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OlyScott 🌧️📷🎙️🐈‍⬛⚽
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Cascadia-based photographer, radio host, cat dad, Sounders FC fan, progressive. he/him
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Sometimes it sounds like the whole world has the blues. So why not just give in and enjoy it for a couple hours?

Listen to the latest episode of #spintheglobe for a bluesy tour of #worldmusic sounds

www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#communityradio #theblues #bluesmusic #globalmusic
Photo of Malian musician Bassekou Kouyate live in concert, wearing a traditional shirt with dramatic stage lighting behind his head. He's playing the ngoni with a joyful look on his face.
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The #halloween / #diadelosmuertos episode of #SpinTheGlobe is now online for your listening pleasure. Music about ancestors, ghosts, demons, zombies, and more.

Listen here:
www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#communityradio #kaos #dayofthedead
Photo of an illumanated Dia de los Muertos skeleton man made of paper over a wire frame with a white head and black features: teeth, nose, curly mustache, and a red tongue. He is wearing a blue-green hat with black symbols painted around the edge.
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Quick before I head out for #nokings -- here's the latest show from your favorite immigrant-supporting, multicultural, noncommercial #communityradio show, #SpinTheGlobe:

www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #globalmusic #kaos #top10 #musiccharts
Front cover of the album Radio Rom by the Italian group 'O Rom, with multicolored stylized letters and an illustration of six people in a circle, energetically dancing and playing music
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Enjoy a musical trip to the Balkans as your weekly radio escape from [gestures wildly] all of this. Brass bands, Romani tunes, and more!

Listen at www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #globalmusic #communityradio #kaos #balkanmusic #balkans
Album cover of the album Balkan Roots by Balkan Fusion Orchestra. The top half is white with the outline of a black leafless tree, the bottom half is black with a white mirrored image of the tree.
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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An important PSA for our times.
A four panel comic describing entitled What Is Fascism? describing the essential qualities and actions of fascist political movements.
October 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The world is giving us plenty of reasons to be concerned, angry, and/or depressed. Spin The Globe gives you 2 hours of peaceful musical encouragement.

Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#wagepeace #songsofpeace #communityradio #worldmusic #globalmusic #kaos
Ai generated image of the earth in space, with colorful stylized continents and rainbow colored spikes surrounding the edge of the planet.
September 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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#SpinTheGlobe launches into the waves this week, with songs of canoes, sampans, a moon boat, a love boat, and a banana boat -- among other seaworthy vessels.

Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #globalmusic #boatsongs #communityradio #kaos
An AI generated image of four north african men playing music on a traditional-ish sailing boat on a calm sea under a blue sky with stylized mountains in the background.
August 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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One of the most energetic and fun radio shows I've put together. A dhol-fueled party for your ears!

Listen free via Mixcloud:

www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #punjabimusic #bhangra #radioshow #communityradio #kaos #spintheglobe
Band photo of The Dhol Foundation, a group of Puunjabi men dressed in white, with dhol drums decorated with green, yellow, and red, slung over their shoulders, standing facing the camera.
August 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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It's not a particularly festive Independence Day in the USA, but #globalmusic can address even these dark times. Two hours of songs of human rights, freedom, and revolution.

Listen here:

www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#4thofjuly #independenceday #communityradio #worldmusic #radioshow #kaos
An AI image of the statue of liberty covering her face with her hands in embarrassment or shame.
July 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Okay class, listen up and compare and contrast the music of 2000 vs the music of today. Yes, you can dance during the test.

Listen to the latest Spin The Globe here:
www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #globalmusic #communityradio #kaos #25years
A collage of four global music album covers: Urbanzulu by Busi Mhlongo, Fintou by Vaudou Game, The Third Planet by The Third Planet, and Bagola by Trio da Kali.
June 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Better than tanks, here's a parade of great new global music for your listening pleasure.

www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #communityradio #radioshow #globalmusic #newmusic
Front cover of the new Putumayo music compilation Groove Africa, showing three Africans: a man sitting with a boombox on his lap, another man in sunglasses playing guitar, and a woman with braided hair in a checkered skirt dancing.
June 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I started thinking about fruit, then that turned into songs about fruit, and as a result, here's a show with two hours of #worldmusic about, yes, #fruit!

www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#communityradio #radioshow #globalmusic #mangoes #bananas #quirkymusic
An AI-generated imaged of a globe of planet earth with the continents mad up of various fruits and slices of fruits.
June 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Come with me for a two-hour audio excursion to the distinctive jazz and jazz-adjacent sounds of southern Africa. It's a fun ride. And no Afrikaners were harmed in the making of this show.

Listen here:
www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#safrojazz #africanjazz #worldmusic #globalmusic #southafrica
Photo of South African singer Sibongile Khumalo, a black woman with tightly braided hair wearing a red top with white starburst patterns, her hands wrapped around a cordless microphone with her eyes closed, seemingly caught mid-song in a dynamic, emotional moment.
May 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Celebrating the best of new #globalmusic this week on STG. It's diverse, it's multicultural, it's fun!

Listen here:
www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #communityradio #spintheglobe #kaos #africanmusic
Front cover of the new album Tresor Magnetique by African musician Francis Bebe, showing a drawing of the artist, a middle-aged black man with short cut hair wearing a long sleeved shirt and buttoned up best, in the center in gold/red/oranges on a blue background with concentric patterns of red lines behind him going from the center to the outside frame.
May 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I fill the airwaves with #worldmusic songs of mothers this week. Feel free to share with your mom on #mothersday!

#globalmusic #communityradio #mothers #mom
a Black mother with pulled back dreadlocks on top of her head playing a ukulele for her young daughter behind a table filled with crafting or game pieces in a home setting.
May 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The latest #SpinTheGlobe show brings you two hours #globalmusic from a dazzlingly diverse array of artists.

Listen at www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #communityradio #radioshow #celebratediversity #kaos
A collage of four colorful recent world music album covers, from Kin'gongolo Kiniata, Ozan Baysal, Wimme & Rinne, and Awa Khiwe.
May 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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My latest show, two hours of diverse #globalmusic about trees and forests for #earthday.

Listening link:
www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#communityradio #kaos #trees #forests #nature #worldmusic #radioshow
Photo of douglas fir trees in the distance, with several layers of trees each increasingly obscured by mist and clouds under a mostly cloudy sky.
April 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Quaint, quality equipment from a lavender farm in Sequim.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekQforQs
#vintage
#washingtonstate
#pacificnw
#photography
Photo of antique brass oil extraction equipment still in use at a lavender farm in Sequim, Washington, USA.
April 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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New radio for you, featuring some of the best new #globalmusic around.

Listen free here:
www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #communityradio #top10 #globalsounds #radioshow
Front cover of the new album New African Orleans by Alune Wade, fearing a photo of the artist, a black man in sunglasses wearing a black and white vertical striped coat and pants and a dark beret in front of a yellow, white, and blue wall or door painted in folk aft style.
April 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Some of my favorite spring patterns!

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekPforPatterns
#mushrooms
#pacificnw
#washingtonstate
#fungi
Photo of several morel mushrooms lying on a wooden cutting board. In the top right is a steel kitchen knife with a black handle.
April 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Celebrating diversity once again, with a collection of music by women worldwide.

Listen on Mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#worldmusic #globalmusic #communityradio #womenshistorymonth #womensmusic
Photo of the Mahotella Queens music group from South Africa -- three black women in red shirt with colorful hats and highlights looking as if they are singing to the camera.
April 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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So many plums!

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOForOodles
#photography
#farmersmarket
#olywa
#washingtonstate
#pacificnw
A bowl of black plums with a sign saying "please sample" sitting atop large bins full of plums at a farmers market in Olympia, Washington, USA
April 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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"It's a sad and beautiful world..." We remember Aurelio Martinez in this episode, and celebrate #garifuna music from him and other Garifuna artists.

Listen here:
www.mixcloud.com/SpinTheGlobe...

#spintheglobe #communityradio #worldmusic #globalmusic #garifunaculture
Photo of Garifuna musician Aurelio Martinez holding a brown wood electric guitar and standing in front of a green building with a corrugated metal roof. He has his head thrown back and is smiling broadly.
April 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The Pacific Chorus Frog is a diminutive creature with a powerful voice. I saw this one when picking blueberries at an organic berry farm.

#AlphabetChallenge 📷
#WeekNforNoise
#amphibian
#pacificnw
#washingtonstate
#photography
#nature
Photo of a Pacific Chorus Frog - small green tree frog perching on a vertical stick in front of a blurry green background.
April 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Great blue heron at rainbow bridge

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekMforMulticoloured
#pacificnw
#olywa
#photography
#rainbow
#washingtonstate
Photo of a railroad bridge over Puget Sound in Olympia, Washington, with the railroad ties painted the colors of the rainbow. A great blue heron perches on the edge of the bridge, and in the background are the waters of Puget Sound.
March 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM