afro-cuban

The Grammy-nominated, Canadian-Cuban duo Okan releases their 3rd album, Okantomi, on November 8th. Vocalist/violinist Elizabeth Rodriguez and vocalist/percussionist Magdelys Savigne celebrate life and Afro-Cuban culture with this album. Tracks incorporate traditional Lucumí chants, while facing the complexities of immigration and their ambivalence about going home, because of the oppressive Cuban government. Here the couple  discuss their spiritual traditions.

Lyd the SBW is back on Zoom to chat with her big sister who, for the purposes of this podcast, is referred to as DJ Lil Purse. From Motown to the golden age of salsa music, it’s a veritable bonanza of 20th century music. 

DJ Lil Purse's questionnaire:

If you were a DJ, what would your DJ name be?
DJ Lil Purse. Because I am often perceived as a prim little purse, but I’m much more like Mary Poppins’ carpet bag.

What was your first and/or favorite 45?

A side: I Want You Back
B side: Who’s Lovin’ You
Jackson 5
1969

LP?
Victory
The Jacksons
1984

Shout out to DJ Pinto Bean, my mother, who had a big impact on my musical tastes, as did her brother, my Unca Butch:

Unchained Melody
Righteous Brothers
1965

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
The 5th Dimension
1969

Got to Give it Up
Live at the London Palladium
Marvin Gaye
1979

DJ Pinto Bean’s rainy day music: O. C. Smith, O. C. Smith At Home, 1969

Unca Butch’s funk: GAP Band, Parliament, Funkadelic, George Clinton, Isaac Hayes, Earth, Wind, & Fire

Favorite cassette?

Whitney
Whitney Houston
1987

Cassettes artists mentioned:

Anita Baker
New Edition
Bobby Brown
Terrence Treny D’Arby

CD?

Shepherd Moons
Enya
1991

Been So Long
Rapture
Anita Baker
1986

Artists mentioned:
Aretha Franklin
Jodeci

What is your go to getting ready to go out musical genre/song?

The Glamorous Life
The Glamorous Life
Sheila E.
1984

What is your go to rainy day genre/song?

Night Train
Night Train
The Oscar Peterson Trio
1963

(This song is also featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future)

The Hours
The Hours Motion Picture Soundtrack
Philip Glass
2002

New York Philharmonic performing Ravel’s Bolero

Film referenced: The Neverending Story (1984)
 

What do you have on heavy rotation right now?
Shout out to Los Muñequitos de Matanzas! 

El Preso
Fruko y Sus Tesos
1975

Rebelion
Joe Arroyo y La Verdad
198?

Anacaona
Live at the Cheetah, Volume 1
Fania All-Stars
1971

And finally, what is your favorite sample and/or cover?

On Your Face
Spirit
Earth, Wind and Fire
1976

Party Ain’t a Party
My Melody
Queen Pen (feat. Mr. Cheeks, Markell Riley & Nutta Butta)
1997

The SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

LINKS:
A Sample, A Cover playlist
Facebook
Merch

Email: spacetimemusicpodcast@gmail.com

DJ Lil Purse’s playlist

New York Philharmonic performing Ravel’s Bolero

Daddy’s Little Man by O. C. Smith

SONG CREDITS:
In order of appearance

I Want You Back
Who’s Lovin’ You
Jackson 5
1969 

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
1965

Hold On
Born to Sing
En Vogue
1990

Wait
Victory
The Jacksons
1984

Unchained Melody
Just Once in My Life
Righteous Brothers
1965

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
The Age of Aquarius
The 5th Dimension
1969

Got to Give it Up
Live at the London Palladium
Marvin Gaye
1979

Love Will Save Day
Whitney
Whitney Houston
1987

Book of Days
Shepherd Moons
Enya
1991

Been So Long
Rapture
Anita Baker
1986

The Glamorous Life
The Glamorous Life
Sheila E.
1984

Night Train
Night Train
The Oscar Peterson Trio
1963

The Hours
The Hours Motion Picture Soundtrack
Philip Glass
2002

El Preso
Fruko y Sus Tesos
1975

Rebelion
Joe Arroyo y La Verdad
198?

On Your Face
Spirit
Earth, Wind and Fire
1976

Party Ain’t a Party
My Melody
Queen Pen (feat. Mr. Cheeks, Markell Riley & Nutta Butta)
1997

Come swing low with Lyd the SBW as she listens to the songs that make up Dizzy Gillespie’s Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac.

The SpaceTimeMusic theme music is a sample of the Ana-Tole x Jonah Christian Remix of Ready or Not by the Fugees.

LINKS:

A Sample, A Cover playlist
Facebook
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Email: spacetimemusicpodcast@gmail.com

SONG CREDITS:
In order of appearance

Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac Gerard Frisina Remix
Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked
Dizzy Gillespie, Gerard Frisina
2005

Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Live at Memory Lane, Los Angeles, 1967
Dizzy Gillespie
1967

All God’s Children Got Wings
Black Vocal Groups Vol. 3 (1925-1943)
Cotton Pickers Quartet
1931

Walk All Over God’s Heaven
Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns
Mahalia Jackson
1954

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
At Home With Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
1958

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Swing Low
Sam Cooke
1961

Evie Ladin is a dancer, musician, vocalist, songwriter and square dance caller, balancing performing and traveling with hands-on teaching. She’s created a sustainable career doing all the creative things that she loves. Evie talks about her upbringing with music and dance as a part of social communication and how she balances her career and family, all saturated with music. She brings Appalachian traditions to collaborations with musicians and dancers of other styles, including West African, Afro-Cuban, African-American, Indonesian and more, bending and blending forms to create exciting new works. Evie also works extensively with her husband Keith Terry, renowned Body Musician, and his multi-cultural rhythm-based music and dance projects produced by the non-profit arts organization Crosspulse, Inc. Her music is a product of a lifetime immersed in the study of culture, as well as a depth of experiences, of total joys and deep disappointments, illuminating the paradoxes living life in this world.

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