Long Play returns on July 16 with guest host ChefKD taking us through two distinct but connected guitar traditions on vinyl: Roots Rocking Zimbabwe and Talking Timbuktu by Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder. In Zimbabwean music, the guitar remembers. It loops, repeats, and builds, drawing directly from the mbira, oral traditions, and communal ways of making music. The result is layered, cyclical, and deeply rhythmic. In Talking Timbuktu, the guitar moves differently. Sparse, steady, and deliberate. Each note carries weight, tracing a line from the Sahel to the blues and back again. Same instrument. Two languages. We’ll listen deeply for the contrasts and similarities: - Collective texture vs singular voice - How repetition creates trance and movement - How space allows each note to carry weight - How both traditions use the guitar to hold rhythm, lead, and feeling at the same time Bar on site. Doors and drinks at 7pm Needle drops at 7:30pm