
Gerry Lyseight – Phonic FM – 3/9/23
There’s some damn fine stuff here: Cologne-based afro-fusion collective Muito Kaballa; reissued South African Jazz from Allen Kwela, Steely Dan, classic salsa dura from Los
Phonic FM is a community radio station in Exeter, Devon, England. The station was set up in 2008 and started broadcasting on 15 February 2008.
In the June 2008 ‘Radio World International Edition’ (Volume 36 #2) the station was described thus, “There is nothing quite like it on the U.K. dial. It is the perfect antidote for complaints about high rotation playlists, or that all stations these days sound much the same. This one certainly does not. Phonic.fm is a genuinely refreshing, genuine alternative, from which the best is yet to come”
There’s some damn fine stuff here: Cologne-based afro-fusion collective Muito Kaballa; reissued South African Jazz from Allen Kwela, Steely Dan, classic salsa dura from Los
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