Frequency Uplift!

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.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!FRI. 07.05.2024  First Friday’s poet, Mark K. Tilsen,  Oglala Lakota Poet / Educator, Standing Rock veteran, poet of resistance and resilience,        ... new / renewed wordsound from Tongo Eisen-Martin / Thurston Moore (San Francisco/NYC), Georgia Sea Island Singers (St. Simons Island, Georgia), Andrew Gurruwiwi Band (northeast Arnhem Land, Australia), Black Decelerant (South Carolina/Oregon), Lupe Fiasco (Chicago), Eve Crazy & Mar Yo (Senegal/Finland ), Valentina Magaletti / HIIIT (EEC, etc.), the Halluci Nation (Mohawk and Cayuga First Nations, Canada), + …  the poet’s playlist …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 06.28.2024 Love week, without borders, all genders/genres/generosities       ... loving and pride and celebration and community from Equipto (San Francisco), Dobet Gnahoré (Côte d'Ivoire), Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and The Cavemen (both Lagos), Mabe Fratti (Guatemala/CDMX), K!mmortal (Vancouver: Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh territory), Linda Sikhakhane (South Africa), Flavia Coelho (Rio de Janeiro/Paris), Zeynep Erbay (Turkey), + …  dancing and big heart signs    …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 06.21.2024  Solstice, and a full strawberry moon …        … the morning after the shortest night, dawn-exultations       that glow on new fruit        ... warm sunshine sounds from Kronos Quartet & friends (San Francisco), Mourning [A] BLKstar (Cleveland, OH), Sampa the Great (Zambia/Botswana/Australia), Mavis Staples (Chicago), Bosq & Kaleta (Benin/Medillin/Brooklyn), Jaubi (Lahore, Pakistan), Franck Biyong (Cameroon), Bixiga 70 (São Paulo), Hirahi Afonso (Canary Islands ), Sunny Jain (NYC/Punjab), … and some sweetness, truth, …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 06.14.2024 Wild plants and sound, a garden for all …        … of language without word, syntax of note and silence       ...  old renewed and aged new breaths from Ensemble Hougaku Shijyuusoudan  (Japan), Violence Gratuite (Breton/Cameroon), Yann Falquet (Québéc), Meridian Brothers (Colombia), corto.alto (southside Glasgow), Hajda Banda  (Polesia/Poland ),  Beings (NYC), Odd Okoddo (Nairobi), Nubya Garcia (London), PLUS…recent inspirations/elevations, some folk, some polyphony, some Meiji modernizations and a Chief Adjuah set … …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 06.07.2024 First Friday’s poet LOURDES FIGUEROA, … in  reading and discussion, her poet’s playlist:  a Chicanx poet whose work is the dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón—tilling of the soil under the blistering sun. Author of the chapbooks yolotl, Ruidos = Learn Speak, and Vuelta, and works in the Mexican journal Tierra Adentro. Lourdes continues to believe in your lung and your throat, celebrating our Pocha Marimacha Califa tongue     AND celebrating the return of the 2024 The International San Francisco Flor y Canto Literary Festival (6/21-23), to La Misíon, with her FLOR Y CANTO co-organizers JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE, a full blooded Pocho, Spanglish speaking poeta, co-keeper of the Medicina Para Pesadillas portal,  and NORMAN ANTONIO ZELAYA, Nicoya-rooted Mission District homeboy, master storyteller and the masked luchador known as Super Pulga.  ALL reading  … for the culture of the City and La Misíon,     PLUS updates from the campaign to free Leonard Peltier and a feature set on old and new South African jazz,  groups Izithunywa and Dyertribe visiting the Bay this weekend , celebrating the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid, …  and ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 05.31.2024  privilege of peace and music, and of drawing breath          Inhalation= liberation and love’s courage,  exhalation = singing to your neighbors and perhaps to random strangers…New sonic sustenance without borders, without genres:     Pamela Badjogo (Paris/Gabon), Thandiswa (South Africa), Manu Chao (Catalonia/ Paris), Red Fast Luck (San Francisco), Aiofe O'Donovan (Boston), Leyla McCalla (NOLA/Haiti), Starry Skemes / Warm Spell (San Francisco), The Brkn Record (London) …  + others, …  ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 05.24.2024Celebrating CARNAVAL weekend, with some samba and salsa, cumbia and champeta (… and a whole afrobeat set) to dance in the streets and to make some change with.Local and new music from Agua Pura,  Combo Tezeta,  Mild Universe,  ¿Qiensave?,  Jesus Díaz y su QBA,  Sambada,  Louda y los Bad Hombres (+)… all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 05.17.2024 Dancing in these longer days, darkness despite light, destroying time/silence  new music from Sheherazaad (San Francisco/South Asia), Social Dance (Marseille),  LAIR (West Java), Blick Bassy (France/Cameroon), The Zawose Queens (Tanzania), musclecars (Brooklyn), Melanie Charles / Melissa Laveaux (Haiti/Brooklyn), Tidiane Thiam (No.Senegal), [+] other music to dance across borders from Cameroon to Korea to Congo (and not yet Colma)…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 05.10.2024 … spring songs, the joy for creation and for remaking the world.…featuring music from QWANQWA (Addis Ababa) coming through the Bay Area next week, and a weekend of amazing shows (and some tickets),and a noontime discussion with ARTHUR PYE (Emergency Committee for Rojava), writer/activist reporting on the Rojava Revolution in Northeast Syria, also in the Bay next weekSome new sunshine song and resistance rhythm from Teja Gerken (San Francisco),  Tiken Jah Fakoly (Bamako/Côte D’Ivoire),  Mas Aya (Toronto/Nicaragua),  Cyril Cyril & Meridian Brothers (Geneva/Bogotá), Peemaï / Gayam 16 (France/Java),  Nubiyan Twist (London),  Kamasi Washington (LA), [+]  other SWANA sounds…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 05.03.2024 …our first Friday’s poet Tonya M. Foster, reading and in interview. Brilliant poet and essayist, feminist scholar, on teaching from a liminal space between visual art and the written word, on creative process and place. Tonya is author of ‘A Swarm of Bees in High Court’, the bilingual chapbook  ‘La Grammaire des Os’, and the forthcoming ‘Thingifications.’  She is dancing despite what is.+ LIVE in studio:Neblinas del Pacífico,  Mission-based ensemble playing the Afro-Colombian ‘marimba de chonta’ music of Colombia's Pacific coast!  We’ll hear and dig into the legacy and traditions of the music and hear about their upcoming SF International Arts, and Yerba Buena Garden Festival performances .And finally, Cristina Ibarra, director of the Yerba Buena Garden Festival previews all the amazing international summer freeness coming to SF…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!--------------------------Neblinas del Pacífico.... is, on marimba, vocals, bombos, cununos, guasás:Federico ArdilaPipe ArrecheaMay-Li KhoeJuliana MejíaAndrés ReyesStephanie Reist

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 04.26.2024 … songs for the change, the turning over   New sonic salve and struggle sounds  from Aziza Brahim  (Occupied Western Sahara), La Dame Blanche (Cuba/France),  Use Knife (Belgium / Iraq),  Thandiswa (South Africa), Hizbut Jámm (Warsaw/Senegal/Burkino Faso), EEG Coherence (NYC / Montréal / Estonia) & Cyril Cyril (Geneva),   more [+] mayday dub and re-[volution]-mix(es)  …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 04.19.2024 … a bouquet, wildflowers of rhythm, melody rising up   Lullabies and lunar blooms from Ebo Krdum (Stockholm/Sudan), Arooj Aftab (Lahore/Riyadh/Brooklyn),  Shabjdeed / Al Nather (Palestine),  Nduduzo Makhathini (South Africa), DeLaSi (Koforidua, Ghana) & Dele Sosomi (Ghana/London), Isaiah Collier and the Chosen Few (Chicago), [+] earthday dub and remix, our vibrational humanity …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.حب للإنسانية  انسانیت سے محبت   אהבה לאנושות मानवता के प्रति प्रेम = love of humanity [in 4 languages] UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! 10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 04.12.2024 … a poem for Gaza,  as all there is to be said,  from this month’s poet Beverly DahlenCries and radical epiphanies, queer joy and ecstatic resistances from FUSE / Gabriella Smith (Amsterdam/Berkeley), Yair Elazar Glotman/ Mabe Fratti (Berlin/Mexico DF),  Rajesh Mehta’s Sky Cage Quartet  (Chennai/Chicago/Germany),  Steve Dyer (South Africa), Bruno Berle (Brazil), Cruza (Orlando), Amanda Magaña (San Francisco),  & beyond, sounds for survival, keeping love …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 03.29.2024  .. . the good word, collective endeavors and news from:       Lalin St. Juste, KKING BOO, Blu Moon, and Madre Guía of the 7000 COILS collective, a new label and gender-expansive, Black-owned nexus of Blackness/Queerness/Wellness (with a big all-day showcase this weekend)       Rohan Krishnamurthy and the ALAYA PROJECT, Carnatic Indian Jazz fusion pioneers, also throwing down this weekend  …  checking in with Bay family, all the happenings and fresh music far beyond borders, ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 03.15.2024 …  Opïum Sábbáh,  San Francisco producer / hip-hop educator/activist comes through with a new track and an international radio premiere,  for the freedom of Leonard Peltier, and talk of actions we can takePlus news of victory and a land back celebrationAnd Ides of March portents from  MESTIZX (Bolivia/Chicago),  Three Eyed Raven (San Francisco) ganavya (Tamil Nadu/Cambridge, MA.), Avalanche Kaito (Brussels/Burkina Faso), Jembaa Groove (Ghana/Berlin), Kamasi Washington (LA),  The Halluci Nation (Six Nations/Ottawa), & more, …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 03.08.2024   … some sonic movements for winter's waningrain-walk notes and new meander frequencies from Meklit Hadero (San Francisco), Ausecuma Beats (Melbourne/Bamako/Dakar),  Mohammad Syfkhan (Éire/Kurdistan) Reyna Tropical (LA/DF), Bolis Pupul (Belgium/Hong Kong), Leyla McCalla (NOLA/Haiti), Amaro Frietas (Brazil), & more, a derivé ...  …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 03.01.2024 … featuring CAROLINE DAVIS,  exploring her new abolitionist jazz,  'Alula: Captivity', digging into ideas of art and thought and change, sonic offerings to morph our present situation, appearing @ SF Jazz,  Friday 3/8 all new emancipation sounds and first Friday poetics for freedom:      Omar Sosa / Tiganá Santana (Cuba/USA/Brazil), The Soil / Nduduzo Makathini (South Africa), Nabihah Iqbal & Amy Gadiaga & Cassie Kinoshi (all rad UK women), making beauty in the service of liberation …… And more broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 02.23.2024  … featuring MALI OBOMSAWIN, in conversation,and digging into their broad and deep music. Composer, bassist, songwriter, from the Abenaki First Nation at Odanak, Obomsawin merges indie rock, American roots and jazz traditions. In their interweaving of free jazz and traditional music, their music inherits and expands a historical musical dialogue with the realities and resistance to colonization and genocide.     yes, we both go deep and geek out on the music, in advance of next week’s show at Yoshi’s.  PLUS the usual rad tickets and new international and indigenous sonic liberation:     Deerlady (NYC/Odanak First Nation), Hataałii (Navajo Nation), Azu Tiwaline (Tunisia), Asher Gamedze (South Africa), Saïd Chalaban (Morocco/Hungary), and breath and resilience… …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 02.16.2024 … two kinds of  ‘MISSION LOVE’,  all COMMUNITY!      Ray Balberan and the legacy of Mission Media-arts, in the house, screening crucial histories Sunday       Julie Rulyak Steinberg, of SF Community Music, reopening the Mission Center, bringing music to the peoplePLUS  brand new international frequencies of joy:     Little Simz (Islington, North London), Yuhan Su  蘇郁涵 (Taiwan / NYC ), Blick Bassy (Cameroon/Cantin, Hauts-de-France ), Vinicius Cantuaria (Rio de Janeiro), Fabiano do Nascimento / Sam Gendel (Rio de Janeiro / LA),  Hermanos Gutiérrez (Ecuador-Switzerland), Konkolo Orchestra (Zürich), Pietro Santangelo and PS5 (Naples), Helado Negro (Ecuador/South Florida/Brooklyn) … all this and wherever the heart may take us, all …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 02.09.2024  …new moon music,            How we go on…new sonic sustenance:     Eki Shola  (Sonoma), SUPERGOOD4UTHING (Oakland), Ustad Noor Baksh &  Jaffar Hussain Randhara (both Pakistan), groundsound / Gavsborg and Riddim Writer (Jamaica), Ibibio Sound Machine (Nigeria/UK), Franck Biyong (Cameroon), Bosq & Kaleta (Colombia & Paris), Newen Afrobeat (Chile), Les Amazones d'Afrique (west Africa), Palka (France/Panamá),  La Yegros (Buenos Aires) … and more, moving forward, …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 02.02.2024Bay Area jazz mainstay and poet of the sax, Howard Wiley, in interview, in the second hour, premiering his wide-ranging new music, two distinct upcoming SF Jazz residencies and the state of [local] jazz PLUS… poetry day finally come !Celebrating all the amazing poets who came through Frequency Uplift! in 2023 (one poem each, if I can manage that! Tune in and hear for yourself...):  Nia McAllister; Tongo Eisen-Martin; Soledad Con Carne; ‘flor y canto’ poets, Lourdes Figueroa, hector son of hector, Josiah Luis Alderete; Darius Simpson, Mimi Tempestt, Stephen Meadows, Anthony Cody …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 01.19.2024again. music for the future, against the machineries of death.beauty, despite. some brand new music from Moor Mother, Nia Archives, Ruth Goller, Mary Halvorson, Delasi, The Realm/Kaedi Tatham, and some bornday love  …  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 01.12.2024 … day late, a dollah short. poetry gon (maybe) have to wait.still we sing.some sweetness and 2024 newness from New Sector Movements, Helado Negro, LeFtO Early Bird, Actress, Cocaibica / Chancha Via Circuito, Vijay Iyer/Linda May Han Oh/Tyshawn Sorey, Nathalie Joachim, Ghost-Note… and remembering the radical King, ... and all the voices  that make a movement. …  as we broadcast live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 12.29.2023 … the turn of the year Selections from late night 'radiobob's  best-of'... 20.23, 10+3, things i kept replaying x 3. The progeny back from the UK bringing rad new sounds, guest-DJ Aidan aka DJ the bastard chylde, throws down in our traditional seasonal intergenerational soundclash…    [ more Anglophile anti-colonial hiphop moments, some of the rad local bands that came through this show, a rejection of hierarchical lists in favor of rhizomatic music references. Chaos playlists….]   وتكريم واحترام الثقافة الفلسطينية …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 12.22.2023 … the turn of the light in midwinter, translated into sound, language.make darkness seed of sun, in crisis,  both danger and opportunity..a visit with Rami of the Palestinian Youth Movement, talking the poetry of the streets, the Bay Bridge actions and what you can do. More resilient brightness in these dark times, NEW LIGHT from  Azu Tiwaline / Cinna_Peyghamy  (Tunisia), El - Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe (Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Palestine and the diaspora), Moor Mother/Nicole Mitchell/Nduduzo Makhathini (Philly/Charlottesville/South Africa), Maurice Louca/Elephantine ( Cairo), Free Radicals ( Houston), Alabaster dePlume (London), more music to carry the flame forward …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!FRI. 12.01.202310am-1pm PACIFIC  first Friday's poet ANTHONY CODY, in the house, reading from his works 'The Rendering'  and 'Borderland Apocrypha' and talking on the deep history and his lineage in the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl... exploring the erasures of the histories of anti-Mexican violence in our borderlands, and confronting the ongoing erasures in our current climate crises with his experimental poetic strategies       ...then, in the second hour, AGAINST AMNESIA, we'll talk with author and organizer JAMES TRACY, of the HOWARD ZINN BOOK FAIR.  Coming back this year after the pandemic, this annual celebration of People’s History and our common future brings together authors, readers, organizers and community members to debate and discuss strategies for a better world, in this era of attacks on memory+  an update from MAIC LOPEZ, community-gardener with the under-threat MISSION GREENWAY project, a centerpiece space of Saturday's 20th anniversary of the Mission Arts and Performance Project ... PROPS !+  OUR POET's PLAYLIST,   new music from all over the Bay and well beyond, and beyond genre, plus tickets and big community love... …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !Fri. 11.17.2023 ! > 10am-1pm Pacificwe are a forest, singing to each other undergroundroots and world wetness, rain rhythms, newness and noise from: Ragana (Oakland), of Tropique (Tokyo), MC Yallah (Kampala/Nairobi), C'mon Tigre (NYC), Lenhart Tapes (Belgrade, Serbia), Azu Tiwaline (El Djerid, Tunisia), Brìghde Chaimbeul (Skye, Scotland), and other remote rhizomatic connections,more songs for cease firedancing against the Death, wherever they don't want to hear you… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT!10a - 1pm PacificFRI. 11.10.2023 a conversation with BEN GOLDBERG,  local and legend clarinetist, featuring and digging into his over four decades of music. expanding jazz’s frontiers as an improviser, composer, collaborator and pioneer of the radical Jewish music movement. Exploring his productive COVID-era practice of exercises and self-recording, and expanding into remote-then-in-person duos and trios, building the canon of Porch Concert Material , looking towards a new quartet formation, next week at SF JAZZ.      ...then, in the second hour, digging into the politics and dark economics of the massive world-leaders and CEO trade-summit about to descend on San Francisco, we'll talk with  TERRY VALEN and JESS ROJAS of the 'INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS ALLIANCE' and the 'NO TO APEC COALITION', representing 150 organizations across the entire Pacific Rim.  plus new music from all over the Bay and well beyond, and beyond genre, plus tickets and big community love, as we move 'Frequency Uplift!' to  Friday mornings. …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 11.05.2023 !  > 10pm-12m Pacificweb of sound, linking past to future, breath to beat, some dangerous beautyour last Sunday UPLIFT! together, come along henceforth for Friday mornings 10a - 1p new sonic sweetness  from old friends and old souls crating anew:                                                   Orchestra Gold (Oakland), Altin Gün (Istanbul/Amsterdam),  Noname  (Chicago), Speakers Corner Quartet (London), Etienne de la Sayette / Tako Toki (Paris), Mokoomba / Morena Loreba (Zimbabwe / Lesotho),more songs for a different future  …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 06.04.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificradiobob meets dr.pablo ..trading tunes inna terra incognita… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 05.07.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificpoet soledad con carne,…co-editor of Acid Verse, unofficial poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley, now co-repping La Misión, zine-maestrx, reading and in interview, and spinning... their poet's playlist, …raising a ruckus and other new voicings from Asher Gamedze (South Africa), AroMa (Oakland), African Head Charge / King Ayisoba (UK/Ghana), Jazz Mafia (Oakland), Tony Allen /JID-crew (Lagos/London/LA. rise-in-power), and more music for our collective beauty, brilliance… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 03.26.2023 ! > 10pm-12m PacificA special guest DJ set and chat with visual artist Charles Dabo, exploring the cross-fertilization of African musics and Western psychedelia / soul, digging into his Senegalese ye-ye movement roots.. and on into the future ...  with more transformative (notes), deep cuts, classic rewinds + more+more love ……  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.29.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificsongs for ancestors, and lullabiespenultimate Sunday UPLIFT!new beauties, full moon light, everpresent ghosts from                                                  Esotérica Tropical (Oakland/Borikén), Pausis (Thessaloniki),  Isaiah Collier  (Chicago), Rammy Essam (Cairo), Jawa (Aleppo),  and persistent music from Adnan Joubran (Paris/Ramallah), Rim Banna (Nazareth), checkpoint 303 (Bethlehem/Tunis/Paris),songs for a different future …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.15.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificlotus-pad earth. frog-croak and dripping  some kind of noisy,messy enlightenment, songs for peace from Ambrose Akinmusire (Oakland), Nihiloxica (Kampala / London),  Matana Roberts  (Chicago), Mary Lattimore (LA), Hania Rani (Warsaw), Abel Selacoe (Manchester/Johannesburg), Esperanza Spalding (Portland)  … hearing a deep breath…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 10.01.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificnotes on edge of night'Aareh flight and song-storiesblessings and confrontations from Ezequiel Borra (Argentina), Haïdouti Orkestar (Turkey / Paris), Okan (Cuba/Toronto), Newen Afrobeat / Dele Sosimi (Chile / Nigeria / UK), Jason Singh & the Banwasi Collective (Rajastan), ÌFÉ (NOLA ), Nana Benz du Togo (Togo), Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet )  … and more lunar frequencies just past full, …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 09.24.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific on the balance of the yearWire-walking from Dobet Gnahore (Côte d’Ivoire / Paris),  Kimi Djabaté  (Guinea-Bissau / Lisbon), ONIPA (diasporic London), Titanic / Mabe Fratti y Hector Tosta (Guatemala/Mexíco DF), Gerald Cleaver (Motor City / BKN) Sessa (São Paolo), Leyla McCalla (NOLA / NYC), Karney (San Francisco)  … and breath and pause, in these longer nights…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 09.10.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacificpoet Darius Simpson … New Afrikan writer, educator, performer, revolutionary and skilled living room dancer based in Oakland, a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and the author of Never Catch Me, words dedicated to liberation …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 09.03.2023 ! > 10pm-12m Pacific [for Kala]  time and notes, the present we rest in and that passesmarking the moment … with new frequencies/from around the latitudes/time-zones from Mali Obomsawin / Magdalena Abrego (Abenaki First Nation / NYC ),  Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan (Turkey/Israel), Danûk  (Syria / Kurdistan), Roxane Métayer (Belgium), L'Rain (Brooklyn), Bixiga 70 and Xis (both  Brazil), Humazapac (Kichwa nations, Ecuador), we have ... no time and all the time in the world, …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 08.27.2023 !  a near full green corn moon, fern moon. ...voicings and new sustenance from Spellling (Oakland), Non Plus Temps (Oakland), Mari Kalkun (Estonia), Namian Sidibé (Mali), Lebeha Drummers (Belize), Anoushka Shankar (UK), song centering women's voices and ending dubwise…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !SUN. 08.20.2023 !   First harvests in, creating sound beauty in crop susurranceMore new succulence, amid the thorns and thistles from Beth Custer  / Will Bernard (San Francisco),  Badiâa Bouhrizi (Tunisia), Heretic (Kyoto),  Laliboi & Spoek Mathombo and Muzi (all South Africa), Alabaster DePlume and Kay Young (both sides of London), Lon Moshe & the Southern Freedom Arkestra (New Afrika, USA, coast to coast, and the legend past), and as creative pollinators, we’ll end dancing, and... …  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.UPLIFT !