David Starfire in Denver on 11/12/14
David Starfire in San Francisco on 11/08/14
David Starfire in Tulsa on 11/07/14
David Starfire in Tulsa on 11/01/14
David Starfire in New Orleans on 11/01/14
David Starfire in Arcata on 10/23/14
David Starfire in Asheville on 10/18/14
David Starfire in Atlanta on 10/17/14
Meklit in Los Angeles on 02/21/15
Six Degrees Records is looking for fall Interns
Six Degrees Records is a San Francisco-based eclectic, independent music label. We produce and market accessible, genre-bending records that explore world music traditions, modern dance grooves, electronic music, and intelligent pop music. All intern positions...
Traveler Installment 373 – Traveler’s “We Are Alive” Mix
Artist Track Title Album Label Evan Bartholomew And Being Borderlands New Land Slacker Start A New Life Start A New Life Godlike & Electric Peter Himmelman Time Just Flew Love Thinketh No Evil Himmalsongs Johnny Cash In My Life American IV American Dawn Landes I...
Traveler Installment 372 – Traveler’s “Psychedelic Planet (The Fourth Experience)”
Artist Track Title Album Label Sinepearl Ceremonial Tea Cycles Within Cycles Within Interchill Alien Progeny Sadhana Feed Your Head Volume 2 Planet Dog Makyo Nebusoku (Mirror System Remix) Makyo Remixed Dakini Astralasia Ignarus (Lunar Poona) Feed Your...
Traveler Installment 371 – Traveler’s “My Spine Is The Bassline” Mix
Artist Track Title Album Label LCD Soundsystem Us V Them Sound of Silver DFA William Onyeabor Ye Ye (Daphni Rework) What?! Luaka Bop Slick Space Bass (VinylAddicted Boards The Space Bus) Promo Only Talking Heads I Zimbra (Funk Sinatra Re-Dub) Promo Only Pulsallama...Piers Faccini in Vevey on 11/25/14
Piers Faccini in Rochefort on 10/30/14
Piers Faccini in Barcelona on 10/30/14
Piers Faccini in New York on 10/09/14
Piers Faccini in Val Morin on 10/04/14
Piers Faccini in Laval on 10/03/14
Piers Faccini in Paris on 09/30/14
Piers Faccini in Chinon on 09/20/14
Traveler Installment 370 – Traveler’s “Summer’s Almost Gone” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label The Doors | Summer’s Almost Gone | Waiting For The Sun | Elektra Bill Callahan | Summer Dub | Have Fun With God | Drag City Silva | Okinawa | Ocean View | Six Degrees/ Slap Caribou | Sun (Teen Daze Remix) | Promo Only Washed...Meklit in Los Angeles on 02/21/15
SILVA in Tokyo on 10/24/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/23/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/22/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/21/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/20/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/19/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/18/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/17/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/16/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/15/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/14/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/13/14
SILVA in Tokyo on 09/12/14
SILVA in Sao Paulo on 09/20/14
SILVA in Cataguases on 09/14/14
SILVA in Victoria on 09/06/14
SILVA in Belem on 08/22/14
SILVA in Sorocaba on 08/16/14
SILVA in São Paulo on 08/15/14
Dom La Nena in Tassin La Demi on 10/03/14
Dom La Nena in Chambery on 10/02/14
Dom La Nena in Grenoble on 10/01/14
Dom La Nena in Vic on 09/19/14
Dom La Nena in Curitiba on 09/14/14
Dom La Nena in Sao Carlos on 09/12/14
Dom La Nena in Sao Paulo on 09/07/14
Dom La Nena in Bourg En Bresse on 08/29/14
Dom La Nena in Brussels on 08/29/14
Dom La Nena in Lisboa on 08/24/14
Meklit in Los Angeles on 02/21/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Asheville on 09/14/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Durham on 09/13/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Arlington on 09/12/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Chicago on 09/11/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Evansville on 09/06/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Evansville on 09/05/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Evansville on 09/05/14
Dirtwire in Sacramento on 10/10/14
Dirtwire in Oakland on 09/25/14
Dirtwire in Sebastopol on 09/20/14
Dirtwire in Eugene on 09/18/14
Dirtwire in Portland on 09/17/14
Dirtwire in Seattle on 09/16/14
Dirtwire in Denver on 09/12/14
Dirtwire in Santa Cruz on 09/04/14
Dirtwire in Reno on 09/02/14
BossaCucaNova in New York on 09/07/14
BossaCucaNova in Santa Cruz on 09/13/14
BossaCucaNova in Boca Raton on 09/06/14
BossaCucaNova in San Francisco on 09/12/14
Traveler Installment 369 – Traveler’s “Songs The Birds Sing” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Kate Bush | Prelude | Aerial | Novercia The Real Tuesday Weld | Black Birdies Come |The End Of The World | Six Degrees Neil Young | Birds | After The Gold Rush | Reprise The Earlies | Dead Birds | These Were The Earlies | Names...
Traveler Installment 368 – “Ambient World Traveler”
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Dom La Nena | “O Vento (Arturo En El Barco Remix)”| Ela Por Eles | Six Degrees Dirtwire feat. Kongar ol Ondar | “The Nine Heavens” | Ondar EP | Six Degrees Warren Cuccurullo & Ustad Sultan Khan | “The Holy Man’s...Vieux Farka Touré in Tidewater on 08/09/14
Traveler Installment 367 – Traveler’s “Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label My Brightest Diamond | Of Fear and Wonder (I Found a Universe) | Shark Remixes Vol. 1 | Asthmatic Kitty Peter Gabriel | Mother Of Violence 2| Atlantic Timbuk 3 | Wake Up Little Darlin’ | Big Shot In the Dark | IRS Indigo...Vieux Farka Touré in Cape Town on 07/19/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Cape Town on 07/18/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Minneapolis on 09/10/14
Vieux Farka Touré in New York on 08/12/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Seattle on 08/10/14
Dirtwire in Los Angeles on 07/21/14
Dirtwire in Terra Alta on 07/17/14
Dirtwire in Veneta on 06/22/14
Dirtwire in South Park on 06/22/14
Pacifika in New Westminster on 08/10/14
Pacifika in Vancouver on 07/30/14
Traveler Installment 366 – Ambient Soul Traveler
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Oriol | Fantasy For N | Night And Day | Planet Mu Hundred Waters | Murmurs | The Moon Rang Like A Bell | Owsla D’Angelo | Africa (DJ Yamin Remix) | Promo Only Bonobo | Emkay | The North Borders | Ninja Tune Pretty Lights |...Pacifika in Vancouver on 07/20/14
Pacifika in Vancouver on 07/19/14
Pacifika in Vancouver on 07/18/14
Pacifika in Vancouver on 07/06/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Northridge on 11/07/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Santa Cruz on 07/22/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Leeds on 07/12/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Rotterdam on 07/11/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Auxerre on 06/29/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Ayguesvives on 06/28/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Ameno on 06/27/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Piacenza on 06/26/14
Vieux Farka Touré in הרצליה on 06/14/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Masada on 06/13/14
Traveler Installment 365 – Ambient Folk Traveler
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label John Martyn | Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail | Outside In | Island Lisa Hannigan | Couldn’t Love You More | Johnny Boy Would Love This: A Tribute To John Martyn | Hole In The Rain King Creosote & Jon Hopkins | John...Meklit in Berkeley on 06/05/14
Meklit in San Francisco on 06/01/14
Vieux Farka Touré in San Francisco on 07/20/14
Traveler Installment 364 – Traveler’s “We Are All Made Of Stars” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Model 500 | Starlight (Echospace Dub) | Starlight | Echospace Theme To Star Trek Stars | Theme From Stars | A lot Of Lies | A lot Of Lies For The Sake Of One Big Truth | Le Grand Magistry Amatorski | Same Stars We Shared | Same...Meklit in Montreal on 07/18/14
Niyaz in Seattle on 06/12/14
Niyaz in Lebanon on 06/06/14
Niyaz in Iowa City on 05/07/14
Niyaz in San Francisco on 06/15/14
Karsh Kale in Brooklyn on 05/09/14
Céu in São Paulo on 05/09/14
Céu in São Paulo on 05/08/14
Céu in Fortaleza on 05/03/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Blois on 05/25/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Plan-Les-Ouates on 05/23/14
Vieux Farka Touré in Basel on 05/31/14
Pacifika in Vancouver on 05/31/14
David Starfire in Waubun, MN on 05/31/14
David Starfire in Santa Rosa on 05/18/14
David Starfire in Nevada City on 05/16/14
Q&A: A Chat with Singer-Songwriter Meklit
Meklit has had a busy spring. The San Francisco-based singer-songwriter released We Are Alive, her latest album, in March, and wrapped up a tour earlier this month. She recently chatted with Six Degrees about her approach to songwriting and collaborating with other...Meklit at Stanford Jazz Festival, on 06/27/14
Meklit in New York on 05/27/14
Meklit in North Truro on 05/25/14
Traveler Installment 363 – Traveler’s “Moon” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label The Alps | Moonrise | A Path Through The Moon | Root Stata Kid Koala & P Love | Moon River | Promo Only King Crimson | Moonchild | In The Court Of The Cimson | Atlantic Ilya Gomola | Moonchild Free The Robots | Moonchild |...
Traveler Installment 362 – Traveler’s “Dream Of Wires” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label P. Laoss | Landscapes & Machines Pt. 1 | Landscapes & Machines | Bryzant Robert Palmer | I Dream Of Wires | Clues | Island Eno,Moebius, Roedelius | The Belldog | After The Heat | EG Tvardovsky | Stories From The Future...
Traveler Installment 361 – “Traveler’s Psychedelic Planet (The Third Excursion)”
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Ooze | Quintessence | Where the fields never end | Aleph Zero Jef Stott | White Tara (Temple Step Remix) | Forthcoming | Six Degrees J.P. Illusion | A Fine Way To Exit | Planet Blue | Mikelabella Expedizion | Psychedelic Cells |...
Traveler Installment 360 – Traveler’s “Laurel Canyon Dreamstate” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label David Crosby | I’d Swear There Was Somebody | If I Could Only Remember My Name | Atlantic Beck | Cycle | Morning Phase | Capitol Beck | Morning | Morning Phase | Capitol Joni Mitchell | Woodstock (Kayla Scintilla Remix) |...
Traveler Installment 359 – Traveler’s “Damn, This Planet is Funky!” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Erkut Tackin | Sevmek I?stiyorum – Mop Mop rework | Reworks | Promo Only Red Astaire | Rio Da Noche | Move Yo Ass EP |Homegrown Soft Rocks | Danz Boy Danz | Disco Powerplay | Soft Rocks Cymande | Getting It Back (Magnetic...Traveler Installment 358 – Traveler’s “Play With Fire” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label M83 | Let Men Burn Stars | Before The Dawn Heals Us | Gooom The Do | Sex On Fire | Promo Only The Rolling Stones | Play With Fire | Rolled Gold | Decca Disclosure | When A Fire Starts To Burn | Settle | Universal Arthur Brown |...Dom La Nena in Ottawa Gatineau Metro Area on 02/20/14
Dom La Nena in Sherbrooke on 02/04/14
Meklit in Los Angeles on 04/04/14
Meklit in San Francisco on 04/02/14
Meklit in Seattle on 03/31/14
Meklit in Denver on 03/28/14
Meklit in Minneapolis on 03/27/14
Meklit in Evanston on 03/25/14
Meklit in Boston on 03/22/14
Meklit in New York on 03/21/14
Meklit in Bethesda on 03/20/14
Dom La Nena in Chicago, IL on 02/13/14
Dom La Nena in Chicago, IL on 02/13/14
Supporting Meklit = Music + Exclusive Content
Meklit can’t wait to share We are Alive, her first Six Degrees album, with you. She’s just launched a PledgeMusic campaign to support the project, and is inviting you to join her. We are Alive takes a contemporary approach to bringing back the spontaneity and live...
Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal Top NPR ‘Favorite Concerts of 2013’
NPR’s All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen saw 660-plus concerts in 2013. Out of all of these shows, he named Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal’s concert at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C., as his favorite. “The interplay between this African harp...
Traveler Installment 357 – Traveler’s “Late Night Lullabies & Twilight Torch Songs” Mix
Artist |Track Title | Album | Label Oneohtrix Point Never | Blue Drive | Rifts | Kemado Mala | Changes (Harmonimix) | Single | Deep Medi Tipper | Illabye | Surrounded | Myutopia Sleepingdog | Horse Lullabye | With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields |...
Traveler Installment 356 – Traveler’s New Year’s Global Electronica Mix
Artist Track Title Album Label Anoushka Shankar Naked Rise Angel Anoushka Shankar Naked (Karsh Kale Mirrors Remix) Remix EP Angel Shunya Dwelling in Polarity shunyamusic.bandcamp.com Androcell All is Full Of Dub Further Unfolding Celestial Dragon Ekova Sabura (Desert...Piers Faccini in Saint Maximin La Sainte Baume on 04/18/14
Piers Faccini in New York on 02/26/14
Piers Faccini in Granada on 02/23/14
Piers Faccini in Quebec City on 02/22/14
Piers Faccini in Pittsburgh on 02/21/14
Piers Faccini in Ottawa Gatineau Metro Area on 02/20/14
Piers Faccini in Santa Monica on 02/15/14
Piers Faccini in Chicago on 02/13/14
Piers Faccini in Lille on 01/24/14
Piers Faccini in Portes Les Valence on 12/15/13
Piers Faccini in Hamburg on 12/15/13
Piers Faccini in Tassin La Demi Lune on 12/12/14
Piers Faccini in San Francisco on 02/16/14
Dom La Nena in New York on 02/26/14
Dom La Nena in Quebec on 02/22/14
Dom La Nena in Quebec on 02/22/14
Dom La Nena in Montreal on 02/21/14
Dom La Nena in Santa Monica on 02/16/14
Dom La Nena in Santa Monica on 02/15/14
Dom La Nena in New York on 01/11/14
Dom La Nena in Arlington on 01/09/14
Dom La Nena in Philadelphia on 01/08/14
Meklit in Sarasota on 01/22/14
Meklit in Miami on 01/22/14
Meklit in Savannah on 01/21/14
Meklit in Raleigh on 01/19/14
Meklit in Arlington on 01/18/14
Meklit in Portland on 01/16/14
Meklit in Burlington on 01/15/14
Meklit in New Haven on 01/14/14
Meklit in Pittsburgh on 01/12/14
Meklit in Pittsburgh on 01/12/14
Meklit in Pittsburgh on 01/12/14
Meklit in New York on 01/11/14
Meklit in New York on 01/11/14
Meklit in New York on 01/11/14
Meklit in New York on 01/10/14
Traveler Installment 355 – Traveler’s “Lose Yourself To Dance” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Daft Punk | Lose Yourself To Dance | Random Access Memories The Rolling Stones | If I was A Dancer (Whiskey Barons Edit) | Promo Only Daft Punk Vs. David Bowie | Lose Yourself To Dance ( Karim’s “Let’s...
Traveler Installment 354 – Traveler’s “Rest & Rise In Peace” Mix (For Cheb i Sabbah)
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Lisa Gerard | Come Tenderness | The Silver Tree | 4AD Cheb I Sabbah | Durga Puja | Shri Durga | Six Degrees Cheb I Sabbah | Hamam Swarm Of Drones | Swarm Of Drones | Asphodel Bannister Boy | Entrance To Golden Suburbia | Lullabye...
Traveler Repeat 266 – Latin Traveler
Lucho Bermudez y su Orchesta Sabanera | Fiesta de Negritos | Cartagena! | Soundway Palov & Mishkin | De Mi Careta | Think Twice | Cast A Blast Thomas Blondet | Havana 2AM (Omegaman Remix) | The Sound Of Rhythm & Culture Remixed | Rhythm & Culture Brownout...
Cheb i Sabbah
It is with great sadness that we have to confirm that our friend & partner in music, Cheb i Sabbah passed away peacefully in his home last night. Our love & thoughts go out to his family and to his many fans around the planet. We feel blessed...
Traveler Installment 353 – Becalmed Traveler (Songs of Stillness Mix)
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Brian Eno | Becalmed | Another Green World | EG Harold Budd | Children On The Hill | The Serpent (In Quicksilver) | Opal Oliveray | Growing Waterwings | Wonders | Erased Tapes Dom La Nena | O Vento (Arturo En El Barco Remix) | Ela...
Traveler Installment 352 – Traveler In the Spirit World (Not Your Typical Halloween Mix)
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Deux Filles |Her Master’s Voice | Silence & Wisdom | De Wolfe Tino | It’s Halloween Dub | Tino’s Dub Select | Tweakland Screamin’ Jay Hawkins | I Put A Spell On You (Jeremy Sole’s Zombie Stomp...
Traveler Installment 351 – Traveler’s “Wake Up & Dream” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Trentmoller | The Dream | Lost | In My Room Butch | Dreaming | Tranquillty 4 | Invisible Lanterns On The Lake | I Love You Sleepyhead | Gracious Tide, Take Me Home | Coorperative Black Eagle Child | Dream Iterations |...
Traveler Installment 350 – Party Songs For Travelers (350th Episode Celebration Mix)
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Har You Percussion Group | Welcome To The Party | Sounds Of The Ghetto Youth | ESP Disk Debtonate |Party Packer | Human Race EP | Funk Weapons Timberland vs Kool & The Gang | Give Me Celebration | Bangers On The Breaks | Promo...
Traveler Installment 348 – Traveler’s “Voices In The Machine” Mix
Artist | Track Title | Album | Label Manual | Am | Ascend | Morr M83 | Wait | Hurry Up We’re Dreaming | Mute Crosby,Stills & Nash | Helplessly Hoping (Owen Westlake Remix | Promo Only Bibio | Dye The Water Green | Silver Wilkinson | Warp Manual | Keeps...
Six Degrees Records Signs Meklit Hadero to World-Wide Record Deal
Photos By Jeremy Valencia Six Degrees Records is pleased and excited to announce the world-wide signing of singer/composer, TED Senior Fellow & cultural activist Meklit Hadero. Born in Ethiopia & based in San Francisco for the past nine years, Hadero...