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Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _ FRI. 05.31.2024, privilege of peace and music, and of drawing breathFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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!!2024-06-012h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _Fri. 05.24.2024_ CARNAVAL celebrationsFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 05.24.2024Celebrating 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!2024-05-252h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _FRI. 05.17.2024...dancing in these longer days, darkness despite light, destroying time/silenceFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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!2024-05-202h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT!_FRI. 05.10.2024, spring songs, …ft. QWANQWA (Addis Ababa), ARTHUR PYE (Emergency Committee for Rojava)FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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 weekSome new sunshine song and resistance rhythm from Teja Gerken (San Franc...2024-05-112h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT!_FRI. 05.03.2024 …poet Tonya M. Foster + LIVE in studio, Neblinas del PacíficoFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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 Col...2024-05-052h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT!_FRI. 04.26.2024 … may-eve songs for the change, the turning overFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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!2024-04-282h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT!, FRI. 04.19.2024_Earthday lullabies and lunar bloomsFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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!2024-04-192h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _FRI. 04.12.2024, survival sounds, + a poem for Gaza, from Beverly DahlenFREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 04.12.2024 … a poem for Gaza, as all there is to be said, from this month’s poet Beverly DahlenCries 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 R...2024-04-172h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _Fri. 03.29.2024_Lalin St. Juste & the 7000 COILS collective, Rohan Krishnamurthy & the ALAYA PROJECTFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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 territor...2024-03-302h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! Fri. 03.15.2024_ Opïum Sábbáh, in the house, for the freedom of Leonard PeltierFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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 takePlus news of victory and a land back celebrationAnd 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), Ka...2024-03-202h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! FRI. 03.08.2024_ meander frequencies for winter's waning, a derivé ...FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 03.08.2024 … some sonic movements for winter's waningrain-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!2024-03-202h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! Fri. 03.01.2024_ visionary sax-player CAROLINE DAVIS, abolitionist jazzFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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 unced...2024-03-032h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! FRI. 02.23.2024 _ MALI OBOMSAWIN, interview & featureFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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 us...2024-02-262h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _ FRI. 02.16.2024 … ‘MISSION LOVE’, all COMMUNITY!FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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 peoplePLUS 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), P...2024-02-202h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _FRI. 02.09.2024 …new moon musicFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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!2024-02-132h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! FRI. 02.02.2024_ A YEAR OF POETS + sax-poet, Howard Wiley, interviewedFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 02.02.2024Bay 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...2024-02-042h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! FRI. 1.19.2024 again. music for the future, against the machineries of death.FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 01.19.2024again. 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!2024-01-252h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! FRI. 01.12.2024_still we sing... remembering the radical, King.FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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!2024-01-162h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! Fri. 12.29.2023_turn of the year best-of's, w/ the intergenerational soundclashFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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!2024-01-022h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! Fri. 12.22.2023_ the turn of the light in midwinter, into soundFREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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 Moth...2024-01-022h 56
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! Fri. 12.01.2023_ poet ANTHONY CODY, + arts against amnesiaFREQUENCY UPLIFT!FRI. 12.01.202310am-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 thi...2024-01-022h 45
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! Fri. 11.17.2023 ! we are a forest, singing to each other undergroundFREQUENCY UPLIFT !Fri. 11.17.2023 ! > 10am-1pm Pacificwe are a forest, singing to each other undergroundroots 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 firedancing against the Death, wherever they don't want to hear you2023-11-182h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! ... now on a Friday, 11.10.2023! with Ben Goldberg & 'No2APEC' activists!FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 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...2023-11-132h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.05.2023 ! ... the final SundayFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 11.05.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificweb of sound, linking past to future, breath to beat, some dangerous beautyour 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 …...2023-11-091h 56
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift!_Sun. 06.04.2023!_radiobob meets dr. pabloFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 06.04.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificradiobob meets dr.pablo ..trading tunes inna terra incognita… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.2023-11-092h 04
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.07.2023 ! _ poet soledad con carneFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 05.07.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificpoet 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.2023-11-091h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 03.26.2023 ! _special guest DJ Charles Dabo !FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 03.26.2023 ! > 10pm-12m PacificA 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.2023-11-092h 00
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.29.2023 ! songs for ancestors, and lullabies, on this penultimate SundayFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.29.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificsongs for ancestors, and lullabiespenultimate 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 !2023-10-311h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.15.2023 ! lotus-pad earth, songs for peaceFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.15.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificlotus-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 !2023-10-241h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.01.2023 ! notes on edge of nightFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.01.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificnotes on edge of night'Aareh flight and song-storiesblessings 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 !2023-10-051h 56
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 09.24.2023 ! _ on the balance of the yearFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 09.24.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific on the balance of the yearWire-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 !2023-10-011h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 09.10.2023 ! second Sunday poet Darius SimpsonFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 09.10.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificpoet 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.2023-09-131h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 09.03.2023 [for Kala], time and notesFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 09.03.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific [for Kala] time and notes, the present we rest in and that passesmarking 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.2023-09-051h 52
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 08.27.2023 ! greencorn moon, fern moon.FREQUENCY UPLIFT !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 !2023-08-301h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 08.20.2023 ! First harvests of a new cycleFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 08.20.2023 ! First harvests in, creating sound beauty in crop susurranceMore 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 !2023-08-301h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! SUN.04.23.2023! earth love, ancestor whispers...the oceanicFREQUENCY 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 red...2023-04-261h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 04.16.2023 ! fire-spirits, transformationsFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 04.16.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificfire-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!2023-04-181h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 04.02.2023 ! ... experimental-guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante LIVE!FREQUENCY 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 territory2023-04-052h 01
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! 03.12.2023 ! Tongo Eisen-Martin, SF poet laureate. Rise in power,AJ StewartFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 03.12.2023 ! > 10pm-12m PacificTongo 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.2023-04-051h 49
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! 02.12.2023 ! … our second Sunday poet, Nia McAllisterFREQUENCY UPLIFT !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.2023-04-051h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! 01.15.2023 ! …second/third Sunday: honoring 2022’s poetsFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 01.08.2023 ! > 10pm-12m PacificLIVE 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.2023-04-051h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.01.2023 ! … a year’s end, new beginning.FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 01.01.2023 ! > 10pm-12m PacificNEW 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.2023-01-051h 55
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 12.25.2022 … peaceFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 12.25.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific… peace broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territoryUPLIFT !2022-12-271h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 12.18.2022… solstice darkening hour. sonic dulces sueñosFREQUENCY 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 territoryUPLIFT !2022-12-201h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 12.04.2022 … woman, life, freedomFREQUENCY 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.ژن، ژیان، ئازادی女人生活自由UPLIFT !2022-12-111h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.27.2022 … this shining fallFREQUENCY 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 másbroadcasting live from Yelamu, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !2022-12-011h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.20.2022 … honoring and gratitude songs to the singing earthFREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.20.2022 … 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 !2022-11-241h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! 11.13.2022. 2nd Sunday poet James CagneyFREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.13.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.… 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 !2022-11-241h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.06.2022 > … topological sound turning into itself.FREQUENCY 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 !2022-11-241h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.30.2022 > ancestor musicFREQUENCY 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 noisesome music to make some path in the dark broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !2022-11-061h 45
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! 10.09.2022. 2nd Sunday poet Tatiana Luboviski-AcostaFREQUENCY 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 !2022-10-311h 59
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! Sun.09.25.2022_Pharoah's handsFREQUENCY 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...2022-10-311h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 08.07.2022. imprecise aural ecstasies.FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 08.07.2022, 10pm - 12m PSTimpromptu 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 !2022-08-171h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 07.31.2022 . first harvests and final stands ...FREQUENCY 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 !2022-08-021h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 07.17.2022. late night musings, mournings, ecstasies.FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 07.17.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.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 !2022-07-231h 55
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 07.10.2022. 2nd Sunday poets, Mission District voices...FREQUENCY 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 fut...2022-07-141h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 07.03.2022. flowers from the farside… [those rockets' red glare]FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 07.03.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.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 !2022-07-142h 00
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! JUNETEENTH ! SUN. 06.19.2022. an EMANCIPATION syncopation.FREQUENCY 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. broadc...2022-06-221h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT !, SUN. 06.12.2022. FLAVIA ELISA MORA, poetFREQUENCY 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. ...2022-06-211h 59
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! 06.05.2022. sonic summer meadowFREQUENCY 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!2022-06-211h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.22.2022_word and sound. noise. perhaps art.FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 05.22.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific.LIVE in SF @ 102.5 FM; always streaming @ KXSF.FMword 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 Franci...2022-05-312h 01
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 04.11.2021, with poet Ayodele NzingaFREQUENCY 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 !2022-04-022h 00
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! 2021.02.28_Stop Line 3FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 02.28.2021 > 10pm-12m. … 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 ! 2022-04-021h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! 03.14.2021. an honoring set for Jewlia Eisenberg [rise in power]FREQUENCY 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 !2022-04-022h 01
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 03.21.2021 _ spring equinoxFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 03.21.2021 > 10pm-12m. … 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 !2022-04-021h 58
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! SUN. 03.28.2021_sounds making home, of refuge and freedomFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 03.28.2021 > 10pm-12m. … 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 !2022-04-021h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! SUN. 04.4.2021 _ easter [up] risingsFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 04.4.2021 > 10pm-12m. … 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 !2022-04-021h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 04.18.2021 say.the.namesFREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 04.18.2021 …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...2022-04-021h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.28.2021 … some gratitude sounds.FREQUENCY 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 !2021-12-031h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.14.2021 … second Sunday’s poet Fuifuilupe NiumeitoluFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 11.14.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific. … second Sunday’s poet Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Tongan scholar, storyteller and community activist … & new music from across the Pacific and Oceania, and beyond, broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory¡ UPLIFT !2021-11-241h 58
Frequency Uplift!WoTP-REWIND, Fri.08.20.2021, w/Oakland's Orchestra GoldWest of Twin Peaks Radio [radiobob subbing in]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 !2021-11-172h 01
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.07.2021 … Craig Taborn, in the houseFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 11.07.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific … 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 !2021-11-161h 57
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! SUN. 10.31.2021 …Glasgow/COP26 special, sound from the frontlines.FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.31.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific.… 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 !2021-11-101h 55
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.24.2021_ storm musicFREQUENCY 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 !2021-10-271h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.17.2021 _Dos BandOLEros drop-in; rumba internacional [...& love-songs]FREQUENCY 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 us...2021-10-201h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.10.2021. poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, reading from "Blood On The Fog" . Plus Monk, plus...FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.10.2021 > 10pm-12m Pacific. SF's poet-laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, in interview and reading from his new book, "Blood On The Fog" . … our second-Sunday's poet, and a poet's playlist and brand new music, from the stanzas of the people's imagination, the musical language of liberation. From the future now.plus Monk's 104th birthdayplus ...¡ UPLIFT !2021-10-151h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.03.2021 > a fall sonic harvest, & Mónica María visitsFREQUENCY 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! 2021-10-071h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 07.11.2021_a reading for Q.R. HandFREQUENCY 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 !2021-07-152h 00
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! 07.04.2021_declaring liberties, with Out-of-Site_HaightFREQUENCY 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 !2021-07-071h 59
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! 06.27.2021. _Pride.sundayFREQUENCY 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 !2021-07-011h 59
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift!)06.13.2021_poet Kim Shuck readingFREQUENCY 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 !2021-06-191h 53
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT! SUN. 06.6.2021. VIJAY IYER, in conversation, + FLOR y CANTOFREQUENCY 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 .2021-06-111h 54
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.23.2021 ! A LIVE NIGHT of 2 band UPLIFT!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! 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!2021-05-291h 21
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.16.2021. Songs beyond bordersFREQUENCY 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!2021-05-231h 59
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! Sun.05.09.2021 hosts poet Josiah Luis AldereteFrequency Uplift! Sun.05.09.2021Second Sundays poets ... hosts Josiah Luis Alderete, a full blooded Pocho Spanglish-speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama's Mexican restaurant. First performing his poetry in San Francisco's Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar, he was one of the founding members of San Francisco's outspoken word troupe, The Molotov Mouths. A fellow radio insurgente, he also hosts/curates the monthly Latinx reading series 'Speaking Axolotl' at Nomadic Press, Oakland. Josiah's first book of poems, 'Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos', is just out from Black F...2021-05-121h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.02.2021 ... MayDay sounds from the streets, voices from earthFREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.02.2021 > 10pm-12m. ... some voices and some sounds from the streets, from the workers' MayDay, from the earth's Beltane, from the green and red and the black, the sound of uprising, of uplift, of a great turning ... … uproar from Ami Yèrèwolo (Mali), Falle Nioke (Guinea), SarahYsha, (Brazil / La Réunion), Little Simz (UK), and notes from nowhere ¡ UPLIFT !2021-05-121h 59
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 04.25.2021 _ earthday.nightFREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 04.25.2021 > 10pm-12m. Spring sounds and love for our only home, the earth. In song and night's celebration … new uplift sounds from Dandana collective (Gambia / Senegal), Samba Touré (Mali), Khalab & M'berra Ensemble (Mali / Mauritania / Italy), Duo Perse-Inca (Peru / Iran), Anthony Joseph (UK), Ayuune Sule (Ghana), some love for Shock G and Prince (rise.in.power), and other sounds all over the the borderless musical map … ¡ UPLIFT !2021-05-011h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.24.2021 ...some pollenFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 01.24.2021 > 10pm-12m. … winter sounds and spring visions. pollen from all four corners. dancing towards the new day. ¡ UPLIFT ! 2021-01-282h 01
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.10.2021 …a new year, second Sunday poetics and love. honoring Q.R. Hand, Jr.FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 01.10.2021 > 10pm-12m. …a new year, love to our losses and props for our resilience. some second Sunday poetics and love. honoring the words and life of Q.R. Hand, Jr. ... word sound and fire. and an honoring of a 10th anniversary of community radio, with some new music from Indonesia to the Bay, some old music to remind us.¡ UPLIFT ! 2021-01-161h 58
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.03.2021. … counting down the LAST 25 of our ‘KXSF top 102.5 songs of 2020'.FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 01.03.2021 > 10pm-12m. … counting down the top 25 of our ‘KXSF top 102.5 songs of 2020'. [ … is it a tradition after our second year?]… join our collective crew, radiobob, Gage, Bob N and Scarlett in shouting out our favorite songs, as chosen by collective acclaim and the sacred super-secret station ballot, your soundtrack for this dumpster fire of a year …and check out ALL the great music made ! ….a new year’s beginning, burning down the old and turning it up to 11¡ UPLIFT !2021-01-102h 01
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.15.2020, with Scott Parkin of DiRT. a clarion Call for vote protectors and anti-fascists.FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.15.2020 > 10pm-12m. … another. Celebration of sound. and perhaps. a clarion Call for vote protectors and anti-fascists. some talk with Scott Parkin of Diablo Rising Tide/green-and-red podcast, on action and steps forward and deplatforming hate. new music and. Manifestos of musical freedom from Gaye Su Akyol (Turkey), Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos (Venezuela. / UK), Star Feminine Band (Benin), Frente Cumbiero (Colombia), Kahil El’Zabar (Chicago) and more from near and far and free …¡ UPLIFT !2020-11-202h 01
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.08.2020 … people power !FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 11.08.2020 > 10pm-12m. … people power ! ... a celebration of all those who worked to make our imperfect democracy stronger in this election, props for all those who did all that registration and hard door-to-door, person-to-person work on this election. And who protected the vote. and for this moment of breathing and first rainand more new music from all over the globe and here at home. ¡ UPLIFT ! 2020-11-202h 01
Frequency Uplift!frequency uplift! día de los muertos eve, w/ María José MontijoFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 11.01.2020 > 10pm-12m. … día de los muertos eve, music for resistance and healing! hearing the ancestors' voices and hosting María José Montijo and her new music for liberation ‘Huracán’, and upcoming 'Esotérica Tropical, plus some ancestors' sounds, first and last words from Diane DiPrima, some soundwaves from the free future¡ UPLIFT ! 2020-11-142h 01
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.25.2020 … fall colors, change in the air !FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.25.2020 > 10pm-12m. … fall colors, change in the air ! renewal music, amid the loss, hope and more new panglobal sounds from the USA and the Bay Area, South Africa, Brazil, Pakistan, Romania, Kosovo, the UK, collaborations across Latin America and all those stateless and borderless places of our imagination . ¡ UPLIFT ! 2020-11-082h 00
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.18.2020, flowers from afarFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.18.2020 > 10pm-12m. … bringing flowers and sounds from afar ! new music from SPAZA (South Africa), Afel Bocoum (Mali), Bosq y su Descarga Internacional (Colombia), Maalem Mahmoud Gania (Morocco), and more. ¡ UPLIFT ! 2020-10-251h 56
Frequency Uplift!FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.11.2020 … a generational soundclash, a farewell, hangin’ with DJ [the] bastard chylde, AidanFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.11.2020 > 10pm-12m. … a generational soundclash, a farewell ! … hangin’ with DJ [the] bastard chylde, Aidan. In the house and out the door. … and bringing the usual newness and some banned music, and the funk, from all across genres and artificial borders, towards a green and pleasant land …. ¡ UPLIFT !2020-10-192h 00
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift ! _2020.10.04_ÌFÉ & Cienfue in the houseFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.04.2020 > 10pm-12m. … hosts Otura Mun, of grupo puertorriqueño ÌFÉ, debuting new live music-sets, from quarantine, and talking their mix of Yoruban praise-song, rumba and electronics forging into the decolonialized future, …and in the second hour, talking oceanic tracks and the revelatory ‘psicodelia tropical’ of Panama’s CIENFUE! … and other newness and music from all over our shared and expansive maps, this night, from Uganda to Brazil, Ecuador to Colombia and Cabo Verde, and for the beautiful free future …. ¡ UPLIFT !2020-10-082h 01
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! 09.20.2020_stop.evictionsFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 09.20.2020 > 10pm-12m. Home is where the music begins, from our neighborhoods and from across oceans. What does home sound like to you? ‘Stop Evictions, Save Lives!’ coalition and Don Misumi of ‘Richmond District Rising’ joins us to talk about the resumption of evictions, AB 3088, the selling-out of the COVID-vulnerable to banks and big landlords, and communities resisting the displacement wave coming this Fall and Winter … and new music from Free Radicals (Houston), Soojin Suh (South Korea), Rhiannon Giddens (North Carolina / Eire), Soul Inscribed (NYC), Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange (Australia), SAULT (UK), holding...2020-09-211h 58
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! 09.13.2020_smoke-clearing soundsFREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 09.13.2020 > 10pm-12m. Smoke clearing sounds, sonic mutual aid. Mourning and new day, a tribute to Toots, and new music from Azu Tiwaline (Tunisia), Muzi and Madala Kunene (South Africa), Konte Family (Zimbabwe), Negro Leo (Brazil), Uncivilized / Jaimie Branch and Miguel Frasconi / Wendy Tremont King (NYC), some strange lullabies for strange times …. ¡ UPLIFT !2020-09-162h 01
Frequency Uplift!Frequency Uplift! _for LaborSongs for labor , frequencies from an embodied International . ... interview and call-to-action with Ted Waechter of Unite Here Local 2. rank and file anthems, and new music from Thiago Nassif (Brazil), Zara McFarlane (UK), Oumou Sangaré(Mali), David Rovics (Portland), Vladislav Delay/ Sly & Robbie (Finland/Jamaica), Samora Pinderhughes (Berkeley/NYC), Cosa Nostra Strings(San Francisco), y mas …. ¡ UPLIFT !2020-09-082h 00