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Music has the power to dictate or enhance your mood. Here’s a list of Afro sounds that evokes nostalgic cheerful, euphoric state of mind and memories from Ghana. No need to understand the lyrics, the drums and rhythm in these songs will drift into your happy place.

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First aired December 2018

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later 92.5 Film Love, Saji — Anthony Laurence Hull → after that 101.3 Word Crazy Daisy — Elana Staroselsky → midnight 96.9 Photo Photographs by Jude Lartey — Jude Lartey → from the archive 88.1 Music Where'd the Love Go — Sajjad Musa →

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first aired 2024 88.1 Music Bajo el sol Mexicano (Under the Mexican Sun) — Harry Schagen → first aired 2024 88.1 Music Nasir's Jazz Corner — Samson Debela → first aired 2024 88.1 Music Hotel lounge on the second floor — Cheryl Xiaoning Wang → first aired 2024 88.1 Music Interplanetary Signals — Austin Rubel → first aired 2023 88.1 Music I dedicate — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Oui — Aliyah Pair → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Where'd the Love Go — Sajjad Musa → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Falling Leaves — Ethan Harrison → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Sounds to Somewhere Else — Alison Beshai → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Playground — Nidaa Elhassan → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Nippon Tropical Grooves — Cheryl Wang → first aired 2023 88.1 Music No Boundaries Vol 1 — Demetrius Beckham → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Lovers Rock — Henry Arthur → first aired 2023 88.1 Music My Memory and I — Demetrius Beckham → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Your Love is Real — Karl Blanchard → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Serotonin — Annamara Caughey → first aired 2023 88.1 Music Flow w Bo 4 — Bo Whitelaw → first aired 2022 88.1 Music Who Knows Where The Time Goes — Maggie Miller → first aired 2022 88.1 Music Sisyphean — Ché Nembhard → first aired 2022 88.1 Music Calm — Feeks Chowdhury → first aired 2022 88.1 Music Soundbath — Homeroom Collective → first aired 2022 88.1 Music Nostalgia For You — Giullian Yao Gioiello → first aired 2022 88.1 Music Lover Girl — Allie Mason → first aired 2022 88.1 Music mooDi — Eric Mayes → first aired 2022 88.1 Music Recess — Ben Dorenfeld → first aired 2021 88.1 Music We Gather — Side Projects → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Falling in Love — Melissa Fuentes → first aired 2021 88.1 Music &Dazed — Kevin Jackson → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Winter Blue — Amanda Henson → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Work in Progress — Annamara → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Bed Stuy: Ride or Vibe — Rhianna Jones → first aired 2021 88.1 Music After Ours — Good Produce → first aired 2021 88.1 Music African Boy Joy — Asante Phenix → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Flo w Bo — Bo Whitelaw → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Nice Running Into You — Matas Vilgalys → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Fruit Juice — Lauren Gannon → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Here we go again — Karl Blanchard → first aired 2021 88.1 Music I See your Wolf — Houndsen → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Before I go — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Flo w Bo 2 — Bo Whitelaw → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Hindsight is 2020 — Annamara → first aired 2021 88.1 Music Lockdown Afrobeats mix — Nana G → first aired 2020 88.1 Music SYNERGY — Kwame → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Couch Surfing — Mark Bowers → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Lifestyle Vibin — Tuyee Yeboah → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Isolation Radio — Ethan Converse → first aired 2020 88.1 Music SP Sounds Vol 001 — Side Projects → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Summer 20 — Cartel Creative Clique → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Homeroom — Homeroom Collective → first aired 2020 88.1 Music CHANGE — Pixie Henson → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Beauty in the Struggle — Dele Johnson → first aired 2020 88.1 Music How Are You? — Demetrius Beckham → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Flo w Bo — Bo → first aired 2020 88.1 Music lullabies for u — Giullian Gioiello → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Club:: Kenzoo — Toney Clemons → first aired 2020 88.1 Music what day is it — Annamara → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Luv letter to NYC — Caroline → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Black Jazz — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2020 88.1 Music ProntoPronto — Gabriel Noguez → first aired 2020 88.1 Music WFH — Gabby → first aired 2020 88.1 Music A Quaran'ting — Penda N'diaye → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Burning up the Bay — Vince Mak → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Raia Was Essentials — Raia Was → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Through a Plane's Window — Yasi → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Afrohaus Vibes — the.wav → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Year of Presence — Kwame → first aired 2019 88.1 Music BEFALLEN — Aja Eadson → first aired 2019 88.1 Music zone records — Mark Smith → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Dusk Til Dawn — Emery Dalencourt → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Tour — Heat Ledger → first aired 2019 88.1 Music The Great Escape — Kwame → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Black House — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Don't Look Down — Isata K → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Rise Radio — Alfred → first aired 2019 88.1 Music QUEEN OF MY HEART — Leala King → first aired 2019 88.1 Music DK FINEST — Ditte Ravnild → first aired 2019 88.1 Music VIVSUAL X BASEMNT VOL I — Viv Zhang → first aired 2019 88.1 Music VIVSUAL X BASEMNT VOL II — Viv Zhang → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Back at It — Patrick Dohan → first aired 2019 88.1 Music NOT 97 — Matthew Schonfeld → first aired 2019 88.1 Music SIDE B — Lichen → first aired 2019 88.1 Music RICO's WINSON PLAYLIST (unauthorized) — Erica Hall → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Brooklyn Label — Ambrosia Parsley → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Brooklyn Film Camera — Brooklyn Film Camera → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Deep Cuts & Belt Outs — Ella Hussle → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Live in the Nowadays — Annamara → first aired 2019 88.1 Music POWER — thatgirlne → first aired 2019 88.1 Music COVERS — Nicole LeBlanc → first aired 2019 88.1 Music NOTHING MATTERS — Annamara → first aired 2019 88.1 Music LAMENTORADIO #22 — Adipop → first aired 2019 88.1 Music TEARS IN THE CLUB — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2019 88.1 Music WHAT IF BLISS — Maya Allen → first aired 2019 88.1 Music SPLASHmtn. — Sean Rowry → first aired 2019 88.1 Music WITH MINIMAL EFFORT — Cory Katuna → first aired 2019 88.1 Music THANK YOU J DILLA — Kahlil Cezanne → first aired 2019 88.1 Music ROYAL GAME DUBAI MIX — Larry London → first aired 2019 88.1 Music FADER MIX — Stonie Blue → first aired 2019 88.1 Music MIXED BAG — Chris Bagley → first aired 2019 88.1 Music EPSOM — Jarrett Mork → first aired 2019 88.1 Music ONE GIANT REPOST RADIO 01/16/19 — YellowTech → first aired 2019 88.1 Music JANUARY 2019 — Katie Levy → first aired 2019 88.1 Music ELSEWHERE LIVE SHOW — Joyce Tang → first aired 2019 88.1 Music BOUNCE PASS 004 — Colby Spear → first aired 2019 88.1 Music ON SIGHT — Kahlil Cezanne → first aired 2019 88.1 Music COMMUTE — John G → first aired 2018 88.1 Music 1:1 — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2018 88.1 Music Oui Oui — Nicole LeBlanc → first aired 2018 88.1 Music Motherland — Kwame → first aired 2018 88.1 Music Alaska '18 - 19 — Justin Toomer → first aired 2018 88.1 Music All We Need — Harper Nelson → first aired 2018 88.1 Music Slabmix — Matt Wieting → first aired 2018 88.1 Music LRNL — Jennings "The Gent" → first aired 2018 88.1 Music PILLOW TALK VOL III — Vicki Vibe → first aired 2018 88.1 Music AFRO HOUSE MIX VOL 1 — Larry London → first aired 2018 88.1 Music SUCKER — Hex Kitten → first aired 2018 88.1 Music PULL UP IN 10 — Nas Leber → first aired 2018 88.1 Music ROCK A BYE — Sfo Lendrix → first aired 2024 92.5 Film Love, Saji — Anthony Laurence Hull → first aired 2024 92.5 Film Dragon Boys — Tom Ringsby → first aired 2023 92.5 Film Obibini — Benoit Lalande → first aired 2023 92.5 Film Kherou — Philip Kaminiak → first aired 2023 92.5 Film For the Crib — Lawrence Agyei → first aired 2023 92.5 Film CIRCLE — Philip Kaminiak → first aired 2023 92.5 Film Carved in Mayhem — Dan DiFelice → first aired 2023 92.5 Film Flowers — Dumas Haddad → first aired 2023 92.5 Film LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE OPIATE CRISIS — Blake Jackson → first aired 2022 92.5 Film "Free" — Wukda → first aired 2022 92.5 Film "Polly" — Faramarz Gosheh → first aired 2022 92.5 Film Swimming for Shore — Gabriel Crawford Connelly → first aired 2022 92.5 Film Your Curly Hair — Nathan Engelhardt → first aired 2021 92.5 Film After Immigration — Walé Oyéjidé & Jake Saner → first aired 2021 92.5 Film Ivry — Jake Oleson → first aired 2021 92.5 Film to the girl that looks like me — Ewurakua Dawson Amoah → first aired 2021 92.5 Film Centuries and Still — Sally Tran → first aired 2021 92.5 Film Untitled — Anna Malin Mantzaris → first aired 2021 92.5 Film Untitled — Jia Li → first aired 2021 92.5 Film SCHOOL — Anthony Hull → first aired 2021 92.5 Film Over // Under — Demetrius Beckham → first aired 2020 92.5 Film Untitled — Meredith Hama-Brown → first aired 2020 92.5 Film Untitled — Curtis Essel → first aired 2020 92.5 Film Then and Now — Kwame Apraku → first aired 2020 92.5 Film FATHERS — Dumas Haddad → first aired 2020 92.5 Film Define Beauty — Rhea Dillon → first aired 2020 92.5 Film DELIVERED — Law Chen → first aired 2020 92.5 Film EXCELSIOR — Elle Ginter + Stephania Dulowski → first aired 2020 92.5 Film Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan → first aired 2020 92.5 Film Beat Bullying — Anthony Hull → first aired 2020 92.5 Film People of Angola — Simon Lanes → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Alaskan Tapes | "AND WE DISAPPEAR" — Meredith Hama Brown (Director), Norm Li (DP) → first aired 2019 92.5 Film FORGOTTEN — Daniel Soares → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Negative Space — Tiny Studios → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Here → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Dark Red — Eugen Merher → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Enough — Anna Mantzaris → first aired 2019 92.5 Film The Intelligent One — Will Desena → first aired 2019 92.5 Film TAM TAM — Greg Hackett → first aired 2019 92.5 Film THE WAY OUT — Daniel Soares → first aired 2019 92.5 Film What is Beauty — Anna Ginsburg → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Me in the Mirror — Lorena Alvarado → first aired 2019 92.5 Film THE AYES HAVE IT — Savanah Leaf → first aired 2019 92.5 Film SKAYA — Gabriel Noguez → first aired 2019 92.5 Film WISDOM 2:24 — Will Desena → first aired 2019 92.5 Film F WORD — Savanah Leaf → first aired 2019 92.5 Film BEFORE THE SPILL — Adam Wells → first aired 2019 92.5 Film OJORLEY — Gene Adu → first aired 2018 92.5 Film AGYA — Curtis Essel → first aired 2018 92.5 Film LITAS — Will Desena → first aired 2018 92.5 Film HAZARD — Jake Blackson → first aired 2024 96.9 Photo Photographs by Jude Lartey — Jude Lartey → first aired 2023 96.9 Photo Photographs by Jude Lartey — Jude Lartey → first aired 2023 96.9 Photo Photographs by Kourosh Keynejad — Kourosh Keynejad → first aired 2023 96.9 Photo Photographs by Darin Combs — Darin Combs → first aired 2022 96.9 Photo Portraiture — Lawrence Agyei → first aired 2022 96.9 Photo Black Boy Fly — Joshua Renfroe → first aired 2021 96.9 Photo Photographs by Kevin Jackson — Kevin Jackson → first aired 2021 96.9 Photo Photographs by Nicholas Caiazza — Nicholas Caiazza → first aired 2021 96.9 Photo Photographs by Riley Dengler — Riley Dengler → first aired 2021 96.9 Photo Stills From Pilgrims — Jeremy Snell → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Jeremy Snell — Jeremy Snell → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Gabriel Noguez — Gabriel Noguez → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Daniel Soares — Daniel Soares → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by JORGE RIVERA — JORGE RIVERA → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Gabriel Flores — Gabriel Flores → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Emir Fils-Aime — Emir Fils-Aime → first aired 2019 96.9 Photo Photographs by Kita — Kita → first aired 2019 96.9 Photo Photographs by Kevin Nolan Johnson — Kevin Nolan Johnson → first aired 2019 96.9 Photo Photographs by Bo Whitelaw — Bo Whitelaw → first aired 2018 96.9 Photo Photographs by Greg Callan — Greg Callan → first aired 2024 101.3 Word Crazy Daisy — Elana Staroselsky → first aired 2023 101.3 Word All That For Something True — Raia Was → first aired 2023 101.3 Word Friendship — Niloo Ravaei → first aired 2023 101.3 Word Resilience — Nina Iordanova → first aired 2022 101.3 Word What if the words don't exist yet? — Jared Blake → first aired 2022 101.3 Word Re-Emergence — Leala King → first aired 2021 101.3 Word Untitled — Jared Blake → first aired 2021 101.3 Word Ant Sized Ambition — Demetrius Beckham → first aired 2021 101.3 Word A Response to the Atlanta Spa Shooting — Lulu Yao Gioiello → first aired 2021 101.3 Word Peaks and Pits — Gabby Kreutter → first aired 2020 101.3 Word Untitled — Jay Z → first aired 2020 101.3 Word The Top of my Todo list — Paul Graham → first aired 2020 101.3 Word A Nature Un-Nurtured: the Black Imagination in this Moment — Justin Toomer → first aired 2020 101.3 Word Post Traumatic Growth — Leala King → first aired 2020 101.3 Word Untitled → first aired 2020 101.3 Word Choose Wonder — Brendan → first aired 2019 101.3 Word Foreword (November 2019 Issue) — Jared Blake → first aired 2019 101.3 Word Foreword (International Women's Month Issue) — Leala King → first aired 2018 101.3 Word POLAROID PLEASE — Isata Kamara →

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