A Sigur Rós masterpiece turns 20, plus Samia, JFDR, the sounds of Ghana and more
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
1. Okaidja Afroso: "Gidi Gidi," from Jaku Mumor
2. Lydia Ramsey: "Revival," from Like A Dream
3. Samia: "Kill Her Freak Out" (Single)
4. JFDR: "The Orchid" (Single)
5. Sigur Rós: "Untitled #7 (Jacobs Studio Sessions)," from ( ) Remastered
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| 0:00.0 | For impure music you're connected to all songs considered by Boilin with music from Ghanaian musician Okaja Afroso. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 0:13.2 | The album is called Jakku Mu Moore and this song is Gide Gide. |
| 1:43.2 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 1:52.8 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 2:02.8 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 2:28.4 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 2:42.0 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 3:01.6 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 3:31.6 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 3:51.2 | I'm going to play a very danceable track with ancestral connections and nature-based rituals. |
| 4:21.6 | Okaja Afroso, a Ghanaian musician these days living in Portland, Oregon, |
| 4:31.9 | and this song Gide Gide is on her new record called Jakku Mu Moore. |
| 4:36.7 | Now to the music of Lydia Ramsey and some thoughtful reflections on the past few years here in the US |
| 4:42.2 | and in her life. I first saw Lydia Ramsey when a band she sang in St Paul Divins played at our |
| 4:48.0 | Tiny Desk Contest event at Kex P and Seattle back in 2016. I was struck by her voice and now |
| 4:54.8 | Lydia Ramsey has a new album of her own called Like a Dream and the song I'll Play is Revival. |
| 5:00.6 | I wrote the song Revival in early 2021 just trying to find a way to process that first year of |
| 5:06.8 | the pandemic when there was so much uncertainty and death and frustration all over the world. |
| 5:13.1 | And at the same time there was this opportunity to just pause everything for a moment. |
| 5:18.5 | Kind of look at life and decide what was working and what wasn't and to rebuild and try to start over again |
| 5:26.8 | holding a new appreciation for the simple things in life. Like the people in places we grow to love over the years |
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