Funky Revolutions Favoriting : Playlist from May 31, 2025

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Funky Revolutions is based on the One. Since 1994, host Khalid and guests have invited you to groove & celebrate the history of Africana music - the African diaspora and its musical reflections around the world.

We explore the past, present and future of the funk. From introducing trip-hop to Montréal in the early 90’s, to supporting hip-hop’s underground, to presenting ethno-musicographies of jazz, soul, reggae and afro-funk, Funky Revolutions embraces all grooves & the revolutionary spirit of the Funk, from the Black Arts Movement of the 70s to Indigenous defiances & liberations in the (post) colonial world.


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Favoriting May 31, 2025: Arabophonics: A Livebroadcast from Maktaba Bookstore

Live broadcast of Funky Revolutions from Maktaba bookshop and cultural space at 165 St-Paul St West in the Old Port of Montreal. We highlight the Maktaba project, co-founded by artists Sundus Abdul Hadi and Yassin Alsalman. Maktaba, is “a concept bookshop and boutique nestled in a heritage building. Meaning both “library” and “bookshop” in Arabic, MAKTABA is an artist-run, deeply-rooted space invested in representation and culture.” https://www.maktaba.online/en/. For this special broadcast Stefan will be sharing a mixtape that includes sounds from a recent cultural event at La Sala Rossa to support the Sudan Solidarity Collective as well as material from the Make Fuzz Not War compilation released to support Doctors Without Borders work in Palestine and the Middle East Children's Alliance.

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Artist Track Album Year Comments
Funky Revolutions  Show Intro   Favoriting          
Anouar Brahem  Remembering Hind   Favoriting After the Last Sky  2025       
Funky Revolutions  Intro FR : Diffusé en direct de la Librairie Maktaba   Favoriting     https://www.maktaba.online/fc/     
Anouar Brahem  The Sweet Oranges of Jaffa   Favoriting After the Last Sky  2025       
Funky Revolutions  Intro EN   Favoriting     Yassin Alsalman reading Mahmoud Darwish's poem Where Should the Birds Fly After the Last Sky? which inspired Anouar's new album     
Buttering Trio  Little Goat (Iza Ktana)   Favoriting Middle Eastern Grooves (Selected by DJ Kobayashi)  2023       
Anouar Kaddour Chérif  Call Of The Night   Favoriting Djawla  2022       
Funky Revolutions  Discussion w Stefan Christoff   Favoriting          
Tarek Abdallah & Adel Shams El Din  Raqsa/dance Nahawand   Favoriting Ousoul  2024  Egypt     
Shulùq Ensemble  Mnajdra   Favoriting The Dream of Ibn Hamdis  2022       
Funky Revolutions  Discussion w Yassin Alsalman co-founder of Maktaba Bookstore   Favoriting https://www.maktaba.online/en/         
Khalil Chahine  Le Mandarin ventru   Favoriting Espoir  2025       
Naïssam Jalal & Rhythms of Resistance  Buleria Sarkhat Al Ard   Favoriting Un autre monde  2021       
Funky Revolutions  Interview w Stefan about Radio AlHara & Sudan Solidarity Committee   Favoriting     https://www.radioalhara.net/ & https://www.sudansolidarity.com/     
Stefan Christoff Mixtape    Taken from Make Fuzz Not War, No Silence (Benefit Compilation for Radio AlHara  2025  Music from No Silence @ (https://smallscalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-silence-a-benefit-compilation-for-radio-alhara) & Make Fuzz Not War ((https://tallhouserecordingco.bandcamp.com/album/make-fuzz-not-war)     
Philippe Battikha  Lascia ch'io pianga   Favoriting Make Fuzz Not War  2025       
Nelly Bassily  reading poems by Shahd Alnaami (Gaza) recorded at a community benefit for Sudan on April 27, 2025   Favoriting   2025       
anthéne  illuminated (excerpt)   Favoriting   2025       
Poet  Sudan Speaks   Favoriting   2025       
Hazy Montagne Mystique x Melina Spiga  Quand les voix se rejoignent au crépuscule (excerpt)   Favoriting Make Fuzz Not War  2025       
Nadia Hawa Baldé  Performance with Rémi-Jean LeBlanc (excerpt)   Favoriting   2025       
Ben Bertrand and Adriaan de Roover  Bright Attic   Favoriting No Silence Benefit Compilation  2025       
Amir ElSaffar  The People of Gaza Will Be Free   Favoriting No Silence Benefit Compilation  2025       
Funky Revolutions  Playlist & ADs   Favoriting          
Funky Revolutions  Yassin Alsalman aka Narcy introduces the new Maktaba Compilation   Favoriting MAKTABA: Home Away From Home by Thanks Joey         
Sundus Abdul Hadi  Home Away From Home   Favoriting MAKTABA: Home Away From Home by Thanks Joey  2025       
Farahstiniyah  The Inventory of a Dreams   Favoriting MAKTABA: Home Away From Home by Thanks Joey  2025       
Thanks Joey  The Procession   Favoriting MAKTABA: Home Away From Home by Thanks Joey  2025       


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