The best of 2009, part 2 of 2: includes new releases, reissues/compilations and favorite individual songs of the year. See my complete best of 2009 list here: http://wrir.org/x/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11684
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Artist (Country) - Song - Recording - Label
Oliver Lake (USA) - Separation - Matador Of 1st & 1st - Passin' Thru Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (UK) - Global A Go-Go - Global A Go-Go - Hellcat Staff Benda Bilili (RD Congo) - Je T'aime - Tres Tres Fort - Crammed (honorable mention) So Kalmery (RD Congo-France) - Hey! Mama Lisa - Brakka System - World Village Amadou & Mariam (Mali) - Batoman - Welcome To Mali - Nonesuch (#10 new release) various artists - The Price Of Silence - The Price Of Silence - Nacional
Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited (Zimbabwe) - Mhondoro - Gwindigwi Rine Shumba (Lion In The Bush) - Water (#5 reissue) Comrade Fatso & Chabvondoka (Zimbabwe) - Like A Riot Needs A Petrol Bomb - House Of Hunger - self-released (#7 new release) Muhammed Ashraf feat Nahid Akhtar (Pakistan) - Dilbar Dilbara - The Sound Of Wonder! - B-Music (#6 reissue) Warsaw Village Band (Poland) - Is Anybody In There? - Infinity - Barbes (honorable mention) The Very Best (France-Sweden-Malawi) feat Santigold (USA) & M.I.A. (UK-Sri Lanka) - Get It Up - Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are The Very Best - Green Owl
Franco & Le TPOK Jazz (RD Congo) - Cooperation - Francophonic, Volume 2 - Sterns (#1 reissue) Empire Bakuba (RD Congo) - Nazoki - Congo 70: Rumba Rock - Syllart (#9 reissue) Extra Golden (Kenya-USA) - Gimakiny Akia - Thank You Very Quickly - Thrill Jockey (#4 new release)
Calypso Rose (Trinidad & Tobago) - Israel By Bus - Calypso Rose - World Village Sarazino (Algeria-Ecuador) - Fuera De Babilonia - Ya Foy! - Cumbancha Discovery (#2 new release) Noiseshaper (Austria) - Universal - Satellite City - Cat 'N Roof Nickodemus (USA) - Sun Children - Sun People - ESL Music Bomba Estereo (Colombia) - Fuego - Blow Up - Nacional (honorable mention)
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