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Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four-year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death. The songs featured on the Luaka Bop release have been culled from the four cassettes that Alice recorded and released between 1982 and 1995.
Luaka Bop teamed with Alice’s children to find the original master tapes in the Coltrane archive. The recordings were prepared for re-mastering by the legendary engineer Baker Bigsby (Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, John Coltrane), who had overseen the original sessions in the 80s and 90s.
www.luakabop.com
As founders of the legendary Tribe Records, Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison led a Jazz underground renaissance in Detroit, forming a model for creative independence that is still followed today. “It was great working with Phil and Wendell, they definitely set the blueprint”, says Muhammad.
Jazz is Dead Series 2 begins with 'Jazz Is Dead 11'. For Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, collaborating with music icons and personal heroes is a dream come true. As Younge notes,
"A lot of the luminaries have been forgotten, and we want to get people excited again. For me, there is nothing more rewarding than that.”
jazzisdead.co jazzisdead.bandcamp.com
New Music!! The latest release from Grammy-winning guitarist, producer and Black Pumas co-founder, Adrian Quesada, serves as a celebration of the super funky, slightly delirious and deeply soulful sounds of balada music that transcended the cultural boundaries of Latin America throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Quesada has penned a love letter to that golden era through Boleros Psicodélicos, a stunning album that lovingly recreates the specificity of the balada sound, adding a stellar list of guest vocalists, intriguing contemporary touches and just a hint of irony.
adrianquesada.bandcamp.com
New music! On 'Spell 31' Afro-Cuban, French twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, known to the world as Ibeyi, set out to remobilize the power of their birth-given destiny as Ibeyi, which has led them on a path to restoration in pursuit of true harmony, healing and magic.
Enjoy Live Video from Ibeyi's 2017 KEXP In-Studio:
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Ibeyi will be live at The Neptune on Wednesday, September 21! More tour dates, info and music: ibeyimusic.com
ibeyi.bandcamp.com
New music from 070 Shake! The New Jersey rapper, also known as Danielle Balbuena, released You Can't Kill Me last week.
070shake.bandcamp.com
www.070shake.com
New Music! The debut album from queer UK artist Poppy Ajudha!
“There are so many boxes we put ourselves in; I want us all to break out of them. We are in an era of so much information and I feel the weight that young people take on because we are the generation bombarded with global politics and a million causes that need fighting for. This calls for better understanding around mental health and a society that nurtures us rather than demands of us everything we have until all that is left is our Demons. Every song on this album touches on these issues because they are all I think about everyday, all I see around me in my friends and my family. I hope it flips a switch in your mind, like it did for mine.”
www.poppyajudha.co.uk
New music! Debut album from East London MC, Jeshi.
“Universal Credit is me taking back two words that often mean embarrassment for people and trying to give a new life to that through my truth. This isn’t about trying to be the cool guy or tell you about how perfect life is—this is about really diving to places I haven’t been and giving a real honest portrayal of it all and holding up the mirror to what I see around me; the good, bad and ugly. If Universal Credit is what the government gives those of us going through a hard time, here’s my flip on that. This is Universal Credit—from me to you.”
jeshi.bandcamp.com
2005 release from south Seattle's own! - hip hop duo composed of MCs Khingz and Gabriel Teodros (you might have heard of him before, Early listeners . . .)
50 years of music on KEXP - this week, celebrating the year 1991 - including this 1991 release from Jamaican Reggae singer Burning Spear - one of the most influential and long-standing Roots artists to come from the 1970s.
“Don’t wait until it’s too late to show the people who you love, that you love them,” Riley said. “Salute the ones you love; simple, Love Salute.”
Contemporary Roots Reggae.
Video!
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New music!! from the Canadian electronic music duo from Montreal composed of Braids member Raphaelle "Ra" Standell-Preston and Alex "Agor" Kerby (also known as Alexander Cowan).
Playing in Seattle June 12 at the Timbre Room!
Check out a 2014 KEXP in-studio!
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bluehawaii.bandcamp.com
Australian neo-jazz and soul outfit Hiatus Kaiyote have released a remix album 'Mood Variant' of 2021's 'Mood Valiant'. The 10-track project includes remixes from Stro Elliot, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Mndsgn, Nick Hakim, DJ Khalil , Georgia Anne Muldrow, as well as this Ki Pharaoh remix. hiatuskaiyote.bandcamp.com
Playing August 26 at the Thing Festival in Port Townsend.
More tour dates and music:
hiatuskaiyote.com
Album-versary! 'The Ecstatic' was released on this day in 2009!
This track from Mos Def's fourth album contains snippets of an interview with Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, Fela Kuti, from the 1982 documentary "Music Is the Weapon."
New Music! 'Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento' excavates the forgotten sounds of the fantastical 1970s salsa dura group El Grupo Renacimiento. The group identifies as “B-class” salsa whose music explores human struggles in the urban city landscape, with themes such as police brutality, social marginalization, and addiction.
Columbian 5-piece Meridian Brothers collaborated with El Grupo Renacimiento in Bogota's Isaac Newton studios to capture their "fantasy salsa dura” sound. Although the group came out of myth, its members have been created in spirit. Embodied by Meridian Brothers and depicted in the graphic creations of illustrators Glenda Torrado and Mateo Rivano, the members of El Grupo Renacimiento have now come to life.
meridianbrothers.bandcamp.com
NEW MUSIC!! from Brazilian artist Sessa! His forthcoming release Estrela Acesa (which translates as Burning Star), is out June 24!
Sessa's songs are sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sensual lyrics in the vein of Caetano Veloso, and the melodic flourishes of Jobim. However, the music gets a deliberate minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music, more reminiscent of the bareness of Leonard Cohen, with touches of tropicalia and free jazz.
Check out a 2020 KEXP in-studio session:
youtu.be
sessa.bandcamp.com
In a statement, Calexico’s Joey Burns said of the new album:
"El Mirador is dedicated to family, friends and community. The pandemic highlighted all the ways we need each other, and music happens to be my way of building bridges and encouraging inclusiveness and positivity. That comes along with sadness and melancholy, but music sparks change and movement."
pitchfork.com
Calexico was live in the KEXP studio with Miss Ashley on Sunday - subscribe to our YouTube channel to be the first to hear when video from that session is up!
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Pitchfork said of Goat Girl's 2021 release 'On All Fours':
"Equipped with whirlpooling guitars and a newfound supply of silvery electronics, the South London band chronicles anxiety and ennui in songs full of spine-tingling dissonance."
pitchfork.com
Last year Goat Girl performed live at home for KEXP, watch it here:
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goatgirl.bandcamp.com
Honoring the Birthday of Les Paul - born June 9, 1915 in Waukesha, WI! His iconic Gibson Les Paul guitar is played on this track, first broadcast on BBC in 1969.
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Les Paul's 1959 Les Paul Standard was featured on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".
Led Zeppelin heavily adapted Muddy Waters' 1962 track of Willie Dixon's "You Need Love" into "Whole Lotta Love". The large similarities resulted in a lawsuit in 1985 which was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
Ty Segall's latest album, "Hello, Hi," is scheduled for release on July 22nd.
Check out the Live on KEXP podcast featuring Ty Segall's most recent KEXP session: www.kexp.org
tysegall.bandcamp.com
Released in 2020, 'Mordechai' is the third studio album by Houston trio Khruangbin. Drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson and bassist Laura Lee discuss how they developed such diverse influences, singing in 16 different languages, and their support for the Black Lives Matter movement:
“We see music as a vehicle to highlight those similarities between people so people can stand together, listen to the same music together and experience it,” Laura Lee says.
Read and listen to more from their interview with KEXP's Sound & Vision:
www.kexp.org
- and check out their 2018 session live in the KEXP studio:
youtu.be
khruangbin.bandcamp.com
Originally released on Cameo's 1977 sebut release 'Cardiac Arrest'. "Rigor Mortis" has been sampled in Brand Nubian's song '"Brand Nubian" and DJ Quik's song "Get At Me".
More music from KEXP's 50-year history! In 199, German electronic music innovators Kraftwerk released their 10th studio album, 'The Mix'.
Kraftwerk will be playing an immersive "3-D concert" at the Paramount Theatre July 9, 2022!
Kraftwerk is embarking on an expansive 2022 North American tour - the band's first live appearances since 2019. The upcoming tour will incorporate "music, 3D visuals and performance art. More tour dates and info:
kraftwerk.com
Kraftwerk recently spoke to RollingStone about how their music is ever changing, sharing,
"Our compositions are like minimalistic film scripts or theater scripts. We can work with this; it’s never going to be the same. It changes over the years.” bit.ly
"Tom's Diner" originated as an a cappella track on Suzanne Vega's 1987 release 'Solitude Standing'. It became a hit in 1990 when the British production duo DNA added a beat and released the remix as a bootleg. The contrast between Vega's subtle vocal and the driving dance rhythm meshed unexpectedly well. The DNA remix version was included in the 1991 album of Vega remixes 'Tom's Album'.
Video!
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This review says that La Luz embraces their "gorgeous weirdness" on their self-titled fourth album.: www.audiofemme.com
For Powerpuff Girls, claymation, and TV trouble, see the video for "Watching Cartoons":
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- and watch La Luz's 2021 live performance in the KEXP studio, up on our YouTube channel now:
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Released earlier this year, the third volume in this Houston jazz pianist’s Black Radio series is another warm, beautifully crafted blend of R&B, hip hop and jazz, with a stellar lineup of guest vocalists including Q-Tip, Esperanza Spalding, Common, H.E.R., Killer Mike and many others on songs celebrating black joy, love, struggle and resilience.
robertglasper.bandcamp.com
www.robertglasper.com