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Muslims around the world are celebrating Ramadan. It is a quieter time in Bakau, the Gambia. I am using the time to continue my reflections on “Africa” and to ground myself in “Africa.
This broadcast of Ramadan sessions features mixes from Baby Mango Friend and Thabang Mohammed Shaheed Manyike.
The broadcast starts with the “Roy Ayers Tribute” by Baby Mango Friend followed by “Azanian Folktale in Ramadan” by Thabang. My selection is titled “Groundings in Africa” or “Till I’m laid to rest” and it ends the broadcast.
About the "Roy Ayers Tribute"
Feb 9th I started making this playlist of some of my favorite music from Roy Ayers. He would pass away less than a month later. As I cry funky tears for the godfather of Jazz-funk I am grieving my real father too. Who passed away some weeks before Ayers. So far the playlist is a soulfully smooth 22 tracks and counting. Spanning some 90+ minutes across 8 albums. Hardly a scratch to the surface of Roy’s extensive discography. Listen to “Roy Ayers Dedication – Part I” by me, Baby Mango Friend on Artradio. Thanks to DJ Afifa and Sound Culture University for commissioning this.
Rhythm philosophically must be understood as Ntu or Universal Life force. To find it is to be intune with the universe -Marimba Ani
In the 1970s Ayers started a band called Roy Ayers Ubiquity. And ubiquitous was this band, that is said to have “synthesized” jazz, funk, rock, soul and salsa. The name “ubiquity” refers to the state of being everywhere at once, and in the context of this band seems to underscore the universality of their sound or “soul”.
Baby Mango Friend
About Azanian Folktale in Ramadan
Tracklist Azanian Folktale in Ramadan
- Skits: Armand Hammer & Alchemist – Haram
- Radio Freedom (uMknto weSizwe)
- Abdullah Ibrahim – Ishmael 1997
- Ambuya Nyati – Changamire mudzimu dzoka (Zimbabwe : Shona ritual music) 2013
- Phillip Tabane – Thabang 1996
- Madosini – Wenu segoli 1997
- Abyssinia Infinite – Gela 2003
- Samson Mthombeni & Gazankulu Girls – Bombo Ra tika 1977
- Wadada Leo Smith – Blues: Jah Jah Is The Perfect Love 1983
- Mulatu Astatke – Soul Power ( Afro Latin Soul 1 & 2) 1966
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