RADIO ALHARA

Debut show on Radio Alhara - sixty minutes of rare fusion bangers, hair-raising jazz and dense, polyrhythmic percussions for the supernaturally aligned 👽

T R A CK L I S T
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Dany Marchetti - Antenna Share [Dany Marchetti, 1978]
Yuji Ohno - Melting Spot [CBS/Sony, 1978]
Zaka Percussions - Space [Le Chant Du Monde, 1972]
Ixatahuele - Mareld 2021 [Ixatahuele, 2021]
Dizzy Gillespie - Free Ride [Pablo Records, 1977]
Spirits Rejoice - Electric Chicken [Atlantic, 1977]
CV Vision - Insolita [Growing Bin Records, 2021]
Alex Figueira - Maracas [Music With Soul, 2021]
Pacific Express - The Way It Used To Be [Gull, 1978]
Ahemaa Nwomkro -Nsem Nyinaa Nyame [Philophon, 2021]
International Noise Orchestra - A Lulu A Bobe Dan [Emotional Rescue, 2020]
Gruppo Sound - Bass In Milky Way [Canopo, 1980]
Xero Slingsby - Up Yours [HeartBeat Musikproduktion, 1986]
Eero Koivistoinen Music Society - Wahoo! [RCA Victor, 1973]
Yumi Murata - Morning Telephone [Columbia, 1980]

Art credit: the fantastic Santi of BA, Argentina 🇦🇷
~ originally aired 16th April 22 ~

SIBSON ~ RADIO ALHARA ~ EPISODE #1

A mixtape of 80s and 90s Bürger-Highlife from Ghana + Germany 🇬🇭

This is music made by Ghanaians who left the country in the wake of the 1981 military coup, during which there was a 2-year night time curfew and musical instruments were classed as ‘luxury goods’ with a 160% import tax. This sent lots of musicians abroad to Germany, where they fused highlife sonics with the burgeoning reggae, funk and disco sounds that were emerging there, soundtracked by cheap drum machines and synthesisers available on the European market

Originally aired on Radio Alhara, 11th May 22
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T R A CK L I S T
Charles Amoah - Aposese
Nana Tuffour -Boafo Ye Na
A. B. Crentsil - I Go Pay You Tomorrow
Lee Dodou & The Polyversal Souls - Sahara Akwantou
A. B. Crentsil - Obi Baa Wiase
K. Frimpong - Odonyebra
Jewel Ackah - Adee Oyede
Amanzeba - Tsema [Instrumental]
Amakye Dede - Mawerekyekyere
Kojo Antwi - Hini Mi
K. Frimpong - Mehoamani

[ SIBSON / RADIO ALHARA ]: BÜRGER-HIGHLIFE MIXTAPE

sep 22 is more jazz for space surfing, w. music from pablo volt, thomas frempong, aquiles navarro and edrix puzzle on on the corner records +++ mucho mucho más!  

originally broadcast on radio alhara, 7.9.22

[ SIBSON / ALHARA ]: SEP 22 TAPE

With music by Balkouta, Cochemea, Santaka, Pablo Volt, Henri Guedon, Jimmy Blanche, Pope Flyne, Wganda Kenya, Jake Mehew, Cheb Hasni, Height/Dismay and more...

~ originally aired on radio alhara 4th jan 2023 ~

SIBSON / RADIO ALHARA / NY 23 MIXTAPE

This show is a cross-section of Ryuichi Sakamoto tracks from 1978 to 2002 all peppered with that oddball jazz spirit that the dearly departed maestro helped to define. 

Originally aired 19.00 PS, 5/4/23

SIBSON / RYUICHI SAKAMOTO TRIBUTE / RADIO ALHARA

Originally broadcast on Radio Alhara, 7th June 2023.

SIBSON x ALHARA: JUNE 23 TAPE

NICARAGUA CÓSMICA surveys a cross-section of Nicaraguan music via a frequency we might consider cosmic, saturnian, creating, through the use of distortion, synthesizers and multiplex arrangements, a new approach that its protagonists believed had the capacity to unite Central America in paz y libertad, including groups such as PODER DEL ALMA, LOS SOLISTAS DEL TERRAZA, BLUE ANGELS and GRUPO CAWIBE.

Tamara Montenegro - Boaco (Morning on the River)
Excerpt from Nicaragua Sandanista Abril en Managua Concierto Por La Paz 
Los Rockets - Fuera de este mundo
Alfonso Noel Lovo - APOCALIPSIS EN EL TRÓPICO
Poder del Alma - Mimo
Afonso Lovo - Sinfonia Del Espacio De Do Menor
Los Solistas del Terraza (Sadia Silu) - Guichita 
Blue Angels - Tiro de Lado
Bwana - Lolita
Grupo Cawbe - Night Nurse (cover) 
Los Rockets - Mujer
Poder del Alma - Amenecer Entre Las Hojas

Originally broadcast 5th July 2023 @ 19h00 EEST on Radio Alhara (radioalhara.net)

NICARAGUA CÓSMICA [SIBSON x RADIO ALHARA]

Opening with celebratory Bedouin wedding field recording, Atif and Qasim Swaitat, 1970, set inside a dreamscape framed by Masumi Hara’s ‘To Live In The Sea’.. That song, from 1984, starts with the line ‘’When I returned home you were dead’.

Later: reaching forwards, uneasy, but resistant. 90s UK, urban tropical, 909 state + new digs on a chugging tilt.

Originally aired Feb 7 2024.

Sibson x Radio Alhara [Feb 24]

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