Zakia Sewell

“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Tumble down the rabbit hole with Zakia for another cosmic journey into Dream Time, and her selections of meditative, dreamy sounds. There’s an Indian film score from Tamil composer and violin player, T.K. Ramamoorthy; a dreamy gem found in a dusty record shop in a back street of Bangkok, plus an old favourite record found amongst Zakia’s house move, alongside new music from Barry Keen, Paul Jones, and Garoa.
And, elsewhere, we hear from special guest Sarathy Korwar, a percussionist who fuses traditional Indian music with contemporary improvisation. Born in the US, Sarathy spent his early years in Chennai, India, and is now a key fixture on the London jazz scene. Sarathy whisks us down the portal, taking us away with him to the backseat of his beat-up old car, and his memories driving around the streets of Pune, India, in the summer of 2007, with his cassette deck blaring out one track in particular…”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-04-20 Carnatic sounds and dreamy musical selections … with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Lock in for a dreamy crackly late-night listening session. This weekend 6 Music has been celebrating all things vinyl and record shops in honour of Record Store Day, and Zakia rounds it all off with a vinyl-only set of dreamy sounds.
Dive into Zakia’s genre-spanning collection – there’s a huge stack of all-time favourites and treasured LPs, including Don Cherry, Robbie Basho and Lesley Duncan, as well as some more recent releases from the likes of Surya Botofasina and Tanto Pressanto.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-04-13 Vinyl Weekender: Crackly late-night listening… with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
It’s Zakia’s birthday! Join her for a bit of indulgence on this special day, with some of her all-time favourites from Pharaoh Sanders, Dionne Warwick and Everything But The Girl, alongside some lovely new releases including Johanna Warren, Sheldon Agwu and Satomimagae.
There’s also a stack of sounds from Argentina this week, including the Buenos Aires artist, selector and sound explorer Barbarelle who is on Dreambience mix duties this week. She takes us on a voyage through her dreams, diving into the music that connects her with beauty.”

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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Zakia celebrates mothering in all its forms with the help of her very own mum, Amey, who joins her in the 6 Music studio with a selection of her current favourite uplifting tracks, as well as sharing a recent dream.
Elsewhere, plenty of Zakia’s new musical discoveries, including improvised meditative, healing sounds from California courtesy of Phi-Psonics, a beautiful jazz record recommended by a listener, and a forthcoming track from the visionary producer, Gavsborg, inspired by the “ancestral energies of the Mexican jungle under the moonlight”, and approved by his own mother…”

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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

It’s Springtime again… Zakia salutes the Spring equinox with stories of stones, Sun Ra and songs about sakura, aka cherry blossoms. There’s some classics from Mary Lou Williams, Bobbie Gentry and Odetta, and lots of brand new releases, including Florence Adooni, Nyron Higor, Maria Somerville and WOOM.

Plus, we hear from the Japanese visual artist and musician Yoshino Shigihara – whose musical alias is Yama Warashi, which means mountain spirit. She takes us to her dreams of stones, spirits and flying high above Bristol and shares the Midori Takada song that soundtracks them.”

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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Set sail with Zakia once again for another voyage to magical musical realms – including a visit to the mystical world of dreamweavers NYX. A London-based collective named after the Greek goddess of the night, their music interweaves choral music, electronics and improvisation. We join them at one of their residencies on a nature reserve, where their members share their dreams through chant and song.
Elsewhere, there are plenty more heavenly harmonies, sonic rituals and otherworldly vocals from The Norman Luboff Choir, Tarta Relena and the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. Plus, sounds from all around the world and new music from Laura Cannell, Yazz Ahmed and the duo of Confucius MC and Bastien Keb.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-03-16 Heavenly harmonies… with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Join Zakia for a joyful step into springtime, with newly rediscovered dreamy sounds from a 1970s Italian film soundtrack, a psychedelic folk- fairytale, heavenly choral sounds courtesy of NYX Choir, plus joyous new-age music from Laraaji. And, Zakia salutes International Women’s Day via a tribute to one of her all-time favourite artists, Alice Coltrane.
Plus, we hear a beautifully crafted pastoral Dreambiance mix conjured up by the much-loved curator, DJ, and ‘enlightened heathen’, Paul Hillery. A record collector and music digger who has developed a reputation for his ability to unearth lost gems from the musical ether, for his legendary, curated compilations for the record label BBE and for his transportative mixes, uploaded via his highly influential Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours persona on social media for over a decade.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-03-09 Hopeful sounds…with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Join Zakia for another voyage through sounds to lift your spirits. This week’s guest is the South African cellist, composer and vocalist Abel Selaocoe, who shares music from his new album Hymns of Bantu and reflects on dreams in South African culture as a means of communicating with the ancestors. He also introduces what he believes to be the dreamiest instrument – the begenna, a 10-stringed lyre from Ethiopia, sometimes called King David’s Harp.
Elsewhere Zakia shares more sweet sounds from South Africa and beyond. There are sacred chants from Senegalese monks, French avant-garde sounds from the 1970s and some keyboard fantasies from Beverly Glenn-Copeland. Plus a whole stack of new releases, including from Melbourne’s Intermood, Glasgow’s Rebecca Vasment, Philadelphia’s Onilu and the Stockholm duo of Johan Jutterström and Alex Zethson.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-02-23 Lift your spirits… with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

Happy Valentine’s from Dream Time HQ! Zakia celebrates love in all its forms with romantic selections, sweet sounds, soulful jazz and a wistful cover of Seal… There’s some classic loved-up favourites from the likes of João Gilberto and Yoko Ono, and plenty of new releases including seigfried komidashi, Kaito Winse and Kokoroko.

Plus we hear some words on dreams and memory from the writer, educator and sound artist Belinda Zhawi. She reflects on her dreams growing up, particularly after moving from Zimbabwe to London, and shares a poem about the meaning of home.”

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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

Zakia presents another two hours of soothing sounds and cosmic selections for your Sunday night, filled with soothing jazz from American icons Bill Evans and Herbie Mann, new sounds from Columbia, as well as some classics from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Laura Nyro.

Plus we take a voyage down the Portal with American jazz trumpeter, and dreamer, Theo Croker, who drops in whilst visiting the UK for a special Dream Manifest show at London’s Barbican Centre, which will be exploring our power to manifest our dreams in our universe. And later we’re treated to a special Dreambience mix to send you off into a world of drones, from Japanese electronic artist and record label head honcho Chihei Hatakeyama.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-02-09 Soothing sounds… with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Zakia serves up two hours of soul-nourishing selections for your Sunday night. There’s guitars, golden voices and lots of Brazilian goodness – including a voyage down The Portal to Rio de Janeiro with guitarist and composer Fabiano do Nascimento, as he shares a song that takes him back to his childhood village and reflects on memories growing up there. Plus a healthy dose of brand new music from the likes of Cole Pulice, Laurie Torres, Park Jiha and Nyron Higor.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-02-02 Soul-nourishing selections… with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Voyage with Zakia through a spacey synth-filled soundtrack for your Sunday night, filled with celestial sounds, spiritual New Age chants and psychedelic wig-outs. Expect some radiophonic experiments from Delia Derbyshire, organ instrumentals from Mamman Sani, and brand-new Buchla experiments from Maria Teriaeva.
All these synthesized sounds are in honour of this week’s special guest – the electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani. One of the first people to work with the Buchla modular synthesiser in the early 1970s, Suzanne is known for her otherworldly soundscapes, New Age experiments and iconic TV adverts. For Dream Time, she shares some dreams and transports us to an alien world via one of her own compositions.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-01-26 Synthesisers, space odes and celestial sounds… with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Zakia serves up another two hours of soothing sounds, with plenty of percussion and a sprinkling of wordsmiths throughout. Expect an homage to John Coltrane, jazz from Finland, and some electronic sounds from Jamaica…
Plus the poet and musician Joshua Idehen drops in to share one of his own poems as well as a Philip Glass piece that soundtracks his dreams.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-01-19 Poetry and percussion… with Zakia download alternatives:
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“DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams – playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Tumble down the rabbit hole with Zakia for another cosmic journey into Dream Time. There’s swirling synths, music made by mycelium and a bit of mambo, with some fun silly sounds from old favourites like Frank Chickens and more recent discoveries from the likes of Dublin’s Bog Band and Taiwan’s Yu Ching.
Plus we hear from special guest Dean Rodney Jr. – a prolific writer, musician and lead singer of The Cowboys, as well as part of bands like The Fish Police and Ravioli Me Away. Dean adds to our Dream Library with some of his nighttime adventures, whisks us away with his stories and shares a song that transports him to another place.”

Zakia Sewell – Dream Time 2025-01-12 Moogs, mycelium and mambo… with Zakia download alternatives:
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