November 27, 2011

Charts November 27, 2011

WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten
1 RENE LOPEZ | E.L.S. | Nat Geo Music
2 CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT | 2011: A Space Odyssey | Metal Postcard
3 BIO RITMO | La Verdad | Electric Cowbell
4 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979 | Analog Africa
5 JONI HAASTRUP | Wake Up Your Mind | Soundway
6 OMAR SOULEYMAN | Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts | Sublime Frequencies
7 ZDOB SI ZDUB | Basta Mafia! | Asphalt Tango
8 LIJADU SISTERS | Danger | Knitting Factory
9 KIRAN AHLUWALIA | Aam Zammen: Common Ground | Avokado Artists
10 SIBIRI SAMAKE | Dambe Foli | Kanaga System Krush

Idrissa Diop & Cheikh Tidiane Tall | Diamonoye Tiopite

ARTIST:  Idrissa Diop & Cheikh Tidiane Tall 
TITLE:  Diamonoye Tiopite 
LABEL:  Teranga Beat 
REVIEW:  This is the first release for Teranga Beat Records, a new label focusing on the golden era (late 60s to mid 80s) in Senegal and other nearby West African countries, and it’s a gem.

Guelewar | Halleli N'Dakarou

ARTIST:  Guelewar 
TITLE:  Halleli N’Dakarou 
LABEL:  Teranga Beat 
REVIEW:  Release number two from Teranga Beat Records is a 1982 live set that is the final recording of the Guelewar Band of Banjul, Gambia.

November 20, 2011

Charts November 20, 2011

WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten
1 BIO RITMO | La Verdad | Electric Cowbell
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Electric Cowbell Fall 2011 45 RPM Releases | Electric Cowbell
3 ZDOB SI ZDUB | Basta Mafia! | Asphalt Tango
4 LIJADU SISTERS | Danger | Knitting Factory
5 KIRAN AHLUWALIA | Aam Zammen: Common Ground | Avokado Artists
6 CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT | 2011: A Space Odyssey | Metal Postcard
7 LOS DESTELLOS | Constelacion | Secret Stash
8 JONI HAASTRUP | Wake Up Your Mind | Soundway
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979 | Analog Africa
10 TINARIWEN | Tassili | Anti-

November 18, 2011

Zdob Si Zdub | Basta Mafia!

ARTIST:  Zdob Si Zdub 
TITLE:  Basta Mafia! 
LABEL:  Asphalt Tango 
REVIEW:  Zdob Si Zdub is a rock band from Moldova that started out in 1994 playing Russian-language punk (their first recording is entitled Moldovan Hardcore).

November 17, 2011

Program November 18, 2011

Mercifully for you, I rarely play artists on Global A Go-Go who have appeared in the Eurovision Song Contest.  But I'm making an exception this week for Balkan-punk band Zdob Si Zdub (pictured above in their Eurovision 2011 performance) from Moldova, whose new album Basta Mafia! will be released early next year.

November 13, 2011

Charts November 13, 2011

WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten
1 FRENTE CUMBIERO | Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor | Vampisoul
2 KIRAN AHLUWALIA | Aam Zammen: Common Ground | Avokado Artists
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Electric Cowbell Fall 2011 45 RPM Releases | Electric Cowbell
4 CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT | 2011: A Space Odyssey | Metal Postcard
5 LOS DESTELLOS | Constelacion | Secret Stash
6 VARIOUS ARTISTS | El Sonido De Tupac Amaru | Masstropicas
7 RENE LOPEZ | E.L.S. | Nat Geo Music
8 BIO RITMO | La Verdad | Electric Cowbell
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979 | Analog Africa
10 OMAR SOULEYMAN | Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts | Sublime Frequencies

November 10, 2011

Program November 11, 2011

Lots of new music from all over the planet on Global A Go-Go this week.  We'll get started with my favorite recent releases from France -- some artists you might be familiar with (Camille, for example) and others you probably won't know (Control Tower, anyone?).

November 6, 2011

Charts November 6, 2011

WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten
1 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Electric Cowbell Fall 2011 45 RPM Releases | Electric Cowbell
2 EL REGO | El Rego | Daptone
3 TINARIWEN | Tassili | Anti-
4 LIJADU SISTERS | Danger | Knitting Factory
5 SIBIRI SAMAKE | Dambe Foli | Kanaga System Krush
6 KAL | "Do You Know Who I Am?" [Single] | Asphalt Tango
7 LOS DESTELLOS | Constelacion | Secret Stash
8 JONI HAASTRUP | Wake Up Your Mind | Tummy Touch / Soundway
9 GRUPO 2000 | El Destape | Masstropicas
10 BIO RITMO | La Verdad | Electric Cowbell

November 3, 2011

The Lijadu Sisters | Danger

ARTIST:  The Lijadu Sisters 
TITLE:  Danger 
LABEL:  Knitting Factory 
REVIEW:  The Lijadu Sisters, Taiwo and Kehinde, are identical twins who had a fairly successful career in Nigeria as a duo and as session singers.

Sibiri Samake | Dambe Foli

ARTIST:  Sibiri Samake 
TITLE:  Dambe Foli (Traditional Music) 
LABEL:  Kanaga System Krush 
REVIEW:  Malian donso (hunters) music is cited by many musicologists as one of the sources of modern-day American blues.  And it’s at the root of one of Mali’s most popular musical exports, the “Wassoulou sound” of female singers like Oumou Sangare and Nahawa Doumbia.

Program November 4, 2011

I'll be joined by a guest in the studio this week -- Chris Dalbom (aka DJ CJ) founded WRIR's punk-rock program "Gabba Gabba Hey" back in 2005, when WRIR first went on the air.  He's now Global A Go-Go's New Orleans correspondent, and he's here to fill us in on what's up, globally speaking, in the Crescent City.