A Soul Spot featuring R&B from Panama to Togo to Japan; a set of East Asian rock with a couple of local ringers in the mix; a half-hour of female reggae vocalists; some Balkan bangers to send you off dancing
Produced live in the studios of WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio in Richmond, Virginia every Friday from 5 to 7 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.
Song | Artist (Country) | Recording | Label
Separation | Oliver Lake (USA) | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru Global A Go-Go | Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (UK) | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat
Ain't No Sunshine | The Soul Fantastics (Panama) | Panama! 2: Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk On The Isthmus 1967-77 | Soundway Wait For Me | Roger Damawuzan (Togo) | African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s | Analog Africa Sugar Cane (Lack of Afro remix) | Bahama Soul Club feat Pat Appleton (Germany) | One Way: Remixes And Rarities | Freestyle Gimme Some Skin | Frank Penn (Bahamas) | Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay | Numero Group Autumn Winds | Los Pop Tops (Spain) | Sensacional Soul, Vol. 3 | Vampisoul Tighten Up | Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japan) | single | A&M
Play With Fire | Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha (Russia: Tuva Republic) | Re-Covers | World Village Tek Tum | The Cambodian Space Project (Cambodia-Australia) | 2011: A Space Odyssey | Metal Postcard Chinese Go Go | Happy Lucky Combo (RVA USA) | Lucky Buddha | self-released Sumaro | Anda Union (China: Inner Mongolia) | The Wind Horse | Hohhot
Xiger Xiger | Hanggai (China) | He Who Travels Far | Four Quarters Ali Shan | Dzian! (C'ville VA USA) | Ali Shan A Go-Go | self-released One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula | Dengue Fever (Cambodia-USA) | Escape From Dragon House | M80
Melody Life | Marcia Griffiths (Jamaica) | single | Coxsone Young, Gifted And Black (Jamaica mix) | Bob & Marcia (Jamaica) | This Is Reggae Music: The Golden Era 1960-1975 | Trojan Governs Of Africa | Marcia Griffiths & Kwabena Nip (Jamaica) | single | self-released
Uptown Top Ranking | Althea & Donna (Jamaica) | single | Lightning Piece Of My Heart | Mahalia Saunders (Jamaica) | single | Pama Supreme She's Leaving Home | Easy Star All-Stars feat Kirsty Rock (USA) | Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band | Easy Star Sugarwater Dub | Hollie Cook (UK) | Prince Fatty Presents Hollie Cook In Dub | Mr Bongo
L'Orient Est Roots | Bigga Bush (UK) vs. Kocani Orkestar (Macedonia) | Electric Gypsyland | Six Degrees Hermetico | Balkan Beat Box (Israel-USA) | Nu Med | JDub Disko Boy | Shantel (Germany) | Disko Partizani | Essay Go Marko Go (Robert Soko remix) | Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar (Serbia) | Golden Horns | Piranha
Pitbull Terrier | Electric Balkan Jazz Club (Germany-Greece) | Balkan Dogs | Musique Estetica God Is Busy, May I Help You? | Kultur Shock (Bosnia-Bulgaria-Japan) | We Came To Take Your Jobs Away | Koolarrow