The Wavelength
Monday February 15th, 2021 with Joe Reilly
Black History Month Installment #2 - An hour of soul, funk and hip hop followed by an hour of music created by African artists (mostly)
In hour 1 we listen to some thought provoking funk, soul and hip hop music all created by great Canadian and international Black artists. In the second hour we again focus on music from Africa, including a remix of Fela Kuti, a gem from Manu Dibango and some hypnotic North African music from artists who actually performed in the Ottawa area in the 1990s at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Finally we wrap up with a beautiful call for global unity from Tariq Abubakar and the Afro Nubians. Checking into some of the recordings by Tariq Abubakar I found out that he died tragically in his mid-30s in a traffic accident while visiting his home in Sudan. Tariq made a major impact on African-Canadian music during his short life.
| Don't Explain Nina Simone - Let It All Out - Philips |
| We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue Curtis Mayfield - Curtis - Curtom |
| Men Are Getting Scarce Chairmen of the Board - Bittersweet - Invictus |
| Yes We Can Can The Pointer Sisters - The Pointer Sisters - Blue Thumb Records |
| Equal Rights and Justice Lillian Allen - The Rebel Zone: Queen Street West - Sony 
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| Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - Tamla Motown |
| Angela Davis 1ManMilitia - Black History Theory - Indie (on Bandcamp) |
| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott Heron - Ghetto Style - Camden BMG |
| Conditions Critical Lillian Allen - Conditions Critical - Verse to Vinyl
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| Priceless Rascalz - Global Warning - VIK Recordings/BMG
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| African American Disillusionment.... Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry - Indie (on Bandcamp) |
| The full title of the piece by Speaker Music is: African American Disillusionment With Northern Democracy Continues to Smolder in Every Negro Who Has Settled Up North After Knowing Life in the South |
| Stone Throwers (Gone In A Blink) Shad - A Short Story About A War - Secret City Records
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| Dispossession Algiers - There Is No Year - Matador |
| ABC's K'Naan - Troubador - A&M Octone Records
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| The Black Tie Affair Maestro Fresh Wes - The Black Tie Affair - Attic
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| Obeah Haviah Mighty - New Single
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| Expensive Masters at Work/Fela Kuti - African Travels - Six Degrees Records |
| New Bell Manu Dibango - Best of Africadelic - Mercury |
| The Visitors Hamza El Din - Eclipse - Mickey Hart Collection/Smithsonian Folkways |
| Mabruk (Congratulation) Ali Hassan Kuban - From Nubia To Cairo - Piranha/Shanachie |
| Noora Mohamed Gubara - Sounds of Sudan - World Circuit |
| Bania Hassan Hakmoun - Trance - Realworld |
| One People Tariq Abubakar and the Afro Nubians - The Great Africans
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great! thanks.
10:45 PM, February 15th, 2021