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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 11.15.2024 upending the ancient orrerysonic rains washing us clean ready for a new day’s fight… new sounds for nonlinear time from Dos Bandoleros (San Francisco), Yazz Ahmed (London / Bahrain), Eugene Hütz / Gogol Bordello (Ukraine/NYC), Txai Band (Huni Kuin people, Acre, Brazilian Amazon), Hamed Sadeghi (Sydney / Gadigal-land / Iran), BaBa ZuLa (Istanbul), Saint Levant (Jerusalem / Los Angeles) ... and more beyond all borders and non-working models … broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 11.08.2024 A noontime reading and interview with poet KIMI SUGIOKA, … mother, educator, songwriter and poet AND Bay Area poetry scene mainstay, author of two books of poetry; the newest of which is Wile & Wing on Manic D Press and in numerous anthologies. Kimi is the poet laureate of Alameda and curates and hosts readings throughout the Bay. She believes that creating community through art is a revolutionary act. ... and on the hour US radio-premieres from the UK's JONATHAN ENSER / MATTERS UNKNOWN and from the Bay Area's OPIUM SABBAH…more sounds for resilience and resistance, and for our common home, from more sounds for resilience and resistance, and for our common home, from El Khat (Yemen/Berlin), Bhutan Balladeers (Bhutan), Dal:um (Korea), Waaju/Majid Bekkas (London / Morocco), Bagedai (Yunnan, PRC), Àtandá (London / Lagos) ... and more beyond all borders+ our poet’s playlist …… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm Pacific. 6-9pm BSTFRI. 10.25.2024 special remote Frequency-Uplift!-LONDON / CALLING.collect ... featuring new London improvisational-quartet Lophae's debut-music, interviews with guitarist/producer Greg Sanders and with drummer / producer Nick Emanative (celebrating new release 'Abstract Intuition'), and other new UK frequencies from Dele Sosimi, Tristwch y Fenywod, Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu, Kokoroko, Neue Grafik, Ezra Collective, Hak Baker, Lava La Rue, Lex Amor, and more from both sides of the Thames ... and just maybe a little further afield inna green and pleasant land, all over the map... maybe coming outta that old Imperial capital, but still broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 05.21.2023 ! >a missed archive REWINDEarth pollen, human song …… sound spreading seed for the future ... fecundity from John Santos Sextet (SF), Esotérica Tropical (Oakland/Borikén), V/Z [Valentina/ Zongamin] (Osaka / Italy / London), Lankum (Dublin), Lido Pimienta (Ottawa / Colombia), Blick Bassy (Cameroon / Paris), Sourdurent (Occitanie / France), Tokyo MinYo Club (Japan), and all praise to bees, bats and butterflies, and all percussive pollinators… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 08.30.2024 A reading and interview with poet TUREEDA MIKELL, celebrating her new book and second full-length poetry collection, The Body: Oracle of Memory bringing us the medicine of word, manifesting our own body and its wisdom(s), into modern realms of the sacred story … Then later creative music veterans David Boyce and PC Muñoz drop in and debut their first full-length duo record as RED FAST LUCK, “Everything You Do Controls the World”, expanding this weekend into DOUBLE RFL … An early-on rewind and intro with Sameer Gupta's new work, 'Jupiter, vol. 4' Sounds in the light of a waning crescent and last lullabies, and incidental jazz from Blick Bassy // Vanyfox (Cameroon//Angola/Portugal), Gilberto Gil (Brazil), Kronos Quartet (San Francisco), Freddie Bryant (NYC), ...+ our poet’s playlist …… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 08.23.2024 in SF City limits @102.5 FM, always streaming @ KXSF.FM An interview and feature with SF’s MEKLIT HADERO, and the Movement Immigrant Orchestra, premiering for free in SF next Sat., and comprised of immigrant Bay Area local all-stars… And in the first hour, SAMEER GUPTA introduces his latest project, 'Jupiter, vol. 4' ...and more sounds beyond borders from Jake Blount / Mali Obomsawin (Virginia / Odanak First Nation), Aïti Mon Amour (Morocco), SML (LA/Chicago), Nicole Mitchell/Ballaké Sissoko (Chicago/Bamako), Hector Plimmer (South London), Ndabo Zulu (South Africa), Nídia & Valentina (Portugal/Italy/London) + liminal states…… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 08.16.2024 dance of life… waning summer hours, last harvests dry grass rustle, in passing footfall and international sounds, beats, beauty… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 08.09.2024 noisier than normal, that noise from within,that noise after detonation …divine noise from FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER, a chat with bandleader Andy Krissberg, … revival in town tonight other joyful new noise and percussive persistence from Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones (Brooklyn/ Sweden), Etran de L’Aïr (Agadez, Niger), Malcriada (CDMX), Hakushi Hasegawa / 長谷川白紙 (Japan), Marcus Joseph (Leicester, UK), Lollise (Brooklyn/Botswana), Àbasé (Budapest/Berlin), Samora Pinderhughes (Brooklyn/Berkeley), ecstatic noise and deafening silences, remembrance,… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 08.02.2024 Beauty in the coils of time In what comes around again, rhythm And in what dissonance we insert Happy-birthday-James-sounds, random poetics, new music from Asher Gamedze & the Black Lungs (South Africa), Ekuka Morris Sirikiti (Uganda), Mourning [A] BLKstar (Cleveland), Söndörgó (Hungary), RAH & the Ruffcats (Berlin/Nigeria), Tryp Tych Tryo (London/Warsaw), Elana Sasson & Golestan Ensemble (San Francisco/Iran/Kurdistan), and earth’s sibilance, summer sounds… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 07.19.2024 SF’s MILD UNIVERSE in the house, in interview, debuting a new album. .... other dances of joy and resilience, love and remembrance for the legacy of Dr. BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON ... uplift and sunrise reflections from Esotérica Tropical (San Francisco/Boríken), Sunny War (Nashville/LA), Madalitso Band (Malawi), Brittany Howard (Athens. AL), Angélique Kidjo (Benin/Paris), Nubya Garcia (London), Vijay Iyer (NYC), Farida Amadou (Bruxelles), liberatory noise… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.