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Tokyo
04:00 - 06:00

'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest' - Kafka On The Shore Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murakami's corpus.

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Los Angeles
05:00 - 06:00

TRiNH - an hour of covers and nostalgic feels, playing a wide range of genres with a focus on L-O-V-E.

Lamin Fofana
Lamin Fofana
09.09.20 · New York

Lamin Fofana

With Lamin Fofana

Lamin Fofana is an artist and musician currently located in Berlin. His latest releases include Black Metamorphosis, Darkwater, and Blues (an album trilogy). This show is dedicated to world-renowned poet Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite and distinguished trumpeter and educator Jacques Coursil.

Image: 'I ran from it and was still in it' (film still), 2020, © Nicolas Premier

Tracklist

  • Jacques Coursil
    Nunna Daul Sunyi (Le Chemin Où Nous Avons Pleuré)
  • Jacques Coursil 
    Frantz Fanon 1952
  • Mal Waldron 
    Space Walk
  • Kamau Brathwaite
    Reading From Born To Slow Horses
  • Aster Aweke 
    Kabu Denidobign
  • Papa Et Sekou Diabate
    Les Virtuoses Diabate
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson
    Reading Tings At Windrush Celebrations
  • Binyavanga Wainaina
    Remembering Chinua Achebe
  • Van Morrison 
    Slim Slow Slider

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