Dear On Saturday, 12th September 2009 in celebration of Steve Biko, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) II launched their online radio to the world. Listen here. Provoking new forms of creative expression and social mobilisation, PASS is a 30-day music intervention that takes place online through a freeform music radio station and live across venues in Cape Town.

Now in its second year, PASS continues its cyber-spatial voyaging, bringing together diverse pan-African sounds from ancient grooves to future hip-hop. PASS includes 30 days of cutting-edge music that is being streamed live via the internet. The station will feature guest DJs, themed shows, live performances, readings, tributes, debates, sound art, speeches, interviews and much, much more. The second live musical expedition takes place between Thursday, 30th September and Saturday, 4th October. This will include acclaimed international artists Kora maestro Toumani Diabaté in his first ever South African performance; the nine-piece, Chicago-based Hypnotic Brass Ensemble; Cameroonian funk-master Franck Biyong and his Massak Afroletric Orchestra; Zanzibar’s legendary taarab orchestra, the Culture Musical Club; LA-native Ras G and the Afrikan Space Program; and Ghanaian "afro-punk" with Wanlov the Kubulor's "pidgin music". Local artists include Queen of Ndebele music Nothembi Mkhwebane; Siya Makuzeni adds adventurous sonic textures to world-renowned drummer Barry van Zyl's Baboti; and slamming jazz upstarts uDaba are joined by poet and spoken-word author Kgafela oa Magogodi. PASS II will also feature some of the continent’s most progressive DJs, including Dar es Salaam’s DJ Yusuf Mahmoud and Cape Town’s own Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem. The live events starting on 30th September will be launched with the collaborative, experimental choral work based on the novella War Chorale by pioneering Chilean academic, visionary, writer and revolutionary Fernando Alegría, with composition and direction by jazz guitarist Bheki Khoza. Learn more about PASS by visiting www.panafricanspacestation.org.za or book through Computicket from Friday, 25th September 2009. PASS is a creation of the Heliocentrics in partnership with the Africa Centre. www.panafricanspacestation.org.za 021 422 0468

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