Frequency Uplift!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 05.22.2022 > 10pm-12m Pacific. LIVE in SF @ 102.5 FM; always streaming @ KXSF.FM word 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 (Minneapoli...

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY 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                  ...

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),  ...

FREQUENCY 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 (...

FREQUENCY 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 G...

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY 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 , Angel...

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 !

FREQUENCY 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 !

West 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 !

FREQUENCY 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...

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 &a...

FREQUENCY 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)   …...

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...

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 birthday plus ... ¡ UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY 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 (Oakla...

FREQUENCY 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...

FREQUENCY 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),...

FREQUENCY 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 !

FREQUENCY 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 .

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 tra...

FREQUENCY 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!

Frequency Uplift! Sun.05.09.2021 Second 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, T...