(ICYMI) Tonight’s Full Circle, Sentient Shiloh B’s Women’s Music Mixtape. These musicians provide the soundtrack for women’s rights, beauty, love, freedom dreams and calls for collective liberation. Dolly Parton starts off the mix and is followed by Eurythmics featuring Aretha Franklin and ends with Queen Latifah’s Ladies First. The second segment begins with Cecile McLorin Salvant singing Ida Cox’s song Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues, next I play Whitney Houston singing Chaka Khan’s song I’m Every Woman, and ends this segment with Chaka Khan singing Woman Like Me and Skip the Needle’s Liberation. Next is Janelle Monae’s Django Jane and Ariana Grande’s God is Woman.  The final segment includes the following three songs: Where Do We Go, Solange,  Beautiful, Christina Aguilera and ends with Scars to Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara.

Full Circle 03 - 24 - 2023 Womans Music Mixtape

Ascendance for solo violin.  
Commissioned by Filipino artist Mart Henry Bongabong for the new painting series ‘Mamlakah’.  

Each piece is inspired by a verse from the Biblical passage of Matthew on the theme of Mamlakah.  The intense, chromatic nature of the paintings radiate changing, scattered light which is reflected in the compositions through a sense of synaesthesia.  (The crossing of sound/colour senses). 

Composed by Caroline Bordignon.
Performed by violinist Mirjam Bartol.

Recorded in London, U.K.
January 2023.

Ascendance

Ascendance (2022)

Dedicated to the Full Moon Goddess Selene.

Violin by Mui Leng Goh.

Selene

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Members of First Voice Media produce, write, host, and engineer Full Circle, a cultural affairs radio magazine which showcases personal views, interviews, feature stories, and live performances from our community. Airing on Friday at 7pm on KPFA 94.1, all content comes from members of First Voice Media and reaches all across northern and central California.

Caroline Bordignon is modern-day, female composer exploring aspects of colour, light, space, time and ways these interrelate in musical and visual expression through synaesthesia.  Her music has been performed internationally and she has collaborated with artists around the world.  Recently she composed a series of solo violin works for the new painting series ‘Mamlakah’ by Filipino artist Mart Henry Bongabong.  ‘Desert Rose,’ a series of musical compositions and paintings was first premiered in a sea-side village on the Island Garden City of Samal, Philippines.  She is currently composing and painting new works for ‘Desert Rose’ which will receive further premieres in Asia later this year.
Hailing from Canada, she now lives in England.

Kāren Hunter offers ‘expansive openings’ for the heart and mind through Music and Astrology with interactive workshops, immersive sound journeys, music lessons and astrology readings. Find out more on www.karenhunter.com .

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