Program August 3, 2016

When you're a fan of African music like I am, one of the things you learn is that for every world-famous artist like Salif Keita or Youssou N'Dour, there are a hundred obscurities who are just as worthy of international attention.

Maitre Mamadou Barry (far right in picture above) is this week's case in point.  His band Kaloum Star (pictured above) was one of Guinee Conakry's national orchestras (Bembeya Jazz National is the most famous of their peers) yet they released only eight songs in that time.  He's gone on to be chef d'orchestre for Les Amazones De Guinee and worked with Sekouba Bambino, the aforementioned Bembeya Jazz and just about everybody who's anybody in Francophone West African music of the last 50 years.

Barry released his second solo album in June, so now's a great time to give the man his due.  On this week's program you'll hear a track from his new album, one by Les Amazones and an unreleased live recording of the amazing Kaloum Star, courtesy of the music blog Worldservice: http://wrldsrv.blogspot.com/2009/03/kaloum-star-live.html.

Also this week: Mali's hunter's harp and youth harp; mo' Latin soul; and what's new in reggae, summer 2016 edition.

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/87696
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Artist (Country) | Song | Recording | Label | Year

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

Sibiri Samake (Mali) | M'Barassa | Dambe Foli | Kanaga System Krush | 2011
Vieux Kante (Mali) | Sans Commertaire | The Young Man's Harp | Sterns Africa | 2005

Joe Cuba Sextet (USA) | El Pito (I'll Never Go Back To Georgia) | Estamos Haciendo Algo Bien! (We Must Be Doing Something Right!) | Tico | 1966
Julio Gutierrez & Los Guajiros (Cuba-USA) | Quimbombo Con Mofongo | The Rough Guide To Cuban Rare Groove | World Music Network | 1967
Rene Lopez (USA) | Shing-A-Ling Is What I Bring | E.L.S. | Nat Geo Music | 2011

Dave Cortez & The Moon People (USA) | Happy Soul With A Hook | single | Speed | 1968
Grupo Fantasma (USA) | Realizando | El Existential | Nat Geo Music | 2010
San Lazaro (Chile-Cuba-Australia) | Hielo Azul | La Despedida | HopeStreet | 2016

Augustus Pablo (Jamaica) | Thunder Clap | Original Rockers | Greensleeves | 1975
The Lickshots (USA) | Dubpaint | The Lickshots | Rockers International | 2016
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno (UK-Jamaica-USA) | Homeward Bound | 1000 Watts | Tru Thoughts | 2016

Side Effex (Jamaica) | Salvation | single | Liondub International / 100 Lane | 2016
Sticky Joe feat Horseman (UK) | Giddy Up | Good Day | Kingston Express | 2016
Joseph Israel (USA) feat Gentleman (Germany) & Tarrus Riley (USA-Jamaica) | People Need Hope | Paradise | Lions Of Israel | 2016

Les Amazones De Guinee (Guinee Conakry) | Deni Wana | Wamato | Sterns Africa | 2008
Mamadou Barry & Afro Groove Gang (Guinee Conakry) | Mousso Kelen | Tankadi | Label Bleu | 2016
Kaloum Star (Guinee Conakry) | track 1 | promo cassette | unreleased | 1987

Konono No. 1 (RD Congo) | Yambadi Mama | Konono No. 1 Meets Batida | Crammed Discs | 2016