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KFAI is a volunteer-based community radio station that exists to broadcast information, arts and entertainment programming for an audience of diverse racial, social and economic backgrounds.
International Jazz Conspiracy
Aug 4, 2021 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Music/Experimental
With A KFAI DJ
The program is a sonic journey through contemporary jazz, free improvisation, new music, hindustani music, flamenco, world music, underground, avant garde and art music from different corners of the globe, as well as interviews and live studio performances by local and visiting artists and the occasional musical restructuring*. An adventure in sound, a journey into the tone world.
We strive to present music with duende, a term originally used by flamenco musicians referring to inspiration, magic and fire in music. There is no direct translation for it in English, but the closest would be "soulful".
The famous Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca often speaks of duende. In his lecture "El juego y la teoria del duende" (Play and Theory of the Duende) he says:
"All through Andalucia. . . people speak constantly of duende, and recognize it with unfailing instinct when it appears... These dark sounds are the mystery, the roots... from which we get what is real in art... Thus duende is a force and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept. I have heard an old master guitarist say: ‘Duende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.’ Which means it is not a matter of ability, but of true living style; of blood; of ancient culture; of spontaneous creation."
Duende is not just found in flamenco though. In the liner notes of Miles Davis' 1964 album My Funny Valentine, Nat Hentoff says: "In trying to distill the particular mesmeric quality of Miles Davis, Kenneth Tynan has referred to the Spanish word DUENDE: 'It has no English equivalent,' he explained, but it denotes 'the ability to transmit a profoundly felt emotion with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of restraint... Miles Davis has DUENDE.' "
Hosted by Emel Sherzad.
'May music never just become another way of making money.'
- Keith Tippett
*musical restructuring: simultaneous playback/mixing of various audio sources, a.k.a. audio collage.
10:02 PM |
| Roscoe Mitchell Walking In the Moonlight Hey Donald Delmark 1995
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10:10 PM |
| Roscoe Mitchell Dragons Hey Donald Delmark 1995
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10:19 PM |
| The Art Ensemble of Chicago Slow Tenor and Bass Sirius Calling Pi Recordings 2004
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10:23 PM |
| The Art Ensemble of Chicago Voyage Sirius Calling Pi Recordings 2004
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10:29 PM |
| Roscoe Mitchell Discussions 2 Discussions Wide Hive Records 2017
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10:37 PM |
| Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble Cuts for Quintet 3X4 Eye Black Saint
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10:55 PM |
| The Art Ensemble of Chicago We are on the Edge We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration Pi Recordings 2019
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11:05 PM |
| The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble Congliptious Congliptious Nessa
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11:27 PM |
| Roscoe Mitchell The Little Suite Roscoe Mitchell Sextet - Sound Delmark 2018
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11:38 PM |
| Roscoe Mitchell & The Transatlantic Art Ensemble III Compósition / Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 ECM Records 2007
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11:58 PM |
| Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble Jojar 3X4 Eye Black Saint
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