Wed Nov 05 2025

Red Beats

hosted by Addy Rasgon

11:30 PM - 1:00 AM

Cold War-era jazz, funk, soul, and psychedelic rock that flourished in the shadows of global propaganda wars. While the United States used music as a cultural weapon to push Western ideals, artists from the USSR, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia forged their own radical sounds - fusing tradition with rebellion to discuss the vital reminder: that music has always been more than just entertainment - it's resistance, identity, and revolution.

Thru-Lines - Tananas, Tananas (Shifty) 1987

The Click Song - Miriam Makeba, Miriam Makeba (Siyandisa) 1960

Shake - Tananas, Spiral (Gallo Record Company) 1989

Rakset El Fadaa - Omar Khorshid, Psych Funk 101 (WPFC) 2009

Zwakala (Come to Me) - Stimela, Love Songs (Gallo Record Company) 2013

Blues for Hughie - The Jazz Epistles, Verse 1 (The Gallo Record Company Vault) 1960

Maraba Blue - Abdullah Ibrahim, Cape Town Flowers (Tiptoe) 1997

Holili - The Skylarks, Make Us One (Looks like Music) 2020

House Of The Rising Sun - Miriam Makeba, Miriam Makeba (Siyandisa) 1960

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Palestine is My Homeland - Fathi Aldiyqz & Sons of Africa, A Selection of Music from Libyan Tapes (Habibi Funk 031) (HABIBI Funk Records) 2025

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I'm From Jerusalem - Riad Awwad, The Intifada 1987 (Majazz Project) 2023

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Tareeq - Al-Bara'em, Tareeq - Single (SMNTCS) 2020

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Call of the Rooster (El Helwa Di) - Marcel Khalife, Dreamy Sunrise (Ya Mahla Nourha) (Nagam Records, Inc.) 1985

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Mnibka Samdin - Khaled El Habre, Hina Yousmot Al Moughanni (Voice of Beirut) 1995