A set of Lusophone music; great African guitars; new music from Anthony Joseph, plus other spoken word artists working with Afro-Caribbean music; the new generation of Saharan desert blues
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 (UK) | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001
Sam Mangwana (RD Congo) | Galo Negro | Galo Negro | Fairwood Music | 2016 Os Apolos (Cabo Verde) | Ilyne | Space Echo: The Mystery Behind The Cosmic Sound Of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed | Analog Africa | 1978 Junip (Sweden) | Oba, La Vem Ela | Brazilian Beats 7 | Mr Bongo | 2013 Bonga (Angola) | De Maos A Abanar | Best Of Bonga | Lusafrica | 2000 Ana Moura (Portugal) | Dia De Folga | Moura | Universal Music Classics | 2016
Bamba Wassoulou Groove (Mali) | Gonifo Bourama | Farima | Label Bleu | 2015 Ama Maiga (Mali) & Melodie Volta (Burkina Faso) | Deny Tologuelen | Voltaique Panoramique, Volume 1: Popular Music In Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso 1968-1978 | Kindred Spirits | 1976
Poet & The Roots (Jamaica-UK) | Five Nights Of Bleeding | Dread Beat An' Blood | Front Line | 1978 Benjamin Zephaniah and Eliza Carthy with Trans-Global Underground and Simon Emmerson (UK) | Tam Lyn Retold | The Imagined Village | Real World | 2007
Ikwunga The Afrobeat Poet (Nigeria-USA) | Di Bombs | Calabash: Afrobeat Poems, Volume 1 | Rebisi Hut | 2004 Anthony Joseph (Trinidad & Tobago-UK) | Slinger | Caribbean Roots | Heavenly Sweetness / Strut | 2016