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Monday, May 15 2023, 5AM
TRIBEZ is a five-member band from Munich, long been known as THE HipHop Band out of Germany. My Storm is My Calm is a single off their album, REDBIRD releasing May 26, 2023 - bambini.bandcamp.com
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Detroit-raised/Brooklyn-based rapper Quelle Chris collaborates again with producer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Keys on this album, where every song was co-produced by them both.
quellechris360.bandcamp.com
Included in KEXP's Weekly Mix podcast in May 2020, available here:
www.kexp.org
This is new music from local legend, Brooklyn-based former Seattle-ite, Grammy-nominated jazz musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer Kassa Overall. kassaoverall.bandcamp.com
Kassa Overall will play the THING Festival in Port Townsend, WA, August 25-27th.
From Harlem-based harpist and composer Brandee Younger, produced by Makaya McCraven the album featuers contributions by Pete Rock, Meshell Ndegeocello (who you heard earlier in the set!), 9th Wonder, and more.
Playing June 6 at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley. More tour dates, music and info:
brandeeyounger.com
brandee.bandcamp.com
Witch Prophet is an evolution of Toronto based, singer-songwriter Ayo Leilani.
From the album notes:
"As a neurodivergent artist who struggles with focal aware seizures (Déjà vu, Déjà reve, out of body experiences, lucid dreaming, memory loss etc) I feel like; sharing my experiences through my music is one of my paths to healing. 'Gateway Experience' is an album focused on the connection with the human brain, dreams, seizures, god and otherworldly abilities...The title of the album is an ode to the released CIA report where they studied the use of sound tapes to manipulate brainwaves with a goal of creating altered states. Examples include out of body experiences, remote viewing, psychic abilities, the ability to heal ones body and so much more."
witchprophet.bandcamp.com
Twins Taiwo and Kehinde were born in Jos, in northern Nigeria, on October 22, 1948. In Yoruba, ”Taiwo” means "the first twin to taste the world”, and ”Kehinde” "the second-born of the twins”, “the chaperone” or “the one who comes after Taiwo”. Though Taiwo is the firstborn, it is believed that Kehinde is the elder twin, sending Taiwo into the world first to determine if it is time to be born.
thelijadusisters.bandcamp.com
Featuring a sample from that last track, 'Orere Elejigbo' by the Lijadu Sisters singing Get out! Fight!
Aceyalone is an American rapper from Los Angeles. He is a member of Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku D'Etat and The A-Team. He is also a co-founder of Project Blowed, a collective considered to be the longest-running open mic hip-hop workshop.
"Untitled (Black Is) and Untitled (Rise) are protest music and much more: They are music for the sense of loss that persists when the chants begin to waver and the crowds disperse. They are simultaneously a reprieve and healthy kindling for the fire that rages on in those who don’t have the privilege of turning it off. They are combative, introspective, affirming, and heartbreaking. They are a portrait of Black pain and joy in all its complexities, and in their refusal to flatten Blackness, they are rehabilitative."
pitchfork.com
Ishmael Butler's latest project: the debut album from Lavarr the Starr. He met Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces in 2019 and signed to Butler's Glass Cane Records label in 2020.
"Lavarr The Starr was born an illusion ago in an otherwhere not unlike Chicago or Paris. He hears loudly the vibrations of the past but his music surfs the future waves. A keyboardist and programmer singer rapper in 2020 he was quoted as saying 'some of my favorite singers can’t sing but they always all ways sound like love'."
lavarrthestar.bandcamp.com
KAMAUU is a Washington D.C.-born and New York-based artist, rapper, poet, and thinker.
www.kamauu.world
From the fifth studio album by Brooklyn band Dirty Projectors. The album title translates to "killer whale".
Album producer David Longstreth shared, "One of my ideas for the album was to start, sort of, as a gift or homage to each one, to try to explode their temperaments into individual numbers. I was trying to widen the temperament of the band a little bit, to be Dirty Projectors but also have these new, different sort of flowers within the bouquet of the sound."
Watch Solange cover "Stillness Is the Move": www.youtube.com
dirtyprojectors.bandcamp.com
"My neighbor held the key to my survival" .. from the Oakland duo’s iconic sixth album, sketchy.
Check out an exclusive 2021 Live at Home set with tUnE-yArDs + conversation with Larry Mizell Jr !
youtu.be
tune-yards.bandcamp.com
“Zan Zendegi Azadi (Women Life Freedom),” uses downtempo to highlight Parvaz’s lyrics about fighting oppression and tyranny, as well as lifting women up. The song is an excellent example of the band’s ethos, which they explained to The Hype Magazine in 2022 saying, “In a landscape of excessive braggadocio and shock-jocks, we raise questions around what is being elevated, while decency and simple goodness fall to the wayside. We’re both full-time workers and, more importantly, husbands to our wives, so we give everything we can to music from a place of passion and childlike joy.”
Selected KEXP's Song of the Day back on April 27, 2023. Check it out here: www.kexp.org
"Glorious Game" is a collaboration between the Roots' Black Thought and El Michels Affair. Michels would record himself in his studio, sample himself, then chop and/or loop up his sounds and create instrumentals for Black Thought.
elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com
Navy Blue told Rolling Stone that the album title refers to the "ways of knowing that I don't know. What I think I know might not be it, and to remain teachable and malleable in the process, there’s always going to be a new experience that informs the way I think about everything."
About this song he said "They say the eyes are the windows to the soul or windows of the soul, I'm not quite sure. But I imagine a singular window, if we're singular, if we’re just a body, it's a window to the soul, which is me. And I said a 'ceiling meets the wall' as in a box or whatever, that's the body that my soul is in. But I also don't think that my soul or my spirit are stuck in this body, in this physical thing. I think it's certainly beyond given our comprehension of what this is."
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navybluethetruest.com
Y La Bamba is a Latin indie alternative/experimental band led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Luz Elena Mendoza. They often sing in both English and Spanish. This track off their recently released album, Lucha, features another Spanish Englisher singer, Devendra Banhart.
ylabamba.bandcamp.com
Check out Madison McFerrin on tour now for her new album! Madison's playing at Madame Lou's on August 6: www.ticketweb.com
And check out KEXP's Sound & Vision Podcast on the McFerrin family legacy here: www.kexp.org
madisonmcferrin.bandcamp.com
Taína Asili is a New York-based Puerto Rican singer, filmmaker and activist.
"Horizon” is the last in The Justice Suite, a series of songs and videos made as part of Taína Asili's artist residency with UIC Social Justice Initiative Portal Project focusing on the themes on abolition, climate justice, and economic democracy. This song invites listeners to look to the horizon, past our current system of capitalism, to imagine the liberatory possibilities that exist in a world that values economic democracy.
tainaasili.com
Hip hop and climate justice project from Bay-Area MC, Singer-Songwriter, and Producer Coco Peila. The 'Whose World? (The New Normal)' Hip Hop & Climate Justice audio-visual initiative is presented by @blackgoldmovement & was developed as a part of CREATIVE WILDFIRE, a collaborative call to action from frontline communities, represented by @cjaourpower #ClimateJusticeAlliance, @neweconomycoalition, and @movementgeneration. Follow them and visit CreativeWildfire.org for more information about how to plug in. IG: @cocopeila www.cocopeila.com
rum.gold is a Brooklyn-hailed singer-songwriter. U Street Anthology is his album dedicated to DC, the city that shaped him. A collection of stories & epitaphs inspired by a rich history of DC.
www.rum.gold
Dinner Party is the hybrid jazz supergroup featuring Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, and 9th Wonder. Enigmatic Society is their third album released in April!
From the legend MJB's second album 'My Life'. This track features samples from the the piano loop of Isaac Hayes' "Ike's Mood" and "Hollywood's World" by DJ Hollywood.
Recent music release from the LA-based Fil-Am MC, Klassy!
IG: @emceeklassy
klassybeatrock.bandcamp.com
"what happened to me is not my fault, but it is my responsibility to heal" - Ivy Sole
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Live on KEXP + interview with Gabriel: youtu.be
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www.ivysole.com