Episode 52 - How Sad, How Lovely (ft. Johnny Ray Huston)

How Sad, How Lovely (right click and “save as” to download)

This week around we welcome editor, writer, and artist Johnny Ray Huston to guest host and share some sweet yet oh so lugubrious selections with the Sanguine Soul fam. We oriented this episode around Connie Converse’s “How Sad, How Lovely”, a theme set [...]

Episode 51 - Daft iN Africa (ft. Freddy and Marky)

Daft In Africa (right click and “save as” to download)

Check the waves as we welcome Proof and Freddy Anzures to drop an afro-futuristic soul slap. The recurring Sanguine theme of retro-futurism (check: Android Boogie) resurfaces, this time with a focus on fusing music and technology stemming from the African diaspora. Don’t [...]

Episode 49 - Iron & Fire

Iron & Fire (right click and “save as” to download)

Time flies, and we’ve already hit episode 49, meaning that this website now boasts 98 hours of recorded Sanguine Soul slammers! Jyeah, that’s at least 6 hours of Honey Knuckles saying “what up”, 8 hours of Z Note losing his breadth, 3 hours of [...]

Episode 47 - Passing Me By (ft. DJ fflood)

fflood brings the soul to sanguine

Passing Me By (right click and “save as” to download)

It’s February, the month of love, and Sanguine Soul starts it off right with an episode we call “Passing Me By”. Roughly inspired by the Pharcyde song about juvenile infatuation, we channel the youthful heart’s flutter and innocence into [...]

Episode 43 - Liquid Alchemy

Liquid Alchemy (right click and “save as” to download)

After a 2 week hiatus, we are back! We hope you had good times closing out the decade because it’s been a great genesis for us, and we’re grateful that Sanguine Soul had a place in your heart last year. To celebrate the birth of [...]

Episode 38 - Disco Breakdown

Disco Breakdown (right click and “save as” to download)

It seems we’re coming full circle with the history of hiphop and disco music. The inchoate beginnings of hiphop emerged from dance parties in Bronx projects where everything from James Brown to Kraftwerk and KC and the Sunshine Band could be heard. The first [...]

Episode 32 - Give It Up, Turn It A Loose

Give It Up, Turn It A Loose

James Brown In the Jungle Groove

Honey “The Carnal” Knuckles and Z “The Humble Magnaminous” Note go back to the roots of Sanguine Soul with this week’s episode, “Give It Up, Turn It A Loose.” We look towards the one and the only, the funkiest there is, the godfather [...]

Episode 29 - Synesthesia (w/ guest The Soft Moon)

Synesthesia

The fortuitous gift of sensation astounds me. Our eyes pierce the window of the world from close to far. Our ears capture the smallest vibrations in the air. With tongue and nose we indulge in the flavors of this earth. And our bodies lunge into textures fine and grainy, substances liquid and solid. But the [...]

Teleportation / Global Throwdown! Pt.1 (ft. Shinobi)

Teleportation / Global Throwdown! Pt.1

Teleportation / Global Throwdown! Pt.2

Feeling the oncoming flight of our dear friend/co-host Shelmatic from our San Francisco local we decided to throwdown a special four hour global party combined with Pirate Cat Radio’s Hetero-topia. YES, four hours of us–Sanguine Souls’ Aisha, Honey Knuckles, Shelmatic, Z-Note, with Hetero-topia’s DJ Asik and Shinobi [...]

Episode 27: Intoxicated Rhythms (ft. Las Flores Project)

Intoxicated Rhythms

The marriage between music and drugs is a complex, conflicted, and potent relationship. Much like a drug, music can dissolve the sensual surrounding of a listener, fragmenting that reality under the influence of resonating vibration and rhythm. A wondrous mythos surrounds modern musicianship and drug use. We speculate about a musician’s drug use and [...]