A-Infos Radio Project

African, Latin & Caribbean music

Hypno5e, The Decemberists, Patti Smith, Ottorino Respighi, Death In Vegas, Tears For Fears, Queen, Drowning Steps, The Velvet Underground...mercy mercy

"All Things Cage" is a weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world. If youd like to propose a guest or a topic for a future program, write directly to Laura at lkuhn@johncage.org.Laura Kuhn presents the first recording of John Cages Europera 5, preceded by her reading Recollections of the Premiere Performance by Yvar Mikhashoff. This recording of Europera 5 was produced by Brian Brandt and released on the Mode Records label as Mode 36 in 1995, with performers Yvar Mikhashoff, Martha Herr, Gary Burgess, Jan Williams, and Don Metz. Europera 5 is the last and most diminutive of Cages operas " preceded by Europeras 1 & 2 (1984-1987) and Europeras 3 & 4 (1991) " and was instigated by pianist Yvar Mikashoffs desire for a small, more practical and portable, and more easily performed work in the series, which had its premiere in Buffalo at the North American New Musical Festival on April 12, 1991.

Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form. "The Radio Art Hour" features introductions from Philip Grant and Tom Roe, and from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner, Andy Stuhl, Jess Speer, and Jos Alejandro Rivera. The Conet Project's recordings of numbers radio stations serve as interstitial sounds. Go to wavefarm.org for more information about "The Radio Art Hour" and Wave Farm's Radio Art Archive.

"Turn On The News" is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in "Turn On The News" each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides -- good and evil -- every time you "Turn On The News." It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers similar to "Dr. Demento" and comedy skits and more. The show airs at 3 p.m. Thursdays on WGXC, and also most weeks on WGRN, WRWK, KFUG, KACR, KRFP-LP, KMSW, and many other stations. Produced by Tom Roe at Wave Farm and WGXC. For more information go to: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/93bbe3

The importance of the Syria-Turkey meetings: will there be a meeting of Assad & Erdogan? Also, why we should use the term "West Asia," which should be used in place of the words "Middle East."

Some offbeat comedy songs from a thrift store CD this week, seem to compliment our offbeat hosts. For good or bad, we know you'll want to listen

They Say Get Back, We Stay Fightback: How New Biden Border Measures Focus on Limiting Asylum and Ignoring Root Causes “Immigrants bring incredible benefits to our communities. We need policies that recognize them as powerful agents of good, not policies of deterrence and expulsion like Title 42” says Oscar Chacón, co-founder and Ex. Dir. of Alianza Americas as Biden readies to head to the border in El Paso. Chacón offers an organizers approach to immigration that addresses the root causes forcing migration, while reforming America’s cruel and exclusionary immigration system now.

Two Years After January 6th Insurrection GOP Continues to Pose Threat to Democracy; Groups Organize to Fight Repressive Culture War Book Banning Across America; Opponents of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Training Center Accused of ‘Domestic Terrorism.’

We hear excerpts from “Up Close and Personal With Bob Avakian, Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution,” a major new interview with the leader of the revolution, and the architect of the New Communism. Lenny Wolff and Michelle Xai talk about A First Big Step In Putting Revolution On The Map In 2023. Lenny Wolff and Sunsara Taylor will also be talking about abortion: the horrors already happening to tens of thousands of women and girls, and the need to fight for legal abortion nationwide NOW

By now we have all seen images of plastic garbage patches floating in the ocean, beaches and riverbanks swamped with plastic trash, entangled sea-creatures suffocating - but data on the presence of plastics in soils and air are new - Discarded plastics break down into microplastics less that 5 mm in length - and they degrade further into nano-plastics that can only be seen under a microscope. There are now microplastics found in human lungs and blood and placentas; and the latest scientific studies show that babies are drinking microplastics in their mothers’ milk. Here is a report from the first meeting to control plastic held in Uruguay in December 2022. 160 of the 192 UN member states attended. Andres del Castillo attended the first round of negotiations for a new Global Treaty on Plastics, formally kicked off in early December 2022 in Uruguay. He is a senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law. Mark Leon Goldberg is the producer of Global Dispatches, a podcast for foreign policy and Global development. He is the editor of the United Nations and global affairs blog UN Dispatch and host of the Global Dispatch Podcast.

Environmental, social and corporate governance, referred to as ESG, is a set of factors that conscientious capitalists use to identify worthy investments. For most of the movement’s relatively brief existence, ESG has fallen under the purview of sustainability experts. Recently, however, Wall Street appears to have embraced ESG with both arms – according to some estimates, last year over $41 trillion in global ESG assets were traded. This turn has liberals and environmentalists concerned that the definition of what qualifies as an ESG-friendly company may be watered-down. At the same time, prominent Republicans are decrying the use of ESG factors, claiming that it’s part of the “woke mob’s war on fossil fuels.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Rebecca Leber, a senior climate reporter at Vox. She unpacks the complex conservative position on the ESG movement and explains why she finds it so puzzling and troubling.

Community solar is commonly defined as a system where people in one place can get bill credits from a solar project located somewhere else, but most of the community solar in the US benefits corporations more than communities. Activists from a small town in OR and the mid sized city of Olympia,WA are propagating alternative models of community solar that keep the benefits local. A group of young people in Olympia WA figured out how to work around the state's lack of virtual net metering and install community funded solar on non-profit and community buildings. A retired scientist in Talent, OR organized the first participant owned community solar project in his state. Both groups are now working statewide on projects with partners including tribes, high schools, fire departments, county governments, and irrigation districts. Mason Rolph, Dan Orzech, and Ray Sanchez Pescador talk about how they got started, overcoming obstacles, and how we don't have to wait for utilities, politicians, or corporations to expand solar access in our communities.

Mueze talks of the community influences - neighbors, teachers librarians, and park workers - that he encountered while growing up as an immigrant child in Chicago's 50th Ward. He credits these influences with his development as a human being and achievements in life, along with his commitment to work toward their availability to everyone. Many South Asian languages are spoken in the Ward yet the 12 year incumbent alderman, Debra Silverstein, publishes city information in none, isolating many of the wards citizens from civic participation and city resources. Mueze also speaks about the mutual aid program the he and like minded teachers, helped their students initiate at Clemente High School during the height of the pandemic. He also speaks about the new public safety ordinance (Empowering Communities for Public Safety) that will elect district council members in the coming election cycle.

The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night faire. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

Anishinaabe cartographer Steve DeRoy is a co-founder of the Indigenous Mapping Collective. He talks about the importance of mapping and about the collective's work to build Indigenous peoples' capacity to, as their website puts it, "map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space."

The Gospel Gold Radio Hour is a weekly all Gospel music program with your host - Danny Hensley. This installment features the new Becky Isaacs Bowman project. Guest artists include Ricky Skaggs, Alison Krauss, Bryan Sutton, Del McCoury, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton and many more. You can hear this program four times each week on www.sbbradio.org and 91.7 FM Community Radio. Wednesdays at 2 AM, Fridays at 12 AM, Saturday mornings at 8 AM and and Sundays at 11 PM - all times Eastern. Join us at 91.7 FM Community Radio and streaming at live365 and www.sbbradio.org

Yay! First show of 2023 and let me tell you it was a hoot, but don't take my word for it, give a listen and tune in live on Mondays at 8pm est 7pm cst over at http://www.chiampa.org

In the conclusion of “This Way Out’s” news review of the year gone by, queer characters capture the Spirit of 2022; marriage equality freezes in Peru, love wins again in a Taipei court, Israel’s parliament gets an out Speaker in a right-wing coalition, Lula is sworn in amid a Trump-style insurrection, Spain and Scotland improve trans lives, bathroom bias wins in a U.S. appeals court, Islamic cops in Nigeria raid another gay wedding, and a gay California Congressman gets sworn in with “Superman’s” help. All that and more this week when you choose "This Way Out": the world's audio oasis for queer news and culture.