GLOBAL A GO-GO: March 2016

March 29, 2016

Program March 30, 2016

Fanfare Ciocarlia (pictured above), one of my favorite Balkan brass bands, has a new album coming out April 15. They're known for their unlikely cover songs ("Born To Be Wild," "I'm A Gummy Bear," Duke Ellington's "Caravan") and they're done it again this time -- hear the results this week on Global A Go-Go.

Also this week: Paul Bowles' 1959 Moroccan field recordings, Ghanaian traditional rhythms go acid house, and jazz meets Guadeloupean gwo ka drumming.

Charts March 27, 2016

DJ Katapila | Trotro

ARTIST: DJ Katapila
TITLE: Trotro
LABEL: Awesome Tapes From Africa
Ghana’s electronic pop music scene is dominated by hiplife, the highlife/hip hop/dancehall fusion, usually in the Akan language, that’s seemingly everywhere.

ARTIST: Fanfare Ciocarlia
TITLE: Onwards To Mars!
LABEL: Asphalt Tango
Fanfare Ciocarlia, the 12-piece gypsy brass band from Zece Prajini, Romania (a village the band says is so small it’s not on any map) is the hardest working band in show business: they’ve played over 2000 gigs in their twenty year career, most all of them outside of Romania.

ARTIST: various artists
TITLE: Music Of Morocco From The Library Of Congress: Recorded By Paul Bowles, 1959
LABEL: Dust-to-Digital
Novelist (The Sheltering Sky), composer and UVa dropout Paul Bowles lived for 52 years in Tangier, Morocco as a legendary American expatriate.

Bombino | Azel

ARTIST: Bombino
TITLE: Azel
LABEL: Partisan
Goumour Almoctar, who performs under the name Bombino, is now probably the most recognizable Tuareg musician in the world.

ARTIST: Adnan Othman
TITLE: Bershukor: A Retrospective Of Hits By A Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend
LABEL: Sublime Frequencies
WRIR’s own Carl (DJ Carlito) Hamm, host of If Music Could Talk (Sundays at 7 PM) flipped from record collector to record producer in 2013 when Sublime Frequencies released Pop Yeh Yeh, a two-album review of the beat, garage and psych eras in Malaysia and Singapore.

ARTIST: Los Terrificos
TITLE: Go South: Vaya Pa’l Sur
LABEL: Peace & Rhythm
Los Terrificos is a new project from Ray Lugo and Jake Fader, former bandmates in Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra.

Program March 23, 2016

WRIR's own Carl Hamm (aka DJ Carlito, host of If Music Could Talk, Sundays at 7 PM) has just released his second compilation of Malaysian rock from the 60s and 70s. This one spotlights the music of Adnan Othman, one of the biggest stars of the pop yeh yeh movement. (That's Carl and Adnan pictured above.)

This week I'll play a track from Carl's new album and one from his first compilation, as part of a set of Asian garage rock from the 60s and 70s. Also this week: three generations of Malian divas, what's new in desert blues, and Latin roots electronica.

Charts March 20, 2016

Program March 16, 2016

Back in Richmond after a week's vacation in Puerto Rico. It wasn't a music trip, just a normal-person's vacation; yet somehow music was all around us, wherever we went. (For example, pictured above is a cooler doubling as a sound system in front of a restaurant in the Luquillo kiosks). I'll spin a set of some of the stuff I heard at the beach (Vieques) and in the jungle (El Yunque).

Also this week: new Latin rock from all over the map, Balkan balladeers and rappers, and Afro-tronic dance music (ADM) through the lens of Salif Keita.

Charts March 13, 2016

Banda De Los Muertos | Banda De Los Muertos

ARTIST: Banda De Los Muertos
TITLE: Banda De Los Muertos
LABEL: Barbes
Banda is a musical style that, like Norteno, reflects the influence of German immigrants on Mexican culture. Where Norteno uses accordion and bajo sexto, banda has a marching band’s instrumentation: drums, brass and woodwinds.

ARTIST: various artists
TITLE: The Rough Guide To South African Jazz (Second Edition)
LABEL: World Music Network
Putting together a compilation of South African jazz is like shooting fish in a barrel – there’s so much strong stuff out there, you’re virtually guaranteed to get good results.

Wherever in the world you go, you'll probably find a brass band tradition there. This week on Global A Go-Go, we'll hear from a few of those traditions: Mexican banda (as played by NYC's Banda De Los Muertos, pictured above), Balkan brass, West Africa's "sound of metal" and much more.

Also this week: South African marabi jive and jazz, the wonderful new album from Colombia's Sidestepper, and Afrobeat with a psychedelic twist.

GLOBAL A GO-GO

March 29, 2016

Program March 30, 2016

March 28, 2016

Charts March 27, 2016

March 27, 2016

DJ Katapila | Trotro

Fanfare Ciocarlia | Onwards To Mars!

Music Of Morocco From The Library Of Congress: Recorded By Paul Bowles, 1959

March 23, 2016

Bombino | Azel

Adnan Othman | Bershukor: A Retrospective Of Hits By A Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend

Los Terrificos | Go South : Vaya Pa'l Sur

March 22, 2016

Program March 23, 2016

March 20, 2016

Charts March 20, 2016

March 15, 2016

Program March 16, 2016

March 14, 2016

Charts March 13, 2016

March 1, 2016

Banda De Los Muertos | Banda De Los Muertos

The Rough Guide To South African Jazz (Second Edition)

Program March 2, 2016

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