Global A Go-Go's favorite recordings of 2022, part 1 of a 3 part series: top ten new albums, plus ten more honorable mentions
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Top Ten New Albums Of 2022 1. Sona Jobarteh (Gambia-England UK) | Badinyaa Kumoo | African Guild 2. Roger Damawuzan (Togo-France) | Seda | Hot Casa 3. Şatellites (Israel) | Şatellites | Batov 4. Kiko Villamizar (Colombia-USA) | Todo El Mundo | Wepa 5. Madalitso Band (Malawi) | Musakayike | Bongo Joe 6. Gonora Sounds (Zimbabwe) | Hard Times Never Kill | The Vital Record / Dust-to-Digital 7. Calexico (USA-México) | El Mirador | Anti- 8. Imarhan (Algeria) | Aboogi | City Slang 9. Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band (Burkina Faso) | Sonbonbela | Sublime Frequencies 10. Sonido Gallo Negro (México) | Paganismo | T-Vox
Honorable Mention Afro-Zen Allstars (RVA USA) | The Buzz And The Bells | AZA Music Cabruêra (Brazil) | Sol A Pino | Polen Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul (Morocco-France-Israel) | Gnawa Soul | Musjomusic / Nuits d'Afrique Kandy Guira (Burkina Faso-France) | Nagtaba | Vlad Productions Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs (Bulgaria) | Doghouse | Asphalt Tango Oliver Nayoka (Nigeria) | Oka Mmadu | Odogwu Entertainment / Palenque Noori & His Dorpa Band (Sudan) | Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass From Sudan's Red Sea Coast | Ostinato The Shaolin Afronauts (Australia) | The Fundamental Nature Of Being | Freestyle Star Feminine Band (Benin) | In Paris | Born Bad Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin (Mali-USA) | Ali | Dead Oceans
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
Imarhan | Algeria | Tindjatan | Aboogi | City Slang | 2022 Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin | Mali-USA | Tamalla | Ali | Dead Oceans | 2022 Noori & His Dorpa Band | Sudan | Qwal | Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass From Sudan's Red Sea Coast | Ostinato | 2022 Afro-Zen Allstars | RVA USA | Longing | The Buzz And The Bells | AZA Music | 2021
Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul | Morocco-France-Israel | Kouyou Kouyou | Gnawa Soul | Musjomusic / Nuits d’Afrique | 2022 The Shaolin Afronauts | Australia | High Noises | The Fundamental Nature Of Being | Freestyle | 2022 Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band | Burkina Faso | Serejugu | Sonbonbela | Sublime Frequencies | 2022 Roger Damawuzan | Togo-France | Shut Up | Seda | Hot Casa | 2022
Şatellites | Israel | Yekte | Şatellites | Batov | 2022 Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs | Bulgaria | Cats In | Doghouse | Asphalt Tango | 2022
Calexico | USA-México | Constellation | El Mirador | Anti- | 2022 Sonido Gallo Negro | México | The Model | Paganismo | T-Vox | 2022 Kiko Villamizar | USA-Colombia | El Grillo | Todo El Mundo | Wepa | 2022 Cabruêra | Brazil | Deixa A Gira Girar | Sol A Pino | Polen | 2022
Kandy Guira | Burkina Faso-France | Nagtaba | Nagtaba | Vlad Productions | 2021 Star Feminine Band | Benin | Les Filles à L'école | In Paris | Born Bad | 2022 Sona Jobarteh | England UK-The Gambia | Musolou | Badinyaa Kumoo | African Guild | 2022
Madalitso Band | Malawi | Jingo Janga | Musakayike | Bongo Joe | 2022 Gonora Sounds | Zimbabwe | Kusaziva Kufa | Hard Times Never Kill | The Vital Record / Dust-to-Digital | 2022
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