#Janka Nabay And The Bubu Gang “Build Music”

[secretradiobrooklyn]

SECRET RADIO | 9.26.20

Secret Radio | 9.26.20 |  Hear it here.

“We don’t know where you are but we’re glad you’re here”

Liner notes by Evan, except * means Paige

1. Ayalew Mesfin - “Hasabe (My Worries)”

This track comes to us via Marc Hawthorne in San Francisco and is some hot Ethiopian stomp. Marc has been turning me on to crucial music for years, but I feel like both of our palates have expanded in unexpected directions lately. I love how foreign and how relatable this song sounds at once — “hasabe” really does sound like a guy singing about his worries, which makes it feel like he’s speaking the same language. 

2. Witch - “Introduction”

Such a commandingly hip voice announcing the band and getting us all in the groove. Witch is Zambian rock in a pretty unhinged style — apparently WITCH stands for “We Intend To Create Havoc,” which if true is basically the greatest band name ever. 

3. Erkin Koray - “Cemelim”

Every time I hear this track I think of Jefferson Airplane’s foreboding sense of dark anticipation. The added frills of shifting into Turkish bent-note vocals takes it up another level. This track is from 1974 but carries the whole psychedelic ‘60s wave forward in an unbroken wave. As we mentioned, the video is worth checking out not just because the singer/guitarist is mesmerizing or because the bassist is inherently hilarious but because their outfits are legendary. Our thanks to Brian and Mona for the heads up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-k_Fr67bPQ

4. The Velvet Underground - “Coney Island Steeplechase”

“Lies and betrayals / fruit-covered nails” — naw, just kiddin, this song happens long before Pavement, or the Strokes for that matter. I never really understood what people meant when they said that the Strokes sound like VU, but listening to this song in headphones it kinda feels like the Julian Casablancas built an entire career off Lou’s vocal delivery on this song. And who could blame him? Lou wasn’t usin it anymore.

Hailu Mergia - “Sintayehu”

We got this record during the pandemic and it has been like a stress dissolver. There’s a tape that we got in Manhattan Kansas at a house show we played, a band called Casino Gardens, that I think of every time we hear this album. Not the same in particulars, but very much the same in spirit.

5. Divino Niño - “Melty Caramelo”

One of Sleepy Kitty’s first tours was with Divino Niño (thanks, Brandon!) just as they were assembling, and they have always been a band of fellows we enjoy as much as the music that they write. I did this set of dates with a broken bone in my swole-up, purple right hand, which I wouldn’t recommend to any drummers out there. I will say though that every single drummer in the bar that night told me that they had broken the same exact bone the same way. Not by drumming but by punching an inanimate object. 

6. Moodoïd - “Je suis la montagne”

I think this song is a benefit of Paige learning French for the last couple of years. Found it on a 3.5 hour French mix on Spotify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCuthCn8zxs

7. Sleepy Kitty - “Dreaming of Waterfalls” demo *

There are like, 7 people who have heard this song until now. This song came pretty mysteriously to me after a completely transformative trip to Kauaʻi for the wedding of ace folks and dear friends Stewart and Trenton. People who have gone to Hawaiʻi have always told me how amazing Hawaiʻi is and how it’ll change your life and it’s the best place in the entire world, and I was always like, “ok, sure whatever” until we went and now I am forever changed. I won’t get too into it here, but it’s all totally true and as amazing as they say. I can’t remember if this song was literally in the dream I had in San Diego the night we returned to the contiguous 48, or if it somehow emerged out of thinking of that dream, but it basically just appeared and I thought about it and thought about it and kept it in my head the whole plane ride back to St. Louis and recorded it pretty much immediately when we got back. I played 2 songs at our friends’ wedding on uke (where I was relieved to get approval from the Hawaiian family, ha ha) and it’s still a very unfamiliar instrument to me but it was the only answer for this song.

This is also one of a few recordings I made shortly before the first of 2 vocal surgeries around that time. It was kind of a stressful time musically; I was still figuring out what was going on, knowing something was wrong, getting hoarse all the time but not knowing what was going on yet.  Learning the songs for the wedding, and this song and this recording are positive memories in what was a very uncertain period in Sleepy Kitty life. I can definitely remember the challenges and limitations of that time, but it’s great to have this beautiful little moment that came out of that time too. When I hear this now, I like it and I’m glad to have it. It transports me back to that magical place and I’m thankful to Stewart and Trenton for having us there to celebrate with them.

8. The Fall - “Arms Control Poseur” (Bonus Version) (whatever that means)

“What do you fear?”

“Being found out.”

“The why do you always give yourself away?”

After initially being repulsed by The Fall, I eventually had what felt like essentially a religious experience after falling asleep listening to them on repeat in the tour bus — somehow their perverse aesthetic had become grafted into my DNA. I became an avid proselytizer for the band, with few takers, for years. Eventually I kind of gave up, baffled both by how intensely I felt their music and how immune everyone else apparently was to it. 

Cut to years later in an apartment on North Ave in Chicago, watching Paige bike up the street towards the window where I stood. She apologized as she walked her bike up the stairs. Sorry I’m late, she said, I just got caught up in the Fall. I don’t know how to explain it. You don’t understand, The Fall is not like other bands.

I literally thought that she was teasing me, and that I must have talked her ear off about the band at some point. But NO — she’d had the exact sort of conversion experience as me. In her case it was to “Extricate,” which was one of my very favorite albums, being the second one I personally owned. 

Still, this record’s aesthetic is completely dominant in my life. I couldn’t even guess how many times I’ve listened to it, and it still fascinates me every time.

“I quite very very much enjoyed 

his jovial lies

lying”

9. T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - “Wodeka Kpoe”

The day I found this track I was completely distracted by it. It’s so muscular and lean and intense. I love everything about the almost metallic drum sound, the dry vocals, the guitar telling its own narrative, the sharp little shaker going the whole time. It’s the closest thing to punk in Beninese music that I’ve heard. I read recently that this was on a 1983 Albarika Records comp LP (the person referred to the as “legendary,” but I don’t know to whom, or when), and when I looked it up a lot of other tracks that we love from the Soundway comp were there. But as far as I know, it’s not on any of those 21st century collections. So good!

10. Orchestre Abass - “Haka Dunia”

The cover of this 6-song burner shows a guy with a guitar behind a keyboard called TIGER 61, with his foot up on… what? the keys bench? There’s a single pedal on the floor that leads up into the keyboard. The sounds that come from that board though! This is a tone I think of as completely desirable. I guess this is also punk, this one from Togo. I mean, I have no idea what he/they think they’re doing, but to me it feels like it has all the stuff that I love in punk music.

Hailu Mergia

11. T.P. Orchestre de Cotonou Benin - “Moulon Devia”

I just realized this track can be found elsewhere, but I found it on a record credited to T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Benin, with a great photo of Yehouessi Leopold and Zoundegnon Papillon Bernard on the cover looking like the coolest dudes in the world cos they are. There are some great stereo panning effects, no doubt done live, on the horns at the beginning and the keys solo in the middle, which really enriches the headphone experience. This keys solo uses a suite of sounds that I absolutely love from them — and which are apparently the work of Papillon himself! I knew he was the guitarist who builds sand castles in the air of T.P. songs, but I only just realized that he’s also the guy throwing down those supper trippy Farfisa sounds! Holy smokes, that’s just ridiculous. He and Yehouessi are probably my favorite rhythm combo ever. PLUS they’ve got Bentho Gustave on bass, whose T.P. album was the first one we bought abroad. I mean, this track is so epic.

12. Patrick Juvet - “Où sont les femmes”*

I have a new awesome French teacher, who sends me cabaret songs to check out and says things like “I’m an old queen! What am I to do!” He played this song over Zoom for some live hold music while I was printing something for a recent lesson. I’m excited to hopefully hear more French music from him and also to hear more of his stories of discotheques in the 80s.

Evan adds: The video is well worth your attention as well, especially if you like red sequins glinting disco diamonds beneath deeply feathered hair. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqc7mVZQNFo

13. Le Tigre - “Deceptacon”

This is one of the all-time top art school party songs as far as I know. And why the hell not? It’s pure Olympia, and all the hooks line up all the way down.

I video that someone made for school has essentially become the official video of the song because it’s totally awesome and fits like a pure expression of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SyBR-M2YvU

14. Themne Song Track 1  

I don’t know who performed this track or what it’s called — it’s just identified as “Themne Song Track 1,” Themne being the name of a tribe in Sierra Leone. I think it might be a “comedian story teller” called Miranda T Denkenneh, but can’t tell.

I’ve been into Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang for a couple of years now. Nabay is a Sierra Leonan musician who came to NYC and put together a band of hip NY musicians who make this rhythmically complex yet somehow austere dance music that I find totally fascinating. Reading up on them, he was described as translating the music he came from into a more electric style. Well, it turns out that is indeed the case, based on this track from Sierra Leone. This sounds like Janka Nabay but warm and large where his music is focused and tight. I totally see both how damn danceable this Themne 

One of my favorite things about discovering this song is: the notes on the YouTube track are exclusively from ex-pats loving music from home and the old days, calling out their tribe and checking in from wherever they are. One guy, Ibrahim Noah Koroma, writes from Senegal:

tears fall down in my eyes when I listing dis song missing u SL 🇸🇱🇸🇱💪💪💪 I'm proud of my tribe temne 💯💪💪💪

15. The Sugarcubes - “Regina”

The setup of this song is such an angular, proggy spiky comic thing, definitely cool in its own way, but man, when it hits the chorus, it’s absolutely the most gorgeous thing. The lyrics are truly bizarre, and they’re making me appreciate how this band impacted Bjork’s later work. One thing I don’t understand: does she pronounce “Regina” with a hard G because that’s how that word is pronounced in Icelandic? Or is that just something she does?

16. Gétatchèw Mèkurya - “Ambassèl”

The more we learn about Ethiopian jazz and popular music before and after their political strife, the more there is to learn. In fact, one thing I learned about Mèkurya is that he played with Dutch socialist punks The Ex, a band I have admired for a couple of decades now, though mostly because I’m stuck on their album “Scrabbling at the Lock.” They apparently toured together in the aughties… and all of a sudden I can hear how their very different sounds actually relate very aptly. Man. That’s enough to fall in love with music all over again.

Also, one fact that must be acknowledged: Gétatchèw is maybe the best first name ever.

17. Jacques Dutronc - “Et moi, et moi, et moi”

I just dropped these lyrics into Google translate and it turns out he’s got a very identifiable brand of humor — wry, confident, diffident. He always makes me think of Dylan with his delivery.

18. Meas Samon - “Jol Dondeung Kone Key (Going to Get Engaged)”

So much feel! Those key dives just to open the song, man, I don’t even know. And the vocals are spilling over with character — it’s like watching a movie unfold. This is Cambodian, from the late sixties or early seventies. Every time it gets to the keys solos I think about how much I want Dave Grelle to hear this track, like, right now. It’s between this and Abass for sickest keys distortion to be found.

19. T.P. Orchestre - “Senamin” *

What is up with this song? We came across it and kind of set it aside, and then it was just in my head all. the. time. At first I wasn’t sure about the 1996 movie version “I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You” style sax (my LEAST favorite song in Evita) But, even so this song is so...majestic! And mysterious! The haunting melodies dancing around together at the end really got me.  

20. Hallelujah Chicken Run Band - “Alikilula”

The constant interaction of 3s and 4s in Chicken Run songs never fails to delight me. The shapes of the songs are almost like Guided By Voices tracks — one good idea perfectly expressed, and then they’re outta there. 

21. Antoine Dougbé - “Nou Akuenon Hwlin Me Sin Koussio”

If I could pick one album for all of my friends to spin a few times in a row… that would not be easy. But lately, that record would be “Legends of Benin,” the totally headspinning comp put out by Analog Africa. Every track is a deep insight into what rock music can be. In the liner notes, Samy Ben Redjeb takes the listener on a whole record-buying expedition through the southern coast of west Africa, describing where he picked up particular LPs, falling into conversations with some of the musicians, and generally providing insights both romantic and invaluable. (His notes on Dougbé are worth the price of admission.) In one note he mentions talking to a friend about how Africa doesn’t seem to deal well in reggae, and he considers “Nou Akuenon” one of the best attempts on the continent. It hadn’t occurred to me to think of this as reggae… and I still don’t hear it that way. But I like thinking of the band reaching for reggae and making this instead. 

22. Francoise Hardy - “Les temps de l’amour”

23. Ros Sereysothea - Chnam oun Dop-Pram Muy “I’m 16”

I love how fully developed these Cambodian songs are. They’re not aping a particular song or building replicas of songs in English or French: they’re working in pop music just like anyone else. The arrangements are so tight and well structured, and everybody is adding in more than their share on their instruments. Though Ros’s voice steals the show, the backing vocals on this song are especially good as well.

24. Aerovons - “Say Georgia”

Man, one of the pleasures of living in St. Louis was learning the story of The Aerovons, a group of high school kids who got flown across the Atlantic to record at Abbey Road with all of the same gear and technicians who were busy putting together records for The Beatles… only to have the album go unreleased for decades. It’s truly a reminder to appreciate the experience itself and not just the results. These guys experienced the absolute pinnacle of the studio recording dream — there is none higher — but that’s it. None of the fame or the attendant glory, just the knowledge of what they’d been able to do together.

“Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974”

25. Ravi Shankar - Jazzmine - “Mishrank (Finale)”

The whole “Jazzmine” album is a mindblower, and it’s almost a shame to cut right to the finale of an album that builds its case song by song, illustrating the paths that Shankar’s raga and jazz take toward each other, from “Melodic Moods” to the amazing tabla solos of “Taalank” to “Deshank (Folk Patterns)” to crest with “Mishrank,” where Zep meets jazz club meets Somalian backroom in an Indian realm. Every solo brings a ton of new information about whose voices are adding to this total experience. And more than anything, it sounds like fun.

One thing I dig about this recording is that, as far as I can tell, more than one performance of this song is spliced together into this single track. That seems like a big no-no among jazz folks, but I really don’t mind it one bit — if anything, that helps me hear the song relative to more jarring experimental tape manipulation bands. 

[seanmorroww]

Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang - “Santa Monica”

Build Music [Luaka Bop, 2017]

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CHIRP Radio Playlist - 4/30/17

Aurra - "Patience" from A Little Love (Salsoul) 4 Reel - "Oh Lover" from "One Life To Live"/"Oh Lover" 7" (4 Reel Records) The New Birth - "What'll I Do" from The New Birth (RCA) Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang - "Stop Jealous" from Build Music (Luaka Bop) The Delfonics - "I'm Sorry" from La La Means I Love You (Philly Groove) JC Brooks - "Jungle" from Neon Jungle (Rock Ridge) Kendrick Lamar - "YAH." from DAMN. (Top Dawg Entertainment) Saba - "Church / Liquor Store" (feat. Noname) from Bucket List Project (self-released) Sneaks - "Look Like That" from It's A Myth (Merge) Joe Goddard - "Lasers" from Electric Lines (Greco-Roman/Domino) Klein & M.B.O. - "Dirty Talk (Instrumental)" from Dirty Talk 7" (Zanza Records) Syl Johnson - "Right On" from It's Because I'm Black (Twinight Records) Flying Lotus - "Electric Candyman" (feat. Thom Yorke) from Until The Quiet Comes (Warp) Kamasi Washington - "Truth" from Harmony of Difference EP (Young Turks) Nnamdi Ogbonnaya- "NOTICE" from Drool (Father Daughter) Neil "B" - "Body Rock" from Body Rock 12" (BC Records) Fugiya & Miyagi - "Serotonin Rushes" from Fugiya & Miyagi (Impossible Objects of Desire) Ravyn Lenae - "Last Breath" from Midnight Moonlight EP (Atlantic) Jimmy Whoo - "Interlude (Full Moon)" from Motel Music Part. ll (Grande Ville) Oumou Sanagré - "Fadjamouéé" from Mogoya (Nø Format!) Fany Havest & The Children Of The Ghetto - "That Day" from Funky Night (self-released) The Manhattans - "We Made It" from There's No More Me Without You (Columbia) The Majestic Arrows - "Love Is All I Need" from The Magic Of The Majestic Arrows (Bandit Records) LISTEN ON SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/user/126045511/playlist/1YQ7CWECxnDBdEaXzZzVOh

[wanywanymusic]

The End Of The Summer(October 03,2018)

Apple Music リンク https://itunes.apple.com/jp/playlist/wany-wany/pl.u-d2b0MWWFDMALar

1.Baiana (Wolf Mueller's Drum Drop) - Barbatuques

2.The Seed (Edit) - Tony Allen & Jeff Mills

3.Nuova Napoli - Nu Guinea

4.Slippery People (2005 Remastered) - Talking Heads

5.Pais do Futuro - Da Cruz

6.Roll (Burbank Funk) - The Internet

7.Property (feat. Mo-T) - Mr Eazi

8.1 Jook - Cassius

9.Professor 3 - Professor Rhythm

10.Vital "O Marginal" - Grupo Controle Digital

11.Bayanyonyoba - Senyaka

12.An ba jouk (Olivier Portal Playin' 4 The Beach Remix) - Edmony Krater

13.Wayawaya - Zoom

14.The Sweetest Dub - LORD ECHO

15.Imaja's Drum - Tunnelvisions

16.N.U.S.A.U. - Jungle Fire

17.Ojo Abameta - The Shaolin Afronauts

18.Now (feat. Dennis Young & Liquid Liquid) [Nico De Ceglia Remix] - Shield, Robytek & Sal P

19.Espiritu de Proteccion (Breaks Mix) - Nicola Cruz

20.Brooklyn Bounce (Extended Mix) - Mele

21.Moog Toujours - Digitaline

22.Build Music - Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang

23.Dense (feat. Shabaka Hutchings & Tommaso Cappellato) - DJ Khalab

24.Dub Like Chocolate - Hollie Cook

25.Rastamant Chant (Remastered Version) - Sugar Minott

26.Good Vibration (Dub) - SOOTHSSAYERS

27.Good Vibrations - THE BEACH BOYS

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WRFL Weekly Charts 4/24 - 4/30

CLAVVS - World Underwater

White Reaper - The World’s Best American Band

The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions

Tuxedo - Tuxedo II

Little Star - Little Star

Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock

Real Estate - In Mind

Scarves - Mall Goths

Sneaks - It’s a Myth

R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner - Make It Be

Dude York - Sincerely

The Orwells - Terrible Human Beings

Damaged Bug - Bunker Funk

Cold Beat - Chaos By Invitation

The Feelies - In Between

Vagabon - Infinite Worlds

Grandaddy - Last Place

Jay Som - Everybody Works

Juana Molina - Halo

Froth - Outside (briefly)

NE-HI - Offers

Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors

Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes

Sorority Noise - You’re Not As ____ As You Think

Thundercat - Drunk

The Matinee - Dancing On Your Grave

Crumbsnatchers - Big House

R. Ring - Ignite the Rest

Nana Grizol - Ursa Minor

Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang - Build Music

[ricardosousalemos]

Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang: Build Music

Janka Nabay’s path as a pop musician—first in his home country of Sierra Leone in the ’90s and then in the U.S. in the 21st century—has been circuitous to say the least. First discovered in Sierra Leone, he was a big star at home before a long civil war and its brutal aftermath forced him to come to the U.S. in 2003 as an émigré. And while his 2012 Luaka Bop debut, En Yay Sah, introduced Nabay’s “bubu”—a restless, churning percussive gallop—to fans of world music and eclectic indie alike, work on a follow-up bogged down after a few false starts. The album was abandoned in 2014.

Three years on, Nabay and cohorts including Skeletons’ Matt Mehlan, Syrian-born Boshra AlSaadi, and journalist/ethnomusicologist Wills Glasspiegel helped get Build Music built. At first blush, the formula for Nabay’s bubu seems to be largely unchanged. It originates from the Tenme regions in the north and west of war-ravaged Sierra Leone—a mesmerizing sound that was once the province of witches, and is now a part of the Ramadan holiday. Originally enacted on bamboo horns, bubu is now transcribed for synths. It’s a relentlessly joyous beat and at times it brings to mind the velocity of South African shangaan electro, though bubu feels more spry, as Nabay lets the rhythms rubber band between the drums, bass, and the call-and-response vocals of himself and AlSaadi.

On “Santa Monica,” Nabay reflects on a fraught incident he had out on tour, and sets it to itchy accompaniment. “Investigation, interrogation yay,” he enunciates, to which AlSaadi chirps back, “Ay/A-Cali-fornia San-ta Mo-nica,” letting the keyboards slowly arch across the song like a Pacific sunset. Nabay doesn’t go into detail about just what occurred. But with a history of Rodney King, O.J. Simpson, and the like, an encounter with the LAPD that involves interrogation doesn’t always end so well. It speaks to Nabay’s buoyancy and spirit that he defuses it just so until it’s a nonchalant—perhaps even celebratory—moment.

“Bubu Dub” bubbles like a case of cola, the Casio beats coming from one of the original Sierra Leonean “riddims” that Nabay had access to in the ’90s. So while the hiccuping, lo-fi presets percolate and give the song a vintage feel, the vocals are crisper and a keyboard whinnies with a sample of bubu horns, courtesy of Glasspiegel’s recordings made while traveling through the country in 2014. A curious blend of past, recent past, and the present, Nabay’s greatest theme remains unchanged: how bubu music makes you dance.

The album straddles a line between being thin and casual, at times pulling back the curtain on the finished product to show Nabay chatting, humming, and tapping out the building blocks of the songs to his bandmates. “Tek Lak la Gben ba Kun” finds Nabay just riffing along with a bass lick for two minutes. “Sabanoh” also eavesdrops on a session, with Nabay just chanting along with a droning synth line, before the fully formed version bursts into frame, wiggling with a cartoonish vivacity. But no matter the energy of the music around him, Nabay retains a languid calm in his delivery, the sound of a veteran in music across two continents and three decades just taking it as it comes.

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CHIPR Radio Playlist - 4/16/17

BJ The Chicago Kid - "Turnin' Me Up" from In My Mind (Motown) Soul II Soul - "Keep On Movin" (feat. Cameron Wheeler) from Club Classics Vol. One (Virgin) Tuxedo - "2nd Time Around" from Tuxedo II (Stones Throw) Sneaks - "Look Like That" from It's A Myth (Merge) Key Tronics Ensemble - "Calypso Of House" (Paradise Version) from House Of Calypso II Remix 12" (Irma CasaDiPrimordine) Ondatrópica - "Hummingbird" from Baile Bucanero (Soundway) Chicago Edge Ensemble - "Not Here You Don't" from Decaying Orbit (self-released) Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble featuring Vijay Ijer - "And The Light" from Transient Takes (self-released) The Notations - "I'm Still Here" from "I'm Still Here"/"I Can't Stop" 7" (Twinight Records) Donny Hathway - "A Sack Full of Dreams" from In Performance (Atlantic) Pearl Dowell - "It's All Over" from "It's All Over" / "Good Things" 7" (Saadia) Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang - "Build Music" from Build Music (Luaka Bop) The Octopus Project - "Understanding Fruit" from Memory Mirror (Robot High School) Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - "sHOULD have kNOwN" from Drool (Father Daughter) D'Angelo - "I Found My Smile Again" from Space Jam: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture (Warner Sunset/Atlantic) Ravyn Lenae - "Spice" from Midnight Moonlight EP (Atlantic) ANOHNI - "Paradise" from Paradise EP (Secretly Canadian) Your Old Droog - "Bangladesh" (feat. Heems) from PACKS (Fat Beats Records) Slugbed - "Gold" (feat. Hairy Hands & Peter Lyon) from Inherit The Earth (Anticon.) Mr. Mitch - "VPN" (feat. Palmistry) from Devout (Planet Mu) Dave Depper - "Do You Want Love?" from Emotional Freedom Technique (Tender Loving Empire) LISTEN ON SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/user/126045511/playlist/38btcoS8bUA1TwVtXbnS8V

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don’t turn away, episode 022 on 107.1 fm chirp radio

listen on spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/126045511/playlist/4u33zzrGUGmrm5th1dvUgO?si=kT8aTKHkTnaRmAb1kz_h_g

01. Dr. Togo - “Be Free” from Be Free (Derby) 02. Pandella Kelly - “Stand In For Love” from Stand In For Love / Loves Needed (Horoscope) 03. Janka Nabay and The Bubu Gang - “Build Music” from Build Music (Luaka Bop) 04. Makeness - “Stepping Out of Synch” from Loud Patterns (Secretly Canadian) 05. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Hunnybee” from Sex & Food (Jagjaguwar) 06. Dove Rock - “Spirits” from A Pretty Way of Saying Ugly Things (Galapagos4) 07. Corcoran Holt - “No Two People” from The Mecca (Holthouse Music) 08. Brandon Markell Holmes - “Adore” from The Didactic (self-released) 09. Doug Hream Blunt - “Gentle Persuasion” from My Name Is (Luaka Bop) 10. PRhyme - “Made Man” (feat. BIG K.R.I.T. & Denaun) from PRhyme 2 (PRhyme) 11. Cavern of Anti-Matter - “Phase Modulation Shuffle” from Hormone Lemonade (Duophonic) 12. The Majestic Arrows - “I'll Never Cry For Another Boy” from The Magic Of The Majestic Arrows (Bandit) 13. Aaron Childs - “Good 2 U” from My Way (self-released) 14. Salah Ragab And The Cairo Jazz Band - “Neveen” from Egyptian Jazz (Art Yard) 15. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - “African Dreams” from Black Times (Strut) 16. The Pendletons - “Telling Lies” from Funk Forever (Bastard Jazz) 17. Agnes Obel - “Poem About Death” from Late Night Tales (Late Night Tales) 18. DJ Taye - “Closer” from Still Trippin' (Hyperdub) 19. Will Long - “We Tend To Forget” from Long Trax 2 (Smalltown Supersound) 20. Ben Lamar Gay - “Oh no... not again!” from Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun (International Anthem) 21. Brett Naucke - “Youth Organ” from The Mansion (Spectrum Spools) 22. Richard Terry & Company - “Instrumental # One” from I've Got To Find A Way / Instrumental # One (Nickel) 23. Cecil Taylor - “”Port of Call” from This Nearly Was Mine (Move)