Program September 23, 2015

Richmond has a lot of visitors this week, and maybe a few of them will be tuning in to WRIR and checking out Global A Go-Go.  So I've been thinking about what I'd want to tell them about my home town.

We've got a pretty great music scene here for all sorts of sounds: punk and metal, bluegrass and old-time, indie rock and indie hip-hop, jazz and classical, roots rock and singer-songwriters.  If you live here and you don't know have at least one friend who's a musician, you're probably just lame.  Or lying.

Of course, my thing is world music, and we've got some amazing, imaginative, skilled and experienced world music acts here in Richmond.  (None more experienced than Hotel X, pictured above in their original 1992 incarnation.)  I'll feature four of them on this week's program.

Also this week: some songs from behind the former Iron Curtain, that rockin' Central African guitar sound, and what's new in desert blues.

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/82875
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

Avtandii Gadinadira | Zedashe (Georgia) | Our Earth And Water | Living Root Music | 2015
Son Kolhoznika | Iva Nova (Russia) | Chemodan | Geometriya | 2006
Hey, Gangway! | Ersatz Musika (Germany-Russia) | Voice Letter | Asphalt Tango | 2007
Demoni | Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs (Bulgaria) | Demoni | Asphalt Tango | 2012
Codrule, Marite Domn | Subcarpati (Romania) | Pielea De Gaina | self-released | 2014

Double-Double | Nyboma & Les Kamale Dynamiques (RD Congo) | Double-Double | Celluloid | 1982
Gore | Lura (Portugal-Cabo Verde) | Heranca | Lusafrica | 2015

Nazoki | Empire Bakuba (RD Congo) | African Pearls: Congo 70, Rumba Rock | Syllart | 1972
Duka | Brian Chilala & Ngoma Zasu (Zambia) | Vangaza! | SWP | 2015

Orisha | Hotel X (RVA USA) | unreleased | 2010
Oriza | Bio Ritmo (RVA USA) | forthcoming single | Peace & Rhythm | 2015

Lebanese Hillbilly | Rattlemouth (RVA USA) | 5 | self-released | 2011
Yewnet Messosso | Afro-Zen Allstars (RVA USA) | Live @ WRIR!!! | Bandcamp | 2015

Oulhawen Win Tidit | Faris (Algeria-Italy) | Mississippi To Sahara | Reaktion | 2015
A'Bashiye | Vieux Farka Toure & Julia Easterlin (Mali-USA) | Touristes | Six Degrees | 2015
Anabayou | Terakaft (Mali) | Alone | Out|Here | 2015

Alkher | Ezza (Niger-Algeria-France) | single | Ma Case | 2015
Imanin Bas Zihoun | Tamikrest (Mali) | Chatma | Glitterbeat | 2013