WFMH interviews Temi Kogbe, co-founder of Odion Livingstone Records
On Dec, 14 2019, Jim and I had the privilege of interviewing Temi Kogbe on Freeform Portland, Weekend Family Hour (WFMH). Kogbe is a cofounder of Odion Livingst...
Category: International Music
WFMH Shares 5 Asian Songs to Celebrate Asian Lunar New Year- Year of the Metal Rat
The Asian Lunar Year starts Jan. 25th 2020. The Year of the Metal Rat will be a test of resilience for all zodiac signs. The year of the Rat commemorates a year...
Love Letter to Tamino
By Jessie Stepan (DJ Ducky) 2019 – The Year of Tamino Have you heard of him? He’s a Belgian-Egyptian singer with a velvet voice and soulful lyrics. ...
WFMH Shares 5 Halloween Songs to Get Spooky With
He Met Me In the Guest House by Bappi Lahiri Soundtrack and title song to the Indian Hindi horror movie Guest House (1980). The plot involves Christopher who is...
Pixy Liao & Her Art of Giving the Middle Finger to Heteronormative & Patriarchal Ideologies
Pixy Liao (Yijun Liao) is a Chinese Shanghai-born photographer, musician and multidisciplinary artist who resides in Brooklyn, NY with her partner and muse, Mor...
The Importance of Odion Livingstone Records and the Impetus of Decolonizing African Music
African and Asian musicians are often living subserviently working for a white privileged man practicing homogenous postcolonialism. For decades, and to this da...
Change for Algeria?
Upon the occasion of Yennayer, the Amazigh (Berber) New Year, in January, I had the opportunity to host Algerian musician, Moh Alileche, on Freeform Portland to...
Bappi Lahiri the Disco King of India
Bappi Lahiri, also known in India as “The Disco King,” was born in Calcutta, West Bengal in 1952, to Bengali classical singers Aparesh Lahiri and Bansari Lahari...