of career in the music industry. You’d think that as the years go by I’d run out of juice and more than ever this appears as an absolute impossibility for me. Music has helped and blessed me in so many ways, strengthened me when going through emotionally challenging times, and allowed me to transcend myself in ways I couldn’t formulate in words. I dedicate this album to my mother who was alive through the making of this project but recently passed away on the 15th of February 2022, just a week before her 73rd birthday.”

Artwork was created by Omar Victor Diop, who says:
“With this visual creation, I wanted to share my testimony as Boddhi’s creative friend, knowing the intensity of the personal journey that the Ancestral Soul trilogy represents for him. ‘Manifestation’, the final chapter of this odyssey, is the reaching of the garden of consciousness, an epiphany moment in the life of any artist, where peace is savoured through the exercise of an uninhibited, pure and cathartic creation. . My brother Boddhi made it happen … and I am proud to bear witness to it with this work.”

Boddhi Satva - Unlearn

And here we are again! The response to the first volume was so positive and warmly received. I am very appreciative of everyone who listened, shared, and posted it to their own sites!
I was nearly done with this one around the time I shared the first, but the more I listened, I decided I wanted it to rework it a bit. It picks up right where Vol.1 left off and then it slows downnnnn and transitions from neo-soul and hip-hop to a bit more of R&B.
All of the material falls within the classic and rare gems that came out during a special 3-year moment in musical history (99-01). Enjoy, and share my loves!

1.	Q-Tip Things You Do
2.	OutKast-Slum Beautiful
3.	Dead Prez-Mind Sex (the end can be cut short it’s long with all the poetry)
4.	Bilal-Soul Sista
5.	Pharoahe Monche- The Light
6.	Slum Village- The Look of Love (Remix)
7.	Talib Kweli f/ Les Nubians – Love Language
8.	Mary J Blige- Beautiful Ones
9.	India Aire- Strength, Courage + Wisdom
10.	Lucy Pearl- Everday
11.	Donnell Jones- Shorty (Got Her Eyes On Me)
12.	R. Kelly- Strip For You
13.	AAliyah- It’s Whatever (Chopped and Screwed)
14.	Ginuwine- None Of Your Friends Business 
15.	Carl Thomas – Hey Now

The Sweet Spot Vol. 2: Honeycuts(99-01)

Overdub instrument at Home Recording - 5/17/2025
Performed on Yamaha DTXtreme III Drum Kit with a Yamaha M12 Percussion Drum Pad

Just a loving friend  -  Vocal n Drums.wav

Zandisile

FREE download at: https://ahmedsirour.com/track/2537155/infant-eyes-wayne-shorter-ahmed-sirour-cover

"Infant Eyes" is an original composition composed by the renowned jazz legend, Wayne Shorter, 54 years ago in 1964, on the album 'Speak No Evil' (a jazz classic/masterpiece).

It's one of my most favorite jazz ballads and one of the most beautiful/romantic/sexiest–melodically–in my own opinion. I honestly did this for no other reason than I love the song, wanted to practice it and figure out what the chord changes were and how it would sound if I played it with a Fender Rhodes electric piano sound. Before you know it, I recorded every other individual section (jazz brush drums, acoustic upright/double bass, and string section), mixed and mastered it, and decided to just upload it just because *shrugs*. 

I didn't spend too much time on this, once I figured out the chord structure, so it's not the best I could have done, so just consider it a rough idea/practice session I decided to release without trepidation. Oh, and I only did one passage of it, so it's only just over 2 minutes, but if you still enjoy it past all those disclaimers, then cool lol

peace,
Ahmed

P.S. - do yourself a favor and listen to the entire original album (include the original "Infant Eyes")...it's really that dope!

Wayne Shorter - "Infant Eyes" (Ahmed Sirour practice cover version)

Originally released in 2014

Black Magic 2 is 80 minutes of more modern soul magic mixed and curated by DJ Big Jacks. Listen now and please spread the word. 

Artwork by @bozackmorris

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DJ Big Jacks - Black Magic 2

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This takes place on land stolen from the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. MIE acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People as the rightful owners of the land we live on, and pays respect to their elders, past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

Dip your toes dancing into the funk, disco, and pop sounds of 1980’s Philippines. With influences being drawn from jazz, Latin fusion, bossa nova, 70s American pop, disco, and indigenous folk, two main genres spawned to cover the ballooning number of popular dance music styles hitting the radio - Manila Sound and it’s successor, OPM (Original Philippines Music). 
Manila Sound, pioneered in part by the popular pop/disco band Hotdog, repopularised the use of local Tagalog language over English productions with their catchy melodies and soft fusion of disco, jazz, and funk. Following this, much of Manila Sound and OPM began to write in ‘Taglish’, a mixing of English and Tagalog. "Hotdog, with Ella Del Rosario's beautifully angelic voice streaming through the airwaves during the clangs of martial law, immediately killed colonial mentality in pop music with its phenomenal original music. Influenced largely by Ella's regal societal class and beauty, gated palatial upbringing, her Spanish-American roots, her uniquely tonal and sweetly charming international accent, combined with her private school upbringing, a magnetic charm, affluent mannerisms and English-speaking mannerisms, suddenly it was cool to talk Taglish and listen to a Pinoy pop band.” (Baby Gil, Philippine Star). OPM, the successor Manilla sound, devoted itself moreso to pop music and ballads than the disco and funk scene of its forerunner. It’s important to note that while this genre was drawing crowds, a huge underground scene of Filipino folk-rock, protest music, new wave, and punk rock was also gaining traction. Maybe that’s one for the next mix. 

lots of love, xan xoxox 

Regine Velasquez - Urong Sulong (1987)
Chona Cruz - Working Girls (1984) 
Boy Katindig - Midnight Lady (1978) 
Ella del Rosario - O' lumapit ka (1996) 
Sandy Secades, Boy Katinig - This Feeling Means Love 
Chona Cruz - Bakit (1980)
VST & Company - Disco Fever (1980 - 2008 reissue)
Pag Tumatagal Lalong Tumitibay - Wadab (1979)
Hotdog - Ikaw Pa Rin (1996) 
Bong Penera - Batucada Sa Calesa (1977)
Timmy Cruz - Tingin (1996) 
Hotdog - Manila (1976) 
Apo Hiking Society - Pumapatak Ang Ulan (1982)

Artwork - Hotdog - Unang Kagat. Villar ‎– MLS-5391. 1975. 

Mix compiled by Xan Coppinger
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Music in Exile presents: Manila Sound - Filipino Funk, Disco, and Pop (1976 - 1996)

Sam Cooke & Marvin Gaye is nearly 3 years old 
#BLBChallenge
#BlueLabBeatsChallenge
#SamCookeAndMarvinGayeChallenge

Sam Cooke & Marvin Gaye CLOSED INST

original air date: june 26 2020
playlist: 
José James - When They See Us
H.E.R. - I Can't Breathe (Clean)
Helsinki Headnod Convention - Fake News (ft. Jay Nemor)
Columbia Nights - I Belong Here (feat. Nicholas Ryan Gant)
Ahmed Sirour - 1960 What? (Ahmed Sirour remix)
Artwork, V.underground, NutownSoul - Time Is Now (Original Mix)
Tony Momrelle - My Paradise (Louie Vega Remix)
The Brothers Macklovitch ft. Leven Kali - Give Love To Get Some
Platinum Studios - B4by B3 M|ne (The Platinum Mix)
Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Underboss Remix)
Grover Washington Jr. feat. Bill Withers - Just The 2 Of Us, All Night Long (Nick Bike Edit)
Altered Tapes - Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. (Altered Tapes Remix)
Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band - The Healer
Tall Black Guy Productions - F.I.Y.E Feat. Tony Ozier
Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder & Kamasi Washington (feat. Phoelix) - Freeze Tag
SAULT - Hard Life
Jarrod Lawson - Embrace What We Are
Jus Hailu - U + I (feat. Gwen Bunn)
Empress Latoyah - Careless Whisper
Roy Ayers, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Sunflowers
Kevin Ross - God Is A Genius
Angela Muñoz - Feel the Same
Sons Of The James - Happy
Toro Y Moi - Ordinary Guy (feat. The Mattson 2)
Starchild & The New Romantic - Cool Disco Dan (feat. Nick Hakim & Le'asha)
Gregory Porter - Mister Holland
Anthony Hamilton - Back Together (feat. Rick James)
Dizzie Harris - Cool Sheets
S3f - I Do
Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Someone
SAULT - Pray Up Stay Up
Deejay Irie - Ice Cube vs Thundercat - It Was A Good Day

Music in Exile presents: Manila Sound - Filipino Funk, Disco, and Pop (1976 - 1996)

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