1 / Quantic / Meaning
2 / Peace orchestra / Shining
3 / Dynamic syncopation / Closer to the line
4 / Boom boom satellites / On the painted desert
5 / Peace orchestra / The man
6 / Police / Miss Grodenko
7 / Prince / Batman
8 / Renegade soundwave / Porno beats
9 / Boo-ya t.r.i.b.e / Walk the line
10 / Young disciples / All I have in me
11 / Mad nomad / Direct evidence against uniqueness
12 / Deep dish / Love & rockets
13 / Mystereum feat. Ursula Rucker / Lonely can be sweet
14 / Madonna (Kruder & Dorfmeister rmx) / Nothing really matters
Stories mother never told me #01 : mixed by Dj Bouto
#triphop #chillmusic #dub #electropop
Workshop: GRIEF, LOSS, AND GOOD GAINS: An Intensive Poetry Workshop w/ Ursula Rucker
This poetry intensive workshop series seeks to be a journey of collective creative healing, art, therapy and caring conversations about life, loss, grief & how to get to good gains. The experience will culminate in the creation of individual works of memoir poetry.
With the world-renowned poet, Ursula Rucker as your guide and mentor, you will be invited to voice your thoughts, heart, grief, loss and hopefully some good gains as well. Let’s talk about it and write it down.
Program Timeline
Session 1 – Friday, January 26th, 6pm – 9pm – to be held in person & virtually on Zoom
Session 2 – Saturday, January 27th, 11am – 2pm – to be held in person –Location: d’griot 51 Maplewood Mall, Philadelphia, PA, 19144
& virtually on Zoom
Session 3 – Sunday, January 28th, 1pm – 4pm to be held in person –Location: Lil’ Drummaboy Recordings 818 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19147 & virtually on Zoom
Session 4 (Pt2) Live Performance – Sunday, January 28th, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, live performance to be held in person – Lil’ Drummaboy Recordings 818 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19147 & virtually on Zoom and streamed for friends and family.
We at SIFTMedia 215 want to engage viewers in critical conversations about today’s issues and facilitate the creative spark that exists within each of us.
Night Bjuti's eponymous debut album (pronounced Night Beauty)taps into women's legacies, freedom, magic and love with ritual jazz, blues and the electronic blessings of Sun Ra. The Black woman trio of vocalist Candice Hoyes, bassist Mimi Jones and percussionist Val Jeanty named themselves after a Haitian folk tale about a deceased girl who reclaims her skeleton to recapture her life. Hoyes'prayerful utterances, Jeanty's remixing of ceremonial rhythms and Jones' agile bass does sound like avant-garde jazz for the dead at times. They are the first group of its kind and improvisation is at the center of their creative process that excavates ancestral memories with a balance between the linear and the abstract.
The deeper conceptual moments found in "Witchez" and the rumbling rhythm and poetry of "Mood (Liberation Walk)" is akin to Shabazz Palaces' celestial hip-hop funk. Zora Neale Hurston's letter to W.E.B. Dubois proposing a cemetery for eminent Black artists and Carrie Mae Weems's Kitchen Table Series of photographs are referenced on the album that moves more like a single composition instead of individual songs. Hoyes says, “We are expressing the kind of pillaging, the uprooting of women in ways personal, intergenerational, familial, sexual, past and present." "Stolen Voice" protests the erasure of Black women's history and reclaims it at the same time with Jeanty's whirlwind sequences, Jones' trancey bass grooves and Hoyes' piercing notes. The layers of intensity are felt in Hoyes' vocals expressing sorrowful wails commemorating past wrongs but quickly morph into furious condemnation after striking decibel shifts. The trio is living somewhere in the same universe occupied by Ursula Rucker, Robert Glasper, Flying Lotus, Burnt Sugar, The Last Poets and Kendrick Lamar but they have their own unique space. Night Bjuti's official debut inventively combines protest, healing, love and truth-telling into an enchanting movement of sound.
4 Hero Feat. Bembe Segue & Kaidi Taitham - Something In The Way
Benjamin Devigne - Mess Up
Braxton Cook - No Doubt
DJ Tron - Flowers Of Funk
Flevans - Speculate
Frank Booker - Skin (Frank Booker's Godfather Edit)
Ursula Rucker - Rant (Hot In Here)
Graham Mushnik - The Lemon Hop
The Andy Tolman Cartel - You What?
Colman Brothers - Sem Amor (Rhythm & Brass Remix)
If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!
One Love: A Black Reverence Chair Playlist holds olden song and new flow, reverberates fast and moves slow. Like molasses, may it pour joy that rhythms like a body, back and forth. May these sonic medicines feel into you as you prepare to sit in the sacred chair position. - Abdul-Aliy Muhammad
Black Reverence Chair is a joy and affirmation ritual created by Abdul-Aliy in 2016 following the state murder of Philando Castille. After the heightened inundation of images, videograpphic evidence, and social media archiving of grief and despair regarding Black Lives, Abdul-Aliy wondered what would it do for us to have a ritual event that gives reverence to us while we live? What might this spiritual technology of collective and individual affirmation make possible for us, in this world?
We invite Black community members to join this ritual across sites of Black memory and futurity for the strengthening of communal joy, affirmation and witnessing.
Black Reverence Chair is hosting its first citywide tour in Philadelphia, on Saturday, July 29, 2023.
Here are the locations of each cycle of the ritual:
Heavenly Hall - N 40th Street & Parkside Ave.
Time - 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Ursula Rucker Mural - 22 Maplewood Mall
Time - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Village of Arts & Humanities - 2544 Germantown Ave.
My field trip with my HS kids and teacher bestie’s NAHS kids went FANTASTICALLY. Huge hit. Kids loved it! They were amazing today.
“Inspired by aṣẹ, the Yoruba concept relating to our power to produce change, Aṣẹ: Afro Frequencies celebrates the Black experience through the perspectives of artist Vince Fraser and poet Ursula Rucker.”
Worth seeing. I hope they know they are the change.
Rehearsing Philadelphia, w/ The Public Orchestra, conducted by Ari Benjamin Meyers, Ann Carlson, Sun Ra Arkestra (Marshall Allen & David Middleton), Ursula Rucker, Xenia Rubinos. April, 2022.
DATE CREATED: 2024-04-21
Tracklist :
A Good Thing - James Taylor Quartet.mp3
A Perfect Day (Live At Maida Vale) - Ski Oakenfull.mp3
Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown) - Incognito.mp3
Apparently Nothin' (Soul River) - Young Disciples.mp3
Blood Brother - The Solsonics.mp3
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - Us3.mp3
Crossbreed - Kyoto Jazz Massive.mp3
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing - Incognito.mp3
Elevate My Mind - Stereo MC's.mp3
Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers Ubiquity.mp3
Good 4 We - D-Influence.mp3
Gotta (feat. Ursula Rucker) - Incognito.mp3
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun (feat. Jocelyn Brown) - Nuyorican Soul.mp3
I Don't Want to See Myself (Without You) - Terry Callier.mp3
Jazz (We've Got) - A Tribe Called Quest.mp3
Jazzie's Groove - Soul II Soul.mp3
Kaboom - Ursula 1000.mp3
L.O.V.E. and You & I - Jazzanova.mp3
L+H (For Yusef Lateef) - Mark de Clive-Lowe.mp3
Lady J (Remastered 2018) - Nathan Haines.mp3
Le Bien, Le Mal - Guru.mp3
London England - Corduroy.
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DATE CREATED: 2024-04-21
Tracklist :
A Good Thing - James Taylor Quartet.mp3
A Perfect Day (Live At Maida Vale) - Ski Oakenfull.mp3
Always There (feat. Jocelyn Brown) - Incognito.mp3
Apparently Nothin' (Soul River) - Young Disciples.mp3
Blood Brother - The Solsonics.mp3
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - Us3.mp3
Crossbreed - Kyoto Jazz Massive.mp3
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing - Incognito.mp3
Elevate My Mind - Stereo MC's.mp3
Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers Ubiquity.mp3
Good 4 We - D-Influence.mp3
Gotta (feat. Ursula Rucker) - Incognito.mp3
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun (feat. Jocelyn Brown) - Nuyorican Soul.mp3
I Don't Want to See Myself (Without You) - Terry Callier.mp3
Jazz (We've Got) - A Tribe Called Quest.mp3
Jazzie's Groove - Soul II Soul.mp3
Kaboom - Ursula 1000.mp3
L.O.V.E. and You & I - Jazzanova.mp3
L+H (For Yusef Lateef) - Mark de Clive-Lowe.mp3
Lady J (Remastered 2018) - Nathan Haines.mp3
Le Bien, Le Mal - Guru.mp3
London England - Corduroy.
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New Music: Sum - House of The Red Solar Sky (Dragon 2) LP
Peace and blessings to the fam Sum with the release of his new album, House Of The Red Solar Sky, the second in his Dragon series.
Always one to mesh an array of sounds and styles, Sum has gone all out on this one and has crafted a pretty amazing body of work!
Red Solar Sky has got some crazy dope features as well. Over 19 tracks, it includes Jimetta Rose, Rockness, Tek of Smiff N Wessun, Meshell N’Degeocello, Ursula Rucker, Malkovich Music, Phoebephobe, Tash of Tha Liks, Floating Action, stic of dead prez plus more!
Stream above and and support with a digital purchase of $12!