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Prague
06:00 - 07:00

Tearooms in post-revolution Czechoslovakia symbolised places through which new spiritualities were flowing, and the influx of largely uncharted ways of life closely intertwined with new age, ambient, folk and minimalism. With their minds altered thanks to smuggled records by Fripp & Eno or Steve Reich, this loose network of musicians had begun composing meditative music, using loops and handmade instruments, with a different sensibility. Compared to the boisterous Zappa-adjacent and booze-soaked underground movement, which was led by Plastic People of the Universe and provoked the state authorities, this music was meant instead for tea rooms and spiritual sites like churches or monasteries, as if occupying some place where time flows anticlockwise. Music journalist Pavel Klusák dubbed this 1990s scene a “tearoom alternative”. Experimental folk singer Oldřich Janota, Jaroslav Kořán’s various ensembles like Modrá or Orloj Snivců (The Horologe of Dreamers) or Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi were drawn by the light and composed music that didn’t match the fast pace of newly imported capitalism. Mix created by: Miloš Hroch

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Kingston
06:00 - 07:00

Deep dive into the work of Kingston rocksteady trio The Heptones.

MiNaYo w/ Ruth Tafébé
MiNaYo w/ Ruth Tafébé
06.07.23 · Abidjan

MiNaYo w/ Ruth Tafébé

Explorations in music from Ruth Tafébé a.k.a The Afrosoulmessenger.

Tracklist

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    EKO ROOSEVELT
    Badihani Munyengue Mwa Ngando
  • 0:03:21
    Geoffrey Oryema 
    Land Of Anaka
  • 0:08:20
    Rokia Traoré 
    Ka Moun Kè
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  • NSEKE ROBERT AND THE BLACK-STYLS
    Manye
  • BALLA-ET-SES-BALLADINS
    Paulette-Atropolis-EDIT
  • Le Zagazougou 
    Djanfa
  • AÏCHA KONE
    Décidé.Mp3
  • Ruth Tafebe, The Afrorockerz 
    Wâri
  • Luedji Luna 
    Banho De Folhas
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba 
    Amapondo
  • Tems
    Looku Looku
  • Antibalas 
    Dub Je Je

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