CLAIM:
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh…………

PLAYLIST:
1) HEADSTEW: Space Ghetto
2) DARK SIDE RIDDIM: Ezra Collective
3) $OULS IN THE CITY PART 1 & PART 2: A Certain Ratio
4) WOBBLE: Sinan Oktem
5) METRO HOCHE: Francois Bernat Quartet
6) MOTHER AFRICA: Okyerema Asante & Black Flower
7) TOM SAWYER feat. Chris Thile
8) YA AEN DALI: Najib Aloush
9) PATH TO MACONDO: Brian Jackson
10) MASHUP: Dave Holland
11) BUDDY: Zest
12) A TIME FOR HEALING: Kahil El’ Zabar Quartet

CLAIM:
why no one of the old generation not trusting the young generation?
It’s a simple answer, total cancellation of the comfort zone.
It’s still the big battle between the old world and the new world, we still there, pfffff.
We love Giovani D’oggi, they are the nowadays chaps and we should listen to them .
At least we should appreciate the way they are struggling for their future.

PLAYLIST:

1) MOUN PT.2 : James Beckwith

2) DON’T BREAK : Immanuel Wilkins feat Farafina Kan Percussion Ensemble

3) BETTER THAN I IMAGED: Robert Glasper feat. H.E.R & Meshell Ndegeocello

4) DREAMERS : Mark Lockheart

5) CROSSING COLOURS: Silke Eberhard, Potsa Lotsa XI

6) UPWARDS: Black Flower

7) ALCOHOL: Sault

8) MUNCH: The jazz Defenders

9) WILDFLOWER: Robohand

10) GIOVANI D’OGGI: Giovanni Tommaso

11) BEGIN AGAIN: Archie The Goldfish

12) WE GIVE THANKS: Kokoroko

13) TIMES: DoomCannon feat. Lex Amor

CLAIM:
Music is the answer, against all form of hate, against all form of fear and prejudice.
Nothing more than this, Music is the answer.
And we will continue to do our part.

PLAYLIST:

1) SAIS (Egypt) : Lonnie Liston Smith & Cosmic Echoes
2) LU-FUKI : Carlos Cippelletti
3) NOT FOR NOW: corto.alto
4) DURBAN POISON 19: Bobby Rausch
5) ONI: Mammal Hands
6) DOGON MYSTERIES: Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
7 BACK SOUTH: Mansur Brown
8) BANISHED: Tamil Rogeon
9) VERTIGO : Shai Maestro
10) ORBIT: Andorra
11) PRESENTE GREGO: High Pulp
12) CHILL : Bakar

There are a lot of difficult things around us , things we have never met before, things that scare us. Without further ado we decided to meet all these difficult things in a row to get rid of them. This is why we have to listen to this comp, to face cose difficili with no fear.

1) FUNKIN’ ON SUNSET: Pino Palladino

2) CLOUDBERRY HILL: Joel Lyssarides

3) SESSION ADD 1: Skee Mask

4) CALLING ENGLAND HOME: Anthony Joseph

5) IMPETU: Graham Costello

6) MAWARNIHA TARTIT: Tamikrest

7) BURNING BRIGHT: Ben Wendel

8) TELEPATHIC DNA: Soccer 96

9) FLUX: Mount Kimbie

10) THE MUSIC: The Last Poets

11) BLACK RENAISSANCE (DLM EDIT): Harry Whitaker

12) COSE DIFFICILI: Casino Royale

CLAIM:
In the pursuit of peace we always make a lot of mistakes. First mistake we make is thinking riding high is the key to success.
Don’t know why but to me riding high means going down. Life is a rollercoaster and we often think we can drive. Wrong.
Super wrong.

1) HASTANE ONU: Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek
2) LE PIROGUIER: Henri Texier
3) RIDING HIGH: Faze-O
4) LOVELY JOAN: John Francis Flynn
5) SPARROW NIGHTS: Peter Brotzmann & Heather Leigh
6) JOHN REDCORN: SIR
7) NOBODY’S SWEETHEART: Lady Blackbird
8) THE LIFT: Ookii Gekkou
9) THE SONG ROOTS BY IAN CARR’S NUCLEOS BUT PITCHED DOWN: Narcoskeptic
10) 1123: BJ The Chicago Kid
11) STRATEGY: Archie Bell & The Drells
12) RAINMAKER: John Carroll Kirby
13) STRANGER ON THE SHORE: The Upsetters

CLAIM.
We have a lot of to do. Are we going to to make this a real trip?
Who knows. Only music will tell. The good music.

PLAYLIST SEPTEMBER:

1) VIRTUAL U: Oso Leone
2) SO FAR TO GO: JDilla feat. Common & D’Angelo
3) BLACK MESSIAH: Rakim
4) VOYAGER ONE: Mike Lettieri
5) ANOTHER NIGHT (ACOUSTIC): Two Another
6) TAKE IT BACK V2: Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
7) JUMEIRAH DRIVE: Sun Palace
8) THE PRIDE: Isley Brothers
9) BROKEN RECORDS: Jungle Brothers
10) BASEMENT: Momo Said
11) THE CUTDOWN: Polyrhythmics
12) UNITED NATIONS STOMP: Dumpstaphunk feat. Marcus King
13) HERE WITH ME: Karun & Higo

CLAIM:
Moon at Noon, what a sweet sensation. This is when our world is upside down and we don’t care why.
We love it .

PLAYLIST:
1)  DUFEN: Ilam
2)  RED BARON: Billy Cobham
3)  PORTER 13A: George Porter JR & Running Pardners
4)  WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER: DR Lonnie Smith & Iggy Pop
5)  THE AMERICAN NEGRO: Adrian Younge
6)  MOVEMENT 5: Floating Points feat. Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra
7)  DAIMLA: Electric Jalaba
8)  UPTOWN: Cha Wa
9)  TEARDROPS: Womack&Womack
10) COY MOON: Oscar Jerome
11) NEW YORK CITY: Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson
12) LONE HEART: Lucky Brown & The S.G.’s
13) MOON AT NOON: M-Swift present 24-Carat

CLAIM:
Summer seems to be back after a long period of cold. It’s too damn hot.
We sweat, we breathe. We want to be free, just as the sensation only the summer gives us.
But it’s too damn hot. Too damn hot as this piece of music in a row of this episode.

PLAYLIST JULY
1) DEEP DARK DIVIDE: Joseph Shabason
2) SHOW ME YOUR MYTH: Steven Bernstein
3) IN REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE FALLEN: Sons of Kemet
4) WHEN A MAN: Raheem De Vaughn & Apollo Brown
5) MRG : The New Mastersounds
6) RAINBOWS: Taylor Eigsti
7) MERCURY: Dave & Kamal
8) SPANISH MOSS: George Porter JR
9) TOO DAMN HOT (live in NYC) : Dr Lonnie Smith
10) SERIOUS: Mansur Brown
11) BLOW! : Joviale
12) HIGHER GROUND: Stevie Wonder
13) IDEALISTS: Rebecca Vasmant

CLAIM:
When we don’t know something we should stay in silence instead of saying bullshit.
We are so fine when we stay in silence.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

PLAYLIST:
1) I’M SCARED: Seba Kaspaad
2) VOICES INSIDE MY HEAD: Stretch and Bobbito & The M19s band
3) YOU KNOW HOW WE DO IT: Ice Cube
4) ORGONE: Jyoti & Georgia Anne Muldrow
5) DARKER THAN A SHADOW: Terry Callier
6) DO YOU SEE THE FALLING LEAVES: Broen
7) SO FINE: Bobby Sparks II
8) FLOW OVER: Bugseed
9) A LEGEND ON HIS OWN MIND: Gil Scott Heron
10) GLOW: Manu Katche
11) A.M.PROJECT: The Last Poets

Music & Politics. Episode #27. THE IMPORTANCE OF BILL WITHERS AND CURTIS MAYFIELD

CLAIM:
What a match, nothing is more inspiring in comparing the music of Bill Withers and the music of Curtis Mayfield.
BIll and Curtis, two milestones of american soul music and two contemporary poets with no need of visibility beside their music & lyrics.
Colin Greenwood from Radiohead said during an interview , Bill Withers and Curtis Myfiled those are the people who informed me to play the bass.
What else to say. Nothing.

1) LONELY TOWN, LONELY STREET: BW
2) LOVE TO THE PEOPLE: CM
3) MAKE LOVE TO YOUR MIND: BW
4) GIVE ME YOUR LOVE (LOVE SONG): CM
5) SOMETIMES A SONG: BW
6) HARD TIMES: CM
7) I CAN’T WRITE LEFT HANDED (LIVE): BW
8) BETTER OFF DEAD: BW
9) BILLY JACK: CM
10) RUBY LEE: BW
11) FREDDIE’S DEAD: CM
12) GRANDMA’S HANDS: BW
13) BLUE MONDAY PEOPLE: CM

CLAIM:
In this particular time of our lives the less we know, the better we stay. We are surrounded by words and sentences, most of them hopeless. You know what happens when we are out of this pandemic? We need our brain back. 

PLAYLIST:
1) WORK LIKE: BXKS &KISH!
2) I FALL UNDER/APOCALYPSE: J Lloyd
3) MASITELADI: Amadou & Mariam feat. M
4) MORK N MINDY: Sleaford Mods feat. Billy Nomates
5) QUEST FOR COIN II: Ezra Collective Jme & Swindle
6) BARKE: Falle Nioke
7) SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM: Trevor Horn Delamaison Rework
8) TIMTARIN: Tamikrest feat. Hindi Zhara
9) JUST HAVIN’ FUN: Ray Parker Junior
10) STRONG WOMXN: Poppy Ajudha
11) FUNCTUS: Experience Unlimited & E.U.
12) SYMPATETHIC CYCLE: Surgeons Girls
13) I CAN’T WRITE LEFT-HANDED (live): Bill Withers
14) COWBOYS: Dusty Kid

PLAYLIST:

CLAIM:

It looks like we are surrounded by mud, it’s everywhere, and it looks like there’s only a way to survive, grooving over it.

In the September episode of Music & Politics, we are grooving all over the mud is kicking us everyday.

The tribal beats are the only solution to the unfinished rain.

  1) LAGOS PEPPER SOUP: Michael Olatuja

  2) ROSA ROUGE: Jorja Smith

  3) AFFECTION: Tirzah

  4) INTERNATIONAL LOVE AFFAIR: Keleketla! & Coldcut

  5) CONCRETE JUNGLE: Little Beaver

  6) TRANE IN MIND: Kahil El’ Zabar feat David Murray

  7) SUDDEN MOOD: Anthony Jambon Group

  8) LOVE TO THE PEOPLE: Curtis Mayfield

  9) LEY LINES: Emma-Jean Thackray

10) SOLACE: Roy Ayers, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge

11) MUD : Nicolas Jaar

The morning after something is always something after that morning.  Whatever we do in the night the morning after has a unique flavor mostly a unique soundtrack. Well, consider this episode of Music & Politics the soundtrack of the night shift.

The morning after, the night before. The music in our mind.

1. ORCHESTRA MODE: Key Element feat. Gerry Franke
2. GBENTA: Edikanfo
3. HERE: Aaron Parks
4. A FEW WORDS FOR THE FIRING SQAUD (radiation): Run The Jewels
5. WHO’LL PAY REPARATIONS ON MY SOUL: The Archives feat. Puma Ptah and Mustafa Akbar
6. MISPRINTS: The Matthew Herbert Big Band
7. LONDON STATION: The Sorcerers
8. LEGACY HOLDER: Jonathan Barber & Vision Ahead
9. GRANDMA’S HANDS (Live): Bill Withers
10. TOOMBS’ TIME: Makaya McCraven
11. LA RITOURNELLE: Sébastien Tellier
12. THE FIRST AND ROYAL QUEEN: The Lounge Lizard

Please close your eyes and let this music and lyrics transport you where you are finally in front of yourself.
No more to say.
This is Gil Scott Heron.

PLAYLIST: The artist is always Gil Scott Heron, apart from the last one which is a remix by Vittorio named “Down South”

1) THE  OTHER SIDE PT 1
2) IS THAT JAZZ
3) WILLING
4) COMBINATIONS
5) ANGOLA, LOUISIANA
6) WE ALMOST LOST DETROIT
7) THE VULTURE
8) DELTA MAN (WHERE I’M COMING’ FROM)
9) ANGEL DUST
10) HOME IS WHERE THE HATRED IS
11) BLUE COLLAR
12) PIECES OF A MAN
13) DOWN SOUTH PAINT IT BLACK: VIC DELAMAISON ( a tribute to GHS)

1) CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE: Skata Vibration
2) SHOOT THE MOON: Mezcla
3) THE WEATHER UP THERE feat, Jeff Parker: Jeremy Cunningham
4) VISIBLE WALLS: Kassa Overall
5) SO HEAVY I FELT THROUGH THE EARTH (ART MIX): Grimes
6) BTB: Moses Boyd
7) LAS: Gregory Privat, Chris Jennings, Tilo Bertholo

curtis mayfield

8) WE’VE LANDED: Hugh Masekela & Tony Allen
9) WE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DARKER THAN BLUE: Curtis Mayfield
10) NELL’INTRAMENTE: Stefania Tallini, Matteo Bortone & Gregory Hutchinson
11) RAIN DANCE / WISDOM: Emma-Jean Thackray

Theme: Nowadays music is a joke. Artists are not used to embrace their instruments or shout out loud their voices anymore. It’s all controlled by an industry where the use of overproduction and fake tracks in music mirrors the mad society we live in today. Lucky us, it’s not all like that, in this episode of Music & Politics we travel to discover live session jams and recordings.
All the tracks are recorded as you hear them. No nasty use of over dubs or backing tracks, just groove and soul to let our minds and bodies follow the flow.
M Base Steve Coleman and soundcheck Prince recording give us an idea on how music can make the difference if you just let human nature do the job.

1) PRESSURE (INSTRUMENTAL): Ashley Henry
2) REMEMBRANCE: Kamaal Williams & Yussef Dayes
3) CHEMIN DE FER: Dexter Story
4) LITTLE GIRL ON FIRE (LIVE): Steve Coleman and Five Elements
5) THE MAN WITH THE MOVING CAMERA: The Cinematic Orchestra
6) KONG: Playing Dice
7) NAGOYA (LIVE): Prince
8) MODERN SCENE: Ghost Funk Orchestra
9) AN EMPTY VESSEL feat Rasheeda Ali: 14kt

For almost 19 years, once a year, Turin has been gifted by the most innovative and avantgardistic wave of art, music and culture all mixed, contained and selected under a format of a music festival and a brand, Club to Club.

The main trait of Club to Club in the past 19 years of life has been signed by a strong cultural independency and the non stop research of the truth in the relation between the artistic performance and the audience.
Club to Club is considered one of the most interesting avant pop festival worldwide and with its unstoppable cultural growth pushed and still push Turin to be a top cultural city in Europe.
In this episode of Music & Politics we are going to discover many of the artist performed at Club to Club 2019, in particular some of them with an absolute amazing talent.
We want to pass our undivided thanks for their amazing and passionated hard work to Sergio Ricciardone and Guido Savini and to all the people working with them.
The message is now clear, this festival did show us how to dance, to observe, to think and in particular to love eachother with no distinction and no filter. Love to Love, Club to Club. .

COLOR: BLU CONGO

1) LIFEFORCE PART II: The Comet is Coming
2) INFATUATION: Sophie
3) PASS THE HOURS: Mor Mor
4) VALVE (REVISITED): Visible Cloaks & Dip In The Pool
5) TOASTER: Slowthai
6) LESALPX:  Floating Points
7) QUAZAR: Stump Valley
8) INTERFERENCE: Holly Herndon
9) WHY KNOCK FOR YOU: Kelsey Lu
10) EXALAND V: Spime.IM, Davide Tomat & Gabriele Ottino
11) CROW’S PERCH: Black Midi
12) SESSION ADD: Skee Mask
13) SINK: Let’s Eat The Grandma
14) PAIS NUBLADO: Helado Negro

If we want to determine one of the most simple connection between African music and modern music, there’s only one name to pronunce, Fela Kuti.
Every little piece of groove we listen in the episode n° 9 of Music & Politics is part of his legacy and of his message.
There is no one like Fela, as a musician, as a leader, as a man of freedom. Fela Kuti and the African music, we all have to pay respect to this pioneer.

1) FELA IN LAGOS: Kiala & The Afroblaster
2) AFRO BLACK: Nicola Conte & Spiritual Galaxy
3) AFRICAN DERAMS: Sean Kuti & Egypt 80
4) RHAPSODY IN BERLIN: Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
5) ALL AFRICA: Zara Mc Farlane
6) HAKILIMA: Djènèba & Fousco
7) CORRUPTION NO STEALING: Femi Kuti
8) LET’S START: Fela Kuti & Ginger Baker
9) CRISIS: Groove Collective
10) OPEN YOUR EYES: Oghene Kologbo & Afrobeat Academy
11) GENTLE GIAN 2000: Afrobeat Down

Episode n° 9 of Music & Politics is dedicated to the memory of Robert Ogden unmistakable voice of the show and great inspirer of all of our music selections.

Today’s music comes from a very far place, one filled with mix, groove, beat.

I can’t imagine anything in life without a groove, in my music career everything was related to the groove of notes and silence.

1. MR FUNKY SAMBA : Banda Black Rio
2. CAN I CHANGE MY MIND : Tyrone Davis
3. MYSTIC BREW : The Anders Hjelmstad Experience
4. SO GLAD YOU’RE MINE : Chairmen of the Board
5. JACK SOUL BRASILERO : Lenine
6. ROYAL HIGHNESS : Lettuce
7. GRAVES : Los Coast
8. LIQUID LOVE : Snarky Puppy
9. PCDG REPRISE : Jovanotti
10. 3 PLAY IT COOL : Crazy Penis
11. MELLOW : Pat Appleton
12. YOU SHOULD BE DANCING : Bee Gees
13. WHERE ARE WE NOW : Ian Shaw

1. Do Watcha Wanna – La Vella Dixieland
2. Goose Grease – Galactic
3. Natural Soul Brother – Danny White
4. Do It Like You Do – Lettuce feat. Nigel Hall from NOLA
5. Iko Iko – Dr John
6. John Brown – Papa Grows Funk
7. Only One – PJ Morton Ft. Stevie Wonder
8. Our Lady Of New Orleans (Herreast Harrison) – Christian Scott ATunde Adjuah
9. I Wish You Would – Dumpstaphunk Ft. Skerik & Troy Andrews
10. Quick – Tank And The Bangas
11. Fairchild – Willie West
12. The Step – Mario Abney
13. New Orleans Jazz (From “Un Italiano in America”)  – Piero Piccioni
14. Swagism – Ghost-Note
15. Ain’t Misbehavin’ (I’m Savin’ My Love For You) – Marcus Roberts Trio
16. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans – John Boutte

On this 4th episode of Music & Politics, we let women voices guide us through different era and different needs, from Dusty Springfield to Flora Cash and Liz McComb we pay a tribute to the most beautiful gift a woman can give us, from the struggle to respect to the pink-punk revolution, we travel hand to hand with the sweet lyrics of love, war, pain and hope only women of all kind can express. W le Donne was a motto in the feminist protest in Italy during the 70s. And, unfortunately, we still need to use this motto as a lot still needs to be changed.

The Funk Revolution in the Rock Culture

‘Funk is something that’s still around, it just smells a little bit different. Funk hasn’t received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Funk music is a vibrant history-the history of a uniquely American music born out of tradition and community, filled with energy, attitude, anger, hope, and an irrepressible spirit.
Funk music in Europe arrived as an softened version of disco music losing its power and its social strength.
From Bernard Wright to The Bamboos and Blindosbarra we explore all the different era and times of this incredible music style.
We keep the funk alive, and the mind will follow.’

Music & Politics

Humans make music and music makes us humans. The relationship between music and politics has existed for centuries, sometimes in harmony and other times not as much.

In this first episode of “Music & Politics” we explore the relation between notes, rhythms and political participation to everyday life in our communities.

“We not gonna teach anything talking. We gonna learn everything listening.”

Episode 1: They wanna fight , We wanna dance.

1) Lonely Melody : Dorothy Ashby

2) Harlem Breakdown: The Young Punx

3) Mah nà Mah nà: Pietro Umiliani (Original 7” mix)

4) The worst MC: Gonzales

5) Angola: Bheki Mseleku (feat. Marvin Smith, Michael Bowie & Eddie Parker)

6) Never Will I Marry: Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley

7) Yussef’s Groove: Tenderlonius

8) Ginger Jumps The Fence: The Herbaliser

9) Song for Lonnie: The Jazzinvaders

10) Chicago, Damn: Bobby Humphrey

11) Doona: Les Amazones D’Afrique

12) On The Red Clay: Mark Murphy

13) Time moves Slow: Badbadnotgood

Note on the producer:

Vittorio “VIC” Dellacasa, is a relentless digger in every angle of music. He is a musician, having recorded funk, soul and jazz songs, a collector, with over 5000 records and a hundred vintage string instruments. His love for music led him to a career as live show producer. Indeed, he has now years of experience as Stage and Production Manager of music legends of the caliber of Stevie Wonder (he led the legendary worldwide tour “Songs in the Key of Life” in 2014). With its company Delamaison Productions Srl, based in Italy and in the US, he has established a sustainable business in the world of music and live events, ranging from stadium shows to small club gigs.

The partnership with Jazz not Jazz, part of Concertzender Radio, was born a few months ago and its purpose is to sponsor the recording of quality music concerts in 2019.