The Snake

There Is No Light

When Brock Winstead bought a house in the Golden Gate district, he decided to research the history of his property and find out the identity of every single person who had ever owned that plot of land. What he discovered reveals much about the patterns of land use and displacement that continue to shape Oakland today. From colonization to redlining to rebranding, this episode explores the powerful forces that have shaped the East Bay’s development. [Subscribe to this program on iTunes or Stitcher]

10,000 years of Oakland, 1 piece of land

Trapper remix of These Times from San Francisco band Oddly Even's Hills EP

These Times (Oddly Even) - TRAPPER Remix

Light

Relaxing

Music by Lisa Schonberg

percussion: Anthony Brisson, Sara Lund, Lisa Schonberg, Heather Treadway, Allan Wilson; samples and guitar: Eddie Bond;  effected voice: Alison Clarys; guitar: Marisa Anderson; oscillator and field recordings: Lisa Schonberg. 

Recorded by Evan Mersky at Red Lantern, Portland OR
Mixed by Seth Lorinczi at Two-Track Mind
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic 

Copyright 2017 Sunshine Babies Music 

Jazz (Timber Sale) was composed in response to the soundscape and physical environment of the forest within the Jazz timber sale in Mount Hood National Forest during the summer of 2016, when it was logged. It features field recordings and percussion based on the calls of crickets, electricity cutting through a right-of-way, the distant sound of logging trucks, and the imagined sound of felled trees. I wrote this piece for the artist collective I co-direct, Environmental Impact Statement, which asks artists to respond to land use on public land.

Secret Drum Band

Jazz (Timber Sale)

Out of all the features on the Long Lost Oakland map, the Ohlone shellmounds have drawn the most questions. Many of those questions were addressed in an earlier episode, so I’m sharing it again. Here’s the original description: “Have you ever wondered what the East Bay was like before colonization? In this episode, Corrina Gould of Indian People Organizing for Change shares knowledge of how her ancestors, the Ohlone people, maintained a relatively peaceful culture here for thousands of years. Although this history was nearly wiped out, struggles to protect sacred shellmound sites—some of them older than the Egyptian pyramids—have sparked a movement to honor this region’s original inhabitants and reclaim ‘lost’ languages, crafts and practices.”

Long Lost Oakland, chapter 3: How battles over sacred sites have revived Ohlone culture

do you have fire?

how do you know what you know is true
when all you ever knew comes crashing down right in front of you

do you have fire, its cold
where is your fire, when you’re in a hole

how do you turn a spark to a flame
hold it close but let it glow
feel the energy ebb and flow

Do You Have Fire?

In the morning light
streets so still, not a soul in sight
on an unknown road
who knows where it goes

I've got a feeling
where theres light 
alls gonna be alright
but it doesn't mean
you don't have to fight

Journeys

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Bells Atlas - The Khamsa

Recorded by James Meder at Bird & Egg Studio in Richmond, CA 
Mixed and mastered by Dan Blackett

Nowhere

ODDLY EVEN is Calvin Sturges and Ashley Macachor 
Based in San Jose, CA

Nowhere

ODDLY EVEN

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