Sometimes music can take you to places you've never imagined! That’s what Afrofuturism does.… Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that explores the intersection of African culture with science fiction, technology and the future, fusing magical realism with the beauty of Africa, beyond the clichés. The term was originally coined by Mark Dery (an American journalist working for The Washington Post & Rolling Stone). From the start, Afrofuturism was a child of music, born in the ‘60’s in the boundless mind of Sun Ra, and it still shines in today’s music of American artists such as Janelle Monae. Nowadays, Afrofuturism is flourishing in Europe and in Africa, constantly revitalized by artists who offer new perspectives to expand our idea of Africa. In this episode, we explore this boundless inner space and George Collinet is trans-connected to a futuristic nebula through a patchwork of stories, soundscapes, and various avant-garde music productions from the cosmos and elsewhere. The episode includes interviews with Ibaaku, Blick Bassy, Ikoqwe, Djely Tapa, Shabaka, Mélissa Laveaux, Afrotronix, plus Angélique Kidjo & Yemi Alade. Produced by Elodie Maillot.

Black To The Future

Damien and Ali get In The Conversation about suspect fashion choices, Monkey Pox, and celebrating your wins.

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Before It Was Problematic

Changüí is a little understood, loose and lively, community-based music of eastern Cuba. In this program we sample recordings from the 2021 box set Changüí: The Sound of Guantánamo, and hear from Gianluca Tramontana, the man who made the recordings. Rooted in Afro-Haitian music, pan-Caribbean styles, Spanish poetic traditions and more, Changüí emerged in the mid 19th century in plantations, not unlike the blues. We also hear from musician and scholar Ben Lapidus, author of the only English language book on Changüí, and we update the story with Changüí fusions into jazz, salsa and hip-hop. Prepare to dance! 

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Changui!

Rip and Dr. Jessica Rose discuss vaccines, vaccine injury reporting, and more analysis of the VAERS data.

00:42 Dr. Jessica Rose
01:28 Vaccine reporting/VAERS
08:12 Funding
09:40 More on the VAERS data
17:56 Covid-19 vaccine injuring people
32:30 Money isn't the only driving force
39:57 Behavior control
49:38 Self-responsibility
52:45 The big picture
1:02:45 Wanting us dead
1:04:40 Personal story
1:08:46 This is a test

Starting Strength Radio

Vaccine Facts with Dr. Jessica Rose | Starting Strength Radio #176

Vaccine Facts with Dr. Jessica Rose  Starting Strength Radio #176

Published September 10, 2022 — Humorist Maeve Higgins recommends places to visit in her home turf of Ireland's County Cork. Then tour guides from southwest England share their expert advice on where best to enjoy the coastal beauty of Cornwall and Devon — and the tourist traps to avoid. And guides from Scotland describe what makes Glasgow such a cool city to explore.

For more information on Travel with Rick Steves — including episode descriptions, program archives and related details — visit www.ricksteves.com.

688 Maeve Higgins’ County Cork; Southwest England; Glasgow Cool

Damien and Ali get In The Conversation about the Emmys, internalizing the work, and the good in a bad meal.

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Fried Perspective

This track is from a collection of tunes from the live streamed sessions with Slamhaus. While bands or users will inspire me, every song was composed live on stream without any pre-thought melodies, progressions or beats. Watch a piece of music composed 100% in front of your eyes.

Watch this track composed lived from here: Coming Soon!

Be a part of the music making! Watch Tunesday at 2pm CT every Tuesday!
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Album Artwork by Chris Amhaus

Tunesday, Vol. 27

November 29th {Of All the Things I've Made}

Happy birthday, Beyoncé! We're back to discuss Nicki versus Miley, Fake President Kardashian and Paula Deen's Nae-Nae.

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Billy Ray's Burden

As our newsroom worked on this week’s show about the shooting in Orlando, Reveal’s Michael Corey and Jim Briggs started thinking about a way to represent those lost in the mass shooting through sound.

This track is the result: a sonic memorial to the 49 people lost in Orlando at Pulse nightclub. The tones are meant to be funereal, but also celebratory. Each new tone in this piece represents the birth of one of the people who died that night. And that note rings again for each year of their lives.

Learn more: https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-sonic-memorial-to-the-victims-at-orlandos-pulse-nightclub/

A sonic memorial to the Orlando shooting victims

Back Door Kisses For Boys

For the first time ever, Kazuo Ishiguro and Michael Ondaatje appeared in an unchaired conversation about their creative processes and their inspirations growing up and how that shaped their fiction, as part of Man Booker 50 festival at Southbank Centre.

Drawing on the wide range of influences that have informed their work, especially cinema and music, their discussion was divided into three sections – ‘Envy of the Other Arts’, ‘Boyhood Thrillers’ and ‘Notebooks’ – and each section was introduced by a slideshow of photographs selected by the pair. Here in the recording, each slideshow has been replaced with a short musical interlude.

Kazuo Ishiguro & Michael Ondaatje

Some of the biggest and most influential names in modern literature, art, music and performance share their stories, thoughts and ideas.

Listen to the people shaping arts and culture today in podcasts which reflect our richly diverse events, exhibitions and festivals programme from the Southbank Centre and Hayward Gallery.

Kazuo Ishiguro & Michael Ondaatje

Southbank Centre

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