kinté cast #1 released on iTunes
After three years of soul-existence, the realization happened, just search for “kinte cast” (with e and not é—because Apple and/or libsyn.com crushes Unicode characters) on iTunes and you will find it. This first show, “the snow makes you serious,” was originally conceived as a motion picture over six years ago. I still think it can be a motion picture—but releasing an audio version was quite a load off my shoulders. This worked opened up my longtime interest in the audio work of Joe Frank—and even though Joe Frank has an episode from his “In the Dark” series that (fictionally) expressed his unmitigated hatred for impersonators—I could not help myself…
I do not intend to use the Joe Frank style (like I actually have the skill to choose this and accomplish it) for every episode of the kinté cast. Echoing my previous post, “Designing the ‘kinté cast’,” the primary purpose of the program is to remix the streaming audio presentations already on kintespace.com. This feels more like those late-night college-radio mixes—with a little bit of “black liberation weekend” speech—not quite the Joe Frank thing.
The next show might—and I really stress—might be the following:
“Enter the Roach Messiah”
This Bush-era commemorative would be selections from Afrofraktal, “Njoki Njehu: What’s Missing in US/Africa Policy?” (Bush at Island of Gorée), “Dr. John Marciano: Empire As A Way Of Life,” “Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics,” “Noam Chomsky: Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind” and (again) “John Taylor Gatto: Outing School.” Also, a song called “killing alley” from Timeka Drew could work in here as well…
So iTunes came out in 2001… it took me eight years to get a podcast on the platform…