Lots of new music this week: the whole first hour is new releases and new reissues on an Afro-funk and Latin tip, the second hour has more new sounds from Mali and Niger, a look at the Balkab-Caribbean connection, and we finish with some particularly crazed Balkan-style vocalists
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
The Budos Band | USA | Veil Of Shadows | V | Daptone | 2019 Muito Kaballa | Germany | Lugar Ao Sol | Lugar Ao Sol - single | Switchstance | 2019
Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella | Italy | Free Your Mind | Free Your Mind | Schema | 2019 Alma Afrobeat Ensemble | Spain | Remember | Monkey See, Monkey Do | Slow Walk Music | 2019
Miramar | RVA USA | Salida | Salida / Urgencia - single | Daptone | 2019 Los Revolucionarios | Colombia | Los Carasucias | Los Revolucionarios | Vampisoul | 1974 Grupo Fantasma | USA | Nubes | American Music Vol. VII | Blue Corn Music | 2019 Robert Y Su Banda | Colombia | Soy La Ley | Soy La Ley | Vampisoul | 1978
Combo Chimbita | USA | Esto Es Real | Ahomale (advance tracks) | ANTI- | 2019 Bomba Estereo Y Systema Solar | Colombia | Carnavalero | Carnavalero - single | Sony Latin | 2019
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba | Mali | Deli | Miri | Out Here | 2019 Hama Sankare | Mali | Foulbe | Niafunke | Clermont Music | 2019
Gypsyphonic Disko | USA-Colombia | Solar Phonic | Nola-Phonic Volume 1 | self-released | 2010 DJ Panko | Spain-Colombia-RD Congo | Clavo Y Martillo (Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera, DJ Panko remix) | Panko Pa' Palenque | Palenque | 2019 Balkan Beat Box | Israel-USA | War Again | Blue Eyed Black Boy | Nat Geo Music | 2010
Fanfare Ciocarlia | Romania | Kan Marau La (feat Dan Armeanca) | Queens & Kings | Asphalt Tango | 2007 Saban Bajramovic | Serbia | Vasilica | Pijanica I Ciganski Kralj | Nika / Rebeat | 1999 Jaakko Laitinen & Vaara Raha | Finland | Vaalien Alla | Vaalian Alla - single | self-released | 2019