Episodes
Chisenga drop by to talk about his upcoming EP and upcoming shows at the Perth Fringe festival.
Tracklist
Irreversible entanglements - Our land back
Greentea Peng - Nah it ain't the same
CARRTOONS ft.Rae Khalil - Lighta
BINA. & Subculture - Dopamine
Oxmo Puccini & Souffrance - Rats des villes
Adrian Sherwood - Starship Bahia
Aretha Franklin - Arose is still a rose
Koi Child - Black Panda
Kabza de Small & Mthunz ft Young Stunna , DJ Maphorisa, Sizwe Alakine -...
Published 02/02/24
We chat to Kaya Radio friend and Larrkardi Radio's Current Affairs Coordinator Jodi Ryder about January 26, a day that honours the establishment of the first permanent European settlement on this continent. For many First Nations people this is the date when the invasion of their country, massacre of their people and the destruction of their lives started.
Tracklist :
Barkaa - Divison
Inkabee & FLEWNT - We dat good
Mali Jo$e & Tasman Keith ft Xmunashe -PRICE UP!
Amira...
Published 01/25/24
Ayo Busari returns to Kaya Radio to talk about his latest single release and future projects.
Tracklist:
The brother moves on - Umthandazo wamagenge
John Coltrane -a love supreme (Acknowledgement)
Bokang Ramatlapeng - The waters
The Fridge - Now and then
BLK ODYSSY & Cory Henry - Adam & Eve
Ayo Busari - Superstar
Miles Davis - Black Satin
Published 12/17/23
Thabo talks to us about his upcoming show with David Hughes and Tori Griffiths (Desperate Houseguys) at the Perth Fringe Festival , relationships, moving from Zimbabwe to Middlemount and 'bombing', he also shares his tips for aspiring comics.
Tracklist :
Farai - Love disease.
Aesop Rock ft Billy Woods - Living curfew
Published 12/14/23
Roberta Joy Rich is an educator, curator and multi-disciplinary artist who is currently based in Naarm. She talks to us about her audio and visual solo exhibition, "The purple shall govern" which can be seen at PICA (Boorloo) from 3 November to 31 December 2023.
Tracklist: Nobuhle Ashanti ft christian Chandler - Dear Mom
Nobuhle Ashanti ft Deff Eff Sean Sanby, Kitso Seti, Khadijah Heeger - Ancestors (part l & ll)
André 3000 - Ants to you, gods to who?
Sio ft....
Published 12/13/23
We chat to Naarm-based curator, educator and multi disciplinary artist Roberta Joy Rich about her first ever Boorloo sound and video art installation which runs from 19 November - 31 December at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA).
Tracklist:
Nobuhle Ashanti ft Christian Chandler - Dear Mom
Nobuhle Ashanti ft Deff Eff, Seán Sanby, Kitso Seti, Khadija Heeger - Ancestors l & ll
Sio ft Dunn - reverse flight
André 3000 - ants to you, gods to who?
Published 11/28/23
Kawaka is a Tanzanian born multi-disciplinary artist that is based in Boorloo, he shares some of his favourite music and experiences.
Tracks :
Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Bebe Manga - Amio
Lucky Dube - One people
Chosi - Mdali
Asher Gamedze - Turbulence's pulse
Published 09/17/23
Imara talks to shoshi about the launch of her health and wellness initiative, a grounding practice of african healing through movement, kemetic/hatha yoga and therapeutic sound/music.
Tracklist :
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Live from Tigre Lounge
BaianaSystem ft Curumin & Edgar - Sonar
Mestre Môa do Katendê, BNegão & Edgar - Véia Coló
Orlando Julius Ekemode - From Selma to Soweto
Recorded on Noongar boodja.
Published 09/07/23
We celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop with a track list of some of our favourite emcees, producers and cultural ambassadors
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Published 08/19/23
Lana Freitas is a singer and songwriter from Salvador, the capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia. She talks to us about her musical influences, Afro-Brazilian culture and moving to Australia.
Lana Freitas é uma cantora e compositora de Salvador, Bahia. Ela vai fala sobre suas ifluências musicais, cultura Afro Brasileira e mudança para a Austrália.
Track List:
Exuma -The Obeah Man
Lana - Estrear
Sibusile Xaba - Intro
340ml - Kubrik
Msaki - Gibel' inkwenkwezi ft...
Published 07/14/23
Track List:
THA KING - Meshell Ndegeocello ft Thandiswa
Banna ba batsumi ft Nonku Phiri, Malcolm Jiyane, Gontse Makhene, Ariel Zamonsky
Black Joy - Aja Monet
You play with my heart - Masego
Mongo - Fernando Damon ft Robin Fassie
4th Chamber - GZA ft RZA, Ghostface Killah, Killah Priest
Avalanche - Madlib ft MF DOOM
Omnipuss - Meshell Ndegeocello
Baba Kwesi interlude - Lupe Fiasco
Music from Black Brass - Mararo Wangai and Mahmoud Selemane
Mamani - Letta Mbulu
Achilles -...
Published 06/29/23
Cobalt is a hard silvery-white magnetic metal that is a byproduct of mined copper and nickel. It is one of the world’s most important natural resources and the DRC is estimated to posses 70% of its global supply. It is said to be 'the new blood diamond’.
This mineral is in hot demand because it is a critical component of batteries used in electric vehicles and electronic devices.Mining cobalt is now linked to grave human rights and environmental abuses including the exposure of miners to...
Published 06/10/23
Aćol Agaar Apollo,better known by the stage name Pookie is a South Sudanese rapper, songwriter, composer and producer who was born in Nairobi, Kenya and migrated to Australia with her family at the age of seven. She talks to Shoshi & Shubert about moving Boorloo, her studies in architecture and sound engineering in Naarm, as well as navigating the creative industry as a Black African woman growing up in Australia.
Track List:
POOKIE - Ima Magician.
POOKIE - Shady (interlude)
jev. -...
Published 06/09/23
Track list :
Thandi Ntuli - Izibongo
Yellow - Next (Japan)
Msaki - Ulwandle Lutshile
Sun-El Musician - Portia's Chant
Asher Gamedze - Out stepped Zim
Xhanti Nokwali - Ezeyeza
Bokani Dyer - Mogaetsho
The Brother Moves On - Puleng (intro)
Tumi & The Volume - The story behind the pain
Asher Gamedze - Turbulence's Pulse
Somi - House of the rising sun
Black Jesus Experience - E105
Underground Canopy - Feelm
Keenan Ahrens - Perseverance (live)
In the 50's, 60's and 70's, some of the...
Published 05/27/23
'AURUS is a modern mirage. The incarnation of our contradictions.'
Shoshi and Lisa chat to Reunion Island-based artist AURUS also known as Bastien Picot about his traditional Creole musical influences, language, expression and his experiences in Australia.
Tracklist:
Bastien Picot - Stardust
AURUS - Still Alive
Published 05/07/23
Tracklist:
Jas Kayser - Feel it
El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious game
Seun Kuti & Black Thought ft Vic Mensa - Bad Man Lighter 2.0
B.Cool-Aid, Pink Siifu & Ahwlee ft Devin Morrison, Pher & Moruf - Wassup
Liv.e - Wild Animals
Melanie Charles - Without Us
Chrissi - Back in the day
Morena Leraba - Ho Sama-Sama
Anbessa ft Manu Dibango - Akalè Wubè
Meshell Ndegeocello ft Thandiswa - Vuma
Nakhane Hold me down
Desire Marea - Banzi
Arona Mane, Shantan...
Published 05/07/23
We chat to Lagos-based artist Milan about his collaboration with Brisbane's Izaya Biggs.
Tracklist:
Allara - Ngatha Nhawa - I Nanyirr
Mbuso Khoza - Zulu Eliphezulu
Outernational Meltdown - Giya Kasiamore
Nina Simone - Funkier than a mosquito's tweeter
Milan - Body
Izaya Biggs - The Marathon
Brandee Younger - Dust ft Meshell Ndegeocello
Moor Mother - Evening
Yasiin Bey - Life in marvellous times
Keleketla - Shepherd song remix
Luisito Quintero ft Francis Mbappe -...
Published 04/16/23
A nostalgic musical journey curated by Shoshi & Shubert.
Track List :
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal (1991)
A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions
Yothu Yindi - Gapu
Toure Kunda - Fiança
Hugh Masekela - Stimela
KRS-One - MC's act like they don't know
Outernational Meltdown - Hungry on arrival
Jr.Gong - 10 000 Chariots
Sniper - La France, itinéraire d'une polémique
Lauren Hill - Final hour
Outkast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious (1998)
Published 04/07/23
Vodou, also spelled Voodoo, Voudou, Vodun, or the French Vaudou is a worldview encompassing philosophy, medicine, justice and religion. Its fundamental principle is that everything is spirit.Humans are spirits who inhabit the visible world. The unseen world is populated by Iwa (spirits), mystè (mysteries), anvizib (the invisibles), Zanj (angels) and the spirit of ancestors. All these spirits are believed to exist in a mythic land called Ginen, a cosmic 'Africa.'
This episode is inspired by...
Published 03/29/23
We are joined by Botswana-born Boorloo based DJ Sepsi who talks to Shoshi about her childhood memories, musical influences, religion and Sepsi vibes.
Track List :
Ndabo Zulu & Umgidi Ensemble ft. Mbuso Khoza, Linda Sikhakhane, Shane Cooper, Njabulo Shabalala, Siya Charles, Nduduzo Makhatini - Abansundu Nabamhlophe (RSA)
Bhudaza - Tjontjobina (Lesotho)
Mobi Dixon ft Mque - City Rains (RSA)
Ubuntu Brothers ft S'tukzin da DJ - Purity (RSA)
Gambino La MG - Bébé (France)
Naza - Vie...
Published 03/08/23
We sat down with emerging Perth Afrobeat DJ SirB to talk about music, parenting and community.
Published 03/06/23
South Sudanese comedian, actor, activist and founder of the South Sudan Comedy Festival, Akau Jambo talks to Jodi and Shoshi about his Australian tour, content creation and the art of telling jokes.
Track List : Nina Simone - Misunderstood
Manana -Umbilical
Published 02/27/23
We chat to up coming stand-up comedian Yetemgeta Mulugeta, known professionally as YETEMGETA about the Perth comedy scene, 'bombing', free drinks and more.
Track list : Black Jesus Experience - E105 (AUS)
Flewnt - Children Of The Files (AUS)
Bootsy Collins - The Jazz Greats (USA)
Izangoma - Ngo Ma (RSA)
Superego - Chrome Face (AUS)
Published 02/23/23
We chat to Cameroon-born, Paris based artist and activist Blick Bassy about Bikutsi 3000, musical influences and identity.
Bikutsi 3000 is part of the Perth Festival and runs from 10-14 February 2023 at The State Theatre in Perth.
Track List:
Blick Bassy - Mpondol
Trio SR9 ft Blick Bassy - One last time
Blick Bassy - Kiki
Published 02/10/23