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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]