La Danza Poetica
by DJ LAPKAT
'La Danza Poetica' is a monthly podcast featuring poetry, hip hop, folk and oral tradition and global beats from around the world. Deep explorations into the many worlds, one world poetic groove, connectedness through story, song, language and rhythm.
Episodes
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La Danza Poetica #66 Docta Deep's Hip Hop India
Presented by DJ LAPKAT. This month I hand over the decks to Australian DJ and hip hop scholar Docta Deep, for an energetic mixtape featuring rap crews and artists from Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Assam, representing India’s various linguistic and religious groups.
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La Danza Poetica #65 Pure Heart
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Mixed in a sultry summer in Budapest, La Danza Poetica #65 is a collection of sultry new sounds from South America, the States, France, Canada. And dedicated, with love, to the bright light of Australian poet and activist, Candy Royalle, who passed last month.…
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La Danza Poetica #64 A Radio-Bridge across the Zambezi
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Made by Radio Continental Drift in collaboration with radio-makers at Zongwe FM and the women of Zubo Trust, A Radio Bridge Across the Zambezi includes tracks from more than 50 contributors, from 17 countries. It’s an energetic, spirited and spiritual journey...
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La Danza Poetica #63 Rim Banna : Voice of Resistance
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. A special edition of La Danza Poetica dedicated to the life and work of Rim Banna, the poet, singer, and activist who left this world in March. A tribute to her extraordinary example, and to the power of poetry and music to amplify the stories and the struggle of...
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La Danza Poetica #62 The Poem of the Truth
A mix of sublime, poetic music, word and soundscape from Morocco, Tunisia, Syria. Poetry and music are inextricably intertwined, in a constant dance, in music, language, rhythm, and life. Sukitoa o Namau’s field recordings from and around Meknés, Morocco, form the canvas on which this whole mix…
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La Danza Poetica #61 Innervisions
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Borrowing the title from Kuzich’s track (via Stevie Wonder’s seminal 1973 album) La Danza Poetica #61 Innervisions is a very conscious dream. Traversing all continents of our external and internal world, traditional folk song and experimental electric folk…
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La Danza Poetica #60 Canada: Untold Stories
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Canada’s diverse and challenging storytelling flow. Stories told in a time of reckoning, rooted in cultural expression, social consciousness and Mother Earth connection, raising Native voices and standing up. Featuring a new album from spoken word poet Brandon...
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La Danza Poetica #59 Chorus
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. A slow driving mix for the first of 2018, spoken word and hip hop and multi-voice harmony, a slow chorus. Artists and poets from the United States to Spain, Colombia, Canada, and Guatemala. Big questions and big problems being addressed head-on. Complex melodies...
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La Danza Poetica #58 A Call To Arms
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. La Danza Poetica #58 is “A Call To Arms”. A depth-charged mix made in the southern summer. As it’s the end of a tumultuous year, I’ve created a tumultuous mix featuring some favourite tracks of 2017 that I haven’t been able to include in the radio show so far....
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La Danza Poetica #57 Chile: La Lengua de la Tierra
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Chile, a poetic country by any measure. Between the mountains and the sea, the poets and musicians sing of the land and the heart. This month’s mix features poets Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, and Nicanor Parra, plus a focus on the expressionistic poetics of...
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La Danza Poetica #56 La Danza del Deseo
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Poesía y música, Española. A mix of all new music, joyful and uplifting, arriving into our ears and hearts this month from the creative souls of musicians from Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, NYC, Greece, Japan, Spain, France, the USA. Featuring El...
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La Danza Poetica #55 Suspension
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. A special feature on some works of composer Piers Faccini - his 2016 book/CD poetry, painting and music project No One’s Here, plus his collaborations with Charley Marlowe, and recent album of songs I Dreamed An Island. Also featuring the poetry/music project out...
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La Danza Poetica #54 Pieces of the Puzzle
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. LDP#54 Pieces of the Puzzle takes its title from a poem by English spoken word artist Salena Godden – the poem that closes the show. From Australia to Costa Rica, to Colombia, to Argentina, to Italy, Portugal, Germany, America, Chile, England, France, Japan…
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La Danza Poetica #53 Les Ondes Radio Poétiques
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. On La Danza Poetica this month, the poetic radio waves: une véritable fête de la musique et de la poésie! New sounds of France, trip hop, abstract hip hop, electro-rock, orchestral electronics, jazz and spoken word.
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La Danza Poetica #52 Are You Listening
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Diving deeper into the dancehall – this month I mix the poetry of MC Zulu, Chicago’s most profound dancehall vocalist and electro-reggae producer, with conscious beats old and new. MC Zulu’s insightful lyrics as spoken word, and an eclectic selection of dancehall...
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La Danza Poetica #51 A Beautiful Surrender
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. A special live mix recorded this summer at Renaissance Festival in Australia, featuring Thomas Keily’s story A Beautiful Surrender, based on Sufi teaching stories, woven into Turkish and Turkish-inspired music and poetry.
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La Danza Poetica #50 Poesía Callejera
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. My 50th show for Groovalizacion Radio, and my first for the year 2017. Starting us off right on this journey around the sun, I’ve mixed up poetry from an inspiring organisation out of Los Angeles, and music from an inspiring record and film company out of Buenos...
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La Danza Poetica #49 Vocal Portraits – Ghana to the World
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. This month featuring a series of spoken word albums made in Ghana, plus hip hop, highlife and music out of Africa and the diaspora—Mutombo, Lamine Fofana, Blitz the Ambassador, Juls, Renegades of Jazz, Nickodemus, and Placid Larry.
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La Danza Poetica #48 Travelling Light
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. We travel, this month, light. Returning to Canada—because of course, this month, we had to. It might be time for quiet and for reflection, a little window of peace to contemplate how we got here and where we might be going. So I have mixed some tracks from a…
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La Danza Poetica #47 Acts of Creation
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. This month on La Danza Poetica, the spirit runs deep. Featuring a brilliant new album from Canada’s Tanya Evanson, a stunning debut EP from Australia’s Mirrah, a depth-charged poetic release from USA’s Solange. Alongside, the smooth spirituals of…
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La Danza Poética #46 Juaco - Conversaciones Poéticas con RAMULA
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. A special collaboration between La Danza Poética and La Rebelde Academia de la Música Latinoamericana (RAMULA)! Colombian poet Gustavo Gómez Giraldo, aka Juaco, recorded in Brussels by Joaldo Domínguez. Mixed with music from Mateo Kingman, Nicola Cruz, Nillo +...
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La Danza Poetica #45 The Rhythm In The Story
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. This month’s podcast mix opens with One Sixth’s fierce poem ‘Labyrinth’ - in which he calls for compassion, for understanding, and above all, for listening. So we listen. Hip hop is the voice as music, poetry as rhythm, storytelling with the drum beats of the...
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La Danza Poetica #44 Voix Forte
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Voix forte - a layered, live mix of poetry, rhythm, melody en français, exploring the strong voices of la Négritude movement in France, a movement influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Our honoured ghosts, Langston Hughes, and les trois pères (the three fathers)…
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La Danza Poetica #43 Fire and Ice
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Everything ends, everything begins, every moment, seasons change. Fire and ice, we need both to live. This month on La Danza Poetica, LAPKAT puts aside the constant hunger for things ‘new’ to focus deeper. From Autumn in Australia to Spring in Europe in 80…
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La Danza Poetica #42 Adventurous Spirits
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. This month on the global dance poetic, many new releases that share an adventurous spirit of experimentation and connection. One, special to my heart, from Australia’s Candy Royalle. One, just arrived from Canada’s Rise Ashen, the master of Indigenous electronic...
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La Danza Poetica #41 Paseo Mental
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Paseo Mental - a walk through the mind, through the various voices in our heads, both our own and the voices of the honoured ghosts and ancestors who walk with us. Performance poetry from Segovia, Spain, from an installation by Andrés Sánchez, plus new tracks,...
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La Danza Poetica #40 The Silent Poet
In February La Danza Poetica crosses lines and walls, real and imagined, through the eastern Mediterranean and Levant, from Persia to Palestine, ancient to modern. Featuring the new album from Palestinian poet and activist Rafeef Ziadah, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám interpreted by Italian…
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La Danza Poetica #39 La Reflexión
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Pausing for reflection in January 2016, a mix of tracks that I couldn’t include in the feature shows of '15, that are still on high rotation in my mind. Travel across the world, in folk music, poetry, dub and electronics, poets and musicians from Australia via...
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La Danza Poetica #38 Melbourne: Common Ground
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. For the Wurundjeri, Taungurung, Wadawurrung, Boon Wurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung peoples that make up the Kulin Nation in the South East of Australia, Melbourne has always been an important meeting place. And it continues to be a place of connection for people from...
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La Danza Poetica #36 La Síncopa
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Syncopation, collaborative poetry jazz and organic electronics. Featuring the live collaboration of Anthony Joseph and Adam Pierończyk, Saul Williams collaborating with French singer songwriter Arthur H on a piece for Basquiat, plus a new cut from Saul’s upcoming...
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La Danza Poetica #35 La Poésie Chantée
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. The poetic art is inseparable from music, most especially in the Middle East. Sung poetry, the oral tradition, passed down from generation to generation, continuing today, no break in the chain. From hip hop through electronica, a focus on some of the most...
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La Danza Poetica #34 Delirious Analysis
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Rêver en français…storytelling of emotion and delirium of loops! A mix of poetics and music featuring The 13th Tribe with Saul Williams, Volfoniq’s ‘Ernest’, Up, Bustle & Out serenading Satie, Bissecta, Parisian sound weaver Ubik from his sexy sound tapestry of...
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La Danza Poetica #33 Εμπιστοσύνη [Trust]
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. A spoken word and music mix performed live in Athens, on 4 July. From Greece to South America to Palestine, poets and musicians united in conscious resistance through community, effort, and trust.
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La Danza Poetica #32 Greece - Wavelengths
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Eclectic electronic, folk and poetic wavelengths from Greece. Featuring electronica pioneers Lena Platonos and Stereo Nova, fascinating composers and bands Carte Postale, Imam Baildi, ION, Anna Stereopoulou, and May Roosevelt (mixing the poetry of Dinos...
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La Danza Poetica #31 Australia Story & Soul
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Australia is, on the ground and in the streets, a place of amazing diversity. We celebrate the multitude of voices speaking up. Two new spoken word LPs from Joel McKerrow and Adam Gibson. A new compilation from Melbourne Spoken Word. Poets Sean M Whelan, Andrew...
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La Danza Poetica #30 Canada - Northern Thunder
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Following on from the #6 program, we dive into the deep, orchestral spaces and evocative musical landscapes with the provocative political and social storytellers of Canada. The Inuit/Western orchestral mixes of Francois Couture; Building bridges between…
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La Danza Poetica #29 Bullets or Butterflies
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Latin spirit, from Buenos Aires to Bolivia to the New York City experience of Puerto Rican and Mexican poets and hip hop artists. New music with ancient spirit, art and activism. Honoured ghosts, Nuyorican spoken word poet and writer Piri Thomas, and Jacobo Morales.
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La Danza Poetica #28 The Travelling Heart
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Featuring Click Here's latest album Balkandalucia and new recordings from the great Taraf de Haïdouks. Following the music and the poetry from Andalusia to Bulgaria, Hungary to Slovakia, Romania to Greece. Argentinian/Bulgarian crossover from Kosta Kostov,...
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La Danza Poetica special edition: Vuelo Libre ~ CIRCE Mix
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. A special mix made for a global collaborative event and album release out of Athens, Greece.
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La Danza Poetica #27 Soul (to Sol)
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Featuring the new 'Caged Bird Songs' Maya Angelou album, the new soul rock poetry of Aja Monet's 'Courage' EP, plus fresh tracks from Canada's Ian Kamau & Australia's Haitus Kaiyote. Australia's northern soul and the struggle to hold onto it is voiced by…
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La Danza Poetica #26 Il Canto Popolare
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Focus on the female troubadours of the Occitan tradition, the trobairitz and their modern counterparts, Trobairitz d’Oc, Faraualla, Rosapaeda, Enza Pagliara, poet Mariangela Gualtieri, Alessia Tondo... Focus on pizzica and the modern revival with Mascarimirì...
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La Danza Poetica #25 La Danza Diabólica
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Honouring The Spaceape (RIP), oscillating with the dark and the light in between the drum beats and breaths. Honouring those with the courage to face the devil in the pauses. Exploring Creole, the language of rhythm and time. Featuring new tracks and albums from...
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La Danza Poetica #24 Intercontinental Drift
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Travel from Italy to England, weave back and forth to America, from Spain, cross to Canada, Africa, Colombia and Argentina, dive into Berlin and collaborate with Israel, fly to Paris via Ibiza, journey into the Ukraine, across the Pacific to the Torres Strait...
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La Danza Poetica #23 Gaza Calling
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. In August 2008 the great poet Mahmoud Darwish left forever. But his voice is still here, more heartbreaking than ever. Now I ask myself to stop, turn off the newsfeed, clear my mind of prejudice, and listen. A mix of the amazing diversity of poetic expression…
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La Danza Poetica #22 Rain Dance
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Raining sounds and stories across the planet. Many honoured ghosts this month, including the poets Rumi, Federico García Lorca, TS Elliott, Badr Shaker Assaiab, Jorge Luis Borges, and Pablo Neruda. Ambient folkloric beats, Afro Latin jazz and soul, hip hop and...
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La Danza Poetica #21 My Island Home
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Australia is my country. I was born here; it made me; I make it. We all do. Our potential is being undermined. Our government and their puppet masters, the commercial vested interests, would have us divided. But music, art, culture and poetry are the threads that...
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La Danza Poetica #20 Dub Poetry Part II: Word Sound 'Ave Power
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. The continuing inspiration of the rhythm poets in the Jamaican Year of Poetree. Following the lineage of the griots, voicing the Rastafari philosophy of freedom of expression and resistance, connection and protection. A mix of dub, soul and Afrobeat poets from...
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La Danza Poetica #19 Northern Lights
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Under the spell of Northern Europe and Russia. Beats and poetics from Russia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, the Nederlands. Featuring Dichters Dansen Niet’s 2014 album ‘Vuurproef’ (crucible) - the third in a trio of...
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La Danza Poetica #18 La Danza dell'Anima
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. The dance of the soul - poetic voices and soul beats from around our musical planet. Starting out in Australia with Airileke and Hiatus Kaiyote ... New tracks from Brooklyn spoken word artist Aja Monet … Amerigo Gazaway's brilliant dream collaboration of Yasiin…
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La Danza Poetica #17 The Voice Is The Drum
Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. The voice is the drum. The voice is rhythm, melody and story as one. Hip hop from Australia to Africa, via Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to Tunisia, Senegal, Ghana, Congo, Mozambique and Niger. Modern griots examining our nature, our politics and our…
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'La Danza Poetica' is a monthly podcast featuring poetry, hip hop, folk and oral tradition and global beats from around the world. Deep explorations into the many worlds, one world poetic groove, connectedness through story, song, language and rhythm.
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