John Carroll Kirby is an artist and an in-demand musical collaborator for artists like Solange, Frank Ocean, Sebastian Tellier, Connan Mockasin, and countless others. Kirby has lately focused on his own prolific solo output with his forthcoming album, Dance Ancestral, following four other LPs on Stones Throw Records: his debut My Garden (2020); the ambient piano record Conflict (2020); his first film score, Cryptozoo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2021), and the jazz-fusion record Septet (2021).  
https://www.nts.live/shows/john-carroll-kirby/episodes/john-carroll-kirby-14th-december-2023

JOHN CARROLL KIRBY 141223

An hour of music from one-of-a-kind singer songwriter Judee Sill. Selected by Flo Dill.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-judee-sill-16th-february-2024

In Focus: Judee Sill  160224

Writer, film and sound artist Florence’s sonic world can be found through the likes of her carefully researched collages on her NTS Sounds on Screen residency and with her mixes and their accompanying essays for MUBIs online editorial magazine Notebook. Her 2nd guest show on Narr features moody, sexy trip hop, electronic, ambient, downtempo and and hip hop

Florence 18/02/24

This mix from Glasgow's mainstay, Mag, was recorded at the end of 2020 and there really isn't any good reason for it not seeing the light of day earlier than this. It somehow survived multiple hard drive deaths and wandered in the cloud for way too long before resurfacing recently and finally ending it's journey as the Forecast it was always supposed to be. 

Hailing from London, adopted by Puddle Country and currently galivanting around South America, Mag has pieced together over an hour's worth of sonics that have stood the test of time, a demand unfairly put upon them by the scatter-brained "organisational" capacity of one member of 12th Isle in particular. Said member and Mag have done a number of shows together on Clyde Built throughout the years and are worth checking out, if just to appreciate the unassailable power of friendship in the face of attention deficit issues. 

Thanks for hanging in there Mag!

Forecast 067: Mag

Wake up with NTS... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/breakfast/episodes/breakfast-ok-williams-27th-march-2024

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ OK WILLIAMS 270324

outskirts w/ con pani & clive - 13.04.24

Ran weaves so many melodies, textures, and soft drums in this inimitably beautiful, smart, and jazzy mixtape that brings me to a contemplative state, one where I am holding the energy of those diasporic Coreans in my community, and around the world, who I am connected to through the gift of this mixtape series, and beyond, through our shared ancestral histories of being Corean at all. Within that energy glows the rhythmic echo of oneness with all colonized people today and from all time.

With this edition of the saekdong cover typical of Diasporic Corean Mixtapes, I wanted to bring in the colorway of the Palestinian flag, as well as the net texture present in the keffiyeh, intermingling with the motif of the Korean Unification flag. 

To me, this symbolizes the many parallels between Palestine and Korea, particularly the postwar north of Korea today known as the DPRK. It was the same year of 1948 in which Korea was split into two by the US Military, that on the other side of the globe, Palestine was being pillaged and carved up as well. As in Korea, where today families including those of my paternal grandfather remain separated by an arbitrary militarized border, so too do Palestinians remain exiles from their own villages, farms, cities, ancestral homelands. 

Throughout the 1960s, the leadership of north Korea maintained correspondence with the Palestinian resistance, and even shared military strategies and traded arms. And today, north Korea continues to be maligned, its government borne of anti-colonial resistance labeled as "rogue" by the imperial powers, as much as Palestinian resistance movements are labeled terrorists. All the while, north Korea has suffered from inhumane US embargoes that block essential medicine and agricultural resources that have killed thousands of people, contemporaneously with Israeli embargoes on Gaza that deprive children of basic human necessities like water and flour.

So despite the controversial nature of the Korean Unification flag, which is representative of a persecuted political ideology in south Korea, where pro-reunification activists are frequently harassed and incarcerated under the anti-communist National Security Law, it grounds me. The blue One Korea nestled inside the keffiyeh reminds me of not my roots as a Corean person on that tiny peninsula we call our ancestral home, whether we are from the north, the south, or in the diaspora, but also of our solidarity and connectedness to all colonized people who struggle and resist everywhere.

As we yearn to see a Corea that is one, so we envision a free Palestine from the river to the sea.
-hyeonje

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@ranparkmusic

Ran Park is a home-taught pianist, self-taught composer, and an ever-evolving experimentalist. Joyful contradictions run throughout her music, from romantic and impressionist classical to free jazz, gospel, Korean folk, and notions of pop. 

With all this unhinged curiosity as her energy source, Ran’s mission is to say ‘yes’ to the child in us; yes to embodying fuller expressions of the many identities we carry. Doing so, she argues, is a necessary step towards generational and collective healing. 

Tracklist:

Sangyoungsan, Park Chi-wan  // Leaving (unreleased), Ran Park
In the Presence and Absence of Each Other, Pt. 1, Claus Ogerman & Michael Brecker
운우화락 다스름, Daejeon Pansori Hitting Method Protective Institution // My Olive Tree, El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
Door of the Cosmos, Sun Ra // Come Dubbing, Sweetback 
Feeling for Gravity (unreleased), Ran Park
mid-tale, machina
Walls, machina
View From Two Perspectives, Nick Malkin // Dot, dal:um // Kono Yoni Yomeri, Yasuaki Shimizu // Sea, SORIPERCUSSION
Santiago Black, Al Dobson Jr.
Truffle Sprinkles, Salamanda
Spirits of Tembisa, Moses Taiwa Molelekwa
Trapped Being Human, Amel Larrieux
Saram, Aseul
Stay, Kirara

011 - Ran Park - Inner Space

For this edition of their Outsiders Residency, Daniel Jahn & Isa Schwarzenberg from the Hamburg based label Bureau B bring together the (vocal) output of women from the avant-garde NDW, experimental music and sound culture of the German-speaking world of the 1980s. 

It sheds light on the hidden corners, of the playful use of words and expressions that developed on the creative sidelines and often circulated in the DIY tape culture or in small vinyl editions.

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by labels, collectives, agencies, venues, clubs, ... worldwide
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
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Outsiders: Bureau B - Focus: Female Voices from the German 80s Underground @ Kiosk Radio 22.04.2024

LA native Bianca Lexis showcases a monthly, genre-blending hour, exploring the different facets of pop, rock, synth and house music. all in panoramic view, for you. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/panorama-heaven/episodes/panorama-heaven-24th-april-2024

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First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-10th-may-2024

Panorama Heaven w/ Bianca Lexis 240424

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