My 1-hour dinner music playlist for the Better Housing Coalition's Stay Home RVA non-event gala, plus a lagniappe set for the dance party that could follow your dinner party -- the whole thing is a "best of Global A Go-Go" sampler
Produced live in the studios of WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio in Richmond, Virginia every Wednesday from 3 to 5 PM. Available as a webstream simulcast at wrir.org. Downloads for rebroadcast on other non-profit radio stations and as podcasts via the A-Infos Radio Project at radio4all.net. And more information about all of those options and more on my blog, globalagogo.com.
Artist | Country | Song | Recording | Label | Year
Oliver Lake | USA | Separation | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | England UK | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001
Kristi Stassinopoulou | Greece | Vale Da Lua | Taksidoskopio | Protasis Music | 2006 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Pakistan | Mustt Mustt | Mustt Mustt | Real World | 1990
Mulatu Astatke | Ethiopia | Netsanet | New York-Addis-London: The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975 | Strut | 1974 Gal Costa | Brazil | Tuareg | Gal Costa (Cinema Olympia) | Philips | 1969 Rachid Taha | Algeria-France | Ya Rayah | Carte Blanche | Barclay | 1997
Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective | Belize-Guatemala-Honduras | Amunegu | Watina | Stonetree | 2007 Andres Landero | Colombia | Cuando Lo Negro Sea Bello | Yo Ameneci | Vampisoul | 1979
Manu Chao | France-Spain | Clandestino / Desaparecido | Clandestino | Because Music | 1998 Lila Downs | Mexico-USA | Viene La Muerte Echando Rasero | Balas Y Chocolate | Sony Music Latin | 2015
Bembeya Jazz National | Guinee Conakry | Armee Guineenne | Homage A Demba Camara | Syliphone | 1969 Abdullah Ibrahim & Basil 'Mannenberg' Coetzee | South Africa | Next Stop Soweto | African Horns | Kaz | 197x
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 | Nigeria | Water No Get Enemy - Edit | Best Of The Black President | Knitting Factory | 1975 Rokia Traore | Mali | Sikey | Beautiful Africa | Nonesuch | 2013
Faraon Bantu Sound System | Colombia-Peru | Macaco Mata El Toro (Novalima remix) | Profesias Del Emperador Bantu | Chusma | 2011 Penny Penny | South Africa | Siyayi Vuma | single | W Baloyi Music Production | 2016 Professor Angel Dust & The pH Force | Mexico-Canada-Spain | Oye Como Va (feat Mucho Muchacho) | Guapacheando | Virgin Spain | 2000 Baaba Maal | Senegal | Goree | Firin' In Fouta | Mango | 1994
Pete Rodriguez | USA-England UK | I Like It Like That (Aaron Jerome remix) | I Like It Like That | Fania | 2008