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Tonight the vocalist trio and main attraction of Say She She joined us for an exclusive interview and a playlist of the tunes that have inspired their sound. This interview with Piya Malik, Nya Gazelle Brown, and Sabrina Mileo Cunningham is not to be missed, nor is their debut album Prism which drops next Friday!
"The Drop with Danno" on GFN 광주영어방송 98.7FM in Gwangju & 93.7FM in Yeosu, Korea. An eclectic radio curation of all things musical spanning the spectrum every week. Broadcasting 8-10pm KST nightly.
Sept 30, 2022
Patrice Rushen - Remind Me
Ghost Funk Orchestra - Why?
79.5 - Sisters Unarmed
Cortex - La Rue
Say She She - NORMA
Say She She - Pink Roses
Yusef Lateef - Love Theme from Spartacus
Hailu Mergia & The Walias - Endegena
Bettye Swan - Make Me Yours
Donnie & Joe Emerson - Thoughts In My Mind
The Olympians - Pluto's Lament
Benny Trokan - Get It in the End
The Diasonics - Andromeda
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It is 20 hours past midnight as a minimal cooling has begun and October sets in. Danno here grateful salutations to everyone listening in whether now or later. On the mic it was written daily between 8 & 10 on GFN and holding it down from studio 2, GFN HQ in downtown Gwangju, how do you do? So, delayed or not, tonight is finally here and our guest artist selectors are three ravishing ladies and absolutely superb vocalists who call themselves Say She She. The group in total is a septet, but the main vocalists who’ll be joining us on the show later & taking over the playlist are Nya Gazelle Brown, Piya Malik, and Sabrina Mileo Cunningham. Your ears might be ringing due to previous work these ladies have done either together or solo with 79.5, Chicano Batman, El Michels Affair, and many others, but as a group they are dropping their debut album Prism next Friday via Colemine Karma Chief Records, and they have a great playlist of favorite jams for hour 2 of the show tonight. However, that’s all down the road and we gotta fire up our outdated radio jalopee to get there from here, so we start with one of the most talented women in music ever, and honestly someone who’s music is so deeply intertwined with this show it’s almost like she’s our cool auntie or something here on The Drop. A very happy birthday to Patrice Rushen today, just in case you needed me to remind. Anyway, let’s hit play. THIS is The Drop.
Patrice Rushen – Remind Me
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The Drop has begun dropping the audio pixie dust for tonight’s very special presentation guests & requests Friday night. Our guest artist selectors this evening are three amazing vocalists who’ve been involved with plenty of other projects musically, but are now ready to hit the stage together
as Say She She, and their debut LP Prism drops next Friday via Colemine’s Karma Chief imprint. Sabrina Mileo Cunningham, Nya Gazelle Brown & Piya Malik will all be on the phone taking over the playlist in hour 2 and talking up their favorite tunes along with the album dropping next Friday October 7.
So, as we do, we are warming up for our very special guests here in parts 1 & 2, and we started by wishing the inimitable Patrice Rushen a very happy birthday today.
Born in LA, Rushen’s music has an influence that goes into almost every genre of popular music today, being sampled by hundreds of artists over the years. Patrice Rushen is nowadays the chair of popular music at The University of Southern California and the ambassador of artistry in Education at the Berklee College of Music.
Rushen was also the first woman to serve as music director for the 46th, 47th, and 48th Grammy Awards along with being the leader of a late night TV show band in the early 1990’s. Happy birthday to one of the trailblazers for females in music, and just a legend: Patrice Rushen. May there be many more trips around the sun to come.
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So now that we have worshipped at the feet of the birthday goddess, let’s warm up for the triumvirate of more contemporary deities joining us in hour 2. Up next we have the latest from Ghost Funk Orchestra, and then we’ll follow that up with joints from 79.5 and Cortex, and we’ll get into the nits & grits after the audio bits but for now THIS is The Drop on your Say She She through the Prism Friday night.
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Back on The Drop as we head towards the jump during quarter one of our nightly game of audio mirrors. Danno here, ready to welcome the three vocalists from Say She She to take over the playlist in hour 2, and we’ll get in a couple of singles from their debut album Prism which is out next week to end the first fourth, but for now, let’s break down what we just heard but not break it off…
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Why? (…Seth Applebaum and the ever-metastasizing Ghost Funk Orchestra project are out with their latest album A New Kind of Love on October 28, and with their last album An Ode To Escapism being almost our top-rated album of 2021, big expectations on the way here. Hopefully we can have Seth join us again.)
79.5 – Sisters Unarmed (… a project that two of our guests tonight Piya Malik and Nya Gazelle Brown were involved with. This joint was one of the lead singles to Predictions, the debut LP from Kate Mattison & co’s debut LP.)
Cortex – La Rue (…back to the 1970’s with this one, part of the Tropeau Bleu LP from 1971. Cortex was the project of Alain Mion, and this album in particular is a sampler’s dream, with the album racking up 124 examples of artists like MF DOOM cutting up tunes on this record.)
Okay, so it’s time to look into the Prism and play a couple of singles from the upcoming debut album by tonight’s guest artist selectors Say She She. First up is a tune called NORMA, which is a reaction in real time that the ladies put together due to the appalling abortion rollback ruling by the Supreme Court in the US, and then we’ll finish with a tune called Pink Flowers. I recently lost my grandmother, and the Say She She fam kind of sent this to me to salve the wound of my loss, so I just gotta say thanks to everyone there and point out that this is the kind of people you’re dealing with tonight beyond the music you hear, so a personal big up the words and music were sincerely appreciated. This is The Drop on your Say She She empath triad Friday night selection special.
Say She She – NORMA
Say She She – Pink Roses
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The Drop returns as we crack open our 2nd can cooler than cool ice cold to start quarter 2. Danno here, cooler than very few, but ready as ever to welcome our guests tonight. Say She She is out with their debut album Prism next Friday. The group is a 7 piece band that features the vocal triumvirate of Piya Malik, Sabrina Mileo Cunningham, and Nya Gazelle Brown, and we’ll be joined tonight in hour 2 by all three so very excited to chat with them in hour 2 shortly. For now though, we’re still rolling out the red carpet and smoothing out the wrinkles before arrival, so we just played a pair of tunes right there, that was…
Yusef Lateef – Love Theme from Spartacus ( …lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film and excuse me, I have to get the pronunciation right here…Spahtacus starring Kirk Douglas. This is from Eastern Sounds, Lateef’s album from 1961, one of the very first fusions of jazz and Middle Eastern musical influences to feature on a record. We’ll hear more from that album to finish part 3 tonight once Say She She are on the line with us.)
Hailu Mergia & The Walias – Endegena ( …back to 1970’s Ethiopia with this during the reign of The Derg Regime. Interestingly, Hailu Mergia and the band were the house band for a hotel, providing refuge to people caught out at curfew, and they’d stay and play in the lounge at the hotel all night. Hailu Mergia eventually ended up in the US as a taxi driver in DC, and has continued making music the whole time.)
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So to continue with part 2, we have a couple cut for time refugees from our hour 2 playlist tonight, and up next is Bettye Swan leading off to be followed by the mighty Donnie & Joe Emerson, and we’ll go with something more recent from The Olympians to end off the block while saving the talk for after the audio magic show. THIS is The Drop on your Say She She Friday night.
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The Drop continues tonight as we stretch towards the first half’s finality. Danno here, as always as ever, very excited to welcome Say She She to the hotline tonight, and the triforce of vocalists from the band will be taking over hour 2’s selecao shortly. As to what just happened with the objects hurled towards and returned from space, let’s get into it...
Bettye Swan – Make Me Yours (…definitely true name Betty Barton’s most well-known song from 1967 right here. This came out a few years after starting her professional career in 1964, which would go all the way up until her husband and manager George Barton passed away suddenly in 1980, and she decided to call it quits on the music game.)
Donnie & Joe Emerson feat Eldon – Thoughts In My Mind (…this is one of the things about modern music that is great to see, and like Bettye Swan, this tune was also selected by the ladies from Say She She in hour 2. These brothers from Washington State were paid literally no mind when putting out music in the late 70’s, but their tunes have been given new life and proper release over the past few years. The Thoughts In My Mind LP is the album this featured on, and big up to Light in the Attic Records for giving the artists their due.)
The Olympians – Pluto’s Lament (…back to 2016 with this, off the band’s self-titled album. This is an outstanding album top-to-bottom, and still something I regularly throw on, put out by who else, but Daptone Records.)
Now, the clock keeps tickin’ and I keep talkin, which might not matter on the streaming version of the show, but the clock rules here on the radio. We have another quality selection from Say She She’s 2nd hour playlist up next and another Daptone gem in Benny Trokan’s Get It In The End, which dropped in the summer of last year. We’ll throw a bit of a curve ball and go to Russia for the last tune of our first 57 and that’s The Diasonics finishing proper with a cut called Andromeda. Say She She says what she and she and she want shortly, but for now THIS is The Drop and that’s halftime.
Benny Trokan – Get It in the End
The Diasonics – Andromeda
III & IV: Lunar Isles
Say She She – Prism
Gloria Williams – Sister Funk
Jalen Ngonda – Just like you used to
Rotary Connection – Sunshine of Your Love
Dorothy Ashby – Cause I Need It
Ramsey Lewis – Les Fleur
Yusef Lateef – The Plum Blossom
Say She She – Forget Me Not
Altin Gun – Goca Dunya
Ebo Taylor – Will You Promise
Joe Meek – I Hear A New World
Esmeray – Oylum Oylum
Kim Jung Mi – Ganadaramabasa