The LSP Effect Podcast

Lady Alma's fans run the gamut - from progressive artists like Moby, Kindred the Family Soul, India.Arie, Joan Osborne, Musiq and Les Nubians to regular working-class folk in West London clubs and West Philly barber shops. In cities everywhere from Atlanta and Amsterdam to Toronto and Tokyo, vocal sensation Alma Horton -- known to her fans worldwide as LADY ALMA - has become the name to know, deemed "the heart & soul of Philadelphia's soul scene" and heralded as "the truth in a roomful of lies" among tastemaker's circles. 

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Silhouette Brown - Constant Questions

Silhouette Brown - Fools Gold

Silhouette Brown - Hear Them Often Say

King Britt ft. Lady Alma - Love's Time (recording from Lady Alma's soon to be released Live Album

Agent Thomas is back with another edition of More Music Wednesdays! Check out the tracklisting below:

Omar - There's Nothing Like This (RR RMX)

Tall Black Guy - It's Mine

Omar - Ghana Emotion

Vikter Duplaix - Lust for Life

Thundercat - Walkin'

Omar - It's So

Ty - Wait A Minute (Dwele Remix)

Musiq: Until

RoddyRod: Over The Angels

Josh Milan - Your Body (Louis Vega EOL Mix)

Jukka Eskola - 1974

Coultrain - Wanderer

Nicolay and Kay - Dancing With The Stars

Full Crate & Mar - Aftersexin'

Alan King is a poet and journalist who writes about art and domestic issues on his blog. In addition to teaching creative writing throughout the DC/Baltimore region, he’s a part-time poetry instructor at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and the senior program director at the DC Creative Writing Workshop at Charles Hart Middle School in DC’s Congress Heights neighborhood. He is a Cave Canem fellow, VONA Alum, a Stonecoast MFA canditate, and a two-time Best of the Net nominee. He's also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Drift (Willow Books, 2012) is his first book. 

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Rae & Christian - Distant Instrumental

RoddyRod - Muhulu

DJ Stylus - Afrobeat Blues for Don

RoddyRod - Believe

Adamaah was initiated as a “Sacred Woman” by Queen Afua Mut Nebt Het of Smai Tawi. Adamaah received Reiki levels 1 and 2 from Sensei Navasha Daya-Hill, and she learned how to garden from Mr. Herbert Abdullah of Low Country, South Carolina. She has also studied under, and worked with numerous herbalists.  Adamaah observes the African traditions of Ifa, the High Holy Days referenced in the old testament of Bible, and is a devotee to the teaches of Jesus who carried the Christ consciousness.

The following music was featured on today's show:

Osunlade - Thira

Reel People - High

Erykah Badu - Out My Mind, Just in Time (DJ Kiva remix)

Tall Black Guy - Robert Glasper More 6/8th's Love(TBGRemix)

Fertile Ground - You

On this edition of The LSP Effect, Kat chats with Sub-Z of Thaylobleu and Opus Akoben.

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The following music was featured on today's show:

Nuspirit Hesinki - Subzero

Opus Akoben - Study

Thaylobleu - Amnesiah

Thaylobleu - High Chair

Thaylobleu - T Model Ford

The LSP Effect producer, Agent Thomas (@Kelzthapopsippa) is back with another installment of More Music Wednesday. In honor of Women's History Month, Agent Thomas features only female vocalists on some of her favorite deep and soulful house tracks. 

The following songs were featured on today's show:

Rancido Feat. Lex Empress - Brighter Days 

Tamara Wellons - Like Rain 

KB - El Musica

Black Coffee - Superman 

Monique Bingham - You. Me. World.

Tamara Wellons - Euphoria

Pirahnahead ft. Diviniti - Believe in Me

Nina Simone - See Line Woman

The following music was featured on today's show:

Deborah Bond - Love's Been Waiting

Jhene Aiko - In Love We Trust

Everything But The Girl - Mirrorball (DJ JazzyJeff Sole Full Remix)

Nina Simone - Four Women 

Yaba A. Blay, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College where she also teaches courses in Women’s & Gender Studies. She received her Ph.D. in African American Studies from Temple University. While her broader research interests are related to Africana cultural aesthetics and aesthetic practices, issues of gender in Africa and the Diaspora, and global Black popular culture, her specific research interests lie within the politics of embodiment and Black identities.  She is currently editing her first book-length manuscript, Yellow Fever: Skin Bleaching and the Politics of Skin Color, which investigates the social practice of skin bleaching in Ghana. Dr. Blay is the recipient of a 2010 Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant through which she embarked upon her latest book project, (1)ne Drop: Conversations on Skin Color, Race, and Identity.

Stay connected with our guest: 

www.yabablay.com

http://1nedrop.com

Twitter: @fiyawata

Shantrel is Director of Public Programming and Exhibitions at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). As an independent curator, Shantrelle has executed shows and several different institutions including the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art and the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Her curatorial credits include exhibitions on a variety of topics ranging from African Spirituality to a tribute to world-renowned photographer Jamel Shabazz. She has worked with a host of emerging artists in various media. Current traveling curatorial projects include Sex Crimes Against Black Girls and Dandy Lion: Articulating a Re(de)fined Black Masculine Identity which is on view at Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, MD through May 2012.

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Tonia Wellons is a 16 year resident of Prince George’s County, Maryland. She is an executive with strong internal operations expertise, cross-cutting experience in local and international community-based development, and a visionary who is unafraid to take calculated risks in order to achieve impact. She is the Founder of the Prince George’s County Social Innovation Fund (PGCSIF) and its flagship initiative Forty UNDER 40 Prince George’s. The work of PGCSIF effectively combines her domestic and international experiences and creates an opportunity to apply innovative approaches, widely embraced in the international development community, to a local context.

Stay connected with our guest: PGCSIF on Facebook  PGCSIF on Twitter

The following music was featured on today's show:

Bernard Herman - I Work The Whole City 

New York-based theater director Ira Kip has extended her reach to Baltimore. Kip’s play, She’Baltimore—her first foray into writing for the stage— illustrates the lives of two Baltimore natives, living together and dealing with the complexities of their romantic relationship. Their issues are deeply rooted in past traumas and family histories, combined with the challenges of their present day circumstances. She’Baltimore seeks to ignite conversation about an issue often ignored by society, and especially the LGBT community. 

Stay connected with our guest: @PancakeGallery, http://shebaltimore.tumblr.com/

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Mazi Mutafa, an alumnus of the University of Maryland, is the founder and executive director of Words Beats & Life, Inc. (WBL), a hip-hop non-profit committed to transforming individual lives and whole communities through the training in and presentation of the elements of hip-hop culture. As an undergraduate, Mr. Mutafa was the co-founder of four student organizations and served as the president of the Black Student Union. During his tenure as president of the Black Student Union, Mr. Mutafa created the Words Beats & Life Hip-Hop Conference, a six-day hip-hop conference that endeavored to expand the potential impact of hip-hop as a culture and community. Mr. Mutafa is also a brother of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Want to stay connected with Mazi?

www.wblinc.org

Follow on Twitter: @wordsbeatslife

The following music was featured on today's show:

Miri Ben Ari - Chillin In The Key of E

Asheru - Clay Davis

For over the past 15 years Head-Roc has been regarded as the best that DC Hip Hop has to offer. Dubbed “The Mayor” of the DC Hip Hop, Head-Roc has come to embody the passions, hopes and dreams of a wonderfully talented and all too often overlooked DC music scene. His unparalleled ability to reach music lovers of all tastes puts him on par with established national recording artists in both music creation and live performance. Head-Roc’s honest and relevant lyrics are a refreshing change in this current era of corporate Hip-Hop exploitation. His music has inspired many in the progressive movement to rethink Hip Hop’s potential for achieving social change and he is widely regarded as one of the key voices in this movement!

Want to stay connected with Head-Roc?

Check out his website:  www.head-roc.com

Follow him on Twitter: @Head_Roc

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Andrea R. Thompson has woven African dance forms into her body for the last 15 years.  Andrea studies, teachers, and performs Afro-Brazilian Samba, North African Belly Dance and Afro-Cuban.  She has danced with  "Sarava", "AshéMoyubba " and now dances with“Alafia”, an Afro-Cuban folkloric company.  She has taught Afro-Cuban Dance at the University of the District of Columbia and Howard Community College and has presented on folkloric dance at the Congress of Research in Dance (CORD). Follow our guests on Twitter: @dreaofwaters

The following music was featured on today's show:

Rasmus Faber - Yes 

Rasmus Faber - I Don't Mind

Nomumbah - Tudo Que Voca Podia Ser

Donald Byrd - Lansana's Priestess 

Rasmus Faber - Na Minha Terra 

In this special UK edition, hip hop phenom TY sits in on a very special birthday edition with our show producer Kellie Thomas. They chat it up with Kat on their wildly successful group The Beat INN, and TY shares his views on the riots in the UKand the untimely passing of singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse. Follow our guests on Twitter: @Tymusic and @KelzThaPopSippa

The following music was featured on today's show:

Ollie Finn - Mr. Finn's Monstrosity 

Tall Black Guy - WaterNoEnemy

Ty - Heart Is Breaking 

Ty - Emotions

Ty - Alright 

Ty - The Truth (Like You Never)

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