Program September 16, 2015

Photo by Jean-Claude Batista

Well, it was a great music weekend for yours truly last weekend. I got to see legendary singer Mahmoud Ahmed play to an adoring nearly-all-Ethiopian audience, plus one of my favorite contemporary bands, Cambodian-American rockers Dengue Fever, on the next night.

And somewhere in between I heard two of the best albums I've come across so far in 2015: Resistance by Ottawa, Canada's Souljazz Orchestra (pictured above) and Volume Two by Qwanqwa, a remarkable Ethiopian-American quartet.

You'll hear The Souljazz Orchestra play Afrobeat and Caribbean cadence on this week's show, and Qwanqwa will anchor an Ethiopian set that'll also feature Mahmoud Ahmed, naturally.  And I'll work in some chicha and cumbia as well, just for good measure.

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/82756
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

Yegle Nesh | Hailu Mergia (Ethiopia) | single | Philophon | 2015
Ere Mela Mela / Metche New | Mahmoud Ahmed & The Ibex Band (Ethiopia) | Ere Mela Mela | Crammed | 1975
Gelani | Qwanqwa (Ethiopia-USA) | Volume Two | FPE | 2015

E' E' E' E' E' | D.P. Express (Haiti) | Konbit! Burning Rhythms Of Haiti | A&M | 1980
Arrete Mal Parle | Fair-Nick Stars (Guadeloupe) | Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque | Strut | 197x

Ti Lu Lupe | Scorpio Universal (Haiti) | Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978 | Strut | 1978
Courage | The Souljazz Orchestra (Canada) | Resistance | Strut | 2015

La Danza Del Millionario | Chicha Libre (France-Venezuela-Mexico-USA) | Canibalismo | Crammed / Barbes | 2012
Colegiala | Los Ilusionistas (Peru) | Cumbia Beat, Vol. 2 | Vampisoul | 1979
Olvidate De Mi | La Mermelada De Jose L. Carballo (Peru) | The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cumbia | World Music Network | 1980
Inca-A-Delic | Sonido Gallo Negro (Mexico) | The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cumbia | World Music Network | 2014

El Pipiloco | Radio Cumbia (Colombia) | Demente Caliente | Polen | 2004
Soy Yo | Bomba Estereo (Colombia) | Amanecer | Sony Music Latin | 2015

Rhapsody In Berlin, Parts 1 & 2 | Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids (USA) | single | Philophon | 2015
Bull's Eye | The Souljazz Orchestra (Canada) | Resistance | Strut | 2015

Zombie | Fela And Afrika 70 (Nigeria) | Zombie | Celluloid | 1977