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The emphasis this week is on new releases: Highlife-jazz from Ghana; The Shaolin Afronauts' 5-album set The Fundamental Nature of Being; Afropop out of Guineé-Bissau and Togo; young Nigerians playing Afrobeat; Wassoulou rock from Burkina Faso; a smoking reissue of Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou Benin
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
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley | Ghana | Love Supreme | Gyedu-Blay Ambolley And Hi-Life Jazz | Agogo | 2022 Florence Adooni | Ghana | Fo Yelle | Yinne / Fo Yelle - Single | Philophon | 2022
The Shaolin Afronauts | Australia | Inside The Flame Burns Brightly Still | The Fundamental Nature Of Being | Freestyle | 2022 The Shaolin Afronauts | Australia | Sun Spiral | The Fundamental Nature Of Being | Freestyle | 2022 The Shaolin Afronauts | Australia | Sugar John | The Fundamental Nature Of Being | Freestyle | 2022
Dogo Du Togo | Togo-DC USA | Sokewo | Dogo Du Togo | self-released | 2022 The Garifuna Collective | Belize-Guatemala-Honduras | Pomona | Ayó | Cumbancha | 2013 Amadou & Mariam | Mali | Coulibaly | Dimanche à Bamako | Because | 2004 Kimi Djabaté | Guineé Bissau-Portugal | Alidonke | Alidonke - Single | Cumbancha | 2022
Lagos Thugs | Nigeria | Innocent Blood (Let It Be Known) | Mukambo Presents Global Afrobeat Movement Vol. 3 | NYP | 2022 Tony Allen & The Afro Messengers | Nigeria | No Discrimination | No Discrimination | Grandstar | 1979
Bamba Wassoulou Groove | Mali | Donso Djiné | Dankélé | Lusafrica | 2020 Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band | Burkina Faso | Sonbanbela | Sonbonbela | Sublime Frequencies | 2022 Moussa Doumbia | Mali-Côte d'Ivoire | Keleya | Keleya / Wanmi - Single | SID (Société Ivoirienne Du Disque) | 1974
The Wonderful Alex Konadu's Band | Ghana | W'awu Da Ho No | Asaase Asa | Makossa | 1976 T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo | Benin | It's A Vanity | Afro-Funk | Albarika Store | 2022-197x Vaudou Game | Togo-France | La Vie C'est Bon | Kidayú | Hot Casa | 2016 Dr. Victor Olaiya's International All Stars | Nigeria | Omelebele | Omelebele / Omolanke - Single | Philips | 1971