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I'm your VJ/DJ, Justice Putnam; and I'll be manning the dials, spinning the discs, warbling the woofers, putting a slip in your hip and a trip to your hop.
Sit back, roam the Big Orange and have a listen to...
Black Kos Music: Late Night in the Justice Department.
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"... Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it... "
"... It establishes the universal ideas in language,
And guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice
With capital letters, lie and oppression with small.
It puts what should be above things as they are,
Is an enemy of despair and a friend of hope.
It does not know Jew from Greek or slave from master,
Giving us the estate of the world to manage.
It saves austere and transparent phrases
From the filthy discord of tortured words.
It says that everything is new under the sun,
Opens the congealed fist of the past.
Beautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia
And poetry, her ally in the service of the good.
As late as yesterday Nature celebrated their birth,
The news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
Their friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit.
Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction."
-- Czeslaw Milosz
"Incantation"
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R.L. Burnside
Chris Thomas King
Deborah Coleman
Justin Adams - Juldeh Camara
Amos Lee
Boubakar Traoré
Otis Taylor
David Sylvian
David Gilmour
Marie Boine
Sweet 75
Okay Temiz
Majid Bekkas - Les Amants de Juliette
Kekele
Susana Baca
Virginia Rodriguez
Zap Mama
Les Nubians
Richard Bona
Uxia
Olga Roman
Camaron de la Isla
Carlo Faiello
Antonio Infantino & The Tarantolati di Tricarico
Gypsy Devils Orchestra
Enteli
Marisa Monte
Tom Zé
Abdullah Ibrahim
Gigi D'Agostino
Värttinä & Hector Zazou
Dead Can Dance
This Mortal Coil
Question: Who is your audience? What are you here for?
Answer: Tribal Alliances, Heart-felt Convictions, Passionate Reason, Random Abandon, Sustainable Civility and a kiss; to comfort the sad and the mad Ones; the Ones roaming the International section of the American Supermarket at night; or roaming the neglected streets looking for an angry malaprop to sink their teeth into; the Ones who seek without seeking and learn as much as they teach; the Ones who embrace and kiss and embrace again; the Ones who sing the song of the city and the ballads of the forest; the Ones who chant the rhythm of the sea and hum the melody of the desert; the Ones who sing the prayer of Her name and Her name is the World. Yes, those are the Ones.
Black Kos Music: Late Night in The Justice Department is a free form, eclectic music program and posts Sunday through Thursday nights at 8pm West Coast time; and at 11pm on Friday and Saturday nights.
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