Stay spooked! This is the playlist for the Is Black Music Halloween special.
All in AltSoul
Avant garde Black women
As we remember to forget those Black avant garde women, the ones overlooked by us men who couldn't deal… let us turn back now and listen to their music. Their movement up and down the pathway of our lost minds.
Lockdown 3 part special
These lockdown radio shows are a fascinating voyeuristic peek into the artist’s private and intimate space. In most instances there is only a cell phone camera present to bear witness to the lone musician’s personal testimony.
The crepuscular vision of the Chi-Lites
This broadcast makes an unlikely pairing of the Chi-lites music with the overlooked early 20th Century Italian art movement known as crepuscular poetry.
They Dance In The Dark
This performance explores that area in our lives which is unacknowledged. Perhaps we are so in denial that we don’t recognise it ourselves. That area between man and woman. African and Asian. Day and night. Good and bad. Wrong and right. Darkness and light.
Pieces of a Man
Really Gil lands alternative soul points on so many levels. But I think in the Black community he will always be remembered as the Godfather of Protest Music.