www.mixcloud.com/fredrobarts/... - a new mix - dig in!

flyer for a Ge'eza pop-up event in Dakar on Friday 13 February 2026

I recorded my set for a recent pop-up event in Dakar. Please have a listen if you're after some great tunes from Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, D R Congo, Benin, etc: www.mixcloud.com/fredrobarts/... - and you can find more mixes at www.fredrobarts.com

Silhouetted carnival goers file home, casting long shadows

Mindelo Carnival's after-party street concert ended abruptly with a power cut.

@femiondrums.bsky.social Thank you for the music and congratulations on your new show on 6. Loving the varied, upbeat selections and your irrepressible personal touch throughout.

Waitin' around to die by Fred Robarts on Apple Music Playlist · 66 Songs

Try this for some curiously uplifting death & despair: music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

Delving into some of those album-of-the-year lists, wallowing in the luxury of a long train journey, coping with the inevitable ebb & flow of WiFi. If I relished the likes of The Circling Sun, Ganavya, James K, & Hayden Pedigo, what else might I not want to miss?

We Out Here Festival We Out Here Festival is on Mixcloud. Listen for free to their radio shows, DJ mix sets and Podcasts

We Out Here festival is releasing recordings from this summer's DJ sets:
www.mixcloud.com/weoutherefes...
Dont miss out.

The Epiphany in the Ordinary: A Conversation With Teju Cole For Teju Cole, prose, poetry, and photography tug against and bleed into one another. At the tenth anniversary of Amherst College’s LitFest, on March 1, 2025, Cole spoke with The Common’s Editor in…

Interview with Teju Cole: lithub.com/the-epiphany... You're welcome

An Existential Guide to: Making Friends Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!

On making friends and "the hideous bureaucracy of the self": open.substack.com/pub/theshado...

Qui l'a pris svp?

Offbeats & Frequencies | Kobby Ankomah Graham | Substack Decoding culture and counterculture with Ghanaian eyes and global ears. Click to read Offbeats & Frequencies, by Kobby Ankomah Graham, a Substack publication. Launched 7 days ago.

I just signed up for this Substack from @kobbygraham.bsky.social‬, a writer, DJ & academic based in Accra. kobbyankomah.substack.com?r=288dg5 - sharing in case you'd like to do so too.

I do a regular music radio show for BMC Radio. Here's a clip from my most recent one, featuring Les Amazones de Guinee and Tito Puente. You can find all recordings and more here: www.fredrobarts.com/radio

There are two new recordings available at fredrobarts.com: a set from a party and a show for BMC Radio with my friend Ghita. Let me know what you think. 🎵📻🎧🫶

Fred Robarts 21:06:24 June 2024: Fred's final show from BMC's original studio in Brixton (before the move to Surrey Quays). Features Trio Mocoto, Lalo Schiffrin, Azimuth, Gerardo Frisina, Nil's Jazz Ensemble, Maynard Fergu...

My last music radio show on BMC has been retrieved from the studio computer (following a move) and is now online here: www.mixcloud.com/fredrobarts/... Bangers abound!

Sublime reading from Dylan Thomas by @cerysmatthews.bsky.social at a great Samaritans fundraiser event yesterday evening at St Mary le Bow (home of Bow bells).

I just arrived and already I'm so glad to be here. It's like breathing mountain air after immersion in smog. Twitter has become a bin-fire, but you knew that.