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This Sunday, a film screening called Black Radical Imagination will happen at the Black Cinema House in Chicago’s Woodlawn community. Black Radical Imagination stemmed from a series of discussions around the boundaries and limitations that are historically given to people of color. Specifically, in the film industry these restrictions are often digested and kept to propel a vicious cycle of negative identification. Black Radical Imagination invokes a futurist aesthetic where artists identify themselves and reclaim their own unique stories. Black Radical Imagination is curated by Erin Christovale and Amir George.

Sunday, May 19 at 6pm
Black Cinema House
6901 S. Dorchester Ave.
Seating is limited, so please RSVP by emailing blackcinemahouse@rebuild-foundation.org to reserve your seats.

Reclaimed Soul host Ayana Contreras interviewed one of the filmmakers, Christina De Middel (De Middel also took the stunning photo above).

In 1964, still living the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first African on the moon, catching up with the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race. That was the true story that inspired De Middel’s short film and photography series, both titled “Afronauts”.

We will hear their discussion on tonight’s show, plus a pulsating rhythmic gumbo of futuristic African music from the 1970s & 1980s, and plenty of good old fashioned soul (all spun on wax).

Catch fresh installments of Reclaimed Soul Thursdays at 8pm (CST) on vocalo.org89.5fm (NW Indy) and 90.7fm (CHI)

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Tonight on Reclaimed Soul, host Ayana Contreras plays an original 1971 Curtis Mayfield colored wax promo (in a shade she’s calling ghostwax). We’ll also hear music by Krystal Generation, Delia Gartrell, McKinley Mitchell, Gary Knight, The Arrangement, and much more.

Plus, we eavesdrop on rehearsals for Opera-matic’s very cool New Moon on the Lagoon, an “evening lullaby parade”, featuring a 15 foot tall giant moon that will be lit up from within by projections of facial expressions. It’ll be happening Friday May 10th and 11th at the Humboldt Park Lagoon in Chicago. For more info, visit: http://opera-matic.org/upcoming-events/

Tonight at 8pm CST on http://vocalo.org 89.5fm (CHI & NW Indy) and 90.7fm (CHI)

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Tonight, we’ll hear Music by Couples you’ve probably never heard of:

From ‘Billy Vera and Judy Clay’ to ‘Jimmie and Vella’ & ‘Bunky and Jake’, we’ll hear some memorable deep duets. No sap allowed.

Plus, some groovy West Indian music from The Bahamas and from Dominique (also known as Dominica [though NOT the Dominican Republic]).

Reclaimed Soul airs tonight at 8pm (CST) on vocalo.org, 89.5fm (NWI/CHI) and 90.7fm (CHI)

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Tonight is a Chicago soul music blowout on Reclaimed Soul! Host Ayana Contreras will play cuts from the catalogue of Brunswick Records. The label moved to 17th and Michigan on Chicago’s Record Row in the mid 1960s, and producer Carl Davis steered an all star cast of local talent.

We’ll hear music by Tyrone Davis, Jean Shy, Jackie Ross, The Lost Generation, The Chi-Lites, Freddie Hughes, Sidney Joe Qualls, Ginji James, Jackie Wilson, The Artistics, Gene Chandler, Marvin Smith, and loads more.

It’ll be a stone gas!

Reclaimed Soul airs Thursdays at 8pm-10pm (CST) on http://vocalo.org, or tune in on 90.7fm and 89.5fm.

Tonight!

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Back by popular demand… more Underground Motown. In our last installment, we focused on “The Funk Brothers”, Motown’s legendary band of studio (or session) musicians. Host Ayana Contreras spun rare instrumentals of songs many of us know and love.

Tonight, tune in as she spins rarities, dusties and b-sides from the Motown Records vault, including the Jackson 5 cutting a soulfully Al Green-ish record, and a variety of experiments in genius cross-pollinations.

Reclaimed Soul, Thursdays at 8pm CST on Vocalo.org

(illustration by French artist “Mega is Mega”)

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Yesssir (and Ma’am). Ayana Contreras plays cuts from this rare LP tonight on Reclaimed Soul. The record, 1971’s “A Sun Lady for all Seasons Reads Her Poetry” by world-renowned poet Sonia Sanchez not only features the poet reading some of her best known works, it also featured her giving context to the pieces.

For example, to introduce her poem called “Black Magic”, she states:

“There’s a singer who is not really too political, but every now and then he says something in a song and in one of his songs he was saying about like we oughta jump back and kiss ourselves”…

That singer was James Brown. She continues,

“… And so I say to you, black people. we ought to start a five year plan of kissing ourselves - just jumping back and kissing ourselves, and then we gonna believe that we is bad, been bad, and we gonna get badder.”

Sonia Sanchez

All that, plus Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Lotus Palace, Horace Silver, Dizzy Gillespie, Labelle, Howlin Wolf, and much, much more…

Reclaimed Soul. Tonight at 8pm CST on 89.5fm, 90.7fm in Chicago, and vocalo.org.

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Ahhh, love. It’s so easy to get caught up in the highs, we forget all about the lows (aka catching the vapors). But not this Valentine’s Day. Not this installment of Reclaimed Soul. Host Ayana Contreras picks some of her favorites love stories, set to song. The good, the bad, the ugly, and a few classics.

Reclaimed Soul, Tonight at 8pm CST. http://vocalo.org. Press Play.

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