New releases and new reissues from West Africa: kora, salsa Senegalaise, Malian superstars and Nigerian juju; Indo-Pakistani devotional music and a band from Richmond with that as an influence; a set of what Brazilians call MPB: musica popular brasileira or Brazilian pop music
Produced live in the studios of WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio in Richmond, Virginia every Wednesday 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
Sourakata Koite | Senegal-France | Moussa | En Hollande | Awesome Tapes From Africa | 1984 Dawda Jobarteh | The Gambia-Denmark | Begging Boys | I Met Her By The River | Sterns | 2019 Star Band De Dakar | Senegal | Guajira Ven | Psicodelia Afro-Cubana De Senegal | Ostinato | 197x
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba | Mali | Kanougnon | Miri | Out Here | 2019 Salif Keita | Mali | Tonton | Un Autre Blanc | Naïve | 2019
King Sunny Ade & His African Beats | Nigeria | Synchro System | Synchro System | Mango | 1983 Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars | Nigeria | Yabis | Sewele | Strut | 1986
Arun Ramamurthy Trio | USA-India | Maha G | Jazz Carnatica | self-released | 2014 Lobo Marino | RVA USA | Smoke & Rock / The River Is Flowing | At Appalachian South Folklife Center | self-released | 2019
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Pakistan | Mustt Mustt | Mustt Mustt | Real World | 1990 Sistashree | USA | Shravanabelagola (A Jain Ascetic, In A White Pond) | Tandava | self-released | 2007
Tim Maia | Brazil | Nobody Can Live Forever | Tim Maia | Polydor | 1976 Barro | Brazil | Antimusa | Somos | self-released | 2018 Frederico 7 | Brazil-USA | Vibran Los Ancestros | Exotico Americano | self-released | 2019 Lenine | Brazil | O Homem Dos Olhos De Raio X | Falange Canibal | BMG Brasil | 2002 Criolo | Brazil | Bogota | No Na Orelha | Sterns | 2012
Bixiga 70 | Brazil | Ventania | III | Glitterbeat | 2015