#afronautic

[padawan-historian]

When Auntie Breya Johnson said "I want the next face of empire not to be a black woman," and Ancestor Zora Neale Hurston mused "All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk," THIS is what they meant. Many of our sisters and self-proclaimed feminists are turning their faces away from the freedom struggle and decolonization efforts of our world to fulfill a false dream of empire built on apartheid and antiblack violence.

[kevinfrommoonlight]

a tribute to one of my favorite genres :)

[omanxl1]

Defected Radio Show Hosted by Monki 06.09.24

Digital Crate Digging Continues as we pull up with this Flashback Friday / Fabulous Friday edition! The saga / struggle continues, by now y’all should know how we do retro futuristic is how we’re living! Taking it back to the future, O-Dog Day Partying!  checked  the vibes; some of that Labor Day holiday vibe is still present plus the nightshift wordsmith is back with another feature.  AKA…

[findasongblog]

Find A Song about self-love, love for others and for life

Jessica Wilde ft. Afronaut Zu - Teach Me How To Love

Singer, songwriter, rapper and producer Jessica Wilde has released her highly anticipated, soul touching, empowering and thought- provoking sophomore album ‘Teach Me How To Love’, with the amazing Afronaut Zu featuring on the title track.

Wilde fully utilizes her authentic expression through this powerful and truly unique body of work, where she bares her vulnerability on a personal journey of deep inner healing and an exploration of love for self, others, life and God. Authentically expressed though her soul searing, raw, raspy and heart hitting singing which Jess fuses with her sharp-witted rap & spoken word with undeniable South London grit.

Wilde, now four years sober, has openly shared her experience, from her debut project (2023) where each of the songs were like confessional diary entries, laying out brutally honest lyrics in her unique and original Wilde way, taking us on a ride of life through addiction, toxic relationships, escapism to a place of self-empowerment, self-love and living sober.

Wilde’s new album ‘Teach Me How To Love’ reflects all the inner work she has committed to that has brought her out of the darkest times of her life. Wilde has ventured on a spiritual path which took her on a transformational solo adventure from the concrete jungle to the Amazon Jungle and which gave the seeds of inspiration for this new chapter of her musical expression to take fruit.

In her recent interview with Carrie and David Grant on BBC Radio London she said: “The phase now is really feeling a lot more self-love, love for life and really wanting to uplift people with my music and spread the frequency of love”.

Added to FAS Spotify playlists rnb/soul/blues and relationships.

[illuminespace]

2023/Aug Afronauts (2014)

[aspoopalypse]

tagged by @anightlikethis1985 💚💚💚

🔫 mutuals do this and tag me

[fyblackwomenart]

"Afronaut" by Tristan Elwell

[widefuturesss]

[padawan-historian]

also having israelis of a lighter complexion refer to themselves as indigenous is the equivalent of white americans calling themselves native americas . . .

[hustlerose]

since i don't use spotify, here's a list of albums i loved this year. i had transformative or nostalgic or just plain fun experiences to all this music

list in plain text:

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away They Might Be Giants - Flood John Coltrane - My Favorite Things Skrillex - quest for fire JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES

Machine Girl - Neon White Soundtrack Rufus - Street Player The Books - Lost and Safe The Shaolin Afronauts - Flight of The Ancients Black Pumas - Black Pumas

Metric - Live It Out LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening Patricia Taxxon - TECHDOG 1-7 Bejalvin - Bejalvin Don Cherry - Om Shanti Om The Books - Thought for Food

Patricia Taxxon - Gloria Zammuto - Veryone Nu Genea - Bar Mediterraneo Aphex Twin - Orphans The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Anamanaguchi - [USA]

Bejalvin - BEJIBLE Death Grips - Exmilitary Sophie - Bipp XTC - Drums And Wires Billy Ocean - Billy Ocean Collection Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Bootsy Collins - Back In The Day: The Best Of Bootsy Björk - Debut XTC - Skylarking Daft Punk - Homework

The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts REM - Monster femtanyl - CHASER They Might Be Giants - Mink Car 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs Arca - &&&&& Bonobo - Animal Magic Al Green - Let's Stay Together Dead Can Dance - Dionysus Alexander Panos - Nascent

[glauconaryue]

People on this site will be complaining about not enough jazz and then post white cis girl gringo pop. So ya like jazz? Well you're giving me an excuse to infodump about music again.

Kamasi Washington. He just released a super intense new album, his sax solos are strong and brilliant, but his slower atmospheric compositions are also poweful. The symbolism in the video to Truth, about the transcendant continuity of hybrid migrant cultures, made me cry several times. His lyrics are always full of black history while taking a fighting stance towards the future. Really, so many hours of music and it's all deep and fresh and in the moment.

Tigran Hamasyan. This guy started in prog rock, then decided it was not complex enough and created a form of jazz that is just mind bogling. If you thought a piano solo doesn't rock, get a load of this guy. This is what I call rhythm. And he also connects it with Georgian harmonies for a beautiful atmosphere.

So ya like jazz hop. Like chillout lowfi, but actually reaching deep and unfolding complex melodies without ever losing the cool vibes. Adding spoken words that are both poetry and common people from the community comming to big realizations. I'm talking about Alfa Mist here. It sounds like electronic oldschool hiphop beats but it's actually all played acoustic. Go dig the studio sessions.

I'm not even going to get into Nduduzo Makhathini, Seun Kuti, Yusef Dayes, Shaolin Afronauts, Yussef Kamaal... Jazz ain't old, these artists are all active right now, constantly bringing new twists to the genre. Stop telling other people to open their minds, open your own mind first. Having no opinion doesn't make you a better person. Stop preaching, start living.

[noridal]

This post was supposed to be a rant about ESC fans asking for countries to only sing in their native language, instead I'm turning it into a music recommendation post since I feel like these requests comes from a place of "I want to listen to music that's different from usual, and not the usual pop radio songs".

As someone whose music taste can be summed up as "if it's weird, I'm in" have some music that you definitely don't listen to on the radio:

Albums:

The Rabbit that hunts tigers -Yin Yin (This would the perfect soundtrack for a futuristic western movie where the main character is also a samurai imo)

Kontinuum- Klaus Schulze (cool background music, mysterious sci-fi but not in a soul crushing or scary way)

Flight of the Ancients- The Shaolin Afronauts (the best intro to an album I've ever heard and funky jazzy vibes. Cool trumpets)

Semillero- Dengue Dengue Dengue (idk how to describe this but mh. Would use it as a soundtrack for Heart of Darkness by Conrad)

The Gereg -The Hu (Mongolian Rock-Metal, worth checking them out)

The Gods We can Touch- AURORA (this is way less obscure than other suggestions but I swear to god AURORA sounds like an angel to me but the vibes are those of a biblically accurate one)

Songs:

Hocus Pocus- Focus (prog rock jodel?!? Spotify suggested this to me and I'm in love with this)

Acid Rain- Liquid Tension Experiment (found this by searching jazz metal. Instrumental. Very good)

Trumpet Sketches - Janko Nilovic (trumpet makes brain go brrrr)

Artists:

NanowaR of Steel (Italian comedy metal band. Sings both in English and Italian, if you ask me they go for the too-good-to-be-just-a-joke comedy)

Dr. Steel (Dark with dieselpunk vibes. Every song is unique yet the vibe is so familiar, definitely villainy. Comes with lore)

Paul Shapera (a compilation of rock operas that take place in the same universe, there's plot. Lots of it. I can't recommend a single one because the cool part is seeing the story evolve)

Tales under the Oak (dungeon synth music, very calming and frog themed)

Specific playlists I have too much fun making:

POV: you just died but luckily there's a party on the other side

This is about craving your lover's insides (both playlists are currently in progress and will be updated whenever I feel like it)

All links lead to spotify, except for kontinuum which I could find only on YouTube. Also please note that the playlists include less obscure songs so maybe that's a good place from where you can start? Idk. Italic means that it's only instrumental, I feel like Hocus Pocus should be in the group too but jodel counts as singing.