Weekly Variety Show of music expressed by a theme. Every week a fresh look at the human condition, its components and variables, through song, sound, rhythms, and beats.
Electro-African beats and melodies. From a distant far and almost near. Here you will find artists such as Amanaz, Omar Khorshid, Artur Nunes, Os Kiezos, and others.
Concluding this months look at home life, we head back to the homestead. Here you will find Churchill, Leroy Smart, Hugh Masekela, Merle Haggard, Gangstarr, Twin Sister, and many more.
This episode is about the elusive bluebird of happiness. Showcased are musics by Jessy Lanza, Joe Bataan, The Sharks, Pudding, and Doris Day.
Prisms second installment on Home Life. Here, tales from the city are reckoned. This episode features artists such as Bad Brains, Paul Lewis, Concrete Blonde, Eloy, Joe Cuba Sextet, and Freddie Gibbs.
For the month of June Prism will cover aspects of home. This episode is about country living. Here you will find music by Allen Toussaint, The Harrison Brothers, Bunny Wailer, Kim Jung Mi, Charlie Feathers, amongst others.
A Home is a profound thing. Here are some soulful expressions of the tangible and intangible regarding having a home, not having a home, leaving or staying home, or just wanting someone home. Here you will find Fleet Foxes, Jay Stutes, Bonnie Raitt, The Movers, Suburban Reptiles, Joe Higgs, and others.
To take it easy. You need to slow down. Invoking the languid by turning the speed down, this episode is about chilling out. Here you will find songs by Will Powers, Dolly Parton, Aphex Twin, Paul Simon, Herb Alpert, and Ta'Boo.
This show takes a look at Numero Groups third installment of their Good God! series. Here you will find songs simply of devotion yet, many times, of Jesus Christ explicitly. Music "done up amid the hot, sweaty, earthy moonshine rhythms". The Chicago Travelers, The Sacred Four, Gospel Soul Revivals, Andrew Watts & The Gospel Storytellers are but a few heard here.
Songs of Stories. Presented here are songs from T. Rex, Johnny Cash, Slick Rick, Golden Hands, Atomic Forest, Mahalia Jackson, and others.
For the final installment of Prisms journey through the family groups of musical instruments, I take a look at the Piano and Keyboard family of instruments. Here you will find music by Jackie Mittoo, Billy Cobham, Lalo Schifrin, Stevie Wonder, Bruno Nicolai, Sun, and others.
