Some Jazzy ska; Balkan brass & beats; the golden age of West Africa; the music you'll hear on global dance floors this summer
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.
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
Toxic | The Bluebeaters (Italy) | Everybody Knows | Record Kicks | 2015 Geronimo's Free | Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub (USA) | The Scientist Meets Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub | Liberated Zone | 2013 Shiverman | Fat Freddy's Drop (New Zealand) | Dr. Boondigga And The Big BW | The Drop | 2009
Opa Cupa | Saban Bajramovic (Serbia) | Gypsy King Of Serbia | ARC | 1977 Honey Dripper | Tipsy Oxcart (USA) | Upside Down | self-released | 2015 Op Je Hoede | Amsterdam Klezmer Band (Netherlands) | Blitzmash | self-released | 2014
Nenea Gorbaciov - Hora Cosmica | Zdob Si Zdub (Moldova) | Ethnomecanica | Cuibul | 2006 Move It | Balkan Beat Box (Israel-USA) | Blue Eyed Black Boy | Nat Geo Music | 2010
Boulmamine | Orchestra Baobab (Senegal) | Mouhamadou Bamba | Jambaar | 1980 Salamouti | Amara Toure (Guinee Conakry) Et L'Orchestre Massako (Gabon) | 1973-1980 | Analog Africa | 1980
Mali Denou | Les Ambassadeurs (Mali) | Rebirth | World Village | 2015 Maliba | Kaloum Star (Guinee Conakry) | African Pearls: Guinee 70, The Discotheque Years | Syllart | 1975
Tsekeleke | Nozinja (South Africa) | Lodge | Warp | 2015 Mes Divas | Medhy Custos (Guadeloupe) | Ouvrir Mes Ailes | Up Music | 2009 Freestyle Love | Stereo Maracana (Brazil) | Combatente | Maianga | 2002 Solo Tu | Bomba Estereo (Colombia) | Amanecer | Sony Music Latin | 2015 Our Time | Bunji Garlin (Trinidad & Tobago) | Soca Gold 2015 | VP | 2015
Mariana | The Very Best (Malawi-Sweden-UK) | Makes A King | Moshi Moshi | 2015