The Global Peace Initiative of Joss Jaffe & Jim "Kimo" West's "Santhi": The Echoes Interview
On the next Echoes, two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim “Kimo” West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music but he also plays with Weird Al Yankovic. Go figure. Jaffe studied tabla drum in India and has picked up instruments from around the world. Together they’ve made a serene recordings called Santhi and it includes instruments like the West African ngoni, Indian tablas and bansuri flute, and e-bow guitar.
Jim “Kimo” West: We didn’t want to go heavily Indian or heavily African or heavily Hawaiian. We just wanted to have a blend of these different influences, stuff that we like from around the world and just do it naturally, just play what we like.
John Diliberto will when he talks to Jim “Kimo” West and Joss Jaffe on Echoes from PRX.
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Weekend, March 1-2, 2025 – Echoes Program 2508A |
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Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Joss Jaffe & Jim Kimo West | Rainbow Body | Santhi |
| 0:06:00 | Larkenlyre | Hum and Hover | Dragonfly Halfdreams |
| 0:12:12 | The Bentley Project | Kind as the Shade | Kind as the Shade |
| 0:14:39 | Mogwai | Hammer Room | The Bad Fire |
| 0:19:42 | Maps | You Exist in Everything | Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss |
| 0:23:45 | Mark Dwane | God’s Creatures | Anomalies |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Joss Jaffe and Jim Kimo West | ||
| 0:43:07 | Joss Jaffe & Jim Kimo West | Shadow Play | Santhi |
| 0:48:18 | London Grammar | LA | The Greatest Love |
| 0:52:42 | Gandalf | A Light from Afar | A Light from Afar |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Michael Rother | Gitarreo | Solo II (Bonus Tracks) |
| 1:06:00 | Message to Bears | Half Light | Half Light |
| 1:08:51 | Cassandra Jenkins | Delphinium Blue | My Light My Destroyer |
| 1:12:24 | Gary Numan | The End of Dragons | Intruder |
| 1:17:22 | Solar Fields | The Stones are Not Too Busy | Movements |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Rainier Bruninghaus | Die Fluesse Hinauf | Freigeweht |
| 1:38:12 | Kinobe | Golden Dreams | Out of the Blue |
| 1:42:32 | Slow Burn Drifters | The Wind | Golden |
| 1:46:25 | break | ||
| 1:47:08 | Kelly Lee Owens | Time To | Dreamstate |
| 1:50:22 | ELEON | Migration | Cerulean |
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It’s Ambiences in Black when we turn the Echoes prism onto the African and black influences in ambient music. They come from many sources, jazz, R&B, Hip-hop and Africa itself. Black History Month has never sounded like this! Join John Diliberto with Ambiences in Black on Echoes from PRX.
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Weekend, March 1-2, 2025 – Echoes Program 2508B |
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Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Samite | Mirembe | Kambu Angels |
| 0:06:00 | Jaymie Rose Hennegan | Garden of the Sacred Moon | Transition: Live at The Cosmic Crossing 6-3-23 |
| 0:15:08 | Afro Celt Sound System | Radio Ronza | Ova |
| 0:21:22 | Morcheeba | Falling Skies | Blackest Blue |
| 0:24:24 | Ezinma | Beethoven Pleads the Fifth | Beethoven Pleads the Fifth (single) |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Airport People | From Morning No. 2 | From Nine Mornings |
| 0:34:06 | Ibeyi | Sangoma | Spell 31 |
| 0:36:46 | Clarence Clemons | Miracle | Peacemaker |
| 0:46:46 | break | ||
| 0:47:45 | Lady Midnight | Abel | Pursuit and the Elusive |
| 0:51:51 | Carl Craig | Desire | Versus |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | DJ Spooky | Call Sign Aleph | A Scanner Darkly (v/a) |
| 1:06:00 | Shana Cleveland | A Ghost | Manzanita |
| 1:09:15 | Khruangbin | Fifteen Fifty-Three | A La Sala |
| 1:13:03 | Moby | Sweet Moon (feat Choklate) | Always Centered at Night |
| 1:18:02 | Bennie Maupin | The Jewel in the Lotus | The Jewel in the Lotus |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | C-Aye Purcell | Urukundo | Kimia Ya Liboso |
| 1:33:56 | Cassandra Wilson | Strange Fruit (edit) | Coming Forth by Day |
| 1:37:34 | Yasmin Williams | Sisters | Acadia |
| 1:44:25 | break | ||
| 1:45:18 | Niecy Blues | 1111 | Exit Simulation |
| 1:47:46 | Rihanna | Love on the Brain (Ry X Remix) | Love on the Brain Remixes |
| 1:51:03 | Laraaji/Arji OceAnanda/Dallas Acid | This Much Now | Arrive Without Leaving |
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