Program September 5, 2014

Les Ambassadeurs (pictured above in front of their headquarters, Le Motel De Bamako), one of West Africa's greatest bands, reunited this summer for a series of ten concerts, none unfortunately in the USA.

Sterns Records has just released the essential compilation of the best of Les Ambassadeurs; most of the tracks haven't been available since the original vinyl went out of print, so this is a major occasion for African music fans.  You'll hear a track from that compilation on this week's edition of Global A Go-Go.

Also this week: two of the bands featured in Sunday's Modlin Center opening-day event; new Afrobeat by Sia Tolno and Zongo Junction; and an unlikely Cuban tribute to Buddy Holly, who would have been 78 years old this Sunday.

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/77090
All the podcasts: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go


Song | Artist (Country) | Recording | Label | Year

Separation | Oliver Lake (USA) | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997
Global A Go-Go | Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (UK) | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001

Disko Partizani | Shantel (Germany) | Disko Partizani | Crammed | 2007
BumTras | Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra (Serbia) | Gipsy Manifesto | Piranha | 2013
Opa Cupa | Slavic Soul Party (USA) | Teknochek Collision | Barbes | 2007
Azad Azad | Red Baraat (USA) | Shruggy Ji | Sinj | 2013

Dem Bobo | Femi Kuti (Nigeria) | Africa For Africa | Knitting Factory | 2011
Anywhere Trouble | Franck Biyong & Massak (Cameroon) | Haiti Market | Le Son Du Maquis | 2007
Mouka Mouka | Sia Tolno (Sierra Leone-Guinee Conakry) | African Woman | Lusafrica | 2014

32 Bit | Superpowers (USA) | Trance For Nation | Young Cub | 2008
The Van That Got Away | Zongo Junction (USA) | No Discount | Electric Cowbell | 2014

N'na | Les Ambassadeurs (Mali) | Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako | Sterns | 1977

Ram Pasonaye | Dafra Star (Burkina Faso) | Voltaique Panoramique, Volume 1: Popular Music In Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso 1968-1978 | Kindred Spirits | 197x
Taximen | Amadou Balake (Burkina Faso) | Taximen | Sacodis | 1978

Not Fade Away | Ned Sublette (USA) feat Los Munequitos De Matanzas (Cuba) | Cowboy Rumba | Palm Pictures | 1999
You Shook Me All Night Long | Cecilia Noel (Peru-USA) | Havana Rocks | Compass | 2014
Bilingual Girl | Yerba Buena (Venezuela-Cuba-USA) feat Joe Bataan (USA) | Island Life | Razor & Tie | 2005
Acelera'o | Arnaldo Y Su Talisman (Cuba) | Arnaldo Y Su Talisman | Egrem | 2003

Tropicoso | Jungle Fire (USA) | Tropicoso | Nacional | 2014