"Bluetooth highway is no longer, long live WhatsApp": Music From Saharan WhatsApp; a Hailu Mergia sampler; Latin psych-funk from the 60s and 70s; the latest from Ukraine's DakhaBrakha; a taste of Afro-Japanese music; kora shredding
Produced at Natural Log Studio. Broadcast on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio in Richmond, Virginia every Monday 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
Etran De L'Air | Niger | Houlhine Ayagolamane | Music From Saharan WhatsApp 01 | Sahel Sounds | 2020 Amaria Hamadalher | Niger | Tamiditine | Music From Saharan WhatsApp 05 | Sahel Sounds | 2020 Luka Productions & Kandiafa | Mali | Ballani Diarra | Music From Saharan WhatsApp 06 | Sahel Sounds | 2020 Alkibar Jr. | Mali | Soukabe Mali | Music From Saharan WhatsApp 04 | Sahel Sounds | 2020
Hailu Mergia | Ethiopia-DC USA | Shemendefer | Yene Mircha | Awesome Tapes From Africa | 2020 Hailu Mergia | Ethiopia-DC USA | Yegle Nesh | Hailu / Yegle Nesh - single | Philophon | 2015 Hailu Mergia & The Walias | Ethiopia | Tche Belew | Tche Belew | Awesome Tapes From Africa | 1977
Nico Gomez & His Afro Percussion Inc. | Netherlands-Belgium | Baila Chibiquiban (Tonton Boom edit) | Baila Chibiquiban - single | Matasuna | 1971 Irakere | Cuba | Bacalao Con Pan | Grupo Irakere | Areito | 1974 Ghetto Brothers | USA | Mastica, Chupa Y Jala | Power-Fuerza | Salsa International | 1972 Santana | USA | Jingo | Santana | Columbia | 1969
DakhaBrakha | Ukraine | Dostochka | Alambari | self-released | 2020 Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs | Bulgaria | Gajda | Cats, Dogs And Ghosts | Asphalt Tango | 2016 Morphine | USA | Wishing Well | Like Swimming | DreamWorks | 1997
Ajate | Japan | De De | Alo | 180g | 2020 King Sunny Ade & His African Beats | Nigeria | Ja Funmi | Juju Music | Mango | 1982
Toubab Krewe | USA | That Damn Squash | Stylo | self-released | 2018 Ba Cissoko | Guinee Conakry-France | Kora Rocks | Nimissa | Cristal | 2012 Afriquoi | England UK-The Gambia-RD Congo | Acid Attack | Time Is A Gift Which We Share All The Time | Mawimbi | 2020 Ba Cissoko | Guinee Conakry-France | Dandala | Sabolan | Marabi | 2003