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.

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/86931
All the podcasts: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go


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

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

Sam Mangwana (RD Congo) | Galo Negro | Galo Negro | Fairwood Music | 2016
Os Apolos (Cabo Verde) | Ilyne | Space Echo: The Mystery Behind The Cosmic Sound Of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed | Analog Africa | 1978
Junip (Sweden) | Oba, La Vem Ela | Brazilian Beats 7 | Mr Bongo | 2013
Bonga (Angola) | De Maos A Abanar | Best Of Bonga | Lusafrica | 2000
Ana Moura (Portugal) | Dia De Folga | Moura | Universal Music Classics | 2016

Bamba Wassoulou Groove (Mali) | Gonifo Bourama | Farima | Label Bleu | 2015
Ama Maiga (Mali) & Melodie Volta (Burkina Faso) | Deny Tologuelen | Voltaique Panoramique, Volume 1: Popular Music In Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso 1968-1978 | Kindred Spirits | 1976

Empire Bakuba (RD Congo) | Nazoki | African Pearls: Congo 70, Rumba Rock | Syllart | 1972
Amadou Balake (Burkina Faso) | Taximen | Taximen | Sacodis | 1978

Poet & The Roots (Jamaica-UK) | Five Nights Of Bleeding | Dread Beat An' Blood | Front Line | 1978
Benjamin Zephaniah and Eliza Carthy with Trans-Global Underground and Simon Emmerson (UK) | Tam Lyn Retold | The Imagined Village | Real World | 2007

Ikwunga The Afrobeat Poet (Nigeria-USA) | Di Bombs | Calabash: Afrobeat Poems, Volume 1 | Rebisi Hut | 2004
Anthony Joseph (Trinidad & Tobago-UK) | Slinger | Caribbean Roots | Heavenly Sweetness / Strut | 2016

TisDass (Niger) | Ayatma | Yamedan | Sahelsounds | 2015
Terakaft (Mali) | Alghalem | Aratan N Azawad | World Village | 2011
Tamikrest (Mali) | Ayitma Madjam | Toumastin | Glitterhouse | 2011
Imarhan (Algeria) | Tahabort | Imarhan | City Slang | 2016

Bombino (Niger) | Akhar Zaman | Azel | Partisan | 2016