Spring Hopes Eternal ~ A Universal People’s Improvement Missive

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For several months now .. we have been broadcasting a daily morning radio allayallcall @ 7 – 8:30 am daily PST,  ...  Rise + Shine .. it might just be your glocal morning cup of tea or mochaccino (Joshi!) …via www.worldoneradio.org (press play, top right on home page)  or download tunein free app and search “worldoneradio” or “kecg” … let us know you are tuned in via email.. and we’ll holla atcha !

Universal People’s Improvement Messages (UPIM)  …

As a local terrestrial Public FM Radio Station, we naturally seek like-minded-missioned glocal sponsors and individual listener donors. We have been considering for a long time, how to dig a little deeper, to actually align our living~breathing project, with That which actually sponsors the sponsors + listeners + we ourselves.  How have we surrendered virtually a l l  of our public messaging space to corporations hawking cell phones, car insurance, movies, fastjunk foods, sugary beverages, or pizza? ( I know, e v e r y b o d y loves pizza !) Carramba !  Our small remedy, UPIM are now broadcast hourly via worldOneradio ..  to remind, help us unwind our minds, and mind our collective well being … and yes, we’d love to hear from you… if you’d care to create and offer a UPIM … please let us know!  via worldone@worldoneradio.org … an example follows …

Zac Rodgers/ kingspook.com

 

keCg worldOne radio glocal programming is possible at all, by virtue of human discernment and understanding of ..

HOPE : a Universal People’s Improvement Missive …

We live in hope of deliverance from any darkness that erupts around us   … evil : the shadows of hate, violence, avarice, anxiety, apathy, despair, sickness, disease, environmental degradation, ignorance, poverty, dearth, the rumors and conditions of war…

Cynics might say hope is a delusion .. and we might agree, if we might hope idly for some change of condition, mind state, attitude, law, policy. In Spanish, from its Latin language root, hope and wait are the same word .. esperar…. hope is fully alive when not shrouded in ignorance, or disinterest, distraction nor apathy .. instead patience and careful observation are cultivated in our human psyche and all human enterprise, to support and nurture the full flowering of HOPE .. the Rumors and Conditions of Abiding Peace, and continual seeding, cultivating, promoting and making of same  .. through well rounded and comprehensive education/humanities, ecology + agriculture + arts + sciences + technology + engineering+ mathematics … on and on through daily rounds of Bright Blessed Days and Dark Sacred Nights .. and throughout all the rolling seasons ..

Hope works and prays and sweats and waits.. for the right opportunity .. a break in the weather, the dissipation of the storm.. and keeps its seed, its ember/fire and its work L I T to deliver its particular hopeful vision as a nascent, if not long-burning potential and reality to our world .. and thus our great leaders, Sheroes and Heroes are at once great thinker-feelers-envisioners-framers… and at once our most h o p e f u l as they keep faith in their respective vision throughout all disciplines and then coax it to become a reality .. often enough through iterations, setbacks and obstacles, formidable hardships, even life threatening opposition, in every arena, from health, to arts, civil rights , ecology, to technology.

It is our duty to remain hopeful and optimistic as we endure institutions and policies which do not work, nor longer function properly in synergy in our home ecosystem, with an ever-expanding worldsview and interconnectivity ..

fitna get my cosmoglocal drift on here … we have always been interconnected .. Pachamama …in real organic Ecosphere and RealClouds and Realmineral Earthnet, RealetherSkynet, Indranet, and YouMeWenet … before iphone, smart phone, telephone, there is Telepathy, Psi and Zeitgeist, Dream-time … before any of our gadgets (made from materials drawn from Alma Mater Earth)  … before Intuit there is Intuition and before Beats by Dre.. the pre-installed Beat by G– .. before Oracle there are Oracles … before tight stretchy pants there is Yoga done by Seekers and Sadhus for the alignment and perfecting of their body-mind, and not for a gruvilook or yoga booty .. we have a tendency to rush to odd new demigods~demigoods  … stuff and things …and seeming always driven , puffed up, hyped, and Spirit thereby diminished by relentless commercial so-called “development” .. pretty cool stuff, but not it..

Here’s to dialing down the ball-o-confusion and allowing entheos, co-creating .. multidimendimensional enthusion… and YES! gadgets can be very helpful .. in so far as they ..

Raise Divine Sparks ( Tikkun Olam!  )  image by Rich Sigberman

Vision + passion + action is the alchemy which precipitates any humanifestation in this world .. the organic circuits of our dreaming, conscious and deliberate envisioning, our visionary imagination engine, through the very chambers of the heart, and our heart of compassion for all life, through the vehicle of the body electric ..

HOPE works and sweats and sacrifices through all the seasons and experimental iterations … all the failures and frustration… even vilification and exile … to realize its goals through joys and tears with courage .. to greet the pulse of this new day …
When you may feel discouraged, avoid negativity in all its forms… from self-defeating thinking, to negating foods or activities, including entertainments … Seek … natural places and spaces, positive non judgmental conversations, water, herbals teas and foods which genuinely support your balance, harmony and well being ..

HOPE springs eternal … look up, look to the morning sun …may you and we all, in turn, spring eternally filled with revivifying hope ..  = : ) ~ 

image by Fletcher Oakes wwwfletcho.com

worldOneradio recent runnings:

One of our keCg/worldOne Youth Radio broadcasters, Nanette Thompson recently generated a feature, broadcast nationally on NPR: On Tansgender Students learning to navigate schools. One primary, interviewee, Jace, is another one of our/my current and Precious Students…

… and if you please, a few recent worldOneradio accolades (as a further testament to the power education with the added juju of glocal musiculture = edjujucation?! :

–   2015 MLK Dream Award (local NAACP)

–   2015 CA State Legislature ( Public Service)  Recognition

worldOne is a drum that brings the Good Spirit to protect you ..  see our daily program guide under the keCg radio tab above .. e como mai ! Which includes a daily trifecta of programs produced by Mssr. Doug Wendt … 

KeCG and worldOne salutes and celebrates  2015 Rex Foundation  Ralph J. Gleason Award winner Doug Wendt !

In memory of music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, a major figure in the advancement of music in America in the 1960s, whose openness to new music and ideas transcended differences between generations and styles.

Doug Wendt has been one of the most influential people in the country in bringing Reggae and World Beat music to the American public. He began his career in the Bay Area as Host & Producer of the pioneering commercial radio reggae program The Reggae Explosion on KTIM AM & FM in San Rafael, CA from 1974-1977. Since then he has both hosted and produced various commercial and public radio reggae programs. Doug worked as a journalist contributing articles to Rolling Stone, Beat Magazine and others publications as well as penning liner notes for reggae recordings issued by Island Records, Heartbeat/Rounder, Putumayo and other labels. He was instrumental in promoting many popular reggae festivals and films. Aside from all of his work as a DJ, VJ, journalist and consultant he has accumulated an extraordinary archive of live and recorded reggae and world beat music and videos which he has been in the process of digitizing for posterity. The funds from a Rex award will help him continue to convert his vast personal library of music to digital form. Visit Midnight Dread, here!

 … and for a good time shakin’ your beauty … a few video links … to CAli and/or African Thrill you  !

Ashel Seasunz ~ Lady Justice  

Rocky Dawuni ~ African Thriller

 

image by G– the Smile that Greets me, Eases my heart, and Rox my worldOne .. dXOodle !

 

 

worldOnelovs 1beat ! .. a 1love letter …

Yes, worldOne lovs y’all  Yes! .. how do you fall in brotherly and sisterly love at first  s o u n d ? 1beat  that’s how  ! (Found Sound/ Bang on a Can)  presented a day~long celebration of its recent California residency at Montalvo, at PublicWorks SF, and then a pair of educational/youth performances and a final all~day concert at Montalvo Arts in Saratoga. 1beat Fellow Fidel + Corey .. 

1beat fidel + corey 2014

1beat ensemble 2014 Wow.  WOW!  Wow! W O O W!   Congratulations  +   E n  c o r e ! 

Thank you and Appreciation to all Fellows and Co-Founder/Directors Jeremy Thal and Chris Marianetti and the directorial staff who moved so adroitly and kindly (Elena! 1beat  Leah! Montalvo ) around and behind the scenes. 1beat Co-Founder Jeremy + your friendly neighborhood dj worldOnelove ..

What a utterly refreshing and enthralling musical experience, the likes of which we have not enjoyed since WOMAD festivals. ( Why has WOMAD not returned to the USA in tooooo many years?! ) Real musicality realizes in all kinds of earthnic settings, rustic, desert dusty, cityscapes, or jungly countrysides, all regularly extraordinary, from which the 1beat fellows arise. In this elegantisimo setting, we wandered and followed our eyes and ears through multiple musical atmospheres… perhaps feeling more ourselves like a flock of happy brrds or bees: invited and treated to Interactive musical playgrounds on patios or tree-shaded lawn, roving concerts ( arresting and tender oud + invocals at the Love Temple/ Garden, a Colombian gaita-led parade, calls and response percussives, loops,  and lively dances, reaching a happy apogee in an afternoon Garden Amphitheatre showcase ( the finale /encore pictured above) of four 1beat Fellows’ (“pods”) ensembles .  The Love Garden, nicely spruced UP, below …

The Montalvo Estate venue is in itself, musical and quite classically beautiful, elegant, spacious, forest and garden encircled, and thus fragrant.  The fellows resided there for two weeks prior to offering the musicalfroots of their new collaborations in various pod-ensembles +smaller workshop rhythm, dance, and musical sections. 1beat Co-founder Chris + Corey ..

In its third annual iteration, a very passionate and open collective Spirit of 1beat’s mission was ever-present, in every interaction and musical moment. Intentional, from the heart of the musician as a person, and as a musicultural ambassador.  This Spirit was so Present, that days later I am chiming with it, feeling again just how P r e c i o u s it was to be in the midst, and IS. This Spirit IS , and it was invoked by 25 young musicians ages 19-35, visiting and collaborating from 17 countries. View/Meet all the fellows, click this !… 

Ultimately, we fell in love with everyone. Now that’s cultural diplomacy, thank you Department of State. 3 cups of tea …  you know, with a Daniela + Ahamed + Blessing +  a shimmy shimmy shake.

 

So, there is a deeper wave in the world, added dimensions of seeing and feeling, beyond land and resource grabs, cultural colonization and clan-clashing  .. we know this .. and its seems to blossom naturally in the presence of collective intentionality, open hearts +open minds … armature not armaments ? ..  pearls of water on the hips not gun ships ?  Life beyond national/ized fears and separatisms..

Around the ol worldOneradio corral … we ourselves believe in  B E A U T Y .. and the beats … the universe is vibratory .. vibz it UP with worldOnelove ! 

… and the stars make love to the universe … under blue skies, white clouds… musicalities from and for all earthnicities .. double rainbow higher fire …   que bebamos cultura !  and we’re like .. and we’re like ..  OOOoOoOooOo …. listen for the three discrete hours of worldOne whirligig 1beat field recordings, indemix on-air and online  … feel fine ! 

most definitely enjoy the video linx.. totally engaging and revealing of the feeling ..  http://www.1beat.org/#videos …  and listen to 1beat via soundcloud …

more soon  …   glocal listeners take us with you via tune in free app search “worldoneradio” or “keCg”

if you like what you hear and feel ? e como mai ..  tella friend to tella friend to tella friend about these blends ..  and if we rock you… rock us like a rockafella acapella … and if you are a po’lanthopist like us .. simply click our face?!book ..       Now ..  Gaita ! …  GaitON!  and turn the people on ! = : ) ~

 

 

 

 

 

Mambo YoYo’in + Itchin’ with Scratchy

In our very recent morning email, unedited..  Thank You Back ! = ; ) ~ 

Message: I don’t know how you guys suddenly appeared on my radio dial, but wow.

i listened for hours to radio brava yesterday and couldn’t believe my ears. i was afraid if i turned my dial away i would never find *that* station again. fortunately, i have found you here so i know you’re real and that i will be able to find you again. i haven’t been so excited about an fm station in a long long time. thank you thank you thank you…….

we understand, we know  .. the FMs are modest to say the least … and p r e c i o u s  … we did not intend worldOne to be a secret … we rather believe that this sound and feeling merits broad availability and wide o p e n appreciation and enjoyment .. it’s just that after talking to everyone we could think of ( local, a longish list of majors, coast to coast broadcasters, Artists and even Mr. Branson!),  and or get an audience with, nearly 2o years ago …  we found a modest home in little keCg which welcomed the Mission.. Thank you Prentice, Philip, and WCCUSD.  And since them we’ve just been doin it and bein it and doin it ( well, we hope).  Funnily enough? the station was indeed underground, in a oft-flooding basement/first floor at ECHS for the first 10 years or so of our nightly broadcasts … then we were in a portable for several years,   and now in a pair of much more dignified small studios in a classroom suite … please feel free to call to arrange a visit ! or pop in when you are on- site at El Cerrito High School and Performing Arts Center  … 

and another email…  quite on the heels of the missive above …

…or is this just serendipity? I just ran into you accidentally on my car radio yesterday and said, “Wow.” Now I go to your website and find “I don’t know how you guys suddenly appeared on my radio dial, but wow.” Something must be in the air. Keep it up. 

Thank you again ! Please enjoy !! = ; ) ~ 

an  overnight sensation?  after 20 years ? ! .. stop hey whats that sound ! yes somethin’s in the air .. I can feel it all around .. 

GO!  Serenedipity Go ! Go Radio Magic Go !  Go!  Logic ! Go !  Go ! Beauty ! GO ! 

We are still ringing with waves of Appreciation for all the pulsing,evanescing,shimmering gurgling Living Aloha, Arts, Foods, and Dance we absorbed n Kaua’i … and coming back to the Bay … we call it “reentry” ….as it is always a challenge, from traffic to just getting back in our respective saddles at home, school, and practice .. my particular entry was softened and charged up significantly by a few musical and art encounters … reconnecting with Carnaval King DJiJ

Ij + Corey ybg 2014

Ij + Corey ybg 2014mingling among some lovely salseros at Yerba Buena’s free Thursday pm tardeada with Ricardo Lemvo + MaKINA LOCA .. and yes, recorded some sabrosos live vibz to broadcast .. listen for them in the mix !  One recording was made while dancing in a rumba line ! lol !

Shake Your Beauty with us at upcoming worldOne collabs/events : 

Sunday, September 14 LIVE BROADCAST @ Solano Stroll, interactive dancealong Santa Fe Stage with :  ECHS Dance Production (10 am) , ECHS JAZZ (Noon) , Sosakete (Round Dance),  Suhaila Salimpour(1PM) , Baile Folklorico, Del Mars Surf (2pm) , Kamakakehau Fernandez + Halau Makana Lani (3PM), Non Stop Bhangra (3:30),  Brasarte (5P)   

Saturday, September 20th at Ocean Beach San Francisco Coastal Cleanup ! the State’s largest volunteer event, California Coastal Cleanup Day. In 2013, over 58,000 volunteers removed almost 750,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from California’s beaches, lakes, and waterways. Families, friends, coworkers, scout troops, school groups, service clubs, and individuals come together to celebrate and share their appreciation of California’s fabulous coast and waterways. The event is part of the International Coastal Cleanup, organized by the Ocean Conservancy, which is the largest volunteer event on the planet! Learn more and find an event you can join nearby, at the link above.  

Join worldOne at Ocean Beach, San Francisco as we fan out from the foot of Golden Gate Park, (use the Beach Chalet and Windmill as your landmarks), and you can’t miss a few thousand folks+ these United Riddims  .. as we comb the beach and give Pachamama and our fabulous Ocean Beach a big XO ..   Waddayasay?! .. join Coastal Cleanup Day ..  A morning FoG? And a day in the Sun .. Everybody worldOne ! 

and our endless thanks to Jill Fressinier and Family / Spillart for an unforgettable and intimate evening with The Observer in the House of Stars what follows … ObeyJah/Ras Otis, Queen Jill + King Lee

so mr perrylee goldenThe question + the answer .. Blue Space+Golden Clouds .. and YEES! … recorded … this time, adjusting constantly due to impromtu PA jankiness ( all good) … and all the while  alternately itching-scratching-jumping-like a-frog, as requested and required by the Celtic Charmer  … these too will be added to the sparkling loops and double rainbows of worldOneradio … for the Kaua’I N I’s ..

Following deep Kauai’an odyssey (Te Vai Ura Nui, above)  … we are arrived back to Cali, to Cali, to Cali  … our hearts are  naturally full, and h e a v y upon leaving Hawai’i, Kaua’i, family and cherished and new extended o’hana. Mahalo Nui Loa to All.. Aumakua, Aina and Kai … more will follow .. and importantly we wish to thank and worldOneXO Manea and Sally Joe and Heiva I Kauai (Nathan! Allen!) , Rick and Fa /Kauai Crafters, T.Huni (carver of tiki below)

, Kaylen, Stacey, Emma, Auntie Leilani and Waipa o’hanaEnrico, Catana (henna and fine artist).. Chongolio, Rose(grafittibikini), Steve and Infinity Surfboards.. infinity + corey+haena 2014Patrick at Hanalei Surf, Robert ( Smile, Be Nice!) Blake (Na Pali paleo), Michael and Auntie Angeline’s, Auntie Marie, Sandy, Linda and Commodore @KKCR, Ron Wiley /KONG, Daniel and Linda at Hawaiian Music Store, Seth Yamamoto… seth 2014Sean and Simone , Doug and Sandy McMaster, John Dumas + Aki ( Joyful Noise Taiko), Farmer’s Marketers Linda, Sal, and Joshua and Luna (Aloha Fresh Macadamias)Musical Master Michel Poroi (Tamarii Te Faatii), Toa Huhine ( a few handsome kane here pictured with beloved wahine Debra Sue),tua huhine + my wahine 2014Kamakakehau Fernandez (reunited in Koloa),kamaka + corey @ koloa Preeta (album art)…
preeta we are changedhere with Sam and Mike Love at OAK …
 

Our El Cerritmo back yard looks a bit like the happy clamor of Kapa’a art stroll .. lol … for drying out loud .. …our ears and hearts and muscles are still ringing with delight, and/or exertion …reverberations of drums, surf,smiles, and hips … all catalyzed by the Maestro, Kumu and Good Friend Manea Tapairu …Pairu + Allen + Corey at da jongul pahu shop  …pairu + allen + corey at shop

and l i s t e n for upcoming triple scoops of aloha, peppered with Auntie Kathy’s whoo-hoos + yeehaw’s + flirty innuendos +marurus …double anuenue mixology ..

Kaua’iNi radio sehsun One : walk and talk-abouts are quilted togeddah with interludes by :

Kamaka Kukona, George Helm, Michel Poroi, Kamakakehau Fernandez, Eddie Kamae + Sons of Hawaii, Israel Kamawiwo’ole, Dennis Kamakahi, Auntie Genoa Keawe,  Seth Yamamoto, Gabby Pahinui, Mike Love, and and Preeta (Make Love Not War) ..

press play above, right  .. or find us and take us with you via the mobile app tune in … search worldoneradio or keCg ..

from Queen Emma’s Summer Palace .. a good place to give thanks and even pick potent and tiny Hawaiian jalapenos with local kupuna,

and Hanakapiai stream .. yellow ginger flower … puhi land … have a ohi’a ‘ai and a smile …giner 2014

and Waipa poi days … lovu Auntie Honey Girl !

leilani and corey

More soon … bound in the cords of living Spirit of Aloha, the Life of the land musicartsdanculture   .. Ea ! … livealohalive …  = : ) ~

kaua'i .. fullness 2014 = ; ) ~ Corazon original, reprise… reflection + remebrance of this journey .. 

Casa de Cultura / Lavagem /Brasarte  re~united and it f e e l s so g o o d !  especially when a cuica + batalla is goin off nearby ..  Bay Rim frequency modulators Dj Jose Luis + David McBurnie at  … that Midas toca ! listen li-li-listen ! 

Jose Ruiz +David McBernie + Corey lavagem 2014and what is Music without Visual art you can wear .. Ester designs in Berkeley, support coops in Cameroon and ornaments you ! livin la vida glocal…ester fanabella this one !