The Common Swift spends almost its entire life in the air. It feeds, drinks, sleeps and mates while flying. A young bird spend normally around 10 months in air without landing once.

“They look really clumsy and will easily become victims for predators on the ground.” says biologist Anders Hedenström.

Tracklist :

Wisdom Eye - Alice Coltrane
Reading a wave - Arp
Situations - Kamaal Williams
... - Ommetis
Gail - Michel Sardaby
G-E-T-O-U-T the Ghetto - Standing On The Corner
100 - Mike FT. King Carter
U know w anysia kim - Dj Blackpower
Day 13 - Dr. Yen Lo
... - Ommetis
Music for pieces of wood - Steve Reich
Hindewhu (Whistle Solo) - The Ba-Benzélé Pygmies
Akwaaba - Francis Bebey
Canto de Yemanjá - Baden Powell
Crumblin erb - Outkast
Ghostnotes - Duval Timothy ft Bernard Purdie

A Commonswift Named Leo Messi

FKR113
Miquela E Lei Chapacans
Miquela e Lei Chapacans

Released 14th October 2022

The first progressive girl group of the French Occitan language pop scene bring you folk funk, sun-baked bossa, Coltrane jazz and their own brand of punky “Dizco rural” against an untouched French Balearic backdrop spanning the late 70s and 80s.

If even the most assiduous of European record collectors consider the Occitan language music scene to be France’s best-kept secret then it’s as fair to say that the incredible multifaceted recordings of langue d’oc prog girl group Lei Chapacans has spent the last four decades hiding in plain sight. In all fairness this overlooked treasure chest of minority language excursions into folk funk, Balearic, bossa, John Coltrane penned jazz, baroque psych, Palestinian poetry, comedic synth skits (and even the rawest form of femme-fronted multiingual punky disco) has been stowed away in inconspicuous photographic record sleeves, falsely evoking something closer to contemporary C&W while oft-misplaced in record shop cassette racks alongside “traditional” spoken-word and scholastic albums. So for the uninitiated, don’t be too hard on yourself.  The fun starts here.  For those who are familiar with the rare and sought-after one-off solo album by Occitan singer Miquela and have craved for more, then you’ve come to exactly the right place. Lei Chapacans (a name that roughly translates to The Vagabonds) is the all-girl vocal group assembled by Miquela herself just two years after her debut release, having toured the word and snubbed major label record deal offers with a steadfast allegiance to the protection of the Occitan language in which this album is primarily penned and performed (minus a small amount of German and sarcastic English in one rebellious instance). For European collectors with a penchant for French savoir faire, but have further yearnings for folkloric femme funk, then it’s time to look towards the Occitan sunset where you will meet Lolo, Miquela, Sophie, Irena and Denise.

These amazing, and undeniably culturally important recordings might have taken some time to find a wider audience, but for music lovers, crate diggers and vinyl vultures alike there are still a lot of tasty morsels out there to be scavenged and devoured, ask any self-respecting Chapacan and they’ll concur wholeheartedly.

Miquela e Lei Chapacans

Dizco Rural

Miquela e Lei Chapacans - Dizco Rural

Singularity 08: Tell Me Not Here

Join us for an hour-long sonic reflection on Palestinian exile, memory, musical disobedience and Chopin chords ‘changes’. Featuring Edward Saïd words, notes, sounds, and memories from the 1988 BBC documentary Edward Saïd and Palestine (1988). Here’s to a sonic exploration of cultural resilience and the indelible connection that lies between music and memory. An ode to Palestine, the sounds and words that echo its land.

Tracklist: https://radioflouka.com/shows/said-thinking-with-the-piano-14-11-2023

TNS - Saïd : Thinking with the piano - 14/11/2023

Sequence of extracts played in rehearsal in preparation for our first live performance. 
This piece was built for @radioalhara
We decided to incorporate only samples from Palestinian artists, as well as voice inserts from journalists and/or victims. 
As a Muslim, Sara chose to include a Quranic verse "Israel" to pray for all the innocents. 
We deliberately observed a minute of silence after the prayer for reflection and, of course, to avoid blasphemy.

FREE PALESTINE

ａｒｔｗｏｒｋ
"Land Day", a GUPW Poster, 1977 Issued by the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW) on Land Day in 1977, this poster shows a cubist painting by the Palestinian artist Mona al-Saudi.

𝐸𝓁 𝒜𝓈𝓌𝒶𝓉 𝐸𝓁 𝒮𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓉𝒶 (12/12/2023) RADIO ALHARA - راديو الحارة

Voices for Palestine - Freedom for Palestine is freedom for all

Live on Radio AlHara 
https://www.radioalhara.net
Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
4-10pm, Bethlehem, Palestine time

Link to outline of all the broadcast content is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4AkJYooXbtnZ68AlV2kSVgQSyUeFlE9SWT_KyHf_CA/edit?usp=sharing

An international mix of soundscapes, poetry, music, spoken reflections and sounds of solidarity demonstrations from around the world. The sounds on this transmission express support for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian struggle for freedom. 

As Gaza continues to face deadly bombardment at the hands of the Israeli state, it is more crucial than ever to raise our voices together around the world to not only demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but to call for justice in Palestine more generally. In the cultural and music world this means cutting links to Israeli state backed cultural institutions. Now it is as critical as ever to learn about the intergenerational struggle for freedom in Palestine, an anti-colonial struggle that finds a sister struggle in the South African struggle against apartheid. 

A note to say that all the music, protest sounds, poems, mixtapes and sounds in this broadcast are included with permission. It has been great to work with people all over the Earth to bring together this material.

Thank you for listening to this broadcast. – Stefan Christoff.

Accompanying image is by Allison Figueroa Rojas from a solidarity protest in Barcelona, Spain.

Radio AlHara

Freedom for Palestine is freedom for all

materials

mountain meditations with chantress seba- 皚桐 edit
gillie amma i love you- fourtet
today i learned what makes bugs sick and how to tie my shoelaces- dylan henner
for turiya- charlie haden and alice coltrane
kaval sviri- the bulgarian state radio & television female vocal choir
i'd rather be the devil (live)- john martyn
ancestral visions- nok cultural ensemble
sum 1 ('his eye is on the sparrow' edit)- christopher port
asterion- benton roarke
water, wine, brandy, brine (performed by sandbox percussion)- viet cuong
forest run- joseph shabason
...

🏔️

Radio Alhara, 21th January 2024

where moth and rust consume, constellations #5

Rivers of Bengal | Ep4 | Without Arrow, This Wave, The Sea (songs of awakening) ; mass awakening to its right to the crops, burnt villages, symbolizing struggle, this path, the hollow grief of the Bengal delta.

Mastered by Adittya Arzu

Without Arrow, This Wave, The Sea (Songs Of Awakening)

The Word Magazine Mixtape

Taken from 'Suso Saiz & Suzanne Kraft - Between No Things' (MFM048)
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Between No Things

A3. Suso Saiz & Suzanne Kraft - Nunca (3:50)

TNS CHANNEL 4
always and still bringing you sounds of naïveté

LINK to channel 1: @tunisian_naive_society
LINK to channel 2 : @naive-naivisme
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A Commonswift Named Leo Messi

TNS 5

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