10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 11.15.2024 

upending the ancient orrery

sonic rains washing us clean 

                  ready  for a new day’s fight…

new sounds for nonlinear time from  Dos Bandoleros (San Francisco), Yazz Ahmed (London / Bahrain), Eugene Hütz / Gogol Bordello (Ukraine/NYC), Txai Band (Huni Kuin people, Acre, Brazilian Amazon), Hamed Sadeghi (Sydney / Gadigal-land / Iran), BaBa ZuLa (Istanbul), Saint Levant  (Jerusalem / Los Angeles)  ... and more beyond all borders and non-working models 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 11.08.2024 

A noontime reading and interview with poet KIMI SUGIOKA, … mother, educator, songwriter and poet AND Bay Area poetry scene mainstay, author of  two books of poetry; the newest of which is Wile & Wing on Manic D Press and in numerous anthologies. Kimi is the poet laureate of Alameda and curates and hosts readings throughout the Bay. She believes that creating community through art is a revolutionary act. 

... and on the hour US radio-premieres from the UK's JONATHAN ENSER / MATTERS UNKNOWN and from the Bay Area's OPIUM SABBAH…

more sounds for resilience and resistance, and for our common home, from  more sounds for resilience and resistance, and for our common home, from  El Khat (Yemen/Berlin), Bhutan Balladeers (Bhutan), Dal:um  (Korea), Waaju/Majid Bekkas (London / Morocco), Bagedai (Yunnan, PRC), Àtandá  (London / Lagos)  ... and more beyond all borders

+ our poet’s playlist …

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific. 6-9pm BST

FRI. 10.25.2024 

special remote Frequency-Uplift!-LONDON / CALLING.collect

    ... featuring new London improvisational-quartet Lophae's  debut-music, interviews with guitarist/producer Greg Sanders and with drummer / producer Nick Emanative (celebrating new release 'Abstract Intuition'), and other new UK frequencies from Dele Sosimi, Tristwch y Fenywod, Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu, Kokoroko, Neue Grafik, Ezra Collective, Hak Baker, Lava La Rue, Lex Amor,  and more from both sides of the Thames ... and just maybe a little further afield inna green and pleasant land, all over the map

... maybe coming outta that old Imperial capital, but still broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

Earth pollen, human song …

… sound spreading seed for the future

  ...  fecundity from John Santos Sextet (SF),  Esotérica Tropical (Oakland/Borikén), V/Z [Valentina/ Zongamin] (Osaka / Italy / London), Lankum (Dublin), Lido Pimienta (Ottawa / Colombia), Blick Bassy  (Cameroon / Paris), Sourdurent (Occitanie / France), Tokyo MinYo Club (Japan), and all praise to bees, bats and butterflies, and all percussive pollinators

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 08.30.2024 

A reading and interview with poet TUREEDA MIKELL, celebrating her new book and second full-length poetry collection, The Body: Oracle of Memory bringing us the medicine of word, manifesting our own body and its wisdom(s), into modern realms of the sacred story … 

Then later creative music veterans David Boyce and PC Muñoz drop in and debut their first full-length duo record as RED FAST LUCK, “Everything You Do Controls the World”, expanding this weekend into DOUBLE RFL …

An early-on rewind and intro with Sameer Gupta's new work, 'Jupiter, vol. 4' 

Sounds in the light of a waning crescent and last lullabies, and incidental jazz from   Blick Bassy // Vanyfox (Cameroon//Angola/Portugal), Gilberto Gil  (Brazil), Kronos Quartet (San Francisco), Freddie Bryant (NYC),  ...

+ our poet’s playlist …

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 08.23.2024 

in SF City limits @102.5 FM,  always streaming @ KXSF.FM 

An interview and feature with SF’s MEKLIT HADERO, and the Movement Immigrant Orchestra, premiering for free in SF next Sat., and comprised of immigrant Bay Area local all-stars…   

And in the first hour, SAMEER GUPTA introduces his latest project, 'Jupiter, vol. 4'  ...

and more sounds beyond borders from Jake Blount / Mali Obomsawin (Virginia / Odanak First Nation), Aïti Mon Amour (Morocco), SML (LA/Chicago), Nicole Mitchell/Ballaké Sissoko (Chicago/Bamako), Hector Plimmer (South London), Ndabo Zulu (South Africa), Nídia & Valentina (Portugal/Italy/London) + liminal states…

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 08.16.2024  

dance of life…

   waning summer hours, last harvests

   dry grass rustle, in passing footfall 

and international sounds, beats, beauty

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 08.09.2024 

noisier than normal, 

that noise from within,

that noise after detonation …

divine noise from FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER,  a chat with bandleader Andy Krissberg,  … revival in town tonight

    other joyful new noise and percussive persistence from Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones (Brooklyn/ Sweden), Etran de L’Aïr   (Agadez, Niger), Malcriada (CDMX), Hakushi Hasegawa / 長谷川白紙 (Japan),  Marcus Joseph  (Leicester, UK), Lollise (Brooklyn/Botswana), Àbasé (Budapest/Berlin), Samora Pinderhughes (Brooklyn/Berkeley), ecstatic noise and deafening silences, remembrance,

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 08.02.2024 

Beauty in the coils of time

     In what comes around again, rhythm

     And in what dissonance we insert

     Happy-birthday-James-sounds, random poetics, new music from Asher Gamedze & the Black Lungs  (South Africa), Ekuka Morris Sirikiti (Uganda), Mourning [A] BLKstar (Cleveland), Söndörgó (Hungary),  RAH & the Ruffcats (Berlin/Nigeria), Tryp Tych Tryo  (London/Warsaw), Elana Sasson & Golestan Ensemble (San Francisco/Iran/Kurdistan), and earth’s sibilance, summer sounds

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 07.19.2024 

SF’s MILD UNIVERSE in the house, in interview, debuting a new album.

.... other dances of joy and resilience, love and remembrance for the legacy of Dr. BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON 

       ... uplift and sunrise reflections from Esotérica Tropical (San Francisco/Boríken), Sunny War (Nashville/LA), Madalitso Band (Malawi), Brittany Howard (Athens. AL),  Angélique Kidjo (Benin/Paris), Nubya Garcia  (London), Vijay Iyer (NYC), Farida Amadou (Bruxelles), liberatory noise

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FRI. 07.05.2024 

First Friday’s poet, Mark K. Tilsen,  Oglala Lakota Poet / Educator, Standing Rock veteran, poet of resistance and resilience, 

       ... new / renewed wordsound from Tongo Eisen-Martin / Thurston Moore (San Francisco/NYC), Georgia Sea Island Singers (St. Simons Island, Georgia), Andrew Gurruwiwi Band (northeast Arnhem Land, Australia), Black Decelerant (South Carolina/Oregon), Lupe Fiasco (Chicago), Eve Crazy & Mar Yo (Senegal/Finland ), Valentina Magaletti / HIIIT (EEC, etc.), the Halluci Nation (Mohawk and Cayuga First Nations, Canada), 

+ …  the poet’s playlist 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 06.28.2024 

Love week, without borders, 
all genders/genres/generosities

       ... loving and pride and celebration and community from Equipto (San Francisco), Dobet Gnahoré (Côte d'Ivoire), Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and The Cavemen (both Lagos), Mabe Fratti (Guatemala/CDMX), K!mmortal (Vancouver: Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh territory), Linda Sikhakhane (South Africa), Flavia Coelho (Rio de Janeiro/Paris), Zeynep Erbay (Turkey), + …  dancing and big heart signs    

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 06.21.2024 

Solstice, and a full strawberry moon … 

       … the morning after the shortest night, dawn-exultations

       that glow on new fruit

       ... warm sunshine sounds from Kronos Quartet & friends (San Francisco), Mourning [A] BLKstar (Cleveland, OH), Sampa the Great (Zambia/Botswana/Australia), Mavis Staples (Chicago), Bosq & Kaleta (Benin/Medillin/Brooklyn), Jaubi (Lahore, Pakistan), Franck Biyong (Cameroon), Bixiga 70 (São Paulo), Hirahi Afonso (Canary Islands ), Sunny Jain (NYC/Punjab), … and some sweetness, truth, 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 06.14.2024 

Wild plants and sound, a garden for all … 

       … of language without word, syntax of note and silence

       ...  old renewed and aged new breaths from Ensemble Hougaku Shijyuusoudan  (Japan), Violence Gratuite (Breton/Cameroon), Yann Falquet (Québéc), Meridian Brothers (Colombia), corto.alto (southside Glasgow), Hajda Banda  (Polesia/Poland ),  Beings (NYC), Odd Okoddo (Nairobi), Nubya Garcia (London), PLUS…

recent inspirations/elevations, some folk, some polyphony, some Meiji modernizations and a Chief Adjuah set … 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

First Friday’s poet LOURDES FIGUEROA, … in  reading and discussion, her poet’s playlist:  a Chicanx poet whose work is the dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón—tilling of the soil under the blistering sun. Author of the chapbooks yolotl, Ruidos = Learn Speak, and Vuelta, and works in the Mexican journal Tierra Adentro. Lourdes continues to believe in your lung and your throat, celebrating our Pocha Marimacha Califa tongue

     AND celebrating the return of the 2024 The International San Francisco Flor y Canto Literary Festival (6/21-23), to La Misíon, with her FLOR Y CANTO co-organizers JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE, a full blooded Pocho, Spanglish speaking poeta, co-keeper of the Medicina Para Pesadillas portal,  and NORMAN ANTONIO ZELAYA, Nicoya-rooted Mission District homeboy, master storyteller and the masked luchador known as Super Pulga.  ALL reading  … for the culture of the City and La Misíon,

    PLUS updates from the campaign to free Leonard Peltier and a feature set on old and new South African jazz,  groups Izithunywa and Dyertribe visiting the Bay this weekend , celebrating the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid,

 …  and ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 05.31.2024 

 privilege of peace and music, and of drawing breath 

         Inhalation= liberation and love’s courage,  exhalation = singing to your neighbors and perhaps to random strangers…

New sonic sustenance without borders, without genres:     Pamela Badjogo (Paris/Gabon), Thandiswa (South Africa), Manu Chao (Catalonia/ Paris), Red Fast Luck (San Francisco), Aiofe O'Donovan (Boston), Leyla McCalla (NOLA/Haiti), Starry Skemes / Warm Spell (San Francisco), The Brkn Record (London) …  + others,

 …  ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!!

Celebrating CARNAVAL weekend, with some samba and salsa, cumbia and champeta (… and a whole afrobeat set) to dance in the streets and to make some change with.

Local and new music from Agua Pura,  Combo Tezeta,  Mild Universe,  ¿Qiensave?,  Jesus Díaz y su QBA,  Sambada,  Louda y los Bad Hombres

 (+)
… all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 05.17.2024 

Dancing in these longer days, darkness despite light, destroying time/silence

  new music from Sheherazaad (San Francisco/South Asia), Social Dance (Marseille),  LAIR (West Java), Blick Bassy (France/Cameroon), The Zawose Queens (Tanzania), musclecars (Brooklyn), Melanie Charles / Melissa Laveaux (Haiti/Brooklyn), Tidiane Thiam (No.Senegal), [+] other music to dance across borders from Cameroon to Korea to Congo (and not yet Colma)

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 05.10.2024 

… spring songs, the joy for creation and for remaking the world.

…featuring music from QWANQWA (Addis Ababa) coming through the Bay Area next week, and a weekend of amazing shows (and some tickets),

and a noontime discussion with ARTHUR PYE (Emergency Committee for Rojava), writer/activist reporting on the Rojava Revolution in Northeast Syria, also in the Bay next week

Some new sunshine song and resistance rhythm from Teja Gerken (San Francisco),  Tiken Jah Fakoly (Bamako/Côte D’Ivoire),  Mas Aya (Toronto/Nicaragua),  Cyril Cyril & Meridian Brothers (Geneva/Bogotá), Peemaï / Gayam 16 (France/Java),  Nubiyan Twist (London),  Kamasi Washington (LA), [+]  other SWANA sounds

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 05.03.2024 

…our first Friday’s poet Tonya M. Foster, reading and in interview. Brilliant poet and essayist, feminist scholar, on teaching from a liminal space between visual art and the written word, on creative process and place. Tonya is author of ‘A Swarm of Bees in High Court’, the bilingual chapbook  ‘La Grammaire des Os’, and the forthcoming ‘Thingifications.’  She is dancing despite what is.

+ LIVE in studio:
Neblinas del Pacífico,  Mission-based ensemble playing the Afro-Colombian ‘marimba de chonta’ music of Colombia's Pacific coast!  We’ll hear and dig into the legacy and traditions of the music and hear about their upcoming SF International Arts, and Yerba Buena Garden Festival performances .

And finally, Cristina Ibarra, director of the Yerba Buena Garden Festival previews all the amazing international summer freeness coming to SF

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!
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Neblinas del Pacífico.... is, on marimba, vocals, bombos, cununos, guasás:

Federico Ardila

Pipe Arrechea

May-Li Khoe

Juliana Mejía

Andrés Reyes

Stephanie Reist

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 04.26.2024 

… songs for the change, the turning over   

New sonic salve and struggle sounds  from Aziza Brahim  (Occupied Western Sahara), La Dame Blanche (Cuba/France),  Use Knife (Belgium / Iraq),  Thandiswa (South Africa), Hizbut Jámm (Warsaw/Senegal/Burkino Faso), EEG Coherence (NYC / Montréal / Estonia) & Cyril Cyril (Geneva),   more [+] mayday dub and re-[volution]-mix(es) 

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 04.19.2024 

… a bouquet, wildflowers of rhythm, melody rising up   

Lullabies and lunar blooms from Ebo Krdum (Stockholm/Sudan), Arooj Aftab (Lahore/Riyadh/Brooklyn),  Shabjdeed / Al Nather (Palestine),  Nduduzo Makhathini (South Africa), DeLaSi (Koforidua, Ghana) & Dele Sosomi (Ghana/London), Isaiah Collier and the Chosen Few (Chicago), [+] earthday dub and remix, our vibrational humanity 

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
حب للإنسانية  انسانیت سے محبت   אהבה לאנושות मानवता के प्रति प्रेम = love of humanity [in 4 languages]

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 04.12.2024 

… a poem for Gaza,  as all there is to be said,  

from this month’s poet Beverly Dahlen

Cries and radical epiphanies, queer joy and ecstatic resistances from FUSE / Gabriella Smith (Amsterdam/Berkeley), Yair Elazar Glotman/ Mabe Fratti (Berlin/Mexico DF),  Rajesh Mehta’s Sky Cage Quartet  (Chennai/Chicago/Germany),  Steve Dyer (South Africa), Bruno Berle (Brazil), Cruza (Orlando), Amanda Magaña (San Francisco),  & beyond, sounds for survival, keeping love 

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 03.29.2024 

.. . the good word, collective endeavors and news from:

       Lalin St. Juste, KKING BOO, Blu Moon, and Madre Guía of the 7000 COILS collective, a new label and gender-expansive, Black-owned nexus of Blackness/Queerness/Wellness (with a big all-day showcase this weekend)

       Rohan Krishnamurthy and the ALAYA PROJECT, Carnatic Indian Jazz fusion pioneers, also throwing down this weekend
 

…  checking in with Bay family, all the happenings and fresh music far beyond borders, ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 03.15.2024 

…  Opïum Sábbáh,  San Francisco producer / hip-hop educator/activist comes through with a new track and an international radio premiere,  for the freedom of Leonard Peltier, and talk of actions we can take

Plus news of victory and a land back celebration

And Ides of March portents from

  MESTIZX (Bolivia/Chicago),  Three Eyed Raven (San Francisco) ganavya (Tamil Nadu/Cambridge, MA.), Avalanche Kaito (Brussels/Burkina Faso), Jembaa Groove (Ghana/Berlin), Kamasi Washington (LA),  The Halluci Nation (Six Nations/Ottawa), & more, 

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 03.08.2024 

… some sonic movements for winter's waning

rain-walk notes and new meander frequencies from Meklit Hadero (San Francisco), Ausecuma Beats (Melbourne/Bamako/Dakar),  Mohammad Syfkhan (Éire/Kurdistan) Reyna Tropical (LA/DF), Bolis Pupul (Belgium/Hong Kong), Leyla McCalla (NOLA/Haiti), Amaro Frietas (Brazil), & more, 

a derivé ...  

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 03.01.2024 

… featuring CAROLINE DAVIS,  exploring her new abolitionist jazz,  'Alula: Captivity', digging into ideas of art and thought and change, sonic offerings to morph our present situation, appearing @ SF Jazz,  Friday 3/8

 all new emancipation sounds and first Friday poetics for freedom:      Omar Sosa / Tiganá Santana (Cuba/USA/Brazil), The Soil / Nduduzo Makathini (South Africa), Nabihah Iqbal & Amy Gadiaga & Cassie Kinoshi (all rad UK women), making beauty in the service of liberation …

… And more broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 02.23.2024 

… featuring MALI OBOMSAWIN, in conversation,and digging into their broad and deep music. Composer, bassist, songwriter, from the Abenaki First Nation at Odanak, Obomsawin merges indie rock, American roots and jazz traditions. In their interweaving of free jazz and traditional music, their music inherits and expands a historical musical dialogue with the realities and resistance to colonization and genocide. 

    yes, we both go deep and geek out on the music, in advance of next week’s show at Yoshi’s. 
 

PLUS the usual rad tickets and new international and indigenous sonic liberation:     Deerlady (NYC/Odanak First Nation), Hataałii (Navajo Nation), Azu Tiwaline (Tunisia), Asher Gamedze (South Africa), Saïd Chalaban (Morocco/Hungary), and breath and resilience…

 …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 02.16.2024 

… two kinds of  ‘MISSION LOVE’,  all COMMUNITY!

      Ray Balberan and the legacy of Mission Media-arts, in the house, screening crucial histories Sunday

       Julie Rulyak Steinberg, of SF Community Music, reopening the Mission Center, bringing music to the people

PLUS  brand new international frequencies of joy:     Little Simz (Islington, North London), Yuhan Su  蘇郁涵 (Taiwan / NYC ), Blick Bassy (Cameroon/Cantin, Hauts-de-France ), Vinicius Cantuaria (Rio de Janeiro), Fabiano do Nascimento / Sam Gendel (Rio de Janeiro / LA),  Hermanos Gutiérrez (Ecuador-Switzerland), Konkolo Orchestra (Zürich), Pietro Santangelo and PS5 (Naples), Helado Negro (Ecuador/South Florida/Brooklyn) … all this and wherever the heart may take us, all

 …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 02.09.2024  

…new moon music, 

           How we go on…

new sonic sustenance:     Eki Shola  (Sonoma), SUPERGOOD4UTHING (Oakland), Ustad Noor Baksh &  Jaffar Hussain Randhara (both Pakistan), groundsound / Gavsborg and Riddim Writer (Jamaica), Ibibio Sound Machine (Nigeria/UK), Franck Biyong (Cameroon), Bosq & Kaleta (Colombia & Paris), Newen Afrobeat (Chile), Les Amazones d'Afrique (west Africa), Palka (France/Panamá),  La Yegros (Buenos Aires) … and more, moving forward,

 …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 02.02.2024

Bay Area jazz mainstay and poet of the sax, Howard Wiley, in interview, in the second hour, premiering his wide-ranging new music, two distinct upcoming SF Jazz residencies and the state of [local] jazz 

PLUS… poetry day finally come !

Celebrating all the amazing poets who came through Frequency Uplift! in 2023 (one poem each, if I can manage that! Tune in and hear for yourself...):  Nia McAllister; Tongo Eisen-Martin; Soledad Con Carne; ‘flor y canto’ poets, Lourdes Figueroa, hector son of hector, Josiah Luis Alderete; Darius Simpson, Mimi Tempestt, Stephen Meadows, Anthony Cody

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 01.19.2024

again. music for the future, against the machineries of death.

beauty, despite.

some brand new music from Moor Mother, Nia Archives, Ruth Goller, Mary Halvorson, Delasi, The Realm/Kaedi Tatham, and some bornday love 

 …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 01.12.2024

… day late, a dollah short. poetry gon (maybe) have to wait.

still we sing.

some sweetness and 2024 newness from New Sector Movements, Helado Negro, LeFtO Early Bird, Actress, Cocaibica / Chancha Via Circuito, Vijay Iyer/Linda May Han Oh/Tyshawn Sorey, Nathalie Joachim, Ghost-Note… and remembering the radical King, ... and all the voices  that make a movement.

 …  as we broadcast live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 12.29.2023

… the turn of the year

 Selections from late night 'radiobob's  best-of'... 20.23, 10+3, things i kept replaying x 3.

 The progeny back from the UK bringing rad new sounds, guest-DJ Aidan aka DJ the bastard chylde, throws down in our traditional seasonal intergenerational soundclash…

    [ more Anglophile anti-colonial hiphop moments, some of the rad local bands that came through this show, a rejection of hierarchical lists in favor of rhizomatic music references. Chaos playlists….]   وتكريم واحترام الثقافة الفلسطينية

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 12.22.2023

… the turn of the light in midwinter, 

translated into sound, language.

make darkness seed of sun,

 in crisis,  both danger and opportunity

..a visit with Rami of the Palestinian Youth Movement, talking the poetry of the streets, the Bay Bridge actions and what you can do. 

More resilient brightness in these dark times, NEW LIGHT from  Azu Tiwaline / Cinna_Peyghamy  (Tunisia), El - Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe (Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Palestine and the diaspora), Moor Mother/Nicole Mitchell/Nduduzo Makhathini (Philly/Charlottesville/South Africa), Maurice Louca/Elephantine ( Cairo), Free Radicals ( Houston), Alabaster dePlume (London), more music to carry the flame forward

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

FRI. 12.01.2023
10am-1pm PACIFIC

  first Friday's poet ANTHONY CODY, in the house, reading from his works 'The Rendering'  and 'Borderland Apocrypha' and talking on the deep history and his lineage in the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl... exploring the erasures of the histories of anti-Mexican violence in our borderlands, and confronting the ongoing erasures in our current climate crises with his experimental poetic strategies    

   ...then, in the second hour, AGAINST AMNESIA, we'll talk with author and organizer JAMES TRACY, of the HOWARD ZINN BOOK FAIR.  Coming back this year after the pandemic, this annual celebration of People’s History and our common future brings together authors, readers, organizers and community members to debate and discuss strategies for a better world, in this era of attacks on memory

+  an update from MAIC LOPEZ, community-gardener with the under-threat MISSION GREENWAY project, a centerpiece space of Saturday's 20th anniversary of the Mission Arts and Performance Project ... PROPS !

+  OUR POET's PLAYLIST,   new music from all over the Bay and well beyond, and beyond genre, plus tickets and big community love...

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

Fri. 11.17.2023 ! 

> 10am-1pm Pacific

we are a forest, singing to each other underground

roots and world wetness, rain rhythms, newness and noise from:

 Ragana (Oakland), of Tropique (Tokyo), MC Yallah (Kampala/Nairobi), C'mon Tigre (NYC), Lenhart Tapes (Belgrade, Serbia), Azu Tiwaline (El Djerid, Tunisia), Brìghde Chaimbeul (Skye, Scotland), 

and other remote rhizomatic connections,

more songs for cease fire

dancing against the Death, wherever they don't want to hear you

… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 11.10.2023

 a conversation with BEN GOLDBERG,  local and legend clarinetist, featuring and digging into his over four decades of music. expanding jazz’s frontiers as an improviser, composer, collaborator and pioneer of the radical Jewish music movement. Exploring his productive COVID-era practice of exercises and self-recording, and expanding into remote-then-in-person duos and trios, building the canon of Porch Concert Material , looking towards a new quartet formation, next week at SF JAZZ.   

   ...then, in the second hour, digging into the politics and dark economics of the massive world-leaders and CEO trade-summit about to descend on San Francisco, we'll talk with  TERRY VALEN and JESS ROJAS of the 'INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS ALLIANCE' and the 'NO TO APEC COALITION', representing 150 organizations across the entire Pacific Rim. 

 plus new music from all over the Bay and well beyond, and beyond genre, plus tickets and big community love, as we move 'Frequency Uplift!' to  Friday mornings.

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 11.05.2023 !  > 10pm-12m Pacific

web of sound, linking past to future, 

breath to beat, some dangerous beauty

our last Sunday UPLIFT! together, come along henceforth for Friday mornings 10a - 1p 

new sonic sweetness  from old friends and old souls crating anew:                                                   

Orchestra Gold (Oakland), Altin Gün (Istanbul/Amsterdam),  Noname  (Chicago), Speakers Corner Quartet (London), Etienne de la Sayette / Tako Toki (Paris), Mokoomba / Morena Loreba (Zimbabwe / Lesotho),

more songs for a different future 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

radiobob meets dr.pablo ..
trading tunes inna terra incognita

… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

poet soledad con carne,…co-editor of Acid Verse, unofficial poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley, now co-repping La Misión, zine-maestrx, reading and in interview, and spinning

... their poet's playlist, …raising a ruckus and other new voicings from Asher Gamedze (South Africa), AroMa (Oakland), African Head Charge / King Ayisoba (UK/Ghana), Jazz Mafia (Oakland), Tony Allen /JID-crew (Lagos/London/LA. rise-in-power), and more music for our collective beauty, brilliance

… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

A special guest DJ set and chat with visual artist Charles Dabo, exploring the cross-fertilization of African musics and Western psychedelia / soul, digging into his Senegalese ye-ye movement roots.. and on into the future

...  with more transformative (notes), deep cuts, classic rewinds + more+more love …

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 10.29.2023 !

> 10pm-12m Pacific

songs for ancestors, and lullabies

penultimate Sunday UPLIFT!

new beauties, full moon light, everpresent ghosts from                                                  

Esotérica Tropical (Oakland/Borikén), Pausis (Thessaloniki),  Isaiah Collier  (Chicago), Rammy Essam (Cairo), Jawa (Aleppo),
 and persistent music from Adnan Joubran (Paris/Ramallah), Rim Banna (Nazareth), checkpoint 303 (Bethlehem/Tunis/Paris),

songs for a different future 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 10.15.2023 ! 

> 10pm-12m Pacific

lotus-pad earth. 

frog-croak and dripping  

some kind of noisy,

messy enlightenment, songs for peace from 

Ambrose Akinmusire (Oakland), Nihiloxica (Kampala / London),  Matana Roberts  (Chicago), Mary Lattimore (LA), Hania Rani (Warsaw), Abel Selacoe (Manchester/Johannesburg), Esperanza Spalding (Portland)  … hearing a deep breath

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 10.01.2023 ! 

> 10pm-12m Pacific

notes on edge of night

'Aareh flight and song-stories

blessings and confrontations from 

Ezequiel Borra (Argentina), Haïdouti Orkestar (Turkey / Paris), Okan (Cuba/Toronto), Newen Afrobeat / Dele Sosimi (Chile / Nigeria / UK), Jason Singh & the Banwasi Collective (Rajastan), ÌFÉ (NOLA ), Nana Benz du Togo (Togo), Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet )  … and more lunar frequencies just past full, 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 09.24.2023 ! 

> 10pm-12m Pacific

on the balance of the year

Wire-walking from 

Dobet Gnahore (Côte d’Ivoire / Paris),  Kimi Djabaté  (Guinea-Bissau / Lisbon), ONIPA (diasporic London), Titanic / Mabe Fratti y Hector Tosta (Guatemala/Mexíco DF), Gerald Cleaver (Motor City / BKN) Sessa (São Paolo), Leyla McCalla (NOLA / NYC), Karney (San Francisco)  … and breath and pause, in these longer nights

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 09.10.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

poet Darius Simpson

 … New Afrikan writer, educator, performer, revolutionary and skilled living room dancer based in Oakland, a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and the author of Never Catch Me, words dedicated to liberation 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 09.03.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

[for Kala] 
 time and notes, the present we rest in and that passes

marking the moment

 … with new frequencies/from around the latitudes/time-zones from Mali Obomsawin / Magdalena Abrego (Abenaki First Nation / NYC ),  Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan (Turkey/Israel), Danûk  (Syria / Kurdistan), Roxane Métayer (Belgium), L'Rain (Brooklyn), Bixiga 70 and Xis (both  Brazil), Humazapac (Kichwa nations, Ecuador), we have ... 

no time and all the time in the world,

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 08.27.2023 ! 

a near full green corn moon, fern moon. 

...voicings and new sustenance from Spellling (Oakland), Non Plus Temps (Oakland), Mari Kalkun (Estonia), Namian Sidibé (Mali), Lebeha Drummers (Belize), Anoushka Shankar (UK), song centering women's voices and ending dubwise

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 08.20.2023 !  

First harvests in, creating sound beauty in crop susurrance

More new succulence, amid the thorns and thistles from 

Beth Custer  / Will Bernard (San Francisco),  Badiâa Bouhrizi (Tunisia), Heretic (Kyoto),  Laliboi & Spoek Mathombo and Muzi (all South Africa), Alabaster DePlume and Kay Young (both sides of London), Lon Moshe & the Southern Freedom Arkestra (New Afrika, USA, coast to coast, and the legend past), and as creative pollinators, we’ll end dancing, and... 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 04.23.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

     … earth love and ancestor whispers. The oceanic

         incidental poetry, found in the silences between notes and in the necessary actions of those whose backs are to the wall, those hearing depth. In the words/music that only form after

       ...  new sound and action from Fatoumata Diawara (Côte d’Ivoire/Mali), Tinariwen (Saharan Mali), Salami Rose Joe Louis (San Francisco), Wadada Leo Smith (New Haven), Ekiti Sound+Aunty Rayzor (Lagos/London), and Zeke Nealy (Oakland, rise in power), and rediscovered deep  from Milford Graves

 [exhalations]… 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 04.16.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

fire-spirits, transformations: 

 ...  new music from María José Montijo (Borikén/Chochenyo-Ohlone-territory/ Oakland), Meshell NdegeOcello (Wiekagjoc-territory/Hudson River Valley), La Dame Blanche (Cuba/Paris ) , Choro Qom Chelaalapi (Toba-Qom territories / Argentina), Mourning [A] BLKstar (Lenape, Oneida, Ottawa, and Wyandot lands / Cleveland), Flock (UK), words for a People's Earth Day, for the rising

 spring sounds broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT!

SUN. 04.02.2023 !

 ...  experimental-guitarist  Ernesto Diaz-Infante   bringing his mantra transformations, accompanied by amplified flautist Marjorie Sturm.

 ...  and with more transcendent [notes], waxing gibbous into a pink [noise] moon, midnight beauty  … 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

SUN. 03.12.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

Tongo Eisen-Martin, SF poet laureate and our second Sunday's poet, reading work … and talking about the 2021 racist murder of his cousin AJ Stewart in St. Paul, MN., upcoming hearings and the pattern of injustices and increasing violence they represent. Ways and words forward.

 ...  and our poet's playlist, new music for justice and awakening,

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 02.12.2023 ! 

… our second Sunday poet, Nia McAllister, in interview and reading from her work, as artist, activist, amplifier 

 ...  a poet's playlist, new music from Debashish Bhattachrya  (India),  Faten Kanaan (Brooklyn/SWANA),  Koki Nakano (Japan), Bokani Dyer (South Africa) Dele Sosimi  (London / Nigeria), WITCH (Zambia) , y más

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 01.08.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

LIVE in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM; AND streaming everywhere/when @ KXSF.FM

… another second Sunday (on the 3rd) , honoring (and rewinding) last years’ poets:  

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, James Cagney, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Norman Zelaya, Flavia Elisa Mora, Fernando Martí,
       

 ...  some poetic playlist material, language jazz, jams for justice, words awakening and dancing with language, broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 01.01.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific

NEW YEAR's NIGHT !

… year’s end, new beginning.  cognitive and aural dissonance, purposed polyphony, 

 ...  rewinds and unplayed tracks from ’22 albums I loved (there is an already outdated list somewhere…)  plus new sonic celebrations, collaborations from:     Thandi Ntuli (Johannesburg), Seun Kuti / Black Thought (Lagos / Philadelphia), Valentina Magaletti / Fanny Chiarello (London), Ebo Krdum  (Stockholm/Sudan), João Selva (Rio de Janeiro / Lyon) y mas … moving forward, and…

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

SUN. 12.25.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific

… peace  

 broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

UPLIFT !

SUN. 12.18.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific

…  solstice darkening hours, some music for returning light still in depths of night   .   

 ...  sonic sweetness and dulces sueños from:    Abel Selacoe (South Africa),  Okra Playground (Finland), Esperanza Spalding (Portland), Super Parquet (Auvergne, FR), Erol Josué (Haiti), Chelsea Carmichael  (London),  ... y más, sin fronteras

 broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

UPLIFT !

SUN. 12.04.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific

… woman, life, freedom.  Sounds for people rising worldwide, sounds to inspire in the dark,

 ...  sonic solidarity from:    Mali Obomsawin  (Abenaki First Nation / Odanak),  Carlos Niño & friends (LA), BRAHJA (NYC), Lamin Fofana (Sierra Leone / NYC), Ashkabad (Avignon), Muriel Grossman (Vienna), Oscar Jerome  (London), KRMU (Nairobi/Berlin) ... y más

 broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone  territory.

女人生活自由

UPLIFT !

SUN. 11.27.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific

… this shining fall 

 ...   various newborn vibrations  from our singing earth:    Mabe Fratti  (Guatemala / reparation), A garota não / Cátia Mazari Oliveira (Portugal / manifesto), Jazz Mafia  (Oakland / home), Kahil El’Zabar/Ethnic Heritage Ensemble  (Chicago/utopia), Pilani Bubu  (South Africa / abundance), Wau Wau Collectif  (Senegal / joy), CoN & KwAkE (London / heritage.in.dub), Hanakiv / Alabaster DePlume  (Estonia/UK/fallen.borders) ... y más

broadcasting live from Yelamu, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

… honoring and gratitude songs, how we define ourselves in relation to the singing earth. how we weave ourselves together

...   new frequencies from all over the map:    La Perla  (Columbia), Solhu (Sápmi / indigenous Finland), Fatoumata Diawara  (Mali), The Joy  (South Africa), moktar (Egypt / Australia), SAULT(UK), ... and [re]new[all] from old and new masters of the West African griot tradition, Sona Jobarteh (Gambia), Toumani Diabaté (Mali), sounds to celebrate connection and challenge the colonizer (within/without),

broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT !

… second Sunday poet, James Cagney, in interview and reading from just-published second collection, ‘Martian: The Saint of Loneliness’, and more,

 ...  lyrical new music from Jamila Woods, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Sarathy Korwar , Rachika Nayar, Faten Kanaan y más, and a poet’s playlist from Ofra Haza to Mary Lou Williams, music for change and revelation,

 broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT !

SUN. 11.06.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

… spinning vibrations in many different planes

  ... twinned track newness from Grèn Sémé  (Réunion), Zène’T Panon (Réunion), Star Feminine Band  (Benin), T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo  (Benin), Soweto Kinch (UK), Tom Skinner (UK), The Brother Moves On (South Africa), Kamo Mphela (South Africa), music into the fourth dimension and from many worlds, topological sound turning into itself.

 broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 10.30.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

ancestor music, vibrations for those passed on and those who inspire, notes in liminal spaces between the dead and the living… silence and noise

some music to make some path in the dark
       

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 10.09.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

second Sunday and full moon poet,

                                      Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
       

  ... in conversation and reading from new book ‘La Movida’, 

poems of love and revolution and struggle, in motion

  …and some constantly evolving, sonic synchronicities from Imarhan (Algeria), Marjan Vahdat ( exiled Iran),  Maria Rita Stumpf  (Brazil), Antonis Antonio ( Cypress ), and the poet’s playlist, words and song for the people, 

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 09.25.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

It’s in our hands, all our work can be creative

 Songs to how we honor our creative work, our elders…
        

  ... hands of time, reassessing time and new time signatures from Free Form Funky Freqs (Philly/ the Third Galaxy ), Butcher Brown  (Virginia),  Lamin Fofana (NYC/Sierra Leone), Chino Corvalán ( Paraguay ), rediscovered live sets from Charles Mingus,  new cats and other jazz OG’s operating at the interstices of hiphop and techno in two eras [manifest time loops] , 

… and rise in sound Pharoah Sanders [dance the spirit]

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

impromptu and international, expatriate and extraterrrestrial

 saying a brief fare-well   ... with some multi- and sans-genre newness  from clipping. (Oakland/LA), Madé Kuti  (Nigeria),  Kokoroko (London), Brian Jackson/Two Soul Fusion (Portland/NYC),   Free the Robots (LA/Philipines), Baum Sea (Seoul),  imprecise aural ecstasies...

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT !

SUN. 07.31.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

first harvests and final stands  

  ... breaking first aural bread from Charlotte Adigéry/Bolis Popul (Belgium), Ramy Essam (Egypt),  Maga Bo (Brazil), Rebolu (Brooklyn/Columbia), Eliane Correa & La Evolución (Cuba),  Lyrics Born (Oakland), some Santigold, some singeli and certain synchronicities...

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

late night musings, mournings, ecstasies.  

     vibrational and harmonic revelations newly-wrought from Ceara Conway (Éire), Camilla George (UK/Nigeria),  Sonny Singh (Brooklyn /Punjab), Sushma Soma/Aditya Prakash (Singapore/Chennai/LA), Carlos Niño (LA), y canciones de amor sin palabras reales...

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT !

SUN. 07.10.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

 second Sunday poets,  Mission District voices... the song of the City, the stories of the People:

 Norman Antonio Zelaya, reading from his upcoming second book 'Gente, Folks',  out on Black Freighter , in discussion on holding our stories and throwing down some serious old skool poetic and sonic funk [in the first hour]

 Leticia Hernández-Linares, reading new work and poems from 'Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl ', and talk about the YBCA's  'Dream Seeds' exhibition, spinning resistance sounds and words past and future [in the second hour]

      ...  y más new sounds, classic ballads and poet's picks,        

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

¡UPLIFT

some flowers from the farside… [those rockets' red glare]

'creative improvised musics' and those adjacent forms, circling and facing outward.
      some back-to-the-wall newness and 'jazz'- adjacency / decolonization from Moor Mother  (Philly), Tanya Taqaq (Ikaluktutiak /Nunavut),  Mark de Clive-Loew (Japan /Aotearoa/LA), Tomaga (London), Dan Berkson (Oakland ),  y màs.

          … and a dive into new South African sounds (and a tribute), from IzangoMa, Thandi Ntuli, Linda Sikhakhane, Yugen Blakrok, 

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT !

JUNETEENTH !

SUN. 06.19.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

EMANCIPATION syncopation, exhultation…

  Reprising some unheard words, with Chief Adjuah on identity and naming, some new recorded poems from Tongo Eisen-Martin, incitation, celebration. 

… and  new sounds for liberation and beautiful sunny days from Irreversible Entanglements (Philly/ Brooklyn),  BKO (Mali), Muzi (South Africa), Juçara Marçal (São Paulo),  Nancy Mounir (Cairo), and Bill Ortiz (San Francisco) some missed intended musics but deep frequencies for remembering the past; forging a path forward. 

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UPLIFT !

SUN. 06.12.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

FLAVIA ELISA MORA,  poeta, muralista, interdisciplinary artivist and educator, our second Sunday and Pride month poet, in reading and discussion...

..  y más new sounds from Moor Mother/Melanie Charles (Philly/ Brooklyn), Muito Kabala/Lua Preita (Northern Europe / Angola / Poland), Chamir Bonano y el Hijo de Borikén (Puerto Rico/ Borikén),  Moonchild Sanelly (South Africa/Azania), Daniel Villareal (Chicago), Kokoroko (London),   ... and some Mission District soul, some old school and poet's choice. 

revolution comes from the heart. 

love is the practice, descolonizando el corazón

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

¡UPLIFT

SUN. 06.05.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

some summer flowers

..ephemeral new sounds from Sonido Gallo Negro (Mexico DF), Mitsune (Berlin/an idea of traditional Japan), Dendê Macêdo  (Brazil/ presenté),  A.B. Crentsil's Ahenfo Band (Ghana/ the voice of experience ), DoomCannon (London),  Saltpond City Band (Ghana /never enough highlife says uncle Ebo ), DoomCannon (London), Altin Gün (Istanbul/Amsterdam). . ... and Camellia Boutros (San Francisco), 

stretching out in the sonic meadow, 

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

¡UPLIFT!

SUN. 05.22.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

LIVE in SF @ 102.5 FM; always streaming @ KXSF.FM

word and sound. thinkers and their resonant chambers. vibrations to shake foundations

… [new and otherwise] from Angela Davis/Sameer Gupta (past/future/global.revolution), Lollise (Botswana/Brooklyn), Charlie Chaplin/HEADBOLT (the commons/Madison,WI), Douglas Kearney/Val Jeanty(Minneapolis/Brooklyn/Haiti, fury), Fred Moten/Brandon López/Gerald Cleaver (Detroit/NYC, the imagination), Gideon Nxumalo, for Early Mabuza  (South Africa, presenté),  African Head Charge (London), Sudan Archives (Cincinnati/LA) and mejiwahn (Oakland), YEARS (San Francisco) 

sound.making.power

noise.

perhaps art.

broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

¡UPLIFT! 

   SUN. 04.11.2021 > 10pm-12m.

   ..featuring this second Sunday’s poet, Oakland’s Ayodele Nzinga, 

the WordSlanger, author of ‘Sorrowland Oracle’, theatre artist and activist, reading and in conversation 

  … and some other new musical brilliance from Les Filles de Illighadad (Niger), Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble (Chicago), Sons of Kemet (UK), Afro Yaqui Music Collective (Pittsburg, PA.), and … 

¡ UPLIFT !

  … building and bridging. some news from a fossil-free future,

speaking with Maureen Katz, of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations, on the Minnesota Line 3 pipeline-resistance, and frontline-resisters’ words from Winona LaDuke, of  the Water Protectors’ Camps and HonorEarth.org,   standing up for Earth in the dead of winter 
            

     … and some new music from our common planet

#HonorTheTreaties  #StopLine3    

¡ UPLIFT !      

   SUN. 03.14.2021 > 10pm-12m.

  … loud unapologetic voices, us, m(us)ic. polyrhythms and poetics. rituals and revolution. …and an honoring set for Jewlia Eisenberg [rise in power]  

  … plus some new music from the S.W.A.N.A. world and from bass masters Daniel Casimir (UK) & Charnett Moffett (US), Dobet Gnahoré (Côte d’Ivoire), Kasai All-Stars (Dem.Rep. of the Congo),  Felukah (Cairo/Brooklyn), and a midnight ghazal for Nowruz.

¡ UPLIFT !

   … spring equinox, our brief sonic balance, our universal language. … some more sound and poetics for lengthening days and budding change

… plus some new music,  holding the dark and the light,  from Toumani Diabaté / LSO (Mali/UK),  Vijay Iyer / Linda Oh / Tyshawn Sorey (US), Throttle Elevator Music (SF+LA), Hiatus Kaiyote (Australia), Delgres (Guadaloupe / NOLA / Paris), José Carlos Schwarz & Cobiana Djazz (Guinea-Bissau) and a few impulsive spring choices 

¡UPLIFT !

    … sounds of making home and refuge,  sounds of us making our freedom

    … plus some brilliant new collaboration, some music from that special spot, from Omar Sosa (SF/Barcelona/Cuba), Pharaoh Sanders / Floating Points / LSO (SF/UK),  Witch Camp (Ghana), serpentwithfeet (Baltimore/Brooklyn/LA), Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés (Barcelona), Rhiannon Giddens / Francesco Turrisi (Éire/North Carolina/Italy), Caroline Chung / Citizen’s Jazz (Oakland), and elsewhere homeward bound
¡ UPLIFT !

     … sounds making for it all new,  resilience and resurrection, to our common humanity. 

     … plus some newly-arisen music from all over the map, from Angelique Kidjo / Yemi Alade (Benin/Nigeria), La Doña (SF), Reyna Tropical (Mexico/US), Gavsborg / Equiknoxx crew (Jamaica), Speaker Music (Alabama/NYC),  Jupiter & Okwess (DR Congo) y más  y otra, rad reissues from Ghana, Mauritius; the new dawn just over the horizon, in the western sky… 

¡ UPLIFT !

    …a show for memory and resistance, for those lives stolen and for too many names:  Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Roger Allen, Breonna Taylor, Steven Taylor, Luis Góngora Pat, Philando Castile, Elijah McCain,  Tony McDade, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Botham Jean, Tamir Rice, Willie McCoy, Ronell Foster, Tyrell Wilson, Laudemer Arboled, Angelo Quinto, Sean Monterrosa, Erik Salgado, Amilcar Perez-Lopez, Mario Woods, Jessica Williams, Alex Nieto, Oscar Grant, George Floyd… saying their names, honoring their memories

   … a recitation and new uplift sounds from iPhupho L'ka Biko (South Africa), Alsarah and the Nubatones (Sudan/NYC), Sunny Jain (NYC), , a tribute to Sonny Simmons, and perhaps some of what we missed last week:  Ya Tseen (Sheet’ka/Sitka, AK),  Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek do Rüstəm Quliyev (Turkey/Azerbaijan), Christine Salem (Réunion) and other communal … 

¡ UPLIFT !

SUN. 11.28.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

 …  some gratitude sounds. 

     …    new music from  Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O (South Africa), Susana Baca (Peru), Sofia Res (Argentina), Quantic & Nidia Góngora (UK/Colombia), Negro Leo  (Brazil) and beyond, to peace, to life, broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

¡ UPLIFT !

       …   & new music from across the Pacific and Oceania, and beyond, broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

¡ UPLIFT !

Friday , 8/20/2021, 10am - 12n 

hosting Malian psychedelic rock  (via Oakland)  band Orchestra Gold, Mariam Diakité and Erich Huffaker in the house !  plus more rad music from the Bay to the world !

…  in conversation and centering the new solo piano (and wide collaborations) of pianist, electronic musician and composer/improviser Craig Taborn
  …   & additional incidental autumn's experimentalism from Jally Kebba Susso (Guinea/UK), Asta Hiroki (UK),  The Brother Moves On  (South Africa)…  sounds for the waning light, bathed in a crescent moon.

¡ UPLIFT !

…  Glasgow /COP26 special, news from the frontlines of the global climate justice struggle. interviews with activists Matt Leonard (Oil and Gas Action Network-US) & Chris Saltmarsh (Labour for a Green New Deal-UK)

   …   & songs for the change from all over the globe and from Moor Mother (Philly), Tune-Yards (Oakland), Yoko Ono & Anonhi (NYC), all commissioned work on this critical moment, and other musics from Theon Cross (London),  Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange  (Australia), Lakou Mizik  (Haiti)…

¡ UPLIFT !

SUN. 10.24.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

 …  staying up through the storm, water songs and lullabyes, for rising seas, for our struggles

     …   & fresh rain-drenched songs from Namgar (Buryat-Mongolia), Saba Alizadeh (Iran), Chelsea Carmichael (UK), Helado Negro (Ecuador/Brooklyn),  Sonia Aimy  (Nigeria/Italy), Kahil El’Zabar  (Chicago), Alim Qasimov (Azerbaijan) 

… and for some peace, after the deluge.

¡ UPLIFT !

SUN. 10.17.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

 …  some music from la Misíon, then heading south and farther, with a call -in from Dos BandOLEros (Raúl Vargas and Alberto Gutiérrez), introducing their new/debut single ‘Malos Tiempos’. …rumba internacional para el pueblo

     …   & then some sweet taste and better times from Cimafunk (Cuba), Dos Santos (Chicago), Money Chica, y  Los Pirañhas ( both Colombia), Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble / Lua Preita  (Cologne/Angola/Poland, collabs and remixes elsewhere),  Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp  (Geneva), Remi Wolf  (LA) and rewinding ÌFÉ  (Puerto Rico/NOLA), more love songs than usual, because…

¡ UPLIFT !

plus Monk's 104th birthday
plus ...

¡ UPLIFT !

    SUN. 10.03.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

Some balance, sonic harvest, music unifying across polarities.

     …  brand new music, local and farflung, from Mónica María (Oakland),  with a chat introducing her new single “Córrele”, and from Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna (Chile), King Champion Sounds  (Amsterdam/Chicago), KOKOKO! (Kinshasa), Muzi (Durban), Daniel Casimir (London), and an abundance,

¡UPLIFT! 

   SUN. 07.11.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

Tongo Eisen-Martin and Josiah Luis Alderete  …in interview and reading from legend SF poet Q.R. Hand (rise in power), his last work  “Out of Nothing’,  words for change  

     …  and, premiering a new (US-debut) track 'Blind Spot' from Matters Unknown (UK), and short interview with Jonny Enser, rad releases from Orchestre Gold (Oakland/Mali), Yndi (Brasil/France), Bongeziwe Mabandla (South Africa), and some other new beauty missed last week from Yasser Tejeda (Dominican Republic),  Kamasi Washington (LA) y más ...

¡ UPLIFT !

   SUN. 07.04.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

Declaring liberties ! …in interview with Seth Eisen and Tina D’Elia,  creators/actors in OUT-of-SITE / HAIGHT, embodying hidden queer histories and radical legacies,  

     …  and, some new ecstasies from the Narcotix  (Brooklyn), Spellling (Oakland), Lido Pimienta (Colombia/Canada),  Pat Kalla et Le Super Mojo (France), Amethyst Kiah (Tennessee), Thiago Nassif/Cornelius (Brasil/Japan), and Theon Cross (UK)

…come spin with us

¡ UPLIFT !

   SUN. 06.27.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

Pride.  “it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken” (Audre Lorde)

     …  and new music breaking barriers, from Soltrón (SF),  Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek (Turkey/Germany), Guy One (Ghana), Weedie Braimah (St. Louis/NOLA/Ghana), L’Rain (Brooklyn),  Fatoumata Diawara (Mali), Cheikh Ibra Fam (Senegal),and SAULT (UK)

¡ UPLIFT !

   SUN. 06.13.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

poet Kim Shuck, in conversation and reading from her new collection  ‘Exile Heart’,  tracking our waters, mapping our diasporas and transits, to all our homeplaces… as SF poet laureate emerita, bead worker and weaver, activist and this second Sunday’s poet.  

     …  plus, new music from all over the map .  ¡ UPLIFT !

  SUN. 06.6.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

jazz pianist/composer VIJAY IYER, in conversation, on his new trio and music ‘Uneasy’,  on creating art and social change, on challenging the political and cultural moment.  

 …  plus, some props for the Mission’s FLOR y CANTO festival, some local jazz heads,  music from the beautiful contested future, and for Xochipilli .

   SUN. 05.23.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.

A LIVE NIGHT of UPLIFT!  

Debuting 2 new bands and brilliant new creative projects, in 2 very different styles. 
[... a post-recording-disaster sonic reconstruction, missing the underwriter spots and most back-announcing] 

    FROM THE UK, Jonny Enser (of Nubiyan Twist), in conversation and premiering new band MATTERS ! and debut track ‘A Beginning’     [segment starts @ 36min]

     But first, SF’s OWN Kyle Ranson live-in-studio,  with his new ‘seasoned weirdo’ band YEARS ! …fresh out of the studio !

¡UPLIFT!

   SUN. 05.16.2021 > 10pm-12m.

      Songs beyond borders, from the heart and from struggles from Palestine to Colombia to here in Yelamu, Ramaytush Ohlone territory 

         …  new releases from Sons of Kemet, Almas Fronterizas, Anbessa Orchestra, Amaro Freitas, AfriCali, Marquez, Angelo Moore & the Brand New Step  and music from the beautiful future.

¡ UPLIFT!

¡UPLIFT!