Spiritual jazz from Italy and the USA; new desert blues by Sidi Toure, Bombino and Imarhan; more classics from West Africa's golden age; Afro-champeta, including the first new recording by Abelardo Carbono in decades
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
Old & New Dreams | USA | Guinea | Old & New Dreams | ECM | 1979 Nicola Conte & Spiritual Galaxy | Italy-Sweden-Finland-USA-South Africa-England UK-Ghana | Uhuru Na Umoja | Let Your Light Shine On | MPS | 2018
Pharoah Sanders | USA | Our Roots (Began In Africa) | Message From Home | Verve | 1996
Noura Mint Seymali | Mauritania | Richa | Arbina | Glitterbeat | 2016 Tinariwen | Mali | Chet Boghassa | Amassakoul | World Village | 2003 Sidi Toure | Mali | Handaraizo | Toubalbero | Thrill Jockey | 2018
Bombino | Niger | Imajghane | Deran | Partisan | 2018 Amadou & Mariam | Mali | La Realite | Dimanche A Bamako | All Other | 2004 Imarhan | Algeria | Ehad Wa Dagh | Temet | City Slang | 2018
Bembeya Jazz National | Guinee Conakry | Armee Guineenne | single | Syliphone | 1969 Cornaire Salifou Michel Et L'Orchestre El Rego & Ses Commandos | Benin | Gangnidodo | African Scream Contest 2 | Analog Africa | 197x
Pierre Sandwini Et L'Orchestre Super Volta De La Capitale | Burkina Faso | Yamb Ney Capitale | Le Troubadour De La Savane - 1978/1982 | Born Bad | 1977 Etoile 2000 | Senegal | Boubou N'Gary | Boubou N'Gary | Dakar Sound | 1981
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera | Colombia | Ataole | Radio Bakongo | Network | 2003 Abelardo Carbono Y Su Grupo feat Quantic | Colombia-England UK | La Pina Madura | single | Names You Can Trust | 2018 Wganda Kenya | Colombia | Shakalaode | single | Discos Fuentes | 1976
Systema Solar | Colombia | Tukupakata | La Revancha Del Burro | Sambumbia | 2013