Erin Alexa

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: / The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, / Hath had elsewhere its setting, / And cometh from afar: / Not in entire forgetfulness, / And not in utter nakedness, / But trailing clouds of glory do we come”

-Wordsworth

A show to celebrate the unborn, or the ones to be born, who, like us, were condemned to forgetting that our arrival was really a return 🌀

Featuring @kaazi, @bobby.mcferrin, Duke Pearson, Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne, Arthur Blythe, Guy One @guyonemusic @philophon, Halim El-Dabh, @realmutabaruka, George Duke, Walt Dickerson & Richard Davis, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Mal Waldron, Lead Belly, Sallie Martin Singers, Bahamas Folk & Calypso Ensemble @nonesuchrecords, Amina Claudine Myers @redhookrecords, & Bobby “Blue” Bland

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Catch Throughlines every second Tuesday of the month at 12pm ET / 7pm Bethlehem time on @radioalhara

Image: Woodcut by Jost Amman for Jacob Rueff. ‘Nasciturus’ (‘one who is to be born’) from De conceptu et generatione hominis (The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man). 1554.