Honoring atmospheric music by Black and African-American artists in commemoration of Juneteenth in the United States
Recent music from pioneers like Laraaji and Alice Coltrane; avant-garde classics from Dorothy Ashby, Art Ensemble of Chicago, and The Detroit Escalator Co.
New ambient from Colloboh and Qu’ran Shaheed; recent space music from Jayme Rose Hannegan, Bluetech, KMRU, Klein, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Explorations from Fholston Paradigm, Kamasi Washington, Flying Lotus and L’Rain, and Yves Tumor
And lots more — when Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday night at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and streaming at KSER.org, TuneIn, etc
| Artist | Song | Time | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fhloston Paradigm feat. Jacqueline Constance | …GLOW | 00:00 | AFTER… | Afro-futurist side project of Philly musician King Britt |
| Fyling Lotus & Niki Randa | Between Memories | 07:02 | Yasuke | Music from six-part TV series |
| Qu’ran Shaheed | Thrive | 08:33 | Lefto Early Bird presents The Beauty is Inside | Pasadena Compilation by Belgiun DJ Lefto |
| L’Rain | Not Now | 14:40 | Fatigue | Brooklyn taja cheek |
| Two Face | 14:49 | |||
| Walk Through | 18:54 | |||
| Kokoroko | Ewa Inu (ehWA iNOO) | 19:12 | Could We Be More | August 2022; channeling the greats of W Africa |
| Dorothy Ashby | Joyful Grass and Grape | 25:50 | The Rubiyat of Dorothy Ashby | 1970 on Cadet |
| Laraaji | Ocean Glimpse | 29:23 | Koto | 2023 algum Edward Larry Gordon, dulcimers and zithers, 1980 Ambient 3 album produced by Brian Eno |
| Bethelem Glimpse | 30:53 | |||
| Art Ensemble of Chicago Lester Bowie | Rios Negroes | 33:01 | The Great Pretender | 1981 |
| Alice Coltrane Ravi Coltrane Oran Coltrane Jack DeJohnette Charlie Haden | Crescent | 40:13 | Translinear Light | 200 4 |
| Makaya McCraven | Crash Course | 46:29 | Lefto Early Bird presents The Beauty is Inside | Compilation by Belgiun DJ Lefto |
| The Detroit Escalator Co | The Inverted Man (Dreaming) | 50:57 | Black Buildings | 2002 on Peacefrog records |
| Yves Tumor | Limerence | 53:31 | PAN records compilation – mono no aware | |
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| Colloboh | Acid Sunrise | 01:00:00 | Saana Sahel EP | |
| Jayme Rose Hennegan | Through the Healing | 01:05:30 | Time Ritual | |
| Claude Young Jr. | Sedna 90377 | 01:11:31 | Celestial Bodies | Detroit techno producer moving to space music Evidence for a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune? Discovered in 2003 |
| The Detroit Escalator Co | Folding Space | 01:19:00 | Black Buildings | |
| Robbiee Elizee | Smoking Wet | 01:21:43 | Cull | Louisville, Kentucky musician |
| Klein | Shot in the dark | 01:23:56 | Shot in the dark | |
| Wayne Phoenix | …and sleepless skies | 01:27:38 | Soaring wayne phoenix story the earth | |
| Burn False Messages | 01:28:02 | |||
| Reserve | 01:30:39 | |||
| Death is Pure Objectivity | 01:33:34 | |||
| Space Afrika | Version 3 | 01:35:23 | Untitled (To Describe You) OST | Short film from Tibyan Mahwah Sanoh Manchester UK duo |
| Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Dix Voix | 01:39:21 | Notes Above Land | Live rehearsel in San Francisco 2015 Brooklyn artist |
| Robbie Elizee | SOMMA 8,9 | 01:47:58 | Cull | 2020 compilation of remixes of The Conet Project – recordings of shortwave Numbers Stations |
| Laaraji | Koto Glimpse | 01:50:32 | Koto | |
| All Pervading Glimps | 01:52:15 | |||
| KMRU kamaru & Echium | Unending | 01:54:32 | Peripheral |