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Sunday, May 10, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic
1st Set:
Graham Haynes* - Flip Stories [The Griots Footstep]
Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity - Mojuba [Ancients Speak]
David Fiuczynski* - La Fiesta [JazzPunk]
Alex Acuna - Pa' Don Nicomedes [Acuarela De Tambores]

2nd Set:
Rare Earth - Ma [Ma]
Ursula Rucker* - Supa Sista [Supa Sista]
Earth Wind and Fire* - All About Love [That's The Way Of The World]

3rd Set:
Quinta - Sambe De Elegua [Rough Guide To Brazil: Rio De Janeiro]
Little Sister - You're The One [Hard To Find 45s: Sweet
Divine Verbal Dialect - The Natural [D.I.V.I.N.E.]
George Benson - The Ghetto [Absolute Benson]
Dyke and The Blazers - Funky Broadway [So Sharp]

4th Set:
Melvin Jackson - Bold and Black [Funky Skull]
Vital Information* - Once In A Lifetime [Where We Come From]
Sun Ra - Where Pathways Meet [Lanquidity]


Thanks to all the listeners, callers, readers, supporteres of Forward Motion, KPFK Los angeles and Pacifica Radio, and to B. M. for adding his musical perspective to that which is Forward Motion.

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Currently listening:
Ancients Speak
By Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity
Release date: 2009-03-17
10:43 PM 
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Sunday, May 03, 2009 
1st Set:
Nguyen Le* - Third Stone From The Sun [Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix]
Toure Kunda - Natalia [Natalia]
Satoko Fujii - In The Town You Don't See On The Map [Summer Suite]
Hugh Masekela - Bajabula Bonke [The Promise of A Future]
Allen Toussaint - Egyptian Fantasy [The Bright Mississippi]

2nd Set:
P18 - Urban Cuban [Urban Cuban]
Hip Hop Hoodies - 1492 [Carne Masada: Quite Possible The Very Best of]
Omar Sosa* - Ancestors [Across The Divide: A Tale of Rhythm and Ancestry]
Collin Walcott - Jewel Ornament [Grazing Dreams]
? - Cinco De Mayo [?]

3rd Set:
David Gilmore* - Protean Way [Unified Presence]
Autorickshaw* - Chennai Five-0 [Four Higher]
Sara Tavares* - Balance [Balance]
The Black Dog feat. Ofra Haza - Babylon: Nine Inch Nimrod [Babylon 12" Single]
Bob Marley - Natural Mystic [Natural Mystic]

4th Set:
Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell - Solidarity / Arabian Nightingale [El Corazon]
East West Quintet - Comet [Vast]
TropiJazz All Stars - Poem [TropiJazz All Stars Vol. 2]
Terumasa Hino - The Good People [Hogiuta]


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Currently listening:
TropiJazz All-Stars, Vol. 2
By TropiJazz All-Stars
Release date: 1997-02-25
3:26 PM 
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Sunday, April 26, 2009 
1st Set:
Defunkt* - Make Them Dance [Defunkt]
Cameo - Talkin' Out The Side of Your Neck [She's Strange]
Liquid Soul* - Freedie The Freeloader [Liquid Soul]
Bob Moses - For Miles [When Elephants Dream of Music]
Miles Davis - Rated X / Billy Preston [Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis...]
The Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can [Retrospect]

2nd Set:
Graham Haynes*- Mars Triangle Jupiter [Transition]
Joshua Redman Elastic Band* - Greasy G [Momentum]
Elisabeth Withers* - Simple Things [It Can Happen To Anyone]

3rd Set:
Sonny Sharrock* - As We Used To Sing [Ask The Ages]
Archie Shepp / Dollar Brand - Theme From "Proof of The Man [Duet]
Dapp Theory* - Only Clave [Y'All Just Don't Know]

4th Set:
King Crimson - The Sheltering Sky [Disipline]
Herbie Handcock* - Rain Dance [Sextant]
Tracy Chapman - The Rape of The World [New Beginning]
Archie Shepp / Dollar Brand - Barefoot Boy From Queens Town [Duet]


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Currently listening:
Duet
By Archie Shepp With Dollar Brand
Release date: 1993-04-19
1:18 PM 
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Monday, April 20, 2009 
1st Set:
SexMob - Willisau Suite 1 [SexMob Meets Medeski: LIve In Willisau 2006]

2nd Set:
Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber* - Chains And Water [Makeing Love To The Dark Ages]

3rd Set:
Yoshida Brothers - Hujin [Prism]
Tony Malaby - Alechinsky [Paloma Recio]
Vinnie Moore - Soul Caravan [To The Core]
Grant Geissman - Chuck and Chick [Cool Man Cool]
Omar Sosa* / Mark Weinstein - Track 2 [Tales From The Earth]

4th Set:
Juan De Marcos Afro Cuban All Stars - Elegia A Ruben Gonzalez [Live In Holland]
Vinie Moore - Remorse [To The Core]
Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber* - Love To Tical [Makeing Love To The Dark Ages]


If you have something you think would work on Forward Motion send it to:

Jas Shepherd
P. O. Box 5282
Chatsworth, CA 91313


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Currently listening:
Sex Mob Meets Medeski: Live in Willisau
By Sex Mob
Release date: 2009-04-21
4:44 AM 
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 

1st Set:
Parliament - P-Funk: Want To Get Funked Up [Live P-Funk Earth Tour]
Weather Report - Corner Pocket [Sportin' Life]
The Revolutionary Ensemble - Ponderous Planets [The People's Republic]
DJ Vadim* feat. Sara Jones - Your Revolution [USSR: Life From The Other Side]

2nd Set:
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue [Johnny Cash At San Quentin]
Stanley Clarke* and Friends - No Mystery [Musicians Institute Benefit 2003]
Bela Fleck and The Flecktones* - Channai [Live: Tulsa February 2007]
Cymande - The Message [Cymande]

3rd Set:
Qusai - From Jaddah To L. A. [Don Legend The Kamelion]
Ice T* - Shut Up Be Happy [The Iceberg]
King Britt* - Planetary Analysis [Adventures In Lo-Fi]
Christian McBride Band* - Technicolor Nightmare [Vertical Vision]
Shihan* feat. Ursula Rucker* - Activism [The Poet]

4th Set:
Leon thomas - The Creator Has A Master Plan [Spirits Known and Unknown]
Kip Hanrahan - G-d Is Good [Exotica]
Oteil and The Peacemakers* - Blue Eyed Savior [Believer]
Joe Sample - All Gods Children [Spellbound]
Earth Wind and Fire* - Open Our Eyes [Open Our Eyes]

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Currently listening:
Spirits Known and Unknown
By Leon Thomas
Release date: 2002-01-22
11:44 AM 
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Sunday, April 05, 2009 
1st Set:
Spring Heel Jack - With Our Words [Songs and Themes]
Simeon Harris - Roswell [The Assessment]
Aguaviva - Robot / Cantara [Cada Vez Mas Cerca]
El-P feat The Blue Series Continuum - Sunrise OVer Brooklyn [High Water]
Martin Luther King - The Price of Freedom / I Have A Dream [Detroit June 23, 1963]

2nd Set:
Masahiko Togashi - Third Expression [Guild For Human Music]
Electric Masada - Yatzar [At The Mountains of Madness]
Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-Star Orchestra - Rejuvenation [Inspiration]

3rd Set:
Steve Coleman and Five Elements - Patterns of Force [Def Trans Beat: Modalities of Rhythm]
Steve Coleman and Five Elements - Drop Kick [Drop Kick]
Steve Coleman -Excerpt From Phone Conversation Recorded March 31, 2009

4th Set:
Dennis Charles IVTet - We Don't [Captain of The Deep]
Dr. Benjamin Spock - Remembering Dr. King [Martin Luther King Memorial In Central Park: PRA # BB3172]
Mandrill* - Solid [Solid]
Omar Sosa - D'Son [Afreecanos]
Apostles of Music - Wade In The Water [Local Customs: Downriver Revival]


Thanks to Seth Kasselman for coming in as guest DJ, DJ Delphinus for getting things started, Jen Shyu for making sure Steve Coleman and I got to speak, and Steve for taking the time for our recorded conversation.

If you would like to hear the complete unedited conversation, contact me via forwardmotionkpfk@yahoo.com for futher instructions.

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Currently listening:
Weaving Symbolics
By Steve Coleman
Release date: 2006-11-14
2:45 PM 
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Sunday, March 29, 2009 


1st Set:
Phil Upchurch - Cold Sweat [Darkness Darkness]
Cymande - Dove [Cymande]
Hugh Masekela - Night In Tunisia [I Am Not Affraid]
Mandrill* - Mango Meat [Mandrill Is]

2nd Set:
Conversation with Lou and Ric "Doc" Wilson of Mandrill
Mandrill* - Sunshine [Sunshine: Love Songs]
War - H2 Overture
Lambert Hendricks and Ross - Cottontail [Everybody's Boppin']

3rd Set:
Conversation with Lou and Ric "Doc" Wilson of Mandrill
Mandrill feat Dwight Tribble - Ablessing [Unreleased Track]
Mandrill - Wind On Horseback [Solid]
Doc Wilson and Lou Wilson - Live Percussion Interlude

4th Set:
Conversation with Lou Wilson, Doc Wilson, and The One Sun Lion Ra
The One Sun Lion Ra* - Black Woman: The Natty Natural Vibe [Fire In The Sky]
Mooger Fooger - Bermuda Triangle [12" Single]
John Hope Franklin [Intro By Sonali Kolhatkar of Uprising] [Pacifica Radio Archives]
Doc Wilson and Lou Wilson - Live Percussion Interlude


Thanks to Doc and Lou Wilson for their musical contribution both live and recorded.  Thanks to The One Sun Lion Ra for being available via phone from Philadelphia.  Lastly, to you for giving of your time and listening.

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Currently listening:
Live at Montreux 2002
By Mandrill
Release date: 2006-09-19
1:50 PM 
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Sunday, March 22, 2009 
1st Set:
Radha Botofasina - Narayana / Dear Lord [Aspirations of The Heart]
Meshell Ndegeocello* - Hot Night [Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape]
Micropixei* - Cognitive Dissonance [Alice In Stevie Wonderland]
Jen Shyu* - Lunation [Jade Tongue]
Myra Melford Be Bread - Yellow Are Crowds Of Flowers, ii [The Image of Your Body]

2nd Set:
Vernon Reid* and Masque - Voodoo Pimp Stroll [Known Unknown]
Al Di Meola* - Senor Mouse [Casino]
Kazumi Wataname - Mobo #2 [Mobo I]

3rd Set:
The Jeff Gauthier Goatette - I.O.A. [House of Return]
Alex Cline - Fade To Green [Continuation]
Hey Rim Jeon - Mona Lisa Puzzle [Mona Lisa Puzzle]

4th Set:
The O'Jays - For The Love of Money [Ship Ahoy]
Weather Report - Corner Pocket [Sportin' Life]
Whoopi Goldberg - Surfer Chick [Original Broadway Show Recording]
Satoke Fujii Ma-Do -Spiral Staircase [Heat Wave]
Vernon Reid* and  Masque - Sidewinder [Known Unknown]

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Currently listening:
Known Unknown
By Vernon Reid & Masque
Release date: 2004-05-04
2:05 PM 
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Sunday, March 15, 2009 
1st Set:
James Brown - Mind Power [Make It Funky]
Sharon Jones and The Dapp Kings* - What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes [Impeach The President]
Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber* - Chains and Water [Making Love To The Dark Ages]
Yes / Steve Howe* - Mood For A Day [Fragile]
David Binney* - Explaining What's Hidden [Third Occasion]

2nd Set:
Mick Karn* - Tribal Dawn [Titles]
The Jeff Gauthier Goatette - Friends of The Animals [House of Return]
George Duke - Old Slipper [Feel]
Myra Melford - If You've Not Been Fed [The Image of Your Body]

3rd Set:
Beth Vorhees - Our Place In The Milky Way [Cosmic Radio]
Oliver Lake* - Africa [NTU: Point From Which Creation Begins]
Miles Davis - Sivad [Live - Evil]

4th Set:
Earth Wind and Fire* - Keep Your Head To The Sky [The Eternal Dance]
George Duke - Foosh [The Aura Will Prevail]
James Brown - Escape-ism [Make It Funky]
Billy Cobham - The Pleasant Pheasant [Crosswinds]
Miles Davis - Selim [Live - Evil]
Earth Wind and Fire* - Open Your Eyes [The Eternal Dance]


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Currently listening:
Making Love To The Dark Ages
By Burnt Sugar - The Chamber Arkestra
Release date: 2009-03-17
4:04 PM 
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Sunday, March 08, 2009 
1st Set:
60 Channels* [The Angel] - Covert Movements [Covert Movements]
Janet Jackson - Interlude: T.V. / State of The World [Rhythm Nation 1814]
Meshell Ndegeocello* - Time Has Come Today [White Man's Burdon Soundtrack]
Elisabeth Withers* - Simple Things [It Can Happen To Anyone]
Jenny Schienman* - Dance Party 1929 [The Rabbi's Lover]

2nd Set:
Lili Haydn* - Maggot Brain [Global Village 032808]
Susie Ibarra Trio - Up From The Skies [Radiance]
Nona Gaye - Inner City Blues [The Music Of Marvin Gaye]
Angelique Kidjo* - Voodoo Child [Keep On Moving The Best Of]
Cassandra Wilson* - 'Round Midnight [Live]

3rd Set:
Miho Reis - Come Home [edit] [The Miho Reis Hour]
Ani DiFranco* - Tis Of Thee [Up Up Up Up Up UP]
The Sheryl Bailey* 3 - Swamp Thing [Bull's Eye]
Yvette Tollar feat Saidah Baba Talibah - Would You Mind [Cactus Flowers]
Mimi Fox - Perpetually Hip [Perpetually Hip]
Sharon Jones n The Dap-Kings* - This Land Is Your Land [Naturally]

4th Set:
Beth Vorhees - Jupiter [Cosmic Radio]
Alixa and Naima* - Ancesters Watching [Ammunition]
Patrice Rushen - Before The Dawn [Before The Dawn]
Shaheen* - Coconut [Revolution]
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do - Spiral Staircase [Heat Wave]
Maya Azucena* - Hallelujah [Junkyard Jewel]

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Currently listening:
Before the Dawn
By Patrice Rushen
2:43 PM 
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