Yeni Nostalji | 2016 EP demo (final mix)

Photo by Kate Thompson/Momenta Workshops 2016

ARTIST: Yeni Nostalji
TITLE: 2016 EP demo (final mix)
LABEL: unreleased
Yeni Nostalji (“New Nostalgia” in Turkish) is the new project of singer-songwriter Christina Gleixner, formerly of Richmond indie-folk band The Low Branches, and it’s a departure to put it mildly

Charts June 26, 2016

WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten
1 QUANTIC PRESENTA FLOWERING INFERNO | 1000 Watts | Tru Thoughts
2 FATOU SEIDI GHALI AND ALAMNOU AKROUNI | Les Filles De Illaghadad | Sahelsounds
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Rough Guide To Peru Rare Groove | World Music Network
4 ANTHONY JOSEPH | Caribbean Roots | Heavenly Sweetness / Strut
5 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Space Echo: The Mystery Behind The Cosmic Sound Of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed | Analog Africa
6 MIRAMAR | Dedication To Sylvia Rexach | Barbes
7 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Dubble Attack: The Original Pantomine Dee-Jay Collection 1972-74 | Greensleeves
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Tanbou Toujou Lou: Meringue, Kompa Kreyol, Vodou Jazz & Electric Folklore From Haiti 1960-1981 | Ostinato
9 ALMA AFROBEAT ENSEMBLE | It's Time | Slow Walk Music
10 DOS SANTOS ANTI-BEAT ORQUESTA | Dos Santos | Alebrije

The Rough Guide To Peru Rare Groove

ARTIST: various artists
TITLE: The Rough Guide To Peru Rare Groove
LABEL: World Music Network
Want a guaranteed good time? Get DJ Bongohead to make you a mixtape.

Program June 22, 2016

Dos Santos Anti-Beat Orquesta (pictured above) is a band from Chicago that plays cumbias and other Latin rhythms with the attack of rock 'n' roll.  They're coming to Richmond to play at Bandito's on Sunday night; you'll hear them this week on Global A Go-Go in a set of classic Peruvian chicha and current bands influenced by that psychedelic cumbia sound.

Also on this week's program: steelpan from Trinidad & Tobago (and Germany?); Haiti meets Cabo Verde again; and Afrobeat remixed.

Charts June 19, 2016

WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten
1 MIRAMAR | Dedication To Sylvia Rexach | Barbes
2 ANTHONY JOSEPH | Caribbean Roots | Heavenly Sweetness / Strut
3 LICKSHOTS | The Lickshots | Rockers International
4 JACOB MILLER | Who Say Jah No Dread: The Classic Augustus Pablo Sessions | Greensleeves
5 QUANTIC PRESENTA FLOWERING INFERNO | 1000 Watts | Tru Thoughts
6 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Space Echo: The Mystery Behind The Cosmic Sound Of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed | Analog Africa
7 AUGUSTUS PABLO | Original Rockers | Greensleeves
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Dubble Attack: The Original Pantomine Dee-Jay Collection 1972-74 | Greensleeves
9 DEBO BAND | Ere Gobez | FPE
10 ALMA AFROBEAT ENSEMBLE | It's Time | Slow Walk Music

Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno | 1000 Watts

ARTIST: Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno
TITLE: 1000 Watts
LABEL: Tru Thoughts
Here’s the third album from Flowering Inferno, the tropical band project of industrious producer-musician Will (Quantic) Holland.

Program June 15, 2016

It's been the spring of reggae music here at WRIR -- we've received so many good reggae releases that I've barely had enough time to listen to all of them, never mind play them on the radio.  So I'm going to dedicate a full hour to them on this week's show.

You'll hear a whole set of 1970's vintage reissues from the labels owned by VP Records (that's their headquarters and flagship store pictured above; look closely and you'll see that they're on Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, seriously).  Plus I'll spin brand-new discs by Quantic's Flowering Inferno, Soothsayers, The Lickshots and more.

Also this week: Rei and Marlysse's Turkish sound, and Balkan metal: brass and guitars.

Charts June 12, 2016

WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten
1 ANTHONY JOSEPH | Caribbean Roots | Heavenly Sweetness / Strut
2 BOMBINO | Azel | Partisan
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Space Echo: The Mystery Behind The Cosmic Sound Of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed | Analog Africa
4 MIRAMAR | Dedication To Sylvia Rexach | Barbes
5 IMARHAN | Imarhan | City Slang
6 KONONO NO. 1 | Konono No. 1 Meets Batida | Crammed
7 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Tanbou Toujou Lou: Meringue, Kompa Kreyol, Vodou Jazz & Electric Folklore From Haiti 1960-1981 | Ostinato
8 GABRIELLA GHERMANDI | Ethiopia: Celebrating Emperor Tewodros II | ARC
9 DEBO BAND | Ere Gobez | FPE
10 BAMBA WASSOULOU GROOVE | Farima | Label Bleu

Anthony Joseph | Caribbean Roots

ARTIST: Anthony Joseph
TITLE: Caribbean Roots
LABEL: Heavenly Sweetness / Strut
Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born, London-based writer with four books of poetry and one novel to his credit; he cites as influences surrealism, calypso, jazz, the Baptist church he grew up in, and the rhythms of Caribbean speech.

Program June 8, 2016

Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born, London-based poet and novelist whose work draws on calypso, surrealism (his novel is entitled The African Origins Of UFOs) and jazz.  And maybe Gil Scott-Heron as well, judging by the photo above.

He's a compelling recording artist as well -- his sixth album Caribbean Roots will be released on June 24 and you'll hear a track from it, a tribute to the great calypsonian Mighty Sparrow, on this week's program.  Surrounding Joseph's music will be a few other spoken word artists working with Afro-Caribbean music.

Also this week: a set of Lusophone music, great African guitars, and the new generation of Saharan desert blues.

Charts June 5, 2016

WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten
1 IDRIS ACKAMOOR AND THE PYRAMIDS | We Be All Africans | Strut
2 LICKSHOTS | The Lickshots | Rockers International
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS | Dubble Attack: The Original Pantomine Dee-Jay Collection 1972-74 | Greensleeves
4 KONONO NO. 1 | Konono No. 1 Meets Batida | Crammed
5 GABRIELLA GHERMANDI | Ethiopia: Celebrating Emperor Tewodros II | ARC
6 KARIKATURA | Speak Now | Ropeadope
7 SYSTEMA SOLAR | Systema Solar | Nacional
8 FANFARE CIOCARLIA | Onwards To Mars! | Asphalt Tango
9 QUANTIC PRESENTA FLOWERING INFERNO | 1000 Watts | Tru Thoughts
10 SOOTHSAYERS | "Nothing Can Stop Us" / "Take Me High" | Red Earth