Frequency Uplift!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 03.08.2024     … some sonic movements for winter's waning rain-walk notes and new meander frequencies from Meklit Hadero (San Francisco), Ausecuma Beats (Melbourne/Bamako/Dakar),  Mohammad Syfkhan (Éire/Kurdistan) Reyna Tropical (LA/DF), Bolis Pupul (Belgium/Hong Kong), Leyla McCalla (NOLA/Haiti), Amaro Frietas (Brazil), & more,  a derivé ...   …  broad...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 03.01.2024  … featuring CAROLINE DAVIS,  exploring her new abolitionist jazz,  'Alula: Captivity', digging into ideas of art and thought and change, sonic offerings to morph our present situation, appearing @ SF Jazz,  Friday 3/8  all new emancipation sounds and first Friday poetics for freedom:      Omar Sosa / Tiganá Santana (Cuba/USA/Brazil), The Soil /...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 02.23.2024    … featuring MALI OBOMSAWIN , in conversation,and digging into their broad and deep music. Composer, bassist, songwriter, from the Abenaki First Nation at Odanak, Obomsawin merges indie rock, American roots and jazz traditions. In their interweaving of free jazz and traditional music, their music inherits and expands a historical musical dialog...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 02.16.2024  … two kinds of  ‘MISSION LOVE’,  all COMMUNITY!       Ray Balberan and the legacy of Mission Media-arts, in the house, screening crucial histories Sunday         Julie Rulyak Steinberg , of SF Community Music, reopening the Mission Center, bringing music to the people PLUS  brand new international frequencies of joy:      Little Simz (Islington,...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 02.09.2024   …new moon music,             How we go on… new sonic sustenance:     Eki Shola  (Sonoma), SUPERGOOD4UTHING (Oakland), Ustad Noor Baksh &  Jaffar Hussain Randhara (both Pakistan), groundsound / Gavsborg and Riddim Writer  (Jamaica), Ibibio Sound Machine (Nigeria/UK),  Franck Biyong (Cameroon), Bosq & Kaleta (Colombia & Paris), Newen...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 02.02.2024 Bay Area jazz mainstay and poet of the sax, Howard Wiley , in interview, in the second hour, premiering his wide-ranging new music, two distinct upcoming SF Jazz residencies and the state of [local] jazz  PLUS… poetry day finally come ! Celebrating all the amazing poets who came through Frequency Uplift! in 2023 (one poem each, if I can manage th...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 01.19.2024 again. music for the future, against the machineries of death. beauty, despite. some brand new music from Moor Mother, Nia Archives, Ruth Goller, Mary Halvorson, Delasi, The Realm/Kaedi Tatham, and some bornday love   …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory. UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 01.12.2024   … day late, a dollah short. poetry gon (maybe) have to wait. still we sing. some sweetness and 2024 newness from New Sector Movements, Helado Negro, LeFtO Early Bird, Actress, Cocaibica / Chancha Via Circuito, Vijay Iyer/Linda May Han Oh/Tyshawn Sorey, Nathalie Joachim, Ghost-Note… and remembering the radical King, ... and all the voices  that...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 12.29.2023   … the turn of the year  Selections from late night 'radiobob's  best-of'... 20.23, 10+3, things i kept replaying x 3.  The progeny back from the UK bringing rad new sounds, guest-DJ Aidan aka DJ the bastard chylde, throws down in our traditional seasonal intergenerational soundclash…     [ more Anglophile anti-colonial hiphop moments, some of t...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 12.22.2023   … the turn of the light in midwinter,  translated into sound, language. make darkness seed of sun,  in crisis,  both danger and opportunity ..a visit with Rami of the Palestinian Youth Movement, talking the poetry of the streets, the Bay Bridge actions and what you can do.  More resilient brightness in these dark times, NEW LIGHT from  Azu Tiwa...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! FRI. 12.01.2023 10am-1pm PACIFIC   first Friday's poet ANTHONY CODY , in the house, reading from his works 'The Rendering'  and 'Borderland Apocrypha' and talking on the deep history and his lineage in the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl... exploring the erasures of the histories of anti-Mexican violence in our borderlands, and confronting the ongoing erasures in our current cl...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! Fri. 11.17.2023 !  > 10am-1pm Pacific we are a forest, singing to each other underground roots and world wetness, rain rhythms, newness and noise from:  Ragana (Oakland), of Tropique (Tokyo), MC Yallah (Kampala/Nairobi), C'mon Tigre (NYC), Lenhart Tapes (Belgrade, Serbia), Azu Tiwaline (El Djerid, Tunisia), Brìghde Chaimbeul (Skye, Scotland),  and other remote rhizomatic conn...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm Pacific FRI. 11.10.2023  a conversation with BEN GOLDBERG,  local and legend clarinetist , featuring and digging into his over four decades of music. expanding jazz’s frontiers as an improviser, composer, collaborator and pioneer of the radical Jewish music movement. Exploring his productive COVID-era practice of exercises and self-recording, and expanding into remote-t...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.05.2023 !  > 10pm-12m Pacific web of sound, linking past to future,  breath to beat, some dangerous beauty our last Sunday UPLIFT! together, come along henceforth for Friday mornings 10a - 1p  new sonic sweetness  from old friends and old souls crating anew:                                                    Orchestra Gold (Oakland), Altin Gün (Istanbul/Amsterdam),  N...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 06.04.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific radiobob meets dr.pablo .. trading tunes inna terra incognita … broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.07.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific poet soledad con carne ,…co-editor of Acid Verse, unofficial poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley, now co-repping La Misión, zine-maestrx, reading and in interview, and spinning ... their poet's playlist, …raising a ruckus and other new voicings from Asher Gamedze (South Africa), AroMa (Oakland), African Head Charge / King Ayisoba (UK/...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 03.26.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific A special guest DJ set and chat with visual artist Charles Dabo , exploring the cross-fertilization of African musics and Western psychedelia / soul, digging into his Senegalese ye-ye movement roots.. and on into the future ...  with more transformative (notes), deep cuts, classic rewinds + more+more love … …  broadcasting live from YELAMU...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.29.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific songs for ancestors, and lullabies penultimate Sunday UPLIFT! new beauties, full moon light, everpresent ghosts from                                                   Esotérica Tropical (Oakland/Borikén), Pausis (Thessaloniki),  Isaiah Collier   (Chicago), Rammy Essam (Cairo), Jawa (Aleppo),  and persistent music from Adnan Joubran (Paris/...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.15.2023 !  > 10pm-12m Pacific lotus-pad earth.  frog-croak and dripping   some kind of noisy, messy enlightenment, songs for peace from  Ambrose Akinmusire (Oakland), Nihiloxica (Kampala / London),  Matana Roberts  (Chicago), Mary Lattimore (LA), Hania Rani (Warsaw), Abel Selacoe (Manchester/Johannesburg), Esperanza Spalding (Portland)  … hearing a deep breath …  broa...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.01.2023 !  > 10pm-12m Pacific notes on edge of night 'Aareh flight and song-stories blessings and confrontations from  Ezequiel Borra (Argentina), Haïdouti Orkestar (Turkey / Paris), Okan (Cuba/Toronto), Newen Afrobeat / Dele Sosimi (Chile / Nigeria / UK), Jason Singh & the Banwasi Collective (Rajastan), ÌFÉ (NOLA ), Nana Benz du Togo (Togo), Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 09.24.2023 !  > 10pm-12m Pacific   on the balance of the year Wire-walking from  Dobet Gnahore (Côte d’Ivoire / Paris),  Kimi Djabaté   (Guinea-Bissau / Lisbon), ONIPA (diasporic London), Titanic / Mabe Fratti y Hector Tosta (Guatemala/Mexíco DF), Gerald Cleaver (Motor City / BKN) Sessa (São Paolo), Leyla McCalla (NOLA / NYC), Karney (San Francisco)  … and breath and pau...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 09.10.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific poet Darius Simpson  … New Afrikan writer, educator, performer, revolutionary and skilled living room dancer based in Oakland, a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and the author of Never Catch Me , words dedicated to liberation  …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 09.03.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific   [for Kala]   time and notes, the present we rest in and that passes marking the moment  … with new frequencies/from around the latitudes/time-zones from Mali Obomsawin / Magdalena Abrego (Abenaki First Nation / NYC ),  Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan (Turkey/Israel), Danûk   (Syria / Kurdistan), Roxane Métayer (Belgium), L'Rain (Brooklyn), B...

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 !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 08.20.2023 !     First harvests in, creating sound beauty in crop susurrance More new succulence, amid the thorns and thistles from  Beth Custer  / Will Bernard (San Francisco),  Badiâa Bouhrizi (Tunisia), Heretic (Kyoto),  Laliboi & Spoek Mathombo and Muzi (all South Africa), Alabaster DePlume and Kay Young (both sides of London), Lon Moshe & the Southern Freedom A...