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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
Feb 13, 2019 10:00 PM β 12:00 AM
Eclectic
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: βDuende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.β 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.
11:29 PM |
| Fernanda Maria Castelo Branco Fado... Fados! Arion 1983
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| Fernanda Maria Traquitamas Fado... Fados! Arion
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| Flora Purim Bad Jive Humble People Concord Jazz 1985
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11:29 PM |
| Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus Band Try Some Ammonia Too Much Sugar For A Dime Axiom
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11:30 PM |
| Air Eulogy to Charles Clark Live Black Saint
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11:31 PM |
| Air (4) Portrait Of Leo Smith Live Air Black Saint 1993
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11:33 PM |
| Henry Threadgill Platinum Inside Straight Everybodys Mouth's A Book Pi Recordings (2) 2001
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11:33 PM |
| Henry Threadgill Game Is Up Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus (feat. Chris Hoffman, Jose Davila, Roman Filiu, Curtis Robert MacDonald, David Bryant, David Virelles, Luis Perdomo & Craig Weinrib) Pi Recordings 2018
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11:34 PM |
| Harriet Tubman Farther Unknown The Terror End of Beauty Sunnyside Records 2018
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11:40 PM |
| Frank Zappa Side One Lumpy Gravy Bizarre
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