Stay spooked! This is the playlist for the Is Black Music Halloween special.
All in Alternative music
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.
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.
My Love Divine Degree
Cody takes his quirky arty concept thang to the bridge. He really owns his otherness with tracks like This Green Leaf and the Image Of Love. Indeed this whole album requires that you prepare for the unexpected, even on the second or third listen.
Burnt Sugar Luminosity LP review
The Burnt Sugar Arkestra is made up of a eclectic lineup of musicians who have played with everyone from Parliament Funkedelic to Jeff Buckley, and from Butch Morris to The Roots. In my opinion this trumps any previous attempts to orally account for the Black bohemian lifestyle of today.
Resonance Valentine
This week we’re all about Valentines, and particularly the Resonance FM Fund Drive Valentine Day gig taking place February 14, 2017.
Tune in Tuesday midnight
Is Black Music is back live on the air this Tuesday 6th at midnight on Resonance 104.4 for another season of programming.
Parliament special
George Clinton is in so many ways an exceptional genius. Like his forerunner Sun Ra, one of his incredible talents was in nourishing and squeezing out creativity from overlooked and talented straying musicians.
Hipster sista
Funk can appear masculine and tough. So lessons are to be learned from the women who dared venture there and still hold on to their femininity and gracefully render that fat beat.
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.