Frequency Uplift!

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 04.16.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific fire-spirits, transformations:   ...  new music from María José Montijo (Borikén/Chochenyo-Ohlone-territory/ Oakland) , Meshell NdegeOcello ( Wiekagjoc-territory/Hudson River Valley) , La Dame Blanche ( Cuba/Paris ) , Choro Qom Chelaalapi ( Toba-Qom territories / Argentina), Mourning [A] BLKstar (Lenape, Oneida, Ottawa, and Wyandot lands /...

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 territory

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 03.12.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific Tongo Eisen-Martin, SF poet laureate and our second Sunday's poet, reading work … and talking about the 2021 racist murder of his cousin AJ Stewart in St. Paul, MN., upcoming hearings and the pattern of injustices and increasing violence they represent. Ways and words forward.  ...  and our poet's playlist, new music for justice and awaken...

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.08.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific LIVE in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM; AND streaming everywhere/when @ KXSF.FM … another second Sunday (on the 3rd) , honoring (and rewinding) last years’ poets:   Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, James Cagney, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Norman Zelaya, Flavia Elisa Mora, Fernando Martí,          ...  some poetic playlist material, language jazz, jams...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.01.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific NEW YEAR's NIGHT ! … year’s end, new beginning.  cognitive and aural dissonance, purposed polyphony,   ...  rewinds and unplayed tracks from ’22 albums I loved (there is an already outdated list somewhere…)  plus new sonic celebrations, collaborations from:     Thandi Ntuli (Johannesburg), Seun Kuti / Black Thought (Lagos / Philadelphia),...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 12.25.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific … peace    broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY 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  broad...

FREQUENCY 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/B...

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY 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...

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...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! SUN. 10.30.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific. ancestor music, vibrations for those passed on and those who inspire, notes in liminal spaces between the dead and the living… silence and noise some music to make some path in the dark         broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory. UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY 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 se...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 08.07.2022, 10pm - 12m PST impromptu and international, expatriate and extraterrrestrial  saying a brief fare-well   ... with some multi- and sans-genre newness  from clipping. (Oakland/LA) , Madé Kuti  (Nigeria),   Kokoroko (London), Brian Jackson/Two Soul Fusion (Portland/NYC),   Free the Robots (LA/Philipines) , Baum Sea (Seoul),   imprecise aural ecstasies... broadcasti...

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 un...

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 Ramaytus...

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...

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)...

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...

FREQUENCY 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/ Bor...

FREQUENCY 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 G...