Music from places the president of the USA calls shitholes: Haiti, a country he specifically singled out; and Africa, focusing on the poorest nations on the world's poorest continent
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
Ti Paris | Haiti | Cochon St. Antoine | Ti Paris Et Sa Guitare | Haiti | 1958 RAM | Haiti | Tout Pitit | 6: Manman M Se Ginen | self-released | 2016 Rodrigue Milien Et Son Groupe Combite Creole | Haiti | Rapadou | Coutt Bas Residence | Marc | 1975
Lakou Mizik | Haiti | Zao Pile Te | Wa Di Yo | Cumbancha Discovery | 2016 Les Loups Noirs D'Haiti | Haiti | Jet Biguine | Les Loups Noirs D'Haiti | Hit Parade | 1973
Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet | Mali-USA | Sunjata | Ladilikan | World Circuit | 2017 Iftiin Band feat Mahmud Abdallah "Jerry" Hussen | Somalia | Anaa Qaylodhaankan | Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa | Ostinato | 197x
Mariem Hassan | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Magat Milkitna Dulaa | Deseos | Nubenegra | 2005 Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited | Zimbabwe | Nyoka Musango | Ndangariro | Earthworks | 1983
O.K. Jazz | RD Congo | Bazonzele Mama Ana | O.K. Jazz 1964 No. 2 | Pathe | 1964 Tarika | Madagascar | Ady | Son Egal | Xenophile | 1997 The Very Best | France-Sweden-Malawi | Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (The Very Best remix) | Esau Mwamwaya And Radioclit Are The Very Best | Green Owl | 2008
Orchestre National De Mauritanie | Mauritania | Senam-Mosso | Orchestre National De Mauritanie | Sahel Sounds | 1973 Orchestre Tropical Fiesta Imperial | Central African Republic | Reverence A Nos Souverains | Hit Parade: Special Couronnement, 4 Decembre 1977 | Dasora Productions | 1978
Tal National | Niger | Tchana | Kaani | FatCat | 2013 Hamad Kalkaba & The Golden Sounds | Cameroon | Gandjal Kessoum | 1974-1975 | Analog Africa | Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin | Togo-Benin | Babaa Na Ayele | Tropicana Souvenir | Philips | 1973
Dry Yai feat Pupa Bajah & The Baw-Waw Society | Sierra Leone | Ease Di Tension | single | Modiba | 2007 Magic System | Cote D'Ivoire | Mamadou | single | EMI France | 2013