2019-11-25 Songs of Blackness
Buy Nothing Day (aka Black Friday) prompts a show focusing not on consumption, but on a celebration of black. Black Lives Matter. And today, black songs matter. Happy Thanksgiving – #NODAPL – thanks for calling in with requests, and thanks for listening.
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Hour 1
Kobo Town “Beautiful Soul” from Independence
Ladysmith Black Mambazo “Black is beautiful” from Wenyukela
Barefoot Divas “Wahine Whakairo” from Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Ken Boothe “Is It Because I’m Black?” from Darker Than Blue: Soul from Jamdown, 1973-1980
Syriana “Black Zil” from The Road to Damascus
Gino Sitson “Ngoyak’ (Black Feeling)” from Song Zin’… Vocadelic Tales
Vera Bila & Kale “Rat’aha Me Peske Phirav” from Kale Kalore
Stone Town Crackers “White and Black” from No. 15
The Black Seeds “One step at a time” from Solid Ground
Set break — KAOS Community Billboard
Lo’Jo “A tribute to black” from 310 Lunes, Photographie d’un objet sonore (Bonus Track Version)
Macka B “Dem Kinda Blackman” from Global Messenger
Black Bazar “Black Mani” from Black Bazar Round 2
Cacique’97 “Black gold” from We Used to Be Africans
Hour 2
Brothers of the Baladi “Paint It Black” from Eye On the World
Cewek Matre “Black Skin” from Black Skin
Baird Hersey & Prana with Nexus “The Dance of Shining Darkness” from Chiaroscuro
Rumbamazigha “Ja Esta Be” from Rumbamazigha
Susana Baca “Zamba Malato” from Susana Baca
Bob Marley & the Wailers “Blackman Redemption” from Confrontation
¡ESSO! Afrojam Funkbeat “Cold Bed” from ¡Esso! Afrojam Funkbeat
Afrosonics “So so Na So” from People Meet Your People
Sväng “Eksyneen Tango (The Lost One’s Tango)” from Karja-La
Set break — Spin The Globe world music concert calendar
Maku Soundsystem “Canto Negro (excerpt)” from Makumbala
Debashish Bhattacharya & Bob Brozman “Konkani Memories” from Mahima
Nu Haven Kapelye “Ale Brider” from What’s Nu?
Eric Bibb & Habib Koité “Send Us Brighter Days” from Brothers In Bamako
