Frequency Uplift!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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 /...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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 belie...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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 Fen...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.21.2023 ! >a missed archive REWIND 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 Cl...

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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 b...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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),...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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/...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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)...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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 (Sout...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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 Sikhakhan...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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 (B...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 06.07.2024  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 Ade...

FREQUENCY 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 Franc...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 05.24.2024 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 Ramaytu...

FREQUENCY 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), [...

FREQUENCY 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, a...

FREQUENCY 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 ‘Thingi...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 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 d...

FREQUENCY 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 d...

FREQUENCY 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) ,...

FREQUENCY 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 Ja...

FREQUENCY 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 Franci...