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Jackie Kay is one of the best known and most popular Scottish literary figures. A poet and novelist, she served as Makar - the name for Scotland's poet laureate - for five years from 2016. Since her debut poetry collection The Adoption Papers in 1991, she has published 20 works of fiction and verse for adults and children, and a memoir about meeting her biological parents called Red Dust Road. Jackie Kay was made a CBE for services to literature in 2020.Jackie talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple. From a young age, Jackie was entranced by the parties her parents hosted in their house to raise money for the Communist Party and where they would debate and sing songs. It was her first introduction to performance and theatre. As a teenager, hearing poets such as Tom Leonard and Liz Lochhead recite their own work also had a big impact on her literary aspirations.Growing up in the Glasgow of the 60s and 70s, Jackie had very few black role models and took inspiration from the work of the African American poet Audre Lorde and the American political activist Angela Davis. Jackie also recalls finding her birth parents and how a visit to her birth father's ancestral village in Nigeria finally gave her a sense of dual identity.Producer: Edwina PitmanOther poets who have appeared on This Cultural Life include Michael Rosen, Linton Kwesi Johnson and George The Poet, along with children's authors including Katherine Rundell and Michael Morpurgo. You can find them in the This Cultural Life archive, which contains over 130 previous episodes.
Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour's 2017 election slogan ‘For the many, not the few'. This slogan, inspired by Shelley's famous poem The Masque of Anarchy, points to something else the two men have in common: a lifelong enthusiasm for poetry. Their selected poems travel over centuries and continents, with poets ranging from William Blake to Emily Dickinson, and Stevie Smith to Linton Kwesi Johnson. Featuring guest selections from the likes of Rob Delaney, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ken Loach, Maxine Peake, Michael Rosen, Alexei Sayle, and Gary Younge. Join Corbyn and McCluskey as they discuss the poems that continue to inspire them in their political careers.
http://archive.org/download/jah-works-radio-poetry-jam-8-27-25/Jah%20Works%20Radio%20Poetry%20Jam%208-27-25.mp3 Very special vibes this week, family, as we present our FIRST-EVER live Dub Poetry Jam, featuring live poetry from Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, Kufunya Ife and Lyric with D-Ro on the turntables and Ras E and Kevin El joining in the vibes, as well. Legendary dub poets Mutabaruka and Linton Kwesi Johnson are also featured, […]
This weeks show starts off with classics from The Meditations, Michael Rose, Barrington Levy, Paula Clarke, Desi Roots, Dennis Brown, Bunny Wailer, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Earl Sixteen, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Gladiators, Freddie McGregor, Sugar Minott, Leroy Smart, Johnny Clarke, Barry Brown, Culture, Tabby Diamond, & Yabby You with King Tubby. New music this week comes from Johnny Osbourne with Anthony B & Alborosie, Rayvon, Clive Matthews, Marcus I & The 18th Parallel, Lila Ike, Kimeco, Jhazahra, Yeza, Nga Han, Zamunda, Double Tiger, Irie Souljah, Skip Marley, The Co-Operators, Pachyman, Menotti HiFi, Lee Scratch Perry, Noiseshaper, Lutan Fyah, AbiYah Yisrael, Little Kirk, Young Kulcha, Bazil & Paris LaMont, and Essah with Little Lion Sound. Enjoy! The Meditations - Fly Natty Dread - Deeper Roots: Best Of The Mediations - Heartbeat Records Michael Rose - Freedom - Observer Music Barrington Levy - Whom Shall I Be Afraid Of - Sweet Reggae Music 2.0 - VP Records Paula Clarke - University - Living Music 7” Desi Roots - Warning - DEB Music Prince Jammy & King Tubby - Crab In A Barrel Dub - Bunny Lee Presents: Dubbing In The Front Yard & Conflict Dub - Pressure Sounds Dennis Brown - Here I Come - Niney The Observer: Roots With Qualty - VP Records Niney The Observer - Come Dub - Dennis Brown In Dub - Heartbeat Records Bunny Wailer - Soul Rebel - Retrospective - Solomonic/Shanachie Bob Marley & The Wailers - Wake Up & Live - Survival - Tuff Gong Johnny Osbourne & Anthony B - Give More Love/Give More Dub - Universal Love Showcase - VP Records Earl Sixteen - Freedom - Stand & Give Praise: Roots Reggae - Trojan Records Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces Of Vicktry - Forces Of Victory - Mango The Gladiators - Counting My Blessings/Light Up Your Spliff - Roots Natty - Tabou 1 Freddie McGregor - Roman Soldiers - Mr. McGregor - VP Records Sugar Minott - This World - Stand & Give Praise: Roots Reggae - Trojan Records Rayvon - Fortress - GTC Entertainment Leroy Smart - Mr. Smart - Dread Hot In Africa - Makasound Leroy Smart - Mister Smart In Dub - Mr. Smart In Dub - Jamaican Recordings Johnny Clarke - Love Up Your Brothers & Sisters - Dreader Dread 1976-1978 - Blood & Fire Barry Brown & King Tubby - Politician/Killa Dub - Alexander Music Group Culture - Behold - Harder Than The Rest - Virgin/Frontline Clive Matthews Meets Lone Ark - Ancient Lion - Going Home - A-Lone Productions/Evidence Music Marcus I & The 18th Parallel - Wax Box - Fruits Records Tabby Diamond - Eyes Of Africa - Hulk 7” Jimmy Cliff - Brave Warrior - Anthology - Island Records Yabby You & King Tubby - Deliver Me/Deliver Dub - Deeper Roots: Dubplates & Rarities 1976-1978 - Pressure Sounds Jerry & Neville w/ The Wackies Rhythm Force - Abbashantie Rock - Wackies 12” Lila Ike - Scatter - Treasure Self Love - Wurl Records/Indiggnation Collective Kimeco - Jah Love - One Love Records Jhazahra - Wickedness - One RPM/Jhazahra Yeza - Pissup - Star Of The East - RoryStonelove/Black Dub Music Nga Han - Come Over/Come Over Dub - Tetra Ark Records Zamunda & Boxy - Tempah - My Truth, My Journey - Boxyrecord Double Tiger Meets Sly & Robbie - Yearning - Easy Star Records Irie Souljah feat. Alborosie - Another Way - World Citizen - Ineffable Records Skip Marley - In Our Sight - Tuff Gong International/Def Jam Dennis Brown - West Bound Train - The Best Of Dennis Brown: The Niney Years - Heartbeat Records Niney The Observer - Fire From The Observer Station - Dennis Brown In Dub - Heartbeat Records Gregory Isaacs & Christine - Rock On/Saturday - Sufferation: The Deep Roots Reggae Of Niney The Observer - Auralux Recordings Cate Ferris & Nick Manasseh - Blaze Bright/Just One Dub - Hustling Rhythm - Roots Garden Records The Co-Operators - Downpour Dub - Dub Over Yonder - Waggle Dance Records Roots Architects - 1000 Light Years Dub - From Dub Til Now - Fruits Records Pachyman - SJU - Another Place - ATO Records Menotti HiFi - Wouldn't You/Wouldn't You Dubolik Dub - Paper Cup Records Lee Scratch Perry & Ion Sound feat. Flex Matthews - Rain Dominion - Trap Door Records/Zojak Worldwide Hopeton Junior - Living In The Ghetto/Living In The Ghetto Dub Mix - Milestone 7” Horace Andy - Safe From Harm - Midnight Rocker - On U Sound Horace Andy & Daddy Freddy - Midnight Scorcher - Midnight Scorchers - On U Sound Johnny Osbourne & Alborosie - Don't Need No Ice Cream Love/No Ice Cream Dub - Universal Love Showcase - VP Records Noiseshaper - Sunshine - Welcome The Unknown - Echo Beach Lutan Fyah & Derrick Sound - Blessings - Evidence Music AbiYah Yisrael - Chanting - ChaYah Studio Little Kirk & Irie Ites - Put The Most High Before Us - Hell A Go Pop Riddim - Irie Ites Records Young Kulcha & Irie Ites feat. The Ligerians - Sweet Reggae Music - Hell A Go Pop Riddim - Irie Ites Records Inna Vision & Mellow Mood - Faith & Deeds - Faith & Deeds - Reggae Lives Yeza - Road Runner - Star Of The East - RoryStonelove/Black Dub Music Bazil & Paris LaMont - Under Control - Easy Star Records Eesah & Little Lion Sound w/ Groovewax - Big & Bad - Evidence Music Lila Ike feat Protoje - All Over The World - Treasure Self Love - Wurl Records/Indiggnation Collective Kenny Knots & Mungos HiFi - Rasta Meditation/Meditation Dub - Scotch Bonnet Records
L’émission Intrinsèque de ce méga mois de Juin, avec: Creutzfeld & Jakob, Nina Hagen, Wolf Biermann, Romano, Tony Holiday, Nara Leao, Baden Powell, Mayra Andrade, Mauro Duarte, Heptanes Faxion & Bertrand Betsch, Bleu Russe, The Last Poets, Linton Kwesi Johnson,... Continue Reading →
Du nu reggae au manouche, en passant par le jazz, la #SessionLive reçoit deux noms de la scène hexagonale. (Rediffusion du 19 janvier 2025)Nos premiers invités sont Les Doigts de l'Homme pour la sortie de Erratic, The Art of Roaming.Les Doigts de l'Homme fêtent leurs 20 ans. Pour cela, ils sortent un double album ambitieux qui illustre le trajet parcouru le long de ces nombreuses années avec une approche encore plus inédite et personnelle. De l'acoustique à l'électrique, 23 titres autour d'un jazz de création, « guitaristique », coloré et exigeant. Et pour respecter la tradition : à chaque nouvel album, un nouvel instrument invité ! C'est le batteur Pierre Rettien qui rejoint l'équipe pour illustrer ce passage à l'électrique. « Erratic », deuxième single tiré du double album Erratic, The Art Of Roaming qui est sorti le 20 septembre 2024. Accepter le désordre, ne pas suivre de ligne de conduite, laisser émerger librement ce qu'il en résulte, dans la vie comme dans la musique, accepter de se laisser malmener par l'imprévu, fuir l'ordre qui peu à peu s'établit. Ignorer l'influence du regard extérieur, celui qui finit par restreindre la véritable liberté de choisir. Laisser naître de ce qui semble être le chaos.► Titres interprétés au grand studio« Dreaming of my Brothers » Live RFI« Des hommes intègres », extrait du double album (cd Électrik)« Californian Christmas » Live RFI► Line Up : Olivier Kikteff (guitare), Benoît Convert (guitare), Yannick Alcocer (guitare), Tanguy Blum (contrebasse) et Nazim Aliouche (percussions)Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille RochAlbum Erratic, The Art of Roaming (Lamastrock/ Inouïe Dist. 2024).YouTube - Bandcamp - LamastrockPuis, nous recevons Flox pour la sortie de Square.Flox est square. Carré, précis, direct. Il aime aller droit à l'essentiel, ne pas se perdre en considérations superflues. « Je n'ai pas le temps de faire de la merde », résume-t-il. Alors, son septième album s'intitule Square.Square correspond à un virage majeur dans la carrière du pionnier du nu reggae, extraordinaire artisan du studio qui joue de tous les instruments, s'enregistre, se mixe et se produit mais, pendant une douzaine d'années, montait sur scène avec des musiciens. Après avoir enregistré Square, il a commencé à tourner seul, équipé d'une machine qu'il a dessinée et construite avec des contrôleurs Midi pour lancer samples et boucles qu'il a enregistrés lui-même : « Il faut maîtriser tous les outils pour délivrer ce que l'on veut », répète-t-il depuis longtemps...Ce doux quinquagénaire franco-britannique au crâne lisse sourit, gentiment moqueur : « Il y a tellement d'outils si faciles qui permettent de sortir des albums alors que l'on est encore en phase d'apprentissage ou d'acquisition que beaucoup se brûlent les ailes. »Flox sait si bien combien son chemin a demandé de patience, de précision et de passion. Il y a quelques décennies, il sort diplômé en reliure de ses cinq ans à l'École Estienne. Il est en pleine période punk et ne se voit pas travailler pour les vieux clients bourgeois des relieurs. Alors, il devient informaticien et son premier salaire sert à payer la première traite d'une table de mixage à 25 000 francs. Après tout, Florian Gratton n'a jamais manqué de détermination et sait prendre des décisions tranchées. Avant lui, sa mère, moitié kabyle, moitié française, s'est évadée en Grande-Bretagne à l'adolescence, a rencontré un acteur moitié anglais, moitié irlandais et ne revient en France qu'après la victoire de Mitterrand à la présidentielle de 1981. Florian a onze ans et se met à la batterie, son premier instrument. Peu à peu, il saura jouer d'un peu tout. « Je suis plus curieux que vraiment multiinstrumentiste. Je n'apprends de chaque instrument que ce qui me suffit pour faire de la musique. C'est un apprentissage ciblé. Il me faut des notes bien appuyées et bien placées. »Qu'on ne s'attende pas à une trajectoire classique de reggaeman. Sa porte d'entrée pour la musique jamaïcaine est franchement britannique avec Police, avant le drum'n'bass et le choc de la dub poetry de Linton Kwesi Johnson. « À part ça, j'ai autant été nourri de Bob Marley que des Pink Floyd. » À vingt ans commence le temps des groupes. À trente ans, il dirige une batucada de trente percussionnistes. Mais il s'est fixé comme un cap de faire son premier album avant trente-cinq ans. Square est son 7e album.► Titres interprétés au grand studio« Square » Live RFI« In The Shade », extrait de l'album« Loose » Live RFI► Line Up : Florian Gratton alias Flox (machines, voix)Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille RochAlbum Square (Underdog Records 2024)Site - YouTube - Bandcamp
Du nu reggae au manouche, en passant par le jazz, la #SessionLive reçoit deux noms de la scène hexagonale. (Rediffusion du 19 janvier 2025)Nos premiers invités sont Les Doigts de l'Homme pour la sortie de Erratic, The Art of Roaming.Les Doigts de l'Homme fêtent leurs 20 ans. Pour cela, ils sortent un double album ambitieux qui illustre le trajet parcouru le long de ces nombreuses années avec une approche encore plus inédite et personnelle. De l'acoustique à l'électrique, 23 titres autour d'un jazz de création, « guitaristique », coloré et exigeant. Et pour respecter la tradition : à chaque nouvel album, un nouvel instrument invité ! C'est le batteur Pierre Rettien qui rejoint l'équipe pour illustrer ce passage à l'électrique. « Erratic », deuxième single tiré du double album Erratic, The Art Of Roaming qui est sorti le 20 septembre 2024. Accepter le désordre, ne pas suivre de ligne de conduite, laisser émerger librement ce qu'il en résulte, dans la vie comme dans la musique, accepter de se laisser malmener par l'imprévu, fuir l'ordre qui peu à peu s'établit. Ignorer l'influence du regard extérieur, celui qui finit par restreindre la véritable liberté de choisir. Laisser naître de ce qui semble être le chaos.► Titres interprétés au grand studio« Dreaming of my Brothers » Live RFI« Des hommes intègres », extrait du double album (cd Électrik)« Californian Christmas » Live RFI► Line Up : Olivier Kikteff (guitare), Benoît Convert (guitare), Yannick Alcocer (guitare), Tanguy Blum (contrebasse) et Nazim Aliouche (percussions)Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille RochAlbum Erratic, The Art of Roaming (Lamastrock/ Inouïe Dist. 2024).YouTube - Bandcamp - LamastrockPuis, nous recevons Flox pour la sortie de Square.Flox est square. Carré, précis, direct. Il aime aller droit à l'essentiel, ne pas se perdre en considérations superflues. « Je n'ai pas le temps de faire de la merde », résume-t-il. Alors, son septième album s'intitule Square.Square correspond à un virage majeur dans la carrière du pionnier du nu reggae, extraordinaire artisan du studio qui joue de tous les instruments, s'enregistre, se mixe et se produit mais, pendant une douzaine d'années, montait sur scène avec des musiciens. Après avoir enregistré Square, il a commencé à tourner seul, équipé d'une machine qu'il a dessinée et construite avec des contrôleurs Midi pour lancer samples et boucles qu'il a enregistrés lui-même : « Il faut maîtriser tous les outils pour délivrer ce que l'on veut », répète-t-il depuis longtemps...Ce doux quinquagénaire franco-britannique au crâne lisse sourit, gentiment moqueur : « Il y a tellement d'outils si faciles qui permettent de sortir des albums alors que l'on est encore en phase d'apprentissage ou d'acquisition que beaucoup se brûlent les ailes. »Flox sait si bien combien son chemin a demandé de patience, de précision et de passion. Il y a quelques décennies, il sort diplômé en reliure de ses cinq ans à l'École Estienne. Il est en pleine période punk et ne se voit pas travailler pour les vieux clients bourgeois des relieurs. Alors, il devient informaticien et son premier salaire sert à payer la première traite d'une table de mixage à 25 000 francs. Après tout, Florian Gratton n'a jamais manqué de détermination et sait prendre des décisions tranchées. Avant lui, sa mère, moitié kabyle, moitié française, s'est évadée en Grande-Bretagne à l'adolescence, a rencontré un acteur moitié anglais, moitié irlandais et ne revient en France qu'après la victoire de Mitterrand à la présidentielle de 1981. Florian a onze ans et se met à la batterie, son premier instrument. Peu à peu, il saura jouer d'un peu tout. « Je suis plus curieux que vraiment multiinstrumentiste. Je n'apprends de chaque instrument que ce qui me suffit pour faire de la musique. C'est un apprentissage ciblé. Il me faut des notes bien appuyées et bien placées. »Qu'on ne s'attende pas à une trajectoire classique de reggaeman. Sa porte d'entrée pour la musique jamaïcaine est franchement britannique avec Police, avant le drum'n'bass et le choc de la dub poetry de Linton Kwesi Johnson. « À part ça, j'ai autant été nourri de Bob Marley que des Pink Floyd. » À vingt ans commence le temps des groupes. À trente ans, il dirige une batucada de trente percussionnistes. Mais il s'est fixé comme un cap de faire son premier album avant trente-cinq ans. Square est son 7e album.► Titres interprétés au grand studio« Square » Live RFI« In The Shade », extrait de l'album« Loose » Live RFI► Line Up : Florian Gratton alias Flox (machines, voix)Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille RochAlbum Square (Underdog Records 2024)Site - YouTube - Bandcamp
Send us a textBenjamin Zephaniah Day : A Festival of Rhythm, Unity & Revolution at Brunel UniversityQian Zephaniah, Benjamin's wife, hosted the inaugural Benjamin Zephaniah Day at Brunel University of London where Benjamin was a Professor of Creative Writing. The special day celebrated Benjamin's extraordinary contributions, not only to literature and education but also to the causes he championed throughout his life, including performances from poets, musicians and artists from around the world.Qian has set up the Benjamin Zephaniah Foundation to celebrate his legacy and inspire.Danieal premiered live performance of her latest music releases; a project inspired by Mento music heritage, self produced and written using everyday objects, vocal sounds and sounds from nature.After five years of the show, Reggae Uprising Podcast featured its first live stage show featuring guest, author & documentary creator; Amen Wisdom.Amen Wisdom Youtube : blahblahmanpublishingFilmed at #bruneluniversity to celebrate the legacy of #benjaminzephaniah featuring The Pan African Society, Black Dragon School of Martial Arts, Danieal, Reggae Uprising Podcast, #michaelrosen, #lintonkwesijohnson, #jeremycorbyn, Qian Zephaniah & Basil Gabbidon.DaniealSubscribe & Connect : https://www.danieal.liveReggae Uprising PodcastListen & Subscribe : https://www.danieal.live/podcastDGARMSOrganic Cotton Eco Store : https://dgarms.livePatreonAccess to full footage & exclusives : Disclaimer : The views and opinions expressed are those of guests featured and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Reggae Uprising Podcast or its representatives. Reggae Uprising Podcast does not own any of the rights to any of the music or extracts featured. It is used only as a tool of education, upliftment and empowerment for and of people of Africa and its diaspora.Subscribe & Connect : www.danieal.live/podcastOfficial Merch : www.dgarms.com
STARK REALITY PLAYLISTS with James Dier aka $mall ¢hange and Guests
Episode 74 of STARK REALITY PLAYLISTS features DJ $mall ¢hange’s guest EZRA LI EISMONT's "DJ Darkat's Freedom of Speech Mix," a sensational eclectic and funky set of hip hop, punk, random soundscapes and samples, featuring tracks by Mouse On Mars, Bill Laswell, Coldcut, The Style Council, Bjork, Kalahari Surfers, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Les Paul and Mary Ford, the Beatles and much more. Visual artist/DJ/producer Ezra Li Eismont is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working on the Mendocino coast in Northern California, with primary emphasis on painting and sound. Born in North Carolina 1974, he moved with his family to NYC 1977 and was raised there through the 1980s until moving to Oakland, California in 1990. A graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts (BFA 1997), he has been an active member of the Bay area art and music communities since the mid nineties, lending his artistic flavor to many bay area music albums and flyer art over the past decades. Ezra was a founding member of the electronic music group Cat Five (1999-2005) and music producer under the name Dj Darkat. He was an active attendee of the Burning Man festival between 1999-2016, including working for the Burning Man Department of Public Works between 2007-2015. From 2009-2022 he broadcast a weekly online radio show called Sound Dimensions broadcast on Spaz.org To hear Ezra's in-depth Stark Reality interview with Host James Dier aka $mall ¢hange, go to Episode 73 of STARK REALITY. Ezra and Jim go deep on art, politics, record collecting, their long association with attending and working behind-the-scenes at Burning Man, his issues with Bay Area landlords, and much much more. For more information and links go to www.Ezrali.wordpress.com For all of Host James Dier aka DJ $mall ¢hange's in-depth interviews and exclusive guest playlists, Subscribe to both STARK REALITY and STARK REALITY PLAYLISTS on Apple Podcasts, Mixcloud or live & direct on uptownradio.net / jasoncharles.net Podcast Network Music Channel's STARK REALITY Series PageSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This weeks show starts off with classics from Bob Marley & The Wailers, The Wailing Souls, Barrington Levy, Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, Pablo Moses, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ijahman, The Mighty Diamonds, Johnny Clarke, Bonnie Gayle, The Eagles, Althea & Donna with Trinity, Beverly Bailey, Prince Far I, Linval Thompson & U-Brown, and John Holt. New music this week comes from Third World, Pressure Busspipe, Leon Dinero, Joe Yorke and the Co-Operators, Israel Starr and The Mighty Asterix, Perfect Giddimani, Jamelody, Aza Lineage, Da Fuchaman with Little Lion Sound, and Inna Vision and Lion Fiyah. Also this week we ride the Helicopter 2.0 Riddim featuring Buccaneer, Bugle, and Jesse Royal with Agent Sasco. Enjoy! Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread - Natty Dread - Tuff Gong The Wailing Souls - Jah Jah Give Us Life To Live (Don't Feel No Way) extended 12” disco mix - Wailing Souls At Channel One: 7's, 12's and Versions - Pressure Sounds Barrington Levy - Please Jah Jah (dynamic sounds master) - Prison Oval Rock 40th Anniversary Edition - VP Records Peter Tosh - No Sympathy - Legalize It (Legacy Edition) - Columbia Legacy Gregory Isaacs w/ Ossie & The Revolutionaries - Mr. Know It All/War Of The Stars - Mr. Issacs - VP Records King Tubby - Where Eagles Dare - Harry Mudie Meets King Tubby In Dub Conference Vol. 3 - Moodisc Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rasta Man Chant - Burnin' - Tuff Gong Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Rebel - Roots Of A Legend - Trojan Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - So Much Trouble In The World - Survival - Tuff Gong Pablo Moses - Music Is My Desire - A Song - Mango Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae Sounds/Shocking Dub - Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology - Island Records Ijahman - Moulding - Are We A Warrior - Island Records The Mighty Diamonds - Leaders Of Black Countries/Leaders Of Dub - Leaders Of Black Countries - Kingston Sounds Johnny Clarke - Don't Want To Be No Rude Boy - Attack 7” Bonnie Gayle & Conscious Minds - How Many Strongs - Love 7” The Eagles - Warn The Nation - Jack Ruby Presents: The Black Foundation - Heartbeat Records Jack Ruby - Creation - Jack Ruby Presents: Black Foundation In Dub - Heartbeat Records David Jahson - Jah Rasta Fari - Top Ranking Sounds 7” Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking - Reggae Bloodlines - Island Records Trinity - Spanking From The Ranking - Reggae Bloodlines - Island Records Beverly Bailey - I Was In Love - The Ladies At Joe Gibbs - VP Records Prince Far I - Deck Of Cards/Deck Of Cards Version - Under Heavy Manners Deluxe Edition - VP Records The Wailers - Soul Shake Down Party - The Best Of The Wailers - Jamwax Bob Marley & The Wailers - Hammer - Songs Of Freedom - Tuff Gong The Wailers - Caution - The Best Of The Wailers - Jamwax Bob Marley & The Wailers - Mr.. Brown - Roots Of A Legend - Trojan Records The Wailers feat. U-Roy - Mr. Brown - My Cup Runneth Over - Tsosume Records Linval Thompson - Ganja Man - Ganja Man - Irie Ites Records U-Brown & Linval Thompson - Original Ganja Man - Still Chanting Rub A Dub - Irie Ites Records John Holt - Police In Helicopter - Police In Helicopter - Greensleeves Yaadcore & Jah9 w/Subatomic Sound System - Police In Helicopter - Subatomic Sound System Buccaneer - Police In Toyota - Helicopter Riddim 2.0 - A/C Records Bugle - Upside Down - Helicopter Riddim 2.0 - A/C Records Jesse Royal & Agent Sasco - So High - Helicopter Riddim 2.0 - A/C Records Third World & Clive Hunt - Fields Of Gold - Ineffable Records Pressure Busspipe & Baby G - Hideaway - Yard Vybz Entertainment Leon Dinero - One Way Love - Daptone Records 7” Abeng - Crying Time/All My Tears - Dig This Way Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - Nice Time - Songs Of Freedom - Tuff Gong Bob Marley & The Wailers - Hypocrites - Songs Of Freedom - Tuff Gong Bob Marley & The Wailers - Jailhouse - One Love At Studio One - Heartbeat Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - Simmer Down - One Love At Studio One - Heartbeat Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - One Love - One Love At Studio One - Heartbeat Records Johnny Osbourne - Can't Buy Love (disco mix) - Truths & Rights Deluxe Edition - Studio One Israel Starr & The Mighty Asterix - Stylee - Bless Up Music Joe Yorke & The Co-Operators - All Night Skanking/At The Blues - Waggle Dance Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - Lively Up Your Dub - Bob Marley In Dub Vol. 1 - Tuff Gong Jah Life & Scientist - English Dub - Jah Life In Dub - Jah Life/DKR Voice Of Progress & Jah Bernord - Mini Bus Driver/Can't Take The Fussing On The Bus - Negus Roots Little John & Billy Boyo - Janet Sinclair/Janet Dub - The Very Best Of Me - L&R Records Aswad - Natural Aggression - A New Chapter Of Dub - Island Records The Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte - Channel One 7” Twinkle Brothers - Never Get Burned/Never Get Burn Version - Twinkle Music 7” Brutha Rodz w/Israel Starr & CJ Ruka - Political Lies/Political Lies instrumental - Maoribank Riddim - Bless Up Music Perfect Giddimani - High Grade/High Grade Dub - Giddimani Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - Sun Is Shining (Yes King Remix) - Roots, Rock, Remixed - Tuff Gong Jamelody - Keeps Me Rocking - Nyabingi Love Riddim - Ineffable Records Aza Lineage - Rule The Sound - VP Records Da Fuchaman & Little Lion Sound - Feeling Irie - Evidence Music Inna Vision & Lion Fiyah - Royal Vibes - Reggae Lives King Lorenzo - Stand Up - Blackbeard Riddim - Ting A Ling Records Bob Marley & The Wailers - Iron Lion Zion - One Love: The Very Best Of Bob Marley & The Wailers - Tuff Gong
Du nu reggae au manouche, en passant par le jazz, la #SessionLive reçoit 2 noms de la scène hexagonale. Nos 1ers invités sont les Doigts de l'Homme pour la sortie de Erratic, The Art of Roaming.Les Doigts de L'Homme fêtent leurs 20 ans. Pour cela, ils sortent un double album ambitieux qui illustre le trajet parcouru le long de ces nombreuses années avec une approche encore plus inédite et personnelle. De l'acoustique à l'électrique, 23 titres autour d'un jazz de création, «guitaristique», coloré et exigeant. Et pour respecter la tradition : à chaque nouvel album, un nouvel instrument invité !... C'est le batteur Pierre Rettien qui rejoint l'équipe pour illustrer ce passage à l'électrique. Erratic deuxième single tiré du double album Erratic, The Art Of Roaming qui est sorti le 20 septembre 2024. Accepter le désordre, ne pas suivre de ligne de conduite, laisser émerger librement ce qu'il en résulte, dans la vie comme dans la musique, accepter de se laisser malmener par l'imprévu, fuir l'ordre qui peu à peu s'établit. Ignorer l'influence du regard extérieur, celui qui finit par restreindre la véritable liberté de choisir. Laisser naître de ce qui semble être le chaos.Titres interprétés au grand studio- Dreaming of my Brothers Live RFI- Des Hommes Intègres, extrait du double album (cd Électrik)- Californian Christmas Live RFI.Line Up : Olivier Kikteff (guitare), Benoît Convert (guitare), Yannick Alcocer (guitare), Tanguy Blum (contrebasse) et Nazim Aliouche (percussions). Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille Roch.► Album Erratic, The Art of Roaming (Lamastrock/ Inouïe Dist. 2024).YouTube - Bandcamp - Lamastrock. Puis nous recevons Flox pour la sortie de Square.Flox est square. Carré, précis, direct. Il aime aller droit à l'essentiel, ne pas se perdre en considérations superflues. « Je n'ai pas le temps de faire de la merde », résume-t-il. Alors, son septième album s'intitule Square.Square correspond à un virage majeur dans la carrière du pionnier du nu reggae, extraordinaire artisan du studio qui joue de tous les instruments, s'enregistre, se mixe et se produit mais, pendant une douzaine d'années, montait sur scène avec des musiciens. Après avoir enregistré Square, il a commencé à tourner seul, équipé d'une machine qu'il a dessinée et construite avec des contrôleurs Midi pour lancer samples et boucles qu'il a enregistrés lui-même : « Il faut maîtriser tous les outils pour délivrer ce que l'on veut », répète-t-il depuis longtemps...Ce doux quinquagénaire franco-britannique au crâne lisse sourit, gentiment moqueur : « Il y a tellement d'outils si faciles qui permettent de sortir des albums alors que l'on est encore en phase d'apprentissage ou d'acquisition que beaucoup se brûlent les ailes. »Flox sait si bien combien son chemin a demandé de patience, de précision et de passion. Il y a quelques décennies, il sort diplômé en reliure de ses cinq ans à l'École Estienne. Il est en pleine période punk et ne se voit pas travailler pour les vieux clients bourgeois des relieurs. Alors il devient informaticien et son premier salaire sert à payer la première traite d'une table de mixage à 25 000 francs. Après tout, Florian Gratton n'a jamais manqué de détermination et sait prendre des décisions tranchées. Avant lui, sa mère moitié kabyle, moitié française, s'est évadée en Grande-Bretagne à l'adolescence, a rencontré un acteur moitié anglais, moitié irlandais et ne revient en France qu'après la victoire de Mitterrand à la présidentielle de 1981. Florian a onze ans et se met à la batterie, son premier instrument. Peu à peu, il saura jouer d'un peu tout. « Je suis plus curieux que vraiment multiinstrumentiste. Je n'apprends de chaque instrument que ce qui me suffit pour faire de la musique. C'est un apprentissage ciblé. Il me faut des notes bien appuyées et bien placées. »Qu'on ne s'attende pas à une trajectoire classique de reggaeman. Sa porte d'entrée pour la musique jamaïcaine est franchement britannique avec Police, avant le drum'n'bass et le choc de la dub poetry de Linton Kwesi Johnson. « À part ça, j'ai autant été nourri de Bob Marley que des Pink Floyd. » À vingt ans, commence le temps des groupes. À trente ans, il dirige une batucada de trente percussionnistes. Mais il s'est fixé comme un cap de faire son premier album avant trente-cinq ans. Square est son 7è album.Titres interprétés au grand studio- Square Live RFI- In The Shade, extrait de l'album- Loose Live RFI.Line Up : Florian Gratton alias Flox (machines, voix).Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille Roch.► Album Square (Underdog Records 2024).Site - YouTube - Bandcamp.
Du nu reggae au manouche, en passant par le jazz, la #SessionLive reçoit 2 noms de la scène hexagonale. Nos 1ers invités sont les Doigts de l'Homme pour la sortie de Erratic, The Art of Roaming.Les Doigts de L'Homme fêtent leurs 20 ans. Pour cela, ils sortent un double album ambitieux qui illustre le trajet parcouru le long de ces nombreuses années avec une approche encore plus inédite et personnelle. De l'acoustique à l'électrique, 23 titres autour d'un jazz de création, «guitaristique», coloré et exigeant. Et pour respecter la tradition : à chaque nouvel album, un nouvel instrument invité !... C'est le batteur Pierre Rettien qui rejoint l'équipe pour illustrer ce passage à l'électrique. Erratic deuxième single tiré du double album Erratic, The Art Of Roaming qui est sorti le 20 septembre 2024. Accepter le désordre, ne pas suivre de ligne de conduite, laisser émerger librement ce qu'il en résulte, dans la vie comme dans la musique, accepter de se laisser malmener par l'imprévu, fuir l'ordre qui peu à peu s'établit. Ignorer l'influence du regard extérieur, celui qui finit par restreindre la véritable liberté de choisir. Laisser naître de ce qui semble être le chaos.Titres interprétés au grand studio- Dreaming of my Brothers Live RFI- Des Hommes Intègres, extrait du double album (cd Électrik)- Californian Christmas Live RFI.Line Up : Olivier Kikteff (guitare), Benoît Convert (guitare), Yannick Alcocer (guitare), Tanguy Blum (contrebasse) et Nazim Aliouche (percussions). Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille Roch.► Album Erratic, The Art of Roaming (Lamastrock/ Inouïe Dist. 2024).YouTube - Bandcamp - Lamastrock. Puis nous recevons Flox pour la sortie de Square.Flox est square. Carré, précis, direct. Il aime aller droit à l'essentiel, ne pas se perdre en considérations superflues. « Je n'ai pas le temps de faire de la merde », résume-t-il. Alors, son septième album s'intitule Square.Square correspond à un virage majeur dans la carrière du pionnier du nu reggae, extraordinaire artisan du studio qui joue de tous les instruments, s'enregistre, se mixe et se produit mais, pendant une douzaine d'années, montait sur scène avec des musiciens. Après avoir enregistré Square, il a commencé à tourner seul, équipé d'une machine qu'il a dessinée et construite avec des contrôleurs Midi pour lancer samples et boucles qu'il a enregistrés lui-même : « Il faut maîtriser tous les outils pour délivrer ce que l'on veut », répète-t-il depuis longtemps...Ce doux quinquagénaire franco-britannique au crâne lisse sourit, gentiment moqueur : « Il y a tellement d'outils si faciles qui permettent de sortir des albums alors que l'on est encore en phase d'apprentissage ou d'acquisition que beaucoup se brûlent les ailes. »Flox sait si bien combien son chemin a demandé de patience, de précision et de passion. Il y a quelques décennies, il sort diplômé en reliure de ses cinq ans à l'École Estienne. Il est en pleine période punk et ne se voit pas travailler pour les vieux clients bourgeois des relieurs. Alors il devient informaticien et son premier salaire sert à payer la première traite d'une table de mixage à 25 000 francs. Après tout, Florian Gratton n'a jamais manqué de détermination et sait prendre des décisions tranchées. Avant lui, sa mère moitié kabyle, moitié française, s'est évadée en Grande-Bretagne à l'adolescence, a rencontré un acteur moitié anglais, moitié irlandais et ne revient en France qu'après la victoire de Mitterrand à la présidentielle de 1981. Florian a onze ans et se met à la batterie, son premier instrument. Peu à peu, il saura jouer d'un peu tout. « Je suis plus curieux que vraiment multiinstrumentiste. Je n'apprends de chaque instrument que ce qui me suffit pour faire de la musique. C'est un apprentissage ciblé. Il me faut des notes bien appuyées et bien placées. »Qu'on ne s'attende pas à une trajectoire classique de reggaeman. Sa porte d'entrée pour la musique jamaïcaine est franchement britannique avec Police, avant le drum'n'bass et le choc de la dub poetry de Linton Kwesi Johnson. « À part ça, j'ai autant été nourri de Bob Marley que des Pink Floyd. » À vingt ans, commence le temps des groupes. À trente ans, il dirige une batucada de trente percussionnistes. Mais il s'est fixé comme un cap de faire son premier album avant trente-cinq ans. Square est son 7è album.Titres interprétés au grand studio- Square Live RFI- In The Shade, extrait de l'album- Loose Live RFI.Line Up : Florian Gratton alias Flox (machines, voix).Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille Roch.► Album Square (Underdog Records 2024).Site - YouTube - Bandcamp.
Last season, we focused on playing pieces from Issues One to Three of The Sunday Paper. This season we are going to be furthering the conversation on resistance and anti-imperial struggles around the world. We're starting off close to home this week, with an on-the-ground report from a protest that happened in Canberra last Monday.Before I start this story I should explain for international listeners that Aboriginal Nations on this continent were invaded and occupied in 1788 by the British Empire. The Indigenous people never ceded their sovereignty, so this country is still illegally occupied with the current King Charles as the supposed head of stateKing Charles has been visiting this colony in the past week and in response, The Black People's Union, along with other grass roots Aboriginal groups and individuals, organised protests to ‘unwelcome' the King at each location of his visit. I drove up to Canberra to join the protest there.This episode was made on Ngunnawal, Ngambri and Wurundjeri land. This land was invaded, stolen and remains under occupation. Colonial violence continues, as does Indigenous resistance. Our theme music was made by DOBBY.This episode also features the track ‘Inglan is a Bitch' by Linton Kwesi Johnson.Our executive producer is Matt Chun.The Sunday Paper Podcast is compiled, mixed and edited by me, Mell Chun. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesundaypaperpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
'An unending list' Malcolm Gladwell, K.D. Lang, Banda El Recodo De Don Cruz Lizárraga, David Bowie, The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir, Los De Abajo, Joy Crookes, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ismo, Sean O'Hagan, The Atlantics, David Byrne, Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti
For Episode 29, Tony's guests are Roual Galloway of Spinners, and Derek Steel of Razur Cuts, two of the more prominent among the many Litzines currently flourishing in the UK (and beyond).Litzines – independent zines of literature from outside the mainstream – are surely among the oldest of all forms of fanzines. Depending on your historical perspective, you could even argue that they predate the concept of the fanzine itself, which as noted back on Episode 21, was a word first knowingly used in 1940.Certainly, self-published zines of prose and poetry writing were an important part of the Beat culture on both US coasts through the 1950s and 1960s, have an anchor in the current vibrant world of perzines, and have been especially strong in the UK ever since the emergence of a new generation of poets in the early 1980s. These were people encouraged by the examples of cross-over artists like John Cooper Clarke and Linton Kwesi Johnson, and aided by the support of rock artists like The Jam's Paul Weller, and they took to the pubs and small theaters of the UK to reclaim the form “for the people.” In the UK, the medium, in prose and short story form too, has also always had a close connection to the football terraces and others aspects of pop culture, and recent issues of Razur Cuts and Spinners, each weighing in at about 80 pages, readily demonstrate as much...For more info, including photos, more words, and more links, please visit https://tonyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-flourishing-world-of-litzines Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jaf plays more new releases this week, a connection between Northern Soul and Post-Punk, some classic ‘70s soul and a rallying call from Linton Kwesi JohnsonFor more info and tracklisting, visit: https://thefaceradio.com/blues-and-grooves/Tune into new broadcasts of Blues & Grooves, Sundays from 4 - 5 PM EST / 9 - 10 PM GMT.//Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Acclaimed jazz singer, songwriter and interpreter Madeleine Peyroux will release Let's Walk, her first album in six years, on June 28th. The new songs present sides of the artist only touched on in the past. The collection is her most diverse, intimate and bold work as she shares thoughtful and revealing views on personal and societal concerns. Peyroux offers hope through understanding and community by using one of our most unifying means, music. Let's Walk is Peyroux's ninth album and the first in which she co-wrote every song with longtime collaborator Jon Herington. As evidenced from her new single “Please Come On Inside”, Peyroux has empathy and wisdom to impart. While many of us have lost a connection or a relationship with someone close due to these polarizing and divisive times, Peyroux offers a way back through compassion and kindness. Stylistically, Let's Walk may be Peyroux's most varied yet cohesive collection thus far. She incorporates elements of jazz, folk, gospel blues, Americana, chamber pop, Latin rhythms and a little playful humor into the mix. The songs are interwoven around contemplative, observational and confessional narratives, making it the deepest and most substantive album of her illustrious catalog. The title track was inspired by the mass mobilization of everyday people standing up and unifying for civil rights around the world in 2020. The stunning “How I Wish” is soul-searching awakening in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. On “Nothing Personal,” she addresses sexual assault – both her own, and countless others, with her aching and poignant vocals. As much depth and soul searching as Let's Walk presents, there is a lighter side as well. The playful “Me and the Mosquito” features a Caribbean-infused rhythm and vocal as Peyroux tackles the ever-elusive pest that will not let her sleep at night. She closes the album with a humorous, while somewhat serious advisory, via the tongue-in-cheek, speedy spoken-word track “Take Care”, inspired by the dub poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson. Let's Walk finds Madeleine Peyroux in the most freely creative place of her celebrated career. With eight albums and worldwide acclaim, she refuses to stand still as she arrives at a new artistic and creative plateau. True artists always continue to move forward, much like the album title suggests. ubscribe to The Jazz, Blues and R and B Podcast and Radio Show Period: Also, Subscribe to The Beatles Come To America (limited-run with Brooke Halpin, we review all the Beatles US Albums) To Subscribe go to: Youtube, Itunes, Anchor, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts, Google Podcast, Overcast, Breaker, Castbox, Radio Public, Podbay, Stitcher....and more! Contacts: Email: somethingcamefrombaltimore@gmail.com Twitter: / jazzpodcperiod Instagram: Something Came From Baltimore (@something.came.from.baltimore) TheBocX.com - The Jazz, Blues & R&B Podcast and Radio Show Period THE SHOW INFO: Something came from Baltimore is a Podcast and a 30-minute radio show and can be heard weekly (Thursday's at 7pm EST) it's called, SOMETHING came from Baltimore THE SHOW. Check out the Station: Jazz Music Radio - The BocX Streaming Jazzy Music TIPS! (Thank You!) Tom Gouker's Cash App Account: $ThomasGouker Tom Gouker's Venmo Account: Thomas-Gouker --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somethingcame-from-baltim/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somethingcame-from-baltim/support
fWotD Episode 2546: Death of Blair Peach Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of the featured Wikipedia article every day.The featured article for Wednesday, 24 April 2024 is Death of Blair Peach.Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 – 24 April 1979) was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England. A campaigner and activist against the far right, in April 1979 Peach took part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration in Southall against a National Front election meeting in the town hall and was hit on the head, probably by a member of the Special Patrol Group (SPG), a specialist unit within the Metropolitan Police Service. He died in hospital that night.An investigation by Commander John Cass of the Metropolitan Police's Complaints Investigation Bureau concluded that Peach had been killed by one of six SPG officers, and others had preserved their silence to obstruct his investigation. The report was not released to the public, but was available to John Burton, the coroner who conducted the inquest; excerpts from a leaked copy were also published in The Leveller and The Sunday Times in early 1980. In May 1980 the jury in the inquest arrived at a verdict of death by misadventure, although press and some pressure groups—notably the National Council for Civil Liberties—expressed concern that no clear answers had been provided, and at the way Burton conducted the inquest.Celia Stubbs, Peach's partner, campaigned for the Cass report to be released and for a full public inquiry. An inquiry was rejected, but in 1988 the Metropolitan Police paid £75,000 compensation to Peach's family. In 2009 Ian Tomlinson died after he was struck from behind by a member of the Territorial Support Group, the SPG's successor organisation; the parallels in the deaths proved to be the catalyst in the release of the Cass report to the public. The Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, released the report and supporting documentation. He also offered an official apology to Peach's family.The policing of the demonstration in Southall damaged community relations in the area. Since Peach's death the Metropolitan Police have been involved in a series of incidents and poorly conducted investigations—the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, the death of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005, the botched 2006 Forest Gate raid and the death of Tomlinson—all of which tarnished the image of the service. Peach's death has been remembered in the music of The Pop Group, Ralph McTell and Linton Kwesi Johnson; the National Union of Teachers set up the Blair Peach Award for work for equality and diversity issues and a school in Southall is named after him.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:37 UTC on Wednesday, 24 April 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Death of Blair Peach on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Salli Standard.
This week's show, after a 2003 Justin Sullivan soliloquy: brand new Decemberists, New Model Army, T.S.O.L, Bolts of Melody, Lemon Twigs, The Smile, and Corb Lund, plus Bobby Parker, The Action, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Webb Pierce, Johnny Ri...
Jamaica poet and artist, Linton Kwesi Johnson is the second living poet, and the only black one, to have his poems published in the Penguin Modern Classics Series in 2002. Born in Chapelton, a rural parish of Clarendon in Jamaica, Linton Kwesi Johnson migrated to Britain in 1963 with his parents as part of the Windrush generation that left Jamaica on the eve of independence. Johnson attended Tulse Hill School in Lambeth, where he joined the British Black Panther Movement, helping to organize poetry workshops within the movement, while developing his work with Rasta Love, a group of poets and drummers. Johnson studied sociology at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, London, graduating in 1973. He wrote for New Musical Express, Melody Maker, and Black Music in the 1970s, while working as the first paid library resources and education officer at the Keskidee Centre, where his poem "Voices of the Living and the Dead" was staged and produced by Jamaican novelist Lindsay Barrett. Johnson's poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican patois, mixing it with dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with reggae producer Dennis Bovell. In this episode, we present a poetry performance by Linton Kwesi Johnson at the Leeds West Indian Centre held to commemorate 50 years since the death of David Oluwale. This episode is part of the African History Series of the Africanist Press featuring voices, individuals, and institutions engaged in shaping the study of Africa's past and present developments.
Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of the greatest poets of the modern era. His uncompromising political verse infused with reggae has influenced many people, and helped chronicle the lived experience of Black Britain for decades. This year, Linton has published a selection of his prose from the 1970s to 2021, titled “Time Come.” He joins Tom to talk about his life in words, poetry and music.
They came, they saw, they felt conquered. Turning to the later works of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming, and the writing of Andrew Salkey, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, and Linton Kwesi Johnson, this lecture will reflect on the aesthetics of Caribbean emigrant authors. Considering how the form of their works reflected a changing Britain in the 1960s-80s, it will explore how their motifs, and themes of fragmentation and rupture, signal the emergence of a new Black British consciousness.A lecture by Dr Malachi McIntosh recorded on 3 October 2023 at Barnard's Inn Hall, LondonThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/writers-windrushGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website: https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter: https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport the show
The Did Ya Know team are proud top be a part of the Google Arts and Culture series 'Union Black' with three very special episodes. UNION BLACK is an online multi-format content series across YouTube and Google Arts & Culture, featuring a curated collection of videos, audio documentaries, podcasts, stories and photographs taking us on a journey celebrating the contributions of Black British music artists, creatives, professionals and scenes.Told by the Black British music community, these stories will demonstrate the undeniable influence and impact of Black British music and culture in the UK and beyond. In three special episodes, 'The Black British Producers behind Global Albums', is a series of podcasts that accompany the visual series with additional content, spotlighting the contribution of Black British music producers who have had International impact.In this episode we talk to legendary producer Dennis Bovell, the man who not only produced incredible records, but created a genre - Lovers Rock a sound that epitomised Black Britain. He tells us about sound systems and the part they played in his life, how he c with Linton Kwesi Johnson, how a man synonymous in the world of reggae produced an iconic Punk band and of course how Janet Kay's single ‘Silly Games' change the music landscape.If you want too know more about Union Black and check the amazing content please head to goo.gle/unionblack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Did Ya Know team are proud top be a part of the Google Arts and Culture series 'Union Black' with three very special episodes. UNION BLACK is an online multi-format content series across YouTube and Google Arts & Culture, featuring a curated collection of videos, audio documentaries, podcasts, stories and photographs taking us on a journey celebrating the contributions of Black British music artists, creatives, professionals and scenes.Told by the Black British music community, these stories will demonstrate the undeniable influence and impact of Black British music and culture in the UK and beyond. In three special episodes, 'The Black British Producers behind Global Albums', is a series of podcasts that accompany the visual series with additional content, spotlighting the contribution of Black British music producers who have had International impact.In this episode we talk to legendary producer Dennis Bovell, the man who not only produced incredible records, but created a genre - Lovers Rock a sound that epitomised Black Britain. He tells us about sound systems and the part they played in his life, how he c with Linton Kwesi Johnson, how a man synonymous in the world of reggae produced an iconic Punk band and of course how Janet Kay's single ‘Silly Games' change the music landscape.If you want too know more about Union Black and check the amazing content please head to goo.gle/unionblack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's show, after a 1978 Adverts trill: brand new Damned, Wedding Present, Belle & Sebastian, Donovan's Brain, Beach House, Gaz Coombes, and Green Pajamas, plus Linton Kwesi Johnson, Bonzo Dog Doo/Dah Band, Hank Williams Sr., Al Smith, The Loot, ...
Reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reveals the influences and experiences that inspired his own creativity. Born in Jamaica, he moved to south London in 1963 at the age of eleven. He made his name as a performance poet, reciting politically motivated verse to a dub-reggae backbeat, and becoming a powerful voice of resistance and protest in response to racism on the streets of Britain in the 1970s. He became the first black poet to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in 2020, and recently published a collection of prose under the title Time Come. On stage and on record, he is renowned for angry and uncompromising works such as Five Nights Of Bleeding, Sonny's Lettah, and Iglan Is a Bitch. For This Cultural Life, Linton Kwesi Johnson recalls growing up in poverty in rural Jamaica, where his grandmother told him ghost stories and read The Bible. Appalled at the racism he experienced, he joined the Black Panthers whilst still at school and became a political activist. He began to write and perform poetry, set to music and delivered in Jamaican patois, after being inspired by reggae artists such as Prince Buster and U-Roy, and the American group The Last Poets. Johnson also talks about the tragic fire that killed 13 young partygoers in New Cross, south London in 1981, an event that he commemorated in one of his best known works, New Craas Massahkah. Producer: Edwina Pitman
In a week where: Trump is indicted. Oscar Pistorius and Charles Bronson are denied parole. Connecticut and LSU win NCAA National Basketball championships. TikTok fined £12.7 million for UK Data Protection Breaches. Finland becomes 31st member of NATO. In TV: A friend asked me to watch Donald Glover's new show "Swarm". Whilst it's certainly something to evoke an opinion, I can't quite shake off and it's Glover's creative relationship with Black women.In the 1st of two Society segments: Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has commented on Britain's ills for decades and with the recent reckoning of the Met Police and British policing as a whole, LKJ is keeping the pressure on. In the 2nd Society segment: It's time for yet another moral panic! This time, it's the government's crackdown on Nos. But don't get it twisted, this isn't merely about curbing Anti-Social Behaviour, it's something bigger.Lastly, in Life: I've always credited my creative endeavours for giving my life purpose, but for some, creative endeavours like Photography can save your mental health.Thank you for listening! If you want to contribute to the show, whether it be sending me questions or voicing your opinion in any way, peep the contact links below and I'll respond accordingly. Let me know "What's Good?"Rate & ReviewE-Mail: the5thelelmentpub@gmail.comTwitter: @The5thElementUKWebsite: https://medium.com/@the5thelementIntro Music - "Too Much" By VanillaInterlude - "Charismatic" By NappyHighChillHop MusicOther Podcasts Under The 5EPN:Diggin' In The Digits5EPN RadioBlack Women Watch...In Search of SauceThe Beauty Of Independence
In 1979, Maurice Bishop and the New J.E.W.E.L. Movement (NJM) came to power, in the spirit of the Cuban and Haitian revolutions, against an authoritarian neocolonial puppet and promised to end illiteracy, poverty, and the colonial condition of Grenada as a site of former enslavement and ongoing extraction. 4 years later (and 40 years past from 2023) Bishop was dead, assassinated by members of his own revolutionary government, and Ronald Reagan was authorizing the imperialist invasion of a tiny island that posed no threat to the American Empire. What happened? The story of the Grenadian Revolution is a complicated tale of Vanguards and Masses; a dialectical interplay of the forces that make revolution possible. In looking at the 40th anniversary of the end of the short-lived revolution, we ask how a revolution's flame can burn so bright that even its extinguishing still casts a shadow on the Caribbean today. Our guest is David Austin, the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don't Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. Recommended texts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kuhDpdu-MOS72_mKntQPUO-EA4mgyNTf/view?usp=sharinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-AxNFx88o Songs: Bass Culture, Linton Kwesi Johnson; Maurice Bishop Revolution, President Lily Films: Grenada, the Future Coming Towards Us --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cadre-journal/support
This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. "Tell us the truth," Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It's a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher's fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britian in 21 Mixtapes (PM Press, 2023) presents an original and polemical account of the era. Hugh Hodges has written extensively on African and West Indian music, poetry, and fiction, including essays on Fela Kuti, Lord Kitchener, and Bob Marley. Linton Kwesi Johnson praised his book Soon Come as "extremely engaging and an important, original scholarly work." He currently teaches at Trent University, Ontario, where his research focuses on cultural resistance in its many forms, and his band the Red Finks remains hopelessly obscure. Hugh's author page for PM Press. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. "Tell us the truth," Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It's a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher's fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britian in 21 Mixtapes (PM Press, 2023) presents an original and polemical account of the era. Hugh Hodges has written extensively on African and West Indian music, poetry, and fiction, including essays on Fela Kuti, Lord Kitchener, and Bob Marley. Linton Kwesi Johnson praised his book Soon Come as "extremely engaging and an important, original scholarly work." He currently teaches at Trent University, Ontario, where his research focuses on cultural resistance in its many forms, and his band the Red Finks remains hopelessly obscure. Hugh's author page for PM Press. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. "Tell us the truth," Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It's a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher's fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britian in 21 Mixtapes (PM Press, 2023) presents an original and polemical account of the era. Hugh Hodges has written extensively on African and West Indian music, poetry, and fiction, including essays on Fela Kuti, Lord Kitchener, and Bob Marley. Linton Kwesi Johnson praised his book Soon Come as "extremely engaging and an important, original scholarly work." He currently teaches at Trent University, Ontario, where his research focuses on cultural resistance in its many forms, and his band the Red Finks remains hopelessly obscure. Hugh's author page for PM Press. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts
This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. "Tell us the truth," Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It's a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher's fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britian in 21 Mixtapes (PM Press, 2023) presents an original and polemical account of the era. Hugh Hodges has written extensively on African and West Indian music, poetry, and fiction, including essays on Fela Kuti, Lord Kitchener, and Bob Marley. Linton Kwesi Johnson praised his book Soon Come as "extremely engaging and an important, original scholarly work." He currently teaches at Trent University, Ontario, where his research focuses on cultural resistance in its many forms, and his band the Red Finks remains hopelessly obscure. Hugh's author page for PM Press. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music
This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. "Tell us the truth," Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It's a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher's fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britian in 21 Mixtapes (PM Press, 2023) presents an original and polemical account of the era. Hugh Hodges has written extensively on African and West Indian music, poetry, and fiction, including essays on Fela Kuti, Lord Kitchener, and Bob Marley. Linton Kwesi Johnson praised his book Soon Come as "extremely engaging and an important, original scholarly work." He currently teaches at Trent University, Ontario, where his research focuses on cultural resistance in its many forms, and his band the Red Finks remains hopelessly obscure. Hugh's author page for PM Press. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies
Playlist: 1. Tom Morrison - Dunmore Lassies 2. Something Happens - Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello (Petrol) 3. The Four Of Us - Fool For Temptation 4. Power of Dreams - Never Told You 5. Ghost Of An American Airman - Honey Child 6. Forget Me Nots - So Good 7. Cypress Mine - Funny Street 8. The Would Be's - Funny Ha Ha 9. That Petrol Emotion - It's A Good Thing 10. Cactus World News - The Bridge 11. The Fountainhead - The Rhythm Method 12. U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One 13. The Blades - Ghost Of A Chance 14. Microdisney - Town To Town 15. The Fat Lady Sings - Man Scared 16. Bawl - Older And Older 17. In Tua Nua - All I Wanted 18. Cry Before Dawn - The Seed Thats Been Sown 19. A House - I'll Always Be Grateful 20. The Frank & Walters - This Is Not A Song 21. NRBQ - It's St. Patrick's Day 22. Sack - What Did The Christians Ever Do For Us 23. Stump - Boggy Home 24. Thin Lizzy - Emerald [BBC Session] 25. Rory Gallagher - Follow Me 26. Boomtown Rats - Looking After Number One 27. Sultans Of Ping - Where's Me Jumper? 28. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death 29. Julian Cope - Cromwell In Ireland 30. Declan O'Rourke - Along The Western Seaboard 31. The Waterboys - The Stolen Child 32. Kate Bush - Mná Na h'Éireann (Women Of Ireland) 33. Seamus Fogarty - Short Ballad For A Long Man 34. Lisa O'Neill - Old Note 35. Mekons - St Patrick's Day 36. Sinéad O'Connor - I Am Stretched On Your Grave 37. Kila - Leath Ina Dhiaidh a hOcht (Half Eight) 38. Planxty - Smeceno Horo 39. The Pogues - Streams Of Whiskey 40. Sharon Shannon - Off To Californee (Mursheen Durkin Revisited) (ft. Linton Kwesi Johnson) 41. The Mary Wallopers - Cod Liver Oil & The Orange Juice 42. Damien Dempsey - St. Patrick's Day 43. Whipping Boy - When We Were Young 44. An Emotional Fish - Celebrate 45. Toasted Heretic - Another Day, Another Riot Image: St. Philo, Musicmaker, Dublin, 2023 Podomatic: https://soulshenanigans.podomatic.com Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3fYzstV Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/331g0tM Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/32OIqGI TuneIn Radio: https://bit.ly/30UUPIu Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/soulshenanigans Twitter: @soulshenanigans Facebook: soulshenanigans Email: soulshenanigans(at)gmail.com
This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. "Tell us the truth," Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It's a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher's fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britian in 21 Mixtapes (PM Press, 2023) presents an original and polemical account of the era. Hugh Hodges has written extensively on African and West Indian music, poetry, and fiction, including essays on Fela Kuti, Lord Kitchener, and Bob Marley. Linton Kwesi Johnson praised his book Soon Come as "extremely engaging and an important, original scholarly work." He currently teaches at Trent University, Ontario, where his research focuses on cultural resistance in its many forms, and his band the Red Finks remains hopelessly obscure. Hugh's author page for PM Press. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture
This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other bands and solo artists. Each chapter presents a mixtape (or playlist) of songs related to an alarming feature of Thatcher's Britain, followed by an analysis of the dialogue these artists created with the Thatcherite vision of British society. "Tell us the truth," Sham 69 demanded, and pop music, however improbably, did. It's a furious and sardonic account of dark times when pop music raised a dissenting fist against Thatcher's fascist groove thing and made a glorious, boredom-smashing noise. Bookended with contributions by Dick Lucas and Boff Whalley as well as an annotated discography, The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britian in 21 Mixtapes (PM Press, 2023) presents an original and polemical account of the era. Hugh Hodges has written extensively on African and West Indian music, poetry, and fiction, including essays on Fela Kuti, Lord Kitchener, and Bob Marley. Linton Kwesi Johnson praised his book Soon Come as "extremely engaging and an important, original scholarly work." He currently teaches at Trent University, Ontario, where his research focuses on cultural resistance in its many forms, and his band the Red Finks remains hopelessly obscure. Hugh's author page for PM Press. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies
This week's show, after a 1947 Frank Loesser warble: brand new The Beths, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, House of Love, John Cale with Weyes Blood, Iggy Pop, and Annie Hamilton; plus Byrds, Eddie Cochran, Shocking Blue, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hollies,...
In this episode, Anthony Joseph discusses growing up in a culturally rich community, raised by his grandparents, playing soccer and eating mangoes. We talk about his move to the United Kingdom in his early twenties—a completely different world for him to learn to navigate—where he met legendary UK poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. He shares about his music career and love for jazz and poetry. "Kamau," the first track on his album The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives, was named for Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite, a major influence. Joseph's latest book is Sonnets for Albert.For more details and information about Anthony Joseph visit his website.https://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk
Art critic Laura Robertson reviews this year's Turner Prize show at Tate Liverpool. Presenter Nick Ahad pays a visit to the immersive exhibition, Turn It Up: The Power of Music at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. Laura Robertson brings us up to date on the latest arts news, from the delayed funding announcement by Arts Council England, to Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof gallery's response to rising energy costs. Plus Nick Ahad speaks to the pioneering dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson about his new collection, Selected Poems. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu Image: The Musical Playground in Turn It Up The Power of Music exhibition © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Group
We explore the relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality with writer, author, and artist Huw Lemmey. Plus: dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and artist Ben F Jones reflect on their relationship with art and activism in celebration of Black History Month and we learn about the seventh edition of the Singapore Biennale, also known as ‘Natasha'.
We explore the relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality with writer, author, and artist Huw Lemmey. Plus: dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and artist Ben F Jones reflect on their relationship with art and activism in celebration of Black History Month and we learn about the seventh edition of the Singapore Biennale, also known as ‘Natasha'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The first Verb of a new season, recorded in front of an audience at the Contains Strong Language Festival of poetry and performance at the Hippodrome in Birmingham. We have brand new work from the legendary dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and we're also joined by two of this year's CSL poets; Romalyn Ante, author of 'Anti-Emetic for Homesickness', and Isabelle Baafi, who won a Somerset Maugham award for her debut pamplet Ripe. Linda France is one of the shortlisted poets for this year's Laurel Prize for the best collection of nature or environmental poetry, and our 'Something New' comes from Luke Kennard. Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Faith Lawrence
This weeks show starts off with music from Dennis Brown, Culture, The Gladiators, Israel Vibration, Yabby You, Tommy McCook, Luciano, Ziggy Marley, Horace Andy, Peter Tosh, Sugar Minott, Fred Locks, and Burning Spear. New music this week comes from Med Dred and Shaky Norman, Taken Jah Fakoly with Winston McAnuff, Israel Starr, Nature Ellis, Jeb Loy Nichols, Caz Gardiner with Victor Rice, I-Taweh, Kiddus I & Infinite, Samora and Jah Mason, Rubi Du, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Da Real Storm, Dre Island, Mellow Mood, and Brother Culture. Also this week we ride the Ragamuffin 89 Riddim as well the Luck of Love Riddim featuring artists like Lady G, Bunny General, Big Simon, George Palmer and Tonto Addi. In the dub zone you will hear dubs from King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Tappa Zukie, Mafia & Fluxy, Mad Professor, The Disciples and Dubmatix with Future Dub Orchestra. Extended dub mixes feature Michael Prophet & Scientist, Jacob Miller and the Rockers All Stars, Linval Thompson, Earl Zero & Bass Lee, and Linton Kwesi Johnson. Enjoy! Dennis Brown - Deliverance Will Come - Visions Of Dennis Brown - VP Records Culture - Black Starliner Must Come - Two Sevens Clash: The 30th Anniversary Edition - Shanachie Records The Gladiators - Jah Works - Dreadlocks The Time Is Now - Virgin Records Israel Vibration - Live & Give - Strength Of My Life - Ras Records The Prophets & Trinity - King Pharaoh's Plague - Yabby You: Jesus Dread 1972-1977 - Blood & Fire Tommy McCook - Plague Of Horn - Yabby You: Jesus Dread 1972-1977 - Blood & Fire King Tubby - King Pharaoh Dub - Yabby You: Jesus Dread 1972-1977 - Blood & Fire Med Dred & Shaky Norman - Flying Melodicas/Flying Dub - Flying Melodicas - Dubophonic Records Luciano - Messenger - Messenger - Xterminator Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - Justice - One Bright Day - Virgin Horace Andy & Ranking Buckers - Them Never Tell I (Lie Teacher Gal) - Jah Love Rockers: Revolutionary Sounds From The Rockers & Steppers Era 1975-1980 - Trojan Records Dennis Brown - Easy Take It Easy - Studio One Rocksteady - Soul Jazz Records Peter Tosh - The Toughest - The Toughest - Heartbeat Records Sugar Minott - Hard Time Pressure - Black Roots - Island Fred Locks - Love and Only Love - Tribes Man Records Burning Spear - The Wilderness - Live In Paris 88 - Burning Music Tiken Jah Fakoly feat. Winston McAnuff - I Can Hear - Chapter Two Records Keith Porter & The Itals - Jah Glory - Mind Over Matter - Ital Music Israel Starr feat. Million Stylez & Riddim Cartel - Cool, Calm, and Collected - Keepers Of The Flame - Bless Up Music Nature Ellis - Battlefield Warriors - Drum Song Riddim - Filo Muzik Records Shakaroot - There Must Be A Way - Drum Song Riddim - Filo Muzik Records Manudigital & Rastar All Stars feat. Gregory Isaacs - The Soul Of Ethiopia - Manudigital Meets Rastar All Stars Vol. 1 - Rastar Records Glen Washington - Give Jah Praise - Reggae Max - Jet Star Records Ruff Cut - Give Jah Dub - Give Jah The Glory - Global Beats Mista Savona & Havana Meets Kingston feat. Clinton Fearon w/ Sly & Robbie - The Human Chain - Havana Meets Kingston Part 2 - Cumbancha Jeb Loy Nichols - What Does A Man Do All Day - Pay It All Back Vol. 8 - On U Sound The Co-Operators & Friends feat. Perkie & Beanie - The Thief & The Liar - Beating The Doldrums - Happy People Records Caz Gardiner & Victor Rice - Satta Soul/Satta Soul Version - Old Neighborhood Records Beverly Bailey - I Was In Love - The Ladies At Joe Gibbs - VP Records Nora Dean - Barbwire - Treasure Isle Presents: Original Reggae 40 Original Tighten Up Hits - Treasure Isle Lady G - Nuh Fear Dem - Raggamuffin 89 - One Love Records Bunny General - Conquer - Raggamuffin 89 - One Love Records Big Simon - King Ina Di Ring - Raggamuffin 89 - One Love Records Dub Zone featuring Strictly Dubwize & Extended Dub Mixes Tappa Zukie - Dub MPLA - Dubwise & OtherWise - Blood & Fire King Tubby - Natty Dub - King Tubby Presents The Roots Of Dub - Jamaican Recordings Augustus Pablo - Origan Style - Gussie Presenting The Right Tracks - VP Records Mafia & Fluxy feat. The Pharmacist - Dub De Rights - Introducing The Pharmacist - Mafia & Fluxy Gussie P & Mad Professor - Upper Cut Dub (Mad Professor remix) - Heavyweight Champion Of Dub - Mafia & Fluxy The Disciples feat. Don Fe - Revelation - Jah Fingers 12” Dubmatix & Future Dub Orchestra - Inner Blues/Inner Blues (Future Dub Orchestra Mix) - Frontline Dub - Echo Beach Michael Prophet & Scientist - You Are A No Good/Dance Of The Vampires - Junjo Presents: The Evil Curse Of The Vampires - Greensleeves Jacob Miller & The Rockers All Stars - Who Say Jah No Dread/Jah Dread- Who Say Jah No Dread: The Classic Augustus Pablo Sessions 1974-1975 - Greensleeves Linval Thompson - Jumping For Joy - Thompson Sound 12” Earl Zero & Bass Lee - Fire In The City/East Of The City - Pirates Choice 12” Linton Kwesi Johnson - Di Great Insohreckshan/Insohreckshan Dub - Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology - Island Records ========================================= I-Taweh - Can You Feel It - Tap Nat Muzik Kiddus I & Infinite - Cup and the Lips - Notebook Riddim - Sam Diggy Music Link & Chain - Dirty Works - Issachar Muzik Samora feat. Jah Mason - Let Them Go - Chameleon - Staudenmann Rubi Du - Diamonds & Gold - Neighborhood Riddim - Jafa Sound Jahdan Blakkamore - Can't Tolerate Dat - Neighborhood Riddim - Jafa Sound Da Real Storm - Lighter Thief - Mighty Kuchie Riddim - Giddimani Records Dre Island feat. Richie Spice - High Grade Smoke - High Times - Dubshot Records Mellow Mood - Dub Jah Bless - Manana - Ineffable Records/La Tempesta Kabaka Pyramid & Damian Marley - Red, Gold, and Green - Ghetto Youths International Manudigital feat. Devon Morgan - Digital Kingston Session - Digital Kingston Session II - X Ray Production Queen Omega - No Love - Sound Killer Riddim - Evidence Music Eesah & Silly Walks Discotheque - Rocking - Silly Walks Discotheque George Palmer - Ready - Luck Of Love Riddim - Hotta Henne Tonto Addi - We Rule - Luck Of Love Riddim - Hotta Henne Brother Culture & Derrick Sound - International Dance - Evidence Music
本期我和老林聊了牙买加音乐在英国的发展，从 sound system 进入英国开始，牙买加音乐其实是塑造 UK sound 最关键的核心，它的影响力极其深远，并且在很多阶段都与美国流行乐的平行进化是不同的审美体系。 老林专门为这次节目整理了一份“Jamaican music in UK”文档，
Poet, playwright, rapper and activist Kae Tempest joins Lemn Sissay to discuss the power of live performance. Inspired by recordings in the British Library Sound Archive (see below for a full list) their conversation explores why Kae starting performing spoken word, what the atmosphere of a gig means to them and why they think we love to hear words performed live. Kae has won the Ted Hughes Award, their albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and they're known for their transporting performances on stage. Kae is currently touring their latest album The Line is a Curve. Please note this episode contains moments of strong language. Recordings in the episode in order of appearance: ‘Goodman' by the Smoke Fairies, 2007 demo submitted to the Glastonbury New Bands Competition, donated to the British Library sound archive. British Library shelfmark: C1238/3268 Jamaican dub poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson speaks to Sarah O'Reilly in 2015 for the National Life Stories oral history project ‘Authors' Lives'. British Library shelfmark: C1276/60 Paul Simon introduces his song Sparrow in a folk club in Bebbington, Wirral, in 1965. This recording is part of the Stan Mason collection and was digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project. British Library shelfmark: UAP004/4 S2 C3 An acapella performance by a group of women from the Divis Community Centre Drama Group, recorded in 1985 near Belfast. Copyright of Linda Ballard and performers; National Museums NI. British Library shelfmark: UNMNI002/474 C1-C6 Benjamin Zephaniah performs his poem Thirteen Dead at the Poetry Olympics festival that took place in 1983. This was recorded by the British Library at the Young Vic Theatre. British Library shelfmark: C92/2 C43 Malika Booker speaks to Dr Hannah Silva in 2016 as part of a collection of interviews called Black British Poets in Performance. British Library shelfmark: C1874/12 Susan Musgrove performs her poem Taboo Man the Poetry Olympics festival that took place in 1983. This was recorded by the British Library at the Young Vic Theatre. British Library shelfmark: C92/1 C22 Roger McGough performs his poem Writer of this Poem at the Poetry Olympics festival that took place in 1983. This was recorded by the British Library at the Young Vic Theatre. British Library shelfmark: C92/2 C56
In which they discuss: The Album at The Centre of The Banshees' Split! Budgie leaves Liverpool for London - finds fluorescent socks and The Artful Dodger aka Steve Strange. / London's empty Apartments are a Network of Knowledge for Survival in Post-war Britain / Money was Scarce, Ideas were Plentiful.Budgie's management was Swingbest - The Sex Pistols management was Glitterbest / The London Scene was Exclusive - Budgie lands in its Centre as Drummer with The Slits Opening for The Clash on their ‘Sort it Out' tour / Budgie watched Topper watched Budgie / Lol hears the Beginning of Budgie's Style.From Island Records' Jamaica Hub in London to Ridge Farm Recording Studio in Surrey, Cut begins on Passion Sunday, April 1st 1979 / Viv Albertine and Mick Jones are the Romeo and Juliet of Viv's lyrics / No Punk Rock for Ari Up! / A 4 Week Emotional Roller Coaster but The Food was Amazing!Budgie's Trojan Records - Reggae Roots nurtured by Cut producer Dennis ‘Blackbeard' Bovell / Blackbeard ‘Moonlights' producing Linton Kwesi Johnson's album ‘Forces of Victory', back to back with ‘Cut' / Viv says, Budgie was an extraordinary man to find / Ari and Budgie connected with a Passion for Beats and Pulse / The Slits found Their Gang - started by original Drummer Palmolive / Budgie embraced the Spirit of Palmolive and found his Own / A Magic Time!Dedicated to: Ariane Daniele Forster - Ari Up (17 January 1962 – 20 October 2010)CONNECT WITH US:Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialLol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646
* He stepped off a plane from Barbados onto a wet and windy runway at Heathrow airport in 1965 aged 12. * Now he's a DJ, multi-instrumentalist and producer of hundreds of records spanning reggae, lovers rock, soul, dub, punk and pop. * Dennis Bovell's life in music is populated by a countercultural cornucopia of artists as wide ranging as Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Slits, Madness, Bananarama, the Pop Group, Fela Kuti, Orange Juice, Marvin Gaye, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dexy's Midnight Runners and most recently, Radiohead, The Animal Collective and Spoon. * He's even got an MBE. * We dig into all that - or as much as we can - plus Hendrix, sound systems, cutting dub plates, sound clashes with Lee Scratch Perry, police harrasment, wrongful imprisonment and the youthful joys of eating breadfruit on the beach. * For More on Dennis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Bovell * The Bureau Home https://www.bureauoflostculture.com * The Bureau Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bureauoflostculture/ * The Bureau Newsletter https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/N0ZYoFu/BOLC
Chris Levine takes apart a great Reggae album psychologically to dwell on its artistry. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chris-levine/support
A rising star of British photography, Kemka Ajoku talks about how his English and Nigerian roots have shaped his outlook. He tells us why he focuses on telling Black British stories and how he handles racist responses to his work. Linton Kwesi Johnson's unflinching political poems about police brutality, social injustice and protest have made him an inspiration for a generation of poets. But whose words inspired him as a young writer? Linton shares with us how the work of Martin Carter fired his imagination and his passion for poetry. Xiran Jay Zhao's New York Times best-selling debut novel Iron Widow has been described as Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale. It tells the story of 18-year-old Zetian, the pilot of a giant robot, who is battling both an insidious patriarchy and menacing alien beings that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. Xiran reveals how their experiences as a first generation Chinese immigrant and as a non-binary writer have influenced their work. Presented by Megha Mohan. (Photo: 'Gestural Greetings' by Kemka Ajoku. Credit: Kemka Ajoku)
Pitchblack Mixtapes is streaming every Wednesday 8PM GMT during UK lockdown at mixcloud.com/live/bengomori My shows are supported by my Patreon followers. If you want to show your love for my podcast and what I do, you can give from less than 50p per episode to support me and in return you can enjoy perks like guestlist benefits for my gigs, free downloads, exclusive mixes, exclusive previews of my tracks, bonus Pitchblack Mixtapes and extended versions of my club sets patreon.com/bengomori Pitchblack Mixtapes is an offshoot of Pitchblack Playback, the event I host where people come together to listen to albums on big immersive sound systems in the dark. Pitchblack Mixtapes started life as an IRL event where I DJed a range of emotive and trippy music to a seated audience, and it became a live stream during lockdown. Find out more about our events at www.pitchblackplayback.com Tracklist: Richard Hawley - Last Orders Alex Albrecht feat. Carla Oliver - Yarra Bend Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae Sounds Feindrehstar - Happy Hour Janet Jackson feat. Q-Tip - Got 'Til It's Gone Broke One - As Silent As The Moon Groove Armada - Dirty Listening Latyrx - Lady Don't Tek No Metro Area - Caught Up Paul Hanning, PhD - music as therapy Be.lanuit - Santë Re Union (Sifa´s Ritual Expression) The Authers - Hamani Thundercat featuring Kendrick Lamar - Walk On By George Ohtsuka Quintet - Loving You
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