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Detroit
05:00 - 06:30

In the immediate years following her husband's death, Alice Coltrane underwent a challenging personal journey, finally emerging from emotional turmoil when she was introduced to guru Swami Satchidananda in the early 1970s. By 1972 she had changed her name to Turiyasangitananda, and left her secular life behind, moving to California. In 1975, she opened the Vedantic Centre.This spiritual awakening would define much of the rest of her life, her music notwithstanding. This show explores Alice's later recordings, which are deeply influenced by Hinduism and Eastern spirituality, featuring bhajan chants, and new age influence.

2
London
06:00 - 07:00

Omar Hraib presents The Witching Hour; a passage through the realms of the slow, the heavy and the strange.

Nytro

Nytro

Nytro has been played on NTS shows including LDLDN, with Orbit Of The Sun first played on 13 August 2016.

Influenced by the Bar-Kays and the Ohio Players, Nytro was an obscure funk/soul band that worked with producer/songwriter Norman Whitfield in the late '70s. Whitfield, who scored major hits for everyone from Edwin Starr to Rose Royce, was known for having the "Midas-touch." But he didn't have much commercial success with the horn-powered Nytro, which recorded two albums for his Whitfield label: 1977's "Nytro" and 1979's "Return to Nytropolis."

Neither of these LPs (which ranged from gritty funk to jazz-influenced quiet storm material) sold and in 1980, Nytro broke up. Nytro's lineup included lead singer Robert Justice, trumpeters Kenneth Scott and LaMorris Payne, saxophonist Chris Powell, guitarist Earnest Reed Jr., bassist Theodore Willingham, keyboardist Benjamin Wilber, and drummer Daniel Smithson. The group members also regularly worked as session musicians on other Whitfield Records releases.

There is also a hard rock band from St. Louis names Nytro that released the CD "Some Things Never Change"

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Nytro

Nytro has been played on NTS shows including LDLDN, with Orbit Of The Sun first played on 13 August 2016.

Influenced by the Bar-Kays and the Ohio Players, Nytro was an obscure funk/soul band that worked with producer/songwriter Norman Whitfield in the late '70s. Whitfield, who scored major hits for everyone from Edwin Starr to Rose Royce, was known for having the "Midas-touch." But he didn't have much commercial success with the horn-powered Nytro, which recorded two albums for his Whitfield label: 1977's "Nytro" and 1979's "Return to Nytropolis."

Neither of these LPs (which ranged from gritty funk to jazz-influenced quiet storm material) sold and in 1980, Nytro broke up. Nytro's lineup included lead singer Robert Justice, trumpeters Kenneth Scott and LaMorris Payne, saxophonist Chris Powell, guitarist Earnest Reed Jr., bassist Theodore Willingham, keyboardist Benjamin Wilber, and drummer Daniel Smithson. The group members also regularly worked as session musicians on other Whitfield Records releases.

There is also a hard rock band from St. Louis names Nytro that released the CD "Some Things Never Change"

Original source: Last.fm

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