The team behind the record labels Preference Records and The Village is here with an internet radio program.

Humans’ biggest advantage over other species is our ability to cooperate. Cooperation is difficult to establish and almost as difficult to sustain. For any individual, freeloading is always the best course of action. Reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems or even to help us draw conclusions from unfamiliar data; rather, it developed to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups.

This month’s episode features special guest Maia.

Multi-instrumentalist Maia (Sonjia Denise Hubert Harper), longtime member of Chicago’s AACM and Los Angeles-based Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, just released her album Waters Deep on The Village. Maia’s work bridges generations of creative music through her leadership in Samana, AACM’s first all-women instrumental-vocal ensemble, and her decades-long involvement with pioneering Black music institutions.