GLOBAL A GO-GO: November 2013

November 24, 2013

Charts November 24, 2013

Program November 22, 2013

I'm featuring a set of one of my current pleasures, Turkish psychedelic rock from the 1970's, on this week's edition of Global A Go-Go. You'll hear a recent reissue by Alpay, two tracks from the legendary Baris Manco, and one by Derdiyoklar Ikilisi (pictured above), a band that knows how to travel in style.

Also this week: what's new in the world of Afropop, mo' Balkan beats, and salsa from around the world.

Mar Seck | Vagabonde

ARTIST: Mar Seck
TITLE: Vagabonde: From Super Cap-Vert To Number One
LABEL: Teranga Beat
Mar Seck was a Senegalese singer who started his professional career at age 19 during a seminal stage in the development of modern African music. In the late 60s and early 70s, many African nations won their independence from European colonials. Traditional idioms across Africa were now supported, and in some cases mandated - as opposed to suppressed or swept aside - by the new African governments.

Charts November 17, 2013

Joseph Kabasele | Le Grand Kalle: His Life, His Music

ARTIST: Joseph Kabasele
TITLE: Le Grand Kalle: His Life, His Music
LABEL: Sterns
On the heels of Ken Braun’s comprehensive Franco and Rochereau compilations, here’s Braun and Sterns Africa’s look at the third member of Congolese music’s big three: Joseph Kabasele, aka Le Grand Kalle.

ARTIST: The Liberators
TITLE: Power Struggle
LABEL: Record Kicks
Afrobeat is popular all over the world these days, and Australia is no exception: in the last few years, we’ve heard a bunch of fine Aussie Afrobeat combos: the Shaolin Afronauts, Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and the Afrobiotics. Add The Liberators to that list.

"I have a VW Bug and a guitar / I'm for Flamengo and I have a black girl named Tereza / I'm a boy of average intelligence, that's right / But even so I am very happy, content, I don't owe anything to anybody"
Jorge Ben Jor, "Pais Tropical," 1969

Jorge Ben Jor (pictured above) is Brazil's everyman-poet, a man who's beyond legendary in his home country. He's on tour in the USA for the first time in eight years, and I'm looking forward to seeing him this Saturday at the Howard Theatre in DC. To get warmed up for the event, this week I'll spin a set of his tunes and a medley of covers as well.

Charts November 10, 2013

Program November 8, 2013

How about a set of Balkan blasters this week? Como no! I'll be spinning some tunes that will have you up and spinning, including a pre-release from Kal (pictured above), one of my favorite bands from ex-Yugoslavia, and new ones by the Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra and from a pairing of France's Latcho Drom with Hungary's Parno Graszt.

I'll also have a ticket giveaway in which one lucky listener will win a pair of passes to see reggae legends Black Uhuru at the Southern in Charlottesville. More info here:

http://www.thesoutherncville.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/537483306328944

ARTIST: Kal
TITLE: Romology
LABEL: ARC
The third album from the Belgrade-based combo Kal (“black” in Romani, a word often used by Europeans to describe the Roma, Europe’s fastest-growing ethnic group) continues and expands their “rock ‘n’ Roma” sound.

ARTIST: Juana Molina
TITLE: Wed 21
LABEL: Crammed Discs
Her sixth album and another stellar, solid release. Whereas her previous albums have been mostly loops and layers of her guitar and voice, mixed with various electronic pings and pongs, this one has taken on more instruments, samples and musicians.

November's Global A Go-Go picks:

VCUarts Music Department hosts a three-day festival of flamenco music and dance November 1-3 at the Singleton Center for the Performing Arts on VCU's campus
Klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso (no, that's not a typo) Andy Statman visits the University of Virginia's Old Cabell Hall on Tuesday November 5
Legendary Brazilian singer Jorge Ben Jor (pictured above) is on a rare USA tour which includes an appearance at DC's Howard Theatre on Saturday November 16
The Easy Star All-Stars celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album Dub Side Of The Moon (yes, an all-reggae Pink Floyd cover album) with a performance of the full album at the Hamilton in DC on Sunday November 24, featuring a live dub mix by Jesse (Dubmatix) King

Have an event you'd like me to include, or a suggestion for the concert calendar? Just drop me a line at globalagogoradio [at] gmail [dot] com, or leave me a message right here.

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Charts November 3, 2013

Alpay | Yekte

ARTIST: Alpay
TITLE: Yekte
LABEL: Pharaway Sounds
Pharaway Sounds continues its excavation of 1970’s Turkish rock with this little gem of a compilation. Alpay is a singer from Ankara who was quite popular back then, mostly known for his pop and folk material. But the Anatolian psych-rock movement was so strong that it swept in artists from all styles.

ARTIST: Black Bazar
TITLE: Round 2
LABEL: Lusafrica
“Black Bazar” is a concept as well as the name of a band of contemporary Congolese musicians. Like the concept, the band membership is not static. It changes to illustrate an idea. The goal is to present great modern Congolese music that reflects the influences of the day.

ARTIST: Omar Souleyman
TITLE: Wenu Wenu
LABEL: Ribbon Music
Here’s the first studio album by one of the world’s most-recorded artists. Souleyman, a native of Syria currently living in Turkey, is the king of electronic dabke, a 21st century version of Syrian folk music where synthesizer replaces traditional instruments, beats are straightened out to four-on-the-floor, and tempos are frequently dialed up to 120 to 150 bpm’s.

ARTIST: Systema Solar
TITLE: La Revancha Del Burro
LABEL: Sambumbia
Systema Solar is a multimedia (film, performance and costume along with music) septet that gives Colombian roots music a neo-psychedelic injection and a hip hop/electronica pants-kick.

GLOBAL A GO-GO

November 24, 2013

Charts November 24, 2013

November 21, 2013

Program November 22, 2013

November 19, 2013

Mar Seck | Vagabonde

November 17, 2013

Charts November 17, 2013

November 14, 2013

Joseph Kabasele | Le Grand Kalle: His Life, His Music

The Liberators | Power Struggle

Program November 15, 2013

November 10, 2013

Charts November 10, 2013

November 7, 2013

Program November 8, 2013

Kal | Romology

Juana Molina | Wed 21

November 2013 Concert Calendar

November 3, 2013

Charts November 3, 2013

November 1, 2013

Alpay | Yekte

Black Bazar | Round 2

Omar Souleyman | Wenu Wenu

Systema Solar | La Revancha Del Burro

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