Falsetto singers in reggae; Afro-funk and Afrobeat; new music from the father of Ethio-jazz; mento to calypso to soca
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 | Year
Separation | Oliver Lake (USA) | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997 Global A Go-Go | Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (UK) | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001
Police And Thieves | Junior Murvin (Jamaica) | single | Wild Flower | 1976 The Time Has Come | Slim Smith (Jamaica) | single | High Note | 1973 Ode To Joy (Babylon Can't Control I) | Cornell Campbell (Jamaica) Meets Soothsayers (UK) | Nothing Can Stop Us | Strut | 2013 She's In Love | Dubmatix (Canada) feat U-Roy & Cornell Campbell (Jamaica) | Rebel Massive | Echo Beach | 2013
Adjro Mi | Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou (Benin) | Volume 3: The Skeletal Essences Of Afro Funk 1969-1980 | Analog Africa | 197x Balboa Da Silva | Bixiga 70 (Brazil) | Daora: Underground Sounds Of Urban Brasil - Hip Hop, Beats, Afro & Dub | Mais Um Discos | 2011
32 Bit | The Superpowers (USA) | Trance For Nation | Young Cub | 2008 Bizzar | Peter Solo (Togo-France) | Analog Vodoo | Buda Musique | 2013 Na So We See Am | Femi Kuti (Nigeria) | No Place For My Dream | Knitting Factory | 2013
Gambella | Mulatu Astatke (Ethiopia) | Sketches Of Ethiopia | Jazz Village | 2013 Tezalegn Yetentu | Getatchew Mekuria (Ethiopia) & The Ex (Netherlands) | Moa Anbessa | Terp | 2006
Chik Chikka | Rattlemouth (RVA USA) | 5 | self-released | 2011 Babur Part 1 (S. Mos remix) | Arat Kilo (France) feat Socalled (Canada) | 12 Days In Addis | Only Music | 2013 ABCs | K'Naan (Somalia-Canada) feat Chubb Rock (USA) | Troubadour | A&M | 2009
Boogu Yagga Gal | Chin's Calypso Sextet (Jamaica) | Boogu Yagga Gal: Jamaican Mento | Heritage | 195x Goombay Drum | Lord Mouse & The Kalypso Katz (Germany) | Go Calypsonian | Piranha | 2013 Obeah Wedding | Mighty Sparrow (Trinidad & Tobago) | 16 Carnival Hits | Ice | 1966 She Wants Me To Sing In The Party | Scrunter (Trinidad & Tobago) | This Is Soca | Sire | 1987
Differentology (Major Lazer remix) | Bunji Garlin (Trinidad & Tobago) | single | VP | 2013