997Shows
39,217Spins
Sunday, Mar 21 2021, 12PM
"I Try" won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2001 Grammy Awards. It was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Watch the KEXP International Women's Month 2021 Mixtape at www.youtube.com
This single from KAYTRANADA was released as part of a TikTok project spotlighting Black History Month.
www.kaytranada.com
12:17 PM
44th spin
Shaka King’s film about the 1969 police killing of Fred Hampton, chirman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, inspired a set of tracks featured on this album.
This song by H.E.R. (pronounced "her", an acronym for Having Everything Revealed) is the closing song. Read more at www.nytimes.com
Antibalas celebrated its 20th Anniversary with a return to their Williamsburg roots on 'Fu Chronicles', released last year and nominated for Best Global Music Album.
Check out Antibalas playing live on KEXP in 2018:
www.youtube.com
Iranian Canadian duo. "Niyaz" means "yearning" in Urdu, Persian, and Turkish. www.youtube.com
Faegheh Atashin (Googoosh) is an Iranian singer. Born in 1950, she was banned from performing for 20 years after the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. www.instagram.com
Originally recorded by Googoosh. "Philia: Artists Rise Against Islamophobia" is a music and arts collaboration project designed to bring awareness to the growing problem of Islamophobia. subrosacurationpdx.bandcamp.com
On 1000 Watts, Will Holland makes a more concerted foray into pure reggae-roots territory. This album features many guest artists, including Flowering Inferno, U-Roy, Alice Russell and Hollie Cook. quanticmusic.bandcamp.com
Chicago drummer and producer Makaya McCraven re-imagines Gil Scott-Heron's final album.
From the London singer-songwriter's debut full length. lafawndah.com
Iranian singer-songwriter was also banned from performing for seventeen years after the Islamic Revolution. He was granted limited permission to release music starting in 1990, and in 1993 was allowed to perform in Norway and Sweden. kourosh-yaghmaei.com
Tkay Maidza is a 25-year old Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper. This cover was released as part of a new compilation celebrating record label 4AD's 40th anniversary; titled Bills & Aches & Blues, it will feature bands like Big Thief, Tune-Yards, Future Islands, Dry Cleaning, Jenny Hval, and more. It releases on April 2nd. 4ad.com
Nicolas Godin is one half of the French electronic duo Air. Here he teams up with Russian singer-songwriter Kate NV (Kate Shilonosova) www.nicolasgodin.com
Check out KEXP's International Women's Month YouTube Mixtape, which features the performance of this song: www.youtube.com
New release from this English post-punk band from South London: pitchfork.com
According to Goat Girl singer/guitarist L.E.D., "Badibaba" deals with "environmental catastrophe and the pessimism and self-destruction that this causes to the human spirit". goatgirl.co.uk
goatgirl.bandcamp.com
Brooklyn artist/musician Felicia Douglass also plays, writes and/or sings in the following projects: Gemma, Dirty Projectors, Ava Luna, Baile, and Lip Set. She has also collaborated with other artists including Toro y Moi, Helado Negro, Mr Twin Sister and Lushlife. Earlier in the month, this song was our featured song of the day. You can get it at www.kexp.org
1:35 PM
75th spin
RIP DOOM.
One of his last releases is this brilliant BBNG/MF Doom cover of the jazz-funk dancefloor classic "Los Conquistadores Chocolates" by Johnny "Hammond" Smith (produced by the Mizell Brothers)!
Check out the artist's legacy in a NYT feature - www.nytimes.com
- and then head over to our website and read the KEXP/Martin Douglas tribute: kexp.org.
Jazz band's first release with Astro Nautico. Seattle/New York duo of Gabe Stout on drums and Janak JP on keys. www.facebook.com
Read about the Tel Aviv singer and rapper on her exciting new album KIDS, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and more at www.stereogum.com
Here's a great Pitchfork interview with Dawn Richard about all the moves she made in the past year, from recording her new album (due in April), upgrading her New Orleans vegan food truck, and a partnership with Adult Swim "aimed at bringing in more queer and Black animators into its ranks."
pitchfork.com
---
See Richard's self-directed video for "Bussifame": www.youtube.com
Altın Gün are from Amsterdam but their members come from Turkey, Indonesia, and the Netherlands.
Also, this happened over the weekend: www.cnn.com
Shahla Safi Zamir (Marjan) was born in Tehran in 1948. The Islamic Revolution effectively ended her career. She was jailed in 1980 for performing a song, arrested again in 1982 and jailed until 1990. She fled to Dubai in 2001 and emigrated to the US in 2006. She died last year in Los Angeles from a heart attack.
Sevda Alizadeh (Sevdaliza) is an Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter and producer. This song, which means "to look" in Farsi, is a song protesting the previous administration's executive order banning refugees and immigrants from entering the country. sevdaliza.com
This standalone single was released in advance of Sa-Roc's Rhymesayers debut "The Sharecropper's Daughter". sa-roc.com
Leeds DJ and producer Paul Woolford and New York artist Amber Mark collaborate on this single. www.ambermarkmusic.com
NAO on Twitter:
"Me & @adekunleGOLD wrote 'Antidote' as a musical remedy to these times & an ode to our daughters, who were both born weeks apart during the pandemic. They filled us with love."
Stream or buy the song here:
smarturl.it
Surprise supergroup that formed in 2016 featuring Jenny Lewis, Au Revoir Simone's Erika Forster and The Like's Tennessee Thomas (with a bio written by Father John Misty). Learn more about Nice as Fuck and read that bio here:
consequenceofsound.net
That's keyboard/percussion and vocalist Felicia Douglass taking the lead, as she implores us to hold on, don’t "Lose Your Love." "Flight Tower" is the second of five albums that Dirty Projectors said they'd be releasing in 2020. A different band member sang one each of the first four EP, with all the band’s vocalists taking turns on the final and fifth EP. dirtyprojectors.bandcamp.com
Chaz Bundick aka Toro y Moi stopped by KEXP for an in-studio performance, hosted by Morgan back in 2015. You can watch his full set here: www.youtube.com
The Parisian duo of Paul Armand-Delille (Polo) and Alexandre Grynszpan (Pan) make music that flicks like frames through Golden Era Hollywood films, delivered with a deft French touch that playfully imbues house, disco, and electro in service one of the most compelling acts in dance music right now.
www.poloandpanmusic.com
Manchester DJ/producer Darren Williams. Home Is Where We Start From is 20 sample-based electronic tracks. As he says "sampling everything from 50's vocal groups to jazz standards to pscyhadelic rock to my drunken podcast interview with King Krule & my 5 year old daughter's voice."
You can stream this album at starslingeruk.bandcamp.com
Caroline Polachek, formerly of Charlift, joins Christine on this title track, singing in Italian -- the fourth language featured on this astounding album -- check out the gorgeous video: youtu.be
Thanks for listening, it's been a pleasure. Evie is up next!