A repressing of the best gnawa album I've ever heard; the sci-fi psychedelia of Mexico City's Monstruos Del Mañana; the rediscovery of Helen Nkume; world music from a Japanese perspective; new Afropop from Kimi Djabaté and Black AD; some post-Mas soca
Produced live in the studios of WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio in Richmond, Virginia every Sunday from 1 to 3 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
Club D'Elf | USA | Rope On Fire | Electric Moroccoland | Face Pelt | 2011 Maalem Mahmoud Gania | Morocco | Sadati Houma El Bouhala | Colours Of The Night | Hive Mind | 2023-2013
Milton Nascimento | Brazil | San Vicente | Clube Da Esquina | Odeon | 1972 Monstruos Del Mañana | México | Bwana Afya | Espejos | self-released | 2022 Nicola Conte & Spiritual Galaxy | Italy-Sweden-Finland-USA-South Africa-England UK-Ghana | Cosmic Peace | Let Your Light Shine On | MPS | 2018
Florence Adooni | Ghana | Mam Pe'ela Su'ure | Mam Pe'ela Su'ure / Naba Aferda - Single | Philophon | 2021 Lijadu Sisters | Nigeria | Orere-Elejigbo | Horizon Unlimited | Afrodisia | 1979 Helen Nkume | Nigeria | Music | And Her Young Timers Band | Dig This Way | 2023-1978
Ajate | Japan | Sowah | Alo | 180g | 2020 Minyo Crusaders | Japan | Aizu Bandaisan | Echoes Of Japan | Mais Um | 2019 of Tropique! | Japan | Guacharaca Moo | Buster Goes West | Electric Cowbell | 2023
Kimi Djabaté | Guiné-Bissau-Portugal | Kambem | Dindin | Cumbancha | 2023 Cheikh Lô | Burkina Faso-Sénégal | Kelle Magni | Lamp Fall | World Circuit | 2005 Kandy Guira | Burkina Faso-France-Canada | Africa (feat Jowee Omicil) | Nagtaba | Vlad Productions | 2021 Black AD | France | Mali | Ididja, Volume 1 & 2 | self-released | 2022
Scrunter | Trinidad & Tobago | She Want Me To Sing In She Party | Soca Baccanal | J.B.S. | 1986 Shadow | Trinidad & Tobago | Bass Man | Bass Man: 1974 Road March King | Straker's | 1974 Olatunji | Trinidad & Tobago | Engine Room | Engine Room - Single | De Red Boyz | 2022