Special guest DJ Docta Deep takes over La Danza Poetica this month, with a Hip Hop India mixtape. Docta Deep is a Melbourne-based producer and DJ who is currently doing a PhD at the RMIT School of Media and Communications on the grassroots Hip Hop culture in urban India. Featuring rap crews and artists from Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Assam, repres…

Mixed in a sultry summer in Budapest, La Danza Poetica #65 is a collection of sultry new sounds from South America, the States, France, Canada. And dedicated, with love, to the bright light of Australian poet and activist, Candy Royalle, who passed last month. Pure heart and spirit, within this music is the poetry of life, the continuum of traditio…

A special mix this month, featuring a wonderful transnational project, a compilation of tracks and radio remixes produced by sound artists from around the world in response to audio and radio recordings from both sides of the Zambezi River in Africa. A Radio Bridge Across the Zambezi is an album produced by the beautiful energies of Claudia Wegener…

A special edition of La Danza Poetica dedicated to the life and work of Rim Banna, the poet, singer, and activist who left this world in March. A tribute to her extraordinary example, and to the power of poetry and music to amplify the stories and the struggle of Palestine to the world. In 2015, after battling cancer for six years, Rim Banna was to…

"Between the '50s and '60s [in Morocco] ... independent labels were flourishing after 44 years of French occupation and the real voice, the poetry, or "Kassidat" ... began to be properly documented on the new and relatively inexpensive 45 format. Essentially this music is a folk or street equivalent to rap or hip hop nowadays, driven by strong rhyt…

Borrowing the title from Kuzich’s track (via Stevie Wonder’s seminal 1973 album) La Danza Poetica #61 Innervisions is a very conscious dream. Traversing all continents of our external and internal world, traditional folk song and experimental electric folk, melodic global bass rhythms, orchestral electronics, storytelling and intelligent poetics. R…

We love you, Canada. Not only is your Minister for Transport an astronaut, your storytellers, poets, musicians and artists are gravity-defyingly-eloquent. La Danza Poetica #60 is an extended show, because I was enjoying myself so much, I could not stop. Moving from high-energy, activist hip hop and electronic dance music, into an extended ambient /…

Every time I make a new La Danza Poetica mix, more voices are added to the chorus of intelligent, loving, awakening resistance, so that I’m freshly convinced, every month, that love and wisdom will prevail. La Danza Poetica #59 is heart-full with this conviction. A slow chorus. An energising way to start the new year. A slow driving mix of spoken w…

Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. La Danza Poetica #58 is “A Call To Arms”. A depth-charged mix made in the southern summer. As it’s the end of a tumultuous year, I’ve created a tumultuous mix featuring some favourite tracks of 2017 that I haven’t been able to include in the radio show so far. Covering a lot of ground, from wild angry global bass t…

Mixed and presented by DJ LAPKAT. Chile, a poetic country by any measure. Between the mountains and the sea, the poets and musicians sing of the land and the heart. This month’s mix features poets Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, and Nicanor Parra, plus a focus on the expressionistic poetics of Cecilia Vicuña, Como Asesinar a Felipes, and Kali Mutsa…

Poesía y música, Española. A mix of all new music, joyful and uplifting, arriving into our ears and hearts this month from the creative souls of musicians from Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, NYC, Greece, Japan, Spain, France, the USA. Featuring El Búho, Rio Mira, LaDama, Dat Garcia, the Meridian Brothers, Spaniol, Christian Scott, Boca…

A meditative, contemplative edition of the global dance poetic. Dedicated to guitarist Mayara Amaral who was murdered in Brazil last month. #NiUnaMenos #NemUmaAMenos #NotAWomanLess Suspension, in music, creates tension through prolonging a consonant note while the underlying harmony changes. In making this mix, I was considering this musical method…

The women star, in La Danza Poetica number 54. Women collectivising and collaborating, creating and producing. Featuring two collections of collaborative works: Reverb on Verse out of Australia put together poets with producers and electronic artists. The Monika Werkstatt double album, out of Berlin, is a brilliant example of what comes from close …

On La Danza Poetica this month, surfing the poetic radio waves: une fête de la musique et de la poésie! A smooth and cool mix of new French abstract hip hop, alt-rap, spoken word, trip hop and jazz. Downtempo melodic beats and spoken word. Opening with Canadian poet Fabric Koffy in collaboration with Deya, and taking a journey that traverses many m…

Diving deeper into the dancehall – mixing the poetry of MC Zulu, Chicago’s most profound dancehall vocalist and electro-reggae producer with conscious beats old and new. Concerned that we listen as we dance, learn as we excite, and have a real conversation with the music, Zulu has been presenting some of his lyrics in spoken word recitations. This …

A special show focused on telling one, captivating story. #51 is a mix created live in a forest grove in the south east of Australia, on the 2nd January. Recorded at Renaissance Festival, this mix combines loops from some favourite Turkish and Turkish-inspired tracks with birdsong and other sounds, and at its heart is an epic tale of love erotic an…

My 50th show for Groovalizacion Radio, and my first for the year 2017. Starting us off right on this journey around the sun, I’ve mixed up poetry from an inspiring organisation out of Los Angeles, and music from an inspiring record and film company out of Buenos Aires. Street Poets Inc. is a non-profit poetry-based, peace making organisation dedica…

Tracklist Kwame Write (prod. Staun&Ko) - In (true) duction Vocal Portraits - Skit—Poe(tree) Shark Mellon - This I put to you (prod. by Kwame Write) Ozionn - The Eclectic Experiment 1 (feat. Iwan Gronert) Kwame Write - Nkabom (prod. Golddrumachine, Apollo) Lamin Fofana - Happy 2010 / Dark Days Are Coming Jahwi - We No Dey Fear Huu (feat. Ansong, pro…

This month, we travel light. Returning to Canada—because of course, at this moment in time, we had to. It might be time for quiet and for reflection, a little window of peace to contemplate how we got here and where we might be going. So I have mixed some tracks from a lovely album by François Couture and Denis Veilleux—Carousel XXI does this conte…

This month on La Danza Poetica, the spirit runs deep. Featuring the brilliant new album from Canada’s Tanya Evanson, debut EP from Australia’s Mirrah, and a poetic release from USA’s Solange. Alongside, the smooth spirituals of Canadian/American soul sisters: Cris Derksen and Jennifer Kreisberg, Marianne Verville, Sunni Patterson, Shauntay Grant, Q…

A special collaboration between La Danza Poética and La Rebelde Academia de la Música Latinoamericana (RAMULA). Joaldo Domínguez, aka Jo Selector, a journalist, radio maker and DJ based in Brussels, and the man behind RAMULA on Groovalizacion Radio, recently sent me recordings of his good friend the poet Gustavo Gómez Giraldo, aka Juaco. This week …

This month’s mix opens with One Sixth’s fierce poem ‘Labyrinth’ - in which he calls for compassion, for understanding, and above all, for listening. So we listen. To Xolisa, Trinidadian-Canadian, Toronto based emcee and producer, from her recent album And Gaps Do Lead To Bridges. To Akua Naru, hip hop storyteller from Connecticut USA. To Omar Musa,…

Voix forte - a multi-layered mix of poetry, rhythm, melody en français, exploring the strong voices of la Négritude movement in France, a movement influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Our honoured ghosts, Langston Hughes, and les trois pères (the three fathers) of la Négritude: Aime Cesare, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Their infl…

Everything ends, everything begins, every moment, seasons change. Fire and ice, we need both to live. This month on La Danza Poetica, LAPKAT puts aside the constant hunger for things ‘new’ to focus deeper. From Autumn in Australia to Spring in Europe in 80 minutes. Can you come with me? The Apollo Saxophone Quartet’s* collaboration with poet Lemn S…

Adventurous spirits journey within and without, connecting with tradition, home, self, and other. This month on the global dance poetic, many new releases that share an adventurous spirit of experimentation and connection. One, special to my heart, from Australia’s Candy Royalle. One, just arrived from Canada’s Rise Ashen, the master of Indigenous …

Paseo Mental - a walk through the mind, through the various voices in our heads, both our own and the voices of the honoured ghosts and ancestors who walk with us. Performance poetry from Segovia, Spain, from an installation by Andrés Sánchez, plus new tracks, collaborations and remixes out of South America, Mexico, USA, Algeria, and Europe. Featur…

In February La Danza Poetica crosses lines and walls, real and imagined, through the eastern Mediterranean and Levant, from Persia to Palestine, from ancient to modern. Featuring the new album from Palestinian poet and activist Rafeef Ziadah, as well as an earlier album interpreting the poems of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in song and music, from …

Pausing for reflection in January 2016, a mix of tracks that I couldn’t include in the feature shows of ’15, that are still on high rotation in my mind. Travel across the world, in folk music, poetry, dub and electronics, poets and musicians from Australia via Poland, Australia via Greece, and indigenous Australia. Indigenous Canada, Brazil, Palest…

For the Wurundjeri, Taungurung, Wadawurrung, Boon Wurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung peoples that make up the Kulin Nation in the South East of Australia, Melbourne has always been an important meeting place. And it continues to be a place of connection for people from all around the world. This month Multicultural Arts Victoria released four compilation …

Syncopation, collaborative poetry jazz and organic electronics. Featuring the live collaboration of Anthony Joseph and Adam Pierończyk, Saul Williams collaborating with French singer songwriter Arthur H on a piece for Basquiat, plus a new cut from Saul’s upcoming album. Acapella from Umi Selah and Stimulus, the spoken word duo Climbing Poetree, Chr…

The poetic art is inseparable from music, most especially in the Middle East. From hip hop through electronica, a focus on some of the most inspiring artists working in the Arabic world, and word, that I’ve been coming across lately – from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria. Starting out in Morocco with SwamiMillion and Fawda Trio’s…

Rêver en français… storytelling of emotion and delirium of loops! Being in transit in between times and places, in a woozy mood, a loose mix from a recent live set. No explanation, no reason, no solution. Just the enlightened, unapologetic emotion of French poets, under the spell of delirious analysis. Old and new tracks from: 13th Tribe with Saul …

33 is a significant number, in many aspects of life. There are 33 vertebrae in the human spine; on the Newton scale, it is the temperature at which water boils; there are 33 gods in the Vedic religion and the Greek Orthodox "prayer rope" has 33 and other numbers of knots for numerical repetition of prayers...we could go on, and on .... I'm not part…

μεράκι, κέφι, καημός ... love, joy, sorrow ... Eclectic electronic, folk and poetic wavelengths from Greece. Featuring electronica pioneers Lena Platonos and Stereo Nova, fascinating composers and bands Carte Postale, Imam Baildi, ION, Anna Stereopoulou, and May Roosevelt (mixing the poetry of Dinos Christianopoulos), hip hop / low bap from Active …

Despite what you may see in the media, the cruel, hard monocultural 'face' pasted across us by the invested powers-that-be, this place that we call Australia is, on the ground and in the streets, a place of amazing diversity. Just under the radar here is the richest mix of music, poetry, dance and art happening. That's what we are here to celebrate…

From this month, LDP will also be broadcast on Chimeres Radio in Greece (http://chimeres.gr) - on the first Friday of each month. With thanks to my good friends across the ocean .. we spread the poetics even further! Following on from the #6 program, Northern Soul, #30 dives into the deep, orchestral spaces, evocative musical landscapes and provoca…

"Words can be bullets or butterflies. The truth uplifts, while lies destroy. So, say what you mean and mean what you say."—Piri Thomas Latin spirit from Buenos Aires to Bolivia to the New York City experience of Puerto Rican and Mexican poets and hip hop artists. New music with ancient spirit, art and activism. Honoured ghosts, Nuyorican spoken wor…

A trip around the world with the passionate voices and melodies of the Romani folk tradition, the travelling heart of humanity. Featuring Click Here's latest album Balkandalucia and new recordings from the great Taraf de Haïdouks. Following the music and the poetry from Andalusia to Bulgaria, Hungary to Slovakia, Romania to Greece. Argentinian/Bulg…

For the first podcast of 2015, something different! A special mix made for a global collaborative event and album release out of Athens, Greece. «CIRCE :the black cut:» is the project of Greek musician and artist Anna Stereopoulou. Anna's work combines and unifies music with theatre, cinema, poetry, dance and architecture, drawing inspiration from …

A joyful noise unto - yourself! Whatever your faith, whatever your hopes, whatever your dreams, take heart from the deep soul of the poets, breath deep and risk everything - everything. This month's show is a soul music and soul poetry dance, getting deep into the groove, for your summer/winter end of year wind down. There are a few very notable ne…

Following on from the 1st, and the 15th edition of the podcast, we return to Italy’s songs and stories. From north to south, from folk to modern electronic dance. All rooted in the varied storytelling and dance traditions of the peninsula. There is so much that's exciting in the current takes on folk traditions in Italy. It is a diverse tradition, …

The power of the drum, the storytelling of music. Honouring The Spaceape (RIP), oscillating with the dark and the light in between the drum beats and breaths. Honouring those with the courage to face the devil in the pauses. Exploring Creole, the language of rhythm and time. Featuring new tracks and albums from Kode9 & Spaceape (UK), Kaie Kellough,…

Entering my third year at Groovalizacion - happy birthday to La Danza Poetica! The 24th edition is intercontinental, transnational - a world of poetics, mainly new releases, ranging far and wide in the spirit of the dance. Let me take a moment to thank you for listening to and supporting me with this podcast over the past two years. Sometimes it fe…

In August 2008 the great poet Mahmoud Darwish left forever. But his voice is still here, more heartbreaking than ever. Now I ask myself to stop, turn off the newsfeed, clear my mind of prejudice, and listen. This is a mix of the amazing diversity of poetic expression from Palestine and the diaspora. Marcel Khalife, Obaider Band, and Naomi Shihab Ny…

Raining sounds and stories across the planet. Many honoured ghosts this month, including the poets Rumi, Federico García Lorca, TS Elliott, Badr Shākir as-Sayyāb, Jorge Luis Borges, and Pablo Neruda. Ambient folkloric beats, Afro Latin jazz and soul, hip hop and spoken word poetry, from Ecuador to Barcelona to Melbourne, from New York to New Zealan…

Tracklist Warumpi Band - My Island Home Archie Roach & Middleton Cheedy - John Pat (Poem by Jack Davis) Cumbia Cosmonauts ft. Lamine Sonko & Amadou Kalissa - Animbara Larry T Hill - FAQ live at the Rails, Darwin + FAQ acapella poem Taqi Khan - Atish Candy Royalle - Guatemalan Waters Prasaara - Ghost Creek Ebony MonCrief - Traveller Not Drowning Wav…

The continuing inspiration of the rhythm poets in the Jamaican Year of Poetree. Following the lineage of the griots, voicing the Rastafari philosophy of freedom of expression and resistance, connection and protection. A mix of dub, soul and Afrobeat poets from Africa to Jamaica to Trinidad, to the UK, the USA, and Canada. The future of reggae in th…

A moody hour under the spell of Northern, Eastern Europe. Beats and poetics from Russia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, the Nederlands. Tracklist Dichters Dansen Niet - Milord l'Arsouille (Ontscheping) Maya Kristalinskaya - U Tebya Takie Glaza (21 Outside Remix) Futuresounder - Venera Y Vladimir Maiakovski…

The dance of the soul - poetic voices and soul beats from around our musical planet. Starting out with Amerigo Gazaway's brilliant dream collaboration of Yasiin Bey and Marvin Gaye and L'Orange’s dream collaboration with Lady Day, a new track from Aja Monet, and two poems from Kosal Khiev whose film Cambodian Son is now premiering in the States. Th…

Hip hop from Australia to Latin America to Africa. From Sydney to Puerto Rico/New York City; via the Dominican Republic to Tunisia; crossing from Senegal to Ghana, Congo, Mozambique and Niger. Modern griots examining our nature, our politics and our loves through the rhythm and soul of rap. This is where poetry really dances! The voice is the drum.…