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The power of dreaming…with Zakia

Celebrating 6 Music’s Way With Words with poet aja monet, who muses on the power of dreams.

DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams, playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

Zakia pays tribute to Danny Thompson, the legendary bassist, jazz lover, and one of the founding members of one of her all-time favourite bands, Pentangle.

She celebrates National Poetry Day and 6 Music’s Way with Words with the help of her special guest, the poet, storyteller and activist aja monet. She selects a track for The Portal and reflects on the power of dreaming. Across the show, Zakia selects tracks from some of her favourite wordsmiths, including a poetic piece from a legend of the West Coast Black Arts movement and a tearjerker from the songwriter Judee Sill.

Plus, Zakia selects songs to inspire peace and soothe the soul, including some Finnish spiritual jazz, and a track made among the grapevines of a vineyard in South Australia...

We want to hear your dreams! Send in tales of your sleepy adventures to [email protected] or text us on 03700 100 600

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Sun 5 Oct 202522:00
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Music Played

  • Dorris Henderson & John Renbourn

    There's Anger In This Land

    • Watch the Stars.
    • Fontana Records.

  • Pentangle

    In Time

    • Sweet Child.
    • Reprise Records.

  • Modha

    Last River

    • At Your Pace.
    • Sonar Kollektiv.

  • anaiis

    Moonlight

    • Devotion & The Black Divine.
    • 5dB Records.

  • Oiro Pena

    Mummon biisi (Hei hei rantaniityllä tuolla)

    • Béke.
    • Ultraääni Records.

  • aja monet

    why my love?

    • when the poems do what they do,.
    • drink sum wtr..

  • Sarah Webster Fabio

    Glimpses

    • Boss Soul: 12 Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.

  • Nagat El-Sagheera

    Ana Bashaa El Bahr

    • Eyoun El Alb.
    • Wewantsounds.

  • Jean-Claude Vannier

    Le roi des mouches et la confiture de roses

    • L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches.
    • Finders Keepers.

  • Sarathy Korwar

    We Won't Go Searching

    • There Is Beauty, There Already.
    • Otherland.

  • Sade

    It's Only Love That Gets You Through

    • Lovers Rock.
    • Epic Records.

  • Qur'an Shaheed

    Somber Eyes

    • Pulse.
    • LEAVING RECORDS.

  • Wilson Tanner

    Botyritis

    • Legends.
    • Efficient Space.

  • Bizimungu Dieudonne

    Imbabazi Twese

    • Inzovu Y'Imirindi.
    • Mississippi Records.

  • Phylipe Nunes Araújo

    Muito Dengo

    • Phylipe Nunes Araújo.
    • Far Out Recordings.

  • WOOM

    The Dance (Live Dream Time session)

    • To Slow You (EP).
    • House Anxiety Records.

  • Ravi, Bikram Ghosh, Danny Thompson & Lyn Dobson

    Shantiseven

    • The Afro-Indian Project (Travels With The African Kora In India).
    • ARC Music.

  • Judee Sill

    My Man On Love

    • Judee Sill.
    • Asylum Records.

  • White Paddy Mountain

    Wind From Mountains (feat. Nailah Hunter)

    • Lucid Dreams.
    • First Terrace Records.

  • Cerys Hafana

    Mlynedd

    • Angel.
    • Glitterbeat.

  • Photay with Carlos Niño

    floating Trio Part 3 011622

    • More Offerings.
    • International Anthem.

  • Laraaji

    Universe (Extract)

    • Essense / Universe.
    • Audion.

  • John Martyn

    Solid Air

    • Solid Air.
    • Island Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Oct 202522:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music