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Lift your spirits鈥� with Zakia

Join Zakia for another voyage through spirit-lifting sounds, from sacred chants to free-jazz rhythms. Plus South African cellist Abel Selaocoe shares his dreams and his new album.

DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams - playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions鈥�

Join Zakia for another voyage through sounds to lift your spirits. This week鈥檚 guest is the South African cellist, composer and vocalist Abel Selaocoe, who shares music from his new album Hymns of Bantu and reflects on dreams in South African culture as a means of communicating with the ancestors. He also introduces what he believes to be the dreamiest instrument - the begenna, a 10-stringed lyre from Ethiopia, sometimes called King David鈥檚 Harp.

Elsewhere Zakia shares more sweet sounds from South Africa and beyond. There are sacred chants from Senegalese monks, French avant-garde sounds from the 1970s and some keyboard fantasies from Beverly Glenn-Copeland. Plus a whole stack of new releases, including from Melbourne鈥檚 Intermood, Glasgow鈥檚 Rebecca Vasment, Philadelphia鈥檚 Onilu and the Stockholm duo of Johan Jutterstr枚m and Alex Zethson.

We want to hear your dreams! Send in tales of your sleepy adventures to dreamtime@bbc.co.uk

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Sun 23 Feb 2025 22:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Keur Moussa

    Mon ame exalte le seigneur ("My Soul Exalts The Lord")

    • Keur Moussa (Sacred Chant & African Rhythms From Senegal).
    • Sounds True.

  • Kyle Shepherd Trio

    For Oumou Sangare

    • A Dance More Sweetly Played.
    • Matsuli Music.

  • Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes

    Frica

    • Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes.
    • International Anthem.

  • Thomas Dolby

    I Scare Myself

    • The Flat Earth.
    • Parlophone Odeon Series.

  • Intermood

    Casuarina

    • Casuarina.
    • Stone Pixels.

  • Azumah

    Saphelisizwe

    • Long Time Ago.
    • Nyami Nyami.

  • Abel Selaocoe

    Dinaka

    • Hymns of Bantu.
    • Parlophone / Warner Classics.

  • JACK Quartet

    The Wind in High Place: II. Maclaren Summit

    • The Wind in High Places.
    • Cold Blue Music.

  • Rhythm & Bliss

    Love Is The Sun

    • Paul Hillery presents Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume 3.
    • BBE Music.

  • Rebecca Vasmant

    Rooted (feat. Paix and Emilie Boyd)

    • Who We Are.
    • New Soil.

  • Ocean Moon

    Plains of Paradise

    • Ways To The Deep Meadow.
    • Music From Memory.

  • Beverly Glenn鈥怌opeland

    Ever New

    • Keyboard Fantasies.
    • Transgressive.

  • Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O

    South African Jam

    • TRUE STORY.
    • New Soil.

  • Abel Selaocoe

    Tsohle Tsohle

    • Hymns of Bantu.
    • Parlophone / Warner Classics.

  • Alemu Aga

    Hossana (Cry Of Praise And Adoration To God)

    • The Begenna of Elders.
    • Laika Records.

  • Joe Chambers, Kevin Diehl, Chad Taylor

    Invocation

    • Onilu.
    • eremite records.

  • Areski Belkacem

    Un Beau Matin

    • Un Beau Matin.
    • Saravah.

  • Alabaster dePlume

    Invincibility

    • A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole.
    • International Anthem.

  • Alex Zethson + Johan Jutterstr枚m

    It could have been very very beautiful (John Lurie)

    • Live at Liljevalchs April 14, 2023.
    • thanatosis.

  • Ariel Kalma & Asa Tone

    An Expanse II

    • Ariel Kalma & Asa Tone - 鈼�.
    • Good Morning Tapes.

  • Henrik Lindstrand

    The world is big

    • Space Between.
    • Lime Tree Beach Recordings.

  • Tim Hecker

    Sunset Key Melt

    • Shards.
    • kranky.

  • KO:MI

    Turning the Gaze

    • Belonging in Nature.
    • Minna Records.

  • Calming River

    Havelock

    • Havelock.
    • Calming River.

  • Calming River & Sopraterra

    The Primal Regret

    • Seven Dances To Embrace The Hollow.
    • Pr盲sens Editionen.

  • Lawrence English

    Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds I

    • Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds.
    • Room40.

  • Miriam Makeba

    Kilimanjaro

    • The Many Voices Of Miriam Makeba.
    • Kapp Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 23 Feb 2025 22:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 6 Music