Radio Active Kids August 3! In-studio with The Moon & You!

August 2, 2019 by Sagan

This week’s Radio Active Kids show features an in-studio performance from local artist The Moon and You, who just released their debut family album,#BigMystery!
Also, tons of new music by the likes of Sharon and Bram, Bee Parks and the Hornets, La Granja Rock, FATHER GOOSE, Baba Got BARS, Sara Idani,Circus Bella, & #BlueMoonBoy! Tune in 8-10am ET Saturday atashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & hear the podcast atanchor.fm/radio-active-kids and http://www.radiopirinola.cl/

Local Fauna Lammas 2019 with Shaman Cat Shepard

August 1, 2019 by Kaos Kitty

Join Pryscilla Friday, August 2nd (Happy Lammas!) and welcome an extraordinary local practitioner of shamanic arts, and artist, Cat Shepard. Cat’s special focus is the practice known as Ecstatic Body Postures or Trance Posture. Cat works with participants to generate healing, as well as deeper understanding of universal and personal processes. We will discuss the history and practice of this phenomenon, pioneered by American anthropologist Felicitas Goodman, and carried on today by practitioners like Cat, and at the Cuyamungue Institute in Santa Fe, NM, among others.

Cat is an intuitive artist with over 40 years of experience. She facilitates ecstatic trance-forms, rituals, workshops, sacred circles, private intuitive ancestral readings & experiential Reiki sessions. Cat is a Reiki Master & a priestess of the Divine Feminine, the Dark Goddesses & Women’s Mysteries, a natural intuitive & an experienced instructor of earth-honoring & energetic healing practices. Her work respectfully blends ancient spiritual practices with creative expression, awakening transformational states of consciousness from within. She has learned that Art & Ritual, when used with sacred intention & integrity, are powerful gifts & tools for bringing art & healing to life, offering profound opportunities for recognizing greater potentials & giving deeper meaning to our experiences.

Health Benefits of Ecstatic Trance-Forms:

Releases beta-endorphins (bodies own opiates) responsible for states of rapture & intense euphoria
Blood pressure drops
Pulse heightens
Heightened sensual awareness
Expands consciousness naturally (without drugs) allowing one to leave our secular experience and enter into a sacred one
Aligns the left & right hemispheres of the brain resulting in whole brain functioning
Realigns the body for healing to take place

(Sources: “The Ecstatic Experience” By Belinda Gore, “Ecstatic Trance: A Workbook” by F.D. Goodman & N. Nauwald, & personal experience)

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Health Benefits of Creative Expression:

“Art filled occupational voids, distracted thoughts of illness”
“Improved well-being by decreasing negative emotions and increasing positive ones”
“Improved medical outcomes, trends toward reduced depression”
“Reductions in stress and anxiety; increases in positive emotions”
“Reductions in distress and negative emotions”
“Improvements in flow and spontaneity, expression of grief, positive identity, and social networks”

(Sources: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/make-more-art-the-health-benefits-of-creativity_b_8868802 & https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/

Links for further research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPXbqGfDNo

http://www.cuyamungueinstitute.com/articles-and-news/exploring-characteristics-of-healing-trance-with-ritual-postures-using-gamma-radiation-assessment/

https://www.academia.edu/39737042/Contemporary_and_Neoshamanic_Practitioners_in_the_West_A_Hermeneutic_Narrative_Inquiry?email_work_card=view-paper

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Top Play Charts, July 21-27, 2019

July 30, 2019 by DJ Airon

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, July 21-27, 2019

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JAZZ top ten

1. Simon Nffraabatov – Readings: Red Cavalry (LEO)
2. Nate Wooley – Columbia Icefield (NORTHERN SPY)
3. Maurice Louca – Elephantine (NORTHERN SPY)
4. Tom Rainey Trio – Combobulated (INTAKT)
5. Teodross Avery – After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane (TOMPKINS SQUARE)

6. Otherworld Ensemble – Northern Fire (EDGETONE)
7. Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones – From Untruth (NORTHERN SPY)
8. The Hallowed Plant – The Hallowed Plant (RELATIVE PITCH)
9. Dave Rempis/Brandon Lopez/Ryan Packard – The Early Bird Gets (AEROPHONIC)
10. Dave Harrington – Pure Imagination, No Country (YEGGS)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

Hope Masike _ Exorcism of a Spinster (WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)
Julie Coker _ A Life in the Limelight: Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife, 1976 – 1981 (KALITA RECORDS)
The Mauskovic Dance Band _ The Mauskovic Dance Band (SOUNDWAY)
Grupo Pilon _ Grupo Pilon: Leite Quente Funaná de Cabo Verde (OSTINATO RECORDS)
Romano Drom _ Give Me Wine (WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)

Orquesta Akokán _ Orquesta Akokán (Instrumentals) (DAPTONE)
V/A _ Jambú (É os Míticos Sons da Amazônia) (ANALOG AFRICA)
Perú Negro _ Perú Negro (VAMPISOUL)
Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla _ Terrouzi (SAHEL SOUNDS)
V/A _ Rough Guide to Mali Blues

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Black to Comm _ Before After (THRILL JOCKEY)
2. Sir Richard Bishop/W. David Oliphant & Karkhana with Hadah El Shazly _ Carte Blanche (UNROCK)
3. Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky _ Droneflower (SACRED BONES)
4. Franck Vigroux _ Barricades IERTOTOX DECODINGS)
5. Isaac Schankler _ Because Patterns (AEROCADE)

6. Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi _ s/t (TROST)
7. Nivhek _ After its Own Death/Walking in a Spiral Towards the House (W.25TH)
8. V/A-Headlights _ Child’s Play (s/p)
9. Circuit des Yeux _ Reaching for Indigo: Gaia Infinitus (DRAG CITY)
10. Maurice Louca _ Elephantine (NORTHERN SPY)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of July 21-27, 2019; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 15) Black Midi _ Schlagenheim (Rough Trade)
2.) 14) 3) Necking _ Cut Your Teeth (Mint)
3.) XX) 1) Ouroboros Boys _ Mall of Horrors (Leviathan) … Asheville band

5.) X) 22) 5) The Raconteurs _ Help Us Stranger (Third Man)

6.) 25) 29) Titus Andronicus _ An Obelisk (Merge) … Titus Andronicus plays Nov. 18 (a Monday) @ The Mothlight w/Partner

7.) 18) 24) 20) X) 14) 3) French Vanilla _ How Am I Not Myself? (Danger Collective)
8.) 13) Black to Comm _ Before After (Thrill Jockey)
9.) 5) Jeanines _ Jeanines (Slumberland)
10.) 16) 2) Mike Krol _ Power Chords (Merge) … played July 24 @ The Mothlight

11.) X) 26) 10) Prince _ Originals (Rhino/Warner Records)
12.) Pip Blom _ Boat (PIAS America)
13.) 1) 13) Purple Mountains _ Purple Mountains (Drag City)
14.) 8) Mal Blum _ Pity Boy (Don Giovanni)
15.) 9) Gauche _ A People’s History of Gauche (Merge)

16.) X) 8) Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears _ The Difference Between Me & You (s/r) … Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears play August 10 (a Saturday) @ The Mothlight w/ Annabelle Chairlegs

17.) Florist _ Emily Alone (Double Double Whammy)
18.) Imperial Teen _ Now We Are Timeless (Merge)
19.) 7) Prettiest Eyes _ Volume 3 (Castle Face)
20.) XX) 15) Television Personalities _ Some Kind Of Happening Singles 1978-1989 (Fire)

21.) X) 14) 4) Amyl and the Sniffers _ Amyl and The Sniffers (Flightless / ATO)
22.) 10) Torche _ Admission (Relapse)
23.) Lo-Pan _ Subtle (896)
24.) 2) Elephant9 _ Psychedelic Backfire I (Rune Grammofon)
25.) 12) Oceans of the moon unset Castle Face unset

26.) X) 20) 13) 3) Palehound _ Black Friday (polyvinyl)
27.) 23) 23) 2) 1) 15) Bill Callahan _ Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (Drag City)
28.) 24) 10) 11) 5) Dressy Bessy _ Fast Faster Disaster (Yep Roc)
29.) Aseethe _ Throes (Thrill Jockey)
30.) 27) XX) 15) Froth _ Duress (Altercation)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM WSFM-LP
864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

ashevillefm.org

Expert Timing: A Trip to 1974

July 29, 2019 by Erik Mattox

Tuesday Night at 8PM est live on 103.3 Asheville FM, The UnCola takes a trip back 45 years to the year 1974. We’ll be playing two hours of Forgotten Top 40 from the year of rumbles in the jungle, kung fu fights, and one-way helicopter rides.

Resisting Tyranny in Hong Kong

July 28, 2019 by bogoodness

Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on July 29th through August 4th, 2019 and podcasting on libsyn.com.

Resisting Tyranny in Hong Kong

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For the hour, we spoke with Ahkok who identifies as a humanitarian, antifascist and musician who grew up in Hong Kong and has participated in protests over the years including the Umbrella Movement and current protests today. We talk about the mindset of the Hong Kong protests, the situation in China, decolonization, racism and more.

Y’all may have heard that over the last 8 weeks or so, Hong Kong has been rocked by protests to undermine efforts by the government to create an extradition treaty with China. The protests have included barricades, interesting uses of AirDrop, Telegram and whatsapp and other digital platforms to avoid censorship to spread information, street fights against police and attacks from criminal gangs they and the Chinese government hired (the so-called “White Shirts”) and a raucous romp through the empty legislative chambers of governance leaving wreck and ruin behind. The street actions come on the 30^th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Protests of 1989 when student sit-ins demanding democratic political and economic reforms were killed in Beijing and around by the so-called Peoples Liberation Army. Currently, western reporting and word from dissidents inside of China has come about the Re-Education camps such as in Xinjiang where the Chinese government has been interring Uighur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in order to stamp out their religion and socialize them to a more homogeneous Chinese lifestyles, definitely a reason for Hong Kongers to take the streets to keep dissenters there from easy deportation to China.

A couple of interesting ways to keep up on perspectives from the region include ChuangCN, crimethInc, Hong Kong Free Press.

If you’re listening to the radio version on AFM, consider checking out the longer podcast listed above.

Announcements

BRABC events

If you’re in the Asheville area, on Friday August 2^nd from 6:30-8 at Firestorm Books, Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross will be showing the documentary “Love And Revolution” about autonomous and anarchist responses to austerity, police violence and resistance to borders and love for the people who cross them in Greece. More on the film at the website lamouretlarevolution.net. Then, on Sunday August 4^thfrom 5-7pm BRABC invites you to it’s monthly political prisoner letter writing. Show up to scrawl a few screeds and meet some nice wingnuts.

Bennu Hannibale Ra-Sun

Supporters of Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun, recently moved out of solitary confinement after years in the hole for organizing non-violent resistance behind bars, are asking folks to show up in Montgomery, AL to support a court hearing for him at 10AM Montgomery County Courthouse, Courtroom 3C, 251 S Lawrence St. Montgomery, AL 36104 held before Circuit Judge James H. Anderson Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.

Support Workers Coop Efforts

Finally, comrades in Carbondale, IL, have put together a gofundme to help fund a workers cooperative. You can find the site by searching “Carbondale Spring Fat Patties Cooperative”, an effort to re-open a closed burger joint to feed the working class, not some fat cat CEO. More info about organizing efforts in Carbondale can be found at carbondalespring.org.

BAD News: July 2019

This month for the A-Radio Network’s “Angry Voices From Around The World” podcast we feature a shortened segment from our previous episode of TFSR with Perilous Chronicles, as well as A-Radio Berlin with notes on the National Socialist Underground trial in Germany and A-Radio Vienna with call-ups for the August 23-30 International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners and support for prison rebel, Andreas Krebs.

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This week, we featured “Jab Cross” by Lucy Furr from their recent album, The Jungle, as well as the track “4K Punk Rock” by antifascist post-rock band Remiso’s album, Pleasant With Presentiment.

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Radio Active Kids July 27! Interview with the Sewer Buddies!

July 26, 2019 by Sagan

This week on Radio Active Kids, we have a new #ComixTalk from Pack Memorial Library‘s Raj at 8:30 & at 9:30 an interview with Lindsey fromSewer Buddies, kindie’s premier hardcore punk band! Also, SO MUCH new music from Josh Lovelace, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Formidable Vegetable,Josh & The Jamtones, The Stacey Peasley Band, Mista Cookie Jar & Little Miss Ann, Megan Schoenbohm, Banda La Maleta, Molly White Music, Percy and the Prefects & more! Tune in 8-10am ET Saturday atashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & hear the podcast atanchor.fm/radio-active-kids and http://www.radiopirinola.cl/