In a downtown alley, late at night, you find the well-hidden door you’re looking for. You knock, speak the password, and descend the stairs, following the sound of snaps and poetry. In Speakeasy words and music share the stage. You take a seat.
Playlist: Joshua Thorne - Dear ListenerBrandon Wint - Melacholy VisitedPOSTNAMERS - Mirthpeal and RosesLeanne Betasamosake Simpson - The Oldest Tree in the WorldAndrew Weathers - Save, Lord, Or We PerishPatrick Friesen and Niko Friesen - Hunter's MoonOwen Pallett - TransformerKate Tempest - People's FacesIan William Craig - A Slight Grip, A Gentle Hold (Part 2)Valiska - ForeverÜmlaut, Sara Zampa, Kelsey White - To Leave It As It Is/SafeBee Eater - A Beast Will Devour Us From BelowJ.R.R. Tolkien, Rhian Sheehan - Look Out Upon the Sea/SomeplaceLubomyr Melnyk - The Pool of Memories
Playlist: wax tailor - Once Upon a PastKen Nordine - What Time It Ishowiewonder - mondaynightDuval Timothy - AloneWish Lash - Not NowLong Time No Time - Get Up (Live)Esperanza Spalding - You Have to Dance (Feet)Long Time No Time - Stubbler's Gump/Not Exactly An Overture Pt. II (Live)
Playlist: Gil-Scott Heron - RunningDavid Creese - Nuclear GroundJoe Nora + Yuutsu - GlacialLawrence Ferlinghetti - Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President EisenhowerKamasi Washington - KnowledgeFR/BLCK/PR - Opening SuiteAleem Khan - AfterglowShad, Ian Kamau, Eternia - Another Yearb willy kuz - out of the pastHermitess - SpellTerri Lyne Carrington & Social Science - The Anthem Feat. RapsodyLisa Marie Simmons - Heavy
Playlist: Leonard Cohen - A StreetEphemerals - PolyEcotype - Corpus VertebraAlix Olson - Everybody's WaitingEine Kleine China - Devil's ClubPallmer - Grass GardenLapalux - OblivionAndrew Stephen - AtomsDandelion Hands - How to Never Stop Being SadBlocktreat - The Can't HaveJean Michel Blais - Dans Ma Main (FOXTROTT Remix)Gerald Clayton - Dimensions: InterwovenThe Comet Is Coming - The Seven Planetary HeavensProxima Psychoacoustics - No One Chooses When
Playlist: Koop, Earl Zinger - Beyond the SonGoya Gombani, Rago Foot, Jeffski - Write From WrongThe World Next Door - Goat LoreJuice Box - ConspiracyHarga Descending - Turkish Inky ActionsLuan Joy Sherman - Now I Look Like All The Boys I Was Afraid OfBitter Fictions - when I returnAlessandra Naccarato - Instructions for Howling at the MoonAllen Ginsburg, Philip Glass - I'm an Old Man Now and a Lonesome Man in KansasOwen Pallett - Fire-Mare
Playlist: Kimmortal - Stars (ft. JB the First Lady & Missy D)Samora Pinderhughes - HistoryVibration Black Finger - Soul FireAsher Gamedze - InterregnumRachel Therrien - 75 Pages of HappinessMoor Mother & Yatta - Some Of These DaysTyler Hornby B3 Trio - Drum DiddyFR/BLCK/PR - My Home And The Feeling That Goes With ItTerri Lyne Carrington & Social Science - Trapped in the American Dream (ft. Kassa Overall)Irreversible Entanglements - Chicago to Texas
Playlist: Katharina Schier, Raphaela Gromes, Willhelm Gromes, Jonatan Szer, Scott Ross-Molyneaux - Safe CirclesFrederick Douglass, Ossie Davis - What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?Daveed Diggs - What To My People Is The Fourth of July?Kassa Overall - Show Me A Prison (Feat. J Hoard & Angela Davis)Snotty Nose Rez Kids - White Lies (Intro)Janet Marie Rogers - Forever
Playlist: H.U.E. - We are (where?)Moor Mother, Black Quantum Futurism - Wading for the HourSargeant x Comrade - Work SongLisa Marie Simmons - Cosmic ConfusionAstrocolor - LaughterDorcas Seb - Vice Versa (Intro)Lows - MelatoninOctavia E. Butler, MMGZ, BQF - Metamorphoses IAnzola - AbrazosRoy Boswell - KnockingScott Hardware - Bound TogetherPatrick Friesen and Niko Friesen - EmissaryBitter Fictions - Bottle on the StoopTwilight Prince, Nicholas Britell - CITY GIRL POEMIrreversible Entanglements - Bread Out of Stone
Playlist: Stargate, Nelson Mandela - Rise Up (feat. Nelson Mandela)Joe Nora + Yuutsu - glacialAkwasi Evans - SpaceJonah Yano - MonarchSuli Breaks - AdulthoodPantayo - BronseBrandon Wint - Melancholy VisitedRobotaki - Passing of TimeAnthony Tao, Liane Halton - In Our WantsLuka Kuplowsky - Me For RealThe Giving Shapes - UpsteamSheBeKeKe - Like HimLido Pimienta - Nada (feat. Li Saumet)Rose&Cloud - SolsticeLisa Marie Simmons - Returning From Pluto
Playlist: Sarah Webster Fabio - If We Come As Soft RainJanet Marie Rogers - Totem Poles and Railroads Mixdown 1Aquakultre - I Doubt ItLangston Hughes - Feet Live Their Own LifeLakecia Benjamin - Walk With MeJerry Quickley - Bone DryGhostkeeper - People of the PinesFR/BLCK/PR - NotebookStonam - BelongLeanne Betasamosake Simpson - I Am GraffitiMadison McFerrin - TRY
Playlist: Maya Angelou - Still I RiseGwendolyn Brooks - RIOTGordon Grdina Septet - VarsconaIrreversible Entanglements - EnoughW.E.B. DuBois - The Negro and Young PeoplePursuit Grooves - Lady BirdDamon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - PowerWitch Prophet - RegbuFrank Foster - The Loud MinorityShad - The Revolution/The EstablishmentSargeant X Comrade - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Playlist: Kamasi Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. - The Other America/ProvocationNina Simone - Backlash BluesClipping. - Blood Of The FangMatana Roberts - Her Mighty Waters RunSapient Soul - what if?Witch Prophet - MusaIan Keteku - Dragon BreathNNAMDÏ - It's OKThe Liberation Music Collective - Durand: Black Man in AmericaAmbrose Akinmusire - miracle and a street fightSudan Archives - ConfessionsBarack Obama - We Are One (feat. A More Perfect Union)
Playlist: POSTNAMERS - Perfect SorrowMonique Rhodes, Pema Chodron - Being PresentJeremy Dutcher - UltestakonRose&Cloud - SolsticeMicah Pick - Courage, Dear HeartRiver of Diamonds - Some Birds SwimThe Giving Shapes - GravityRoy Boswell - BoneOwen Pallett - The Sound of the EnginesSufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams - The UnlimitedClarity - Disaster KickThe Consonant C - Death & DecayLong Time No Time - Stubbler's Gump/Not Exactly an Overture
Playlist: Witch Prophet - GhideonAmp Sessions - Anytime NowSalena Godden - Every Disaster Movie Begins With the Government Ignoring a Scientisther motives are silent - Movement II: SparrowKool A.D. - The Planet Is DoomedDamon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - Statement of Intent/Black Monument ThemeTom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Storm Before the Calm (feat. Kaidi Akinnibi)howiewonder - mondaynightIrreversible Entanglements - Who Sent You - RitualShabaka & The Ancestors - You've Been CalledBrandon Wint - XIIIAaron Dolman - Giving (With)
Playlist: Alix Olson - Everybody's WaitingSalena Godden - I Saw Goody Proctor Jogging Without a Face Maskwanderingaria - raysFantastic Twins - The Myth of TwinusHarga Descending - Turkish Inky ActionsRose&Cloud - For You, My Lady GreensleevesR Grunwald - Said He to TheePadraig O Tuama - The Facts of LifeNick Storring - Now Neither One Of Us Is BreakingRos Moss Wilson and Cool Maritime - Bad IdeasLee Rosevere - Morning MistLawrence Ferlinghetti - The World Is a Beautiful PlaceMichael Slattery and La Nef - More Love or More DisdainIrreversible Entanglements - Bread Out of Stone
Playlist: Ephemerals - PolyEve Atoms - The SpotTaktus - Rivers, Set 1ecotype - Cross SectionJerry Quickley - Colonist feat. Mike LaddShabaka & The Ancestors - Teach Me How To Be VulnerableBrandon Wint - IIIquiet/winter/roads - cascade above usLord of the Isles Feat. Ellen Renton - Passing (feat. Ellen Renton)Aphni - Faded Amber LightsBilly Collins - The First DreamMark Templeton - Once Were DownLeanne Betasamosake Simpson - How to Steal a CanoeDark Orchard - Dione & Cassini
Playlist: Amp Sessions - Emotional MomentsBusdriver - Electricity Is On Our SideLaizlo - Retired Lighthouseellen grace - coteriewanderingaria - voidsYarns - hochelagaJonas Bonnetta - Stag HarbourFiona Apple - On I GoMute Duo - Past Musculature PlainsNowhere - Something To SaySQÜRL - Robby's ThemeAldous Huxley, Jordane Prestrot - Constantly RepeatedBitter Fictions - derelict driftSlaylor Moon - When I Think of You
Playlist: Acid Ghost - Hide My FaceRafael Casal, Daveed Diggs - No FeelsYppah - Shadows Climb the WallBrandon Wint - Part One: Mercy (I)MOON APPLE - ~ (aka The Naming and the Unnaming of Things)Test Card - It Calmed the Hedges and Blurred the BuildingsPatrick Friesen and Niko Friesen - Stil in MotionMute Duo - Dallas in the Dog DaysMike Hodsall - LarchS. Hollis Mickey - Folding InstructionsSufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams - Climb That MountainOught - Beautiful Blue SkyA Pact Between Strangers - Intro + Untitled