Program December 28, 2016: The Rest of the Best of 2016

A music fan doesn't live on albums alone.  Indeed, in the streaming music era playlists have overtaken albums as the preeminent way to organize and sequence songs.  And radio whether terrestrial or internet has always been a singles medium: there are actually laws that prohibit WRIR from playing albums from beginning to end.

So I always devote my final best-of-the-year program to my favorite album-independent songs of the year.  I'm talking here about stuff released as singles or on short-form EPs, great tracks from albums that were good or indifferent to my ears, and the best songs from albums that didn't quite crack my top 20.

Holiday leftovers they aren't: this is some of the best music of 2016, just as compelling as the stuff I played in the last two weeks if not more so.  Tune in and hear for yourself.  Oh, and bonne annee, bonne sante to all in 2017!

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/90139
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 (England UK) | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001

Rokia Traore (Mali) | Ne So | Ne So | Nonesuch | 2016
Ceu (Brazil) | Chico Buarque Song | Tropix | Six Degrees | 2016
Ana Moura (Portugal) | Dia De Folga | Moura | Universal Music Classics | 2016

Dexter Story feat Kamasi Washington (USA) | Wejene Aola | single | Soundway | 2016
Debo Band (USA-Ethiopia) | Yalanchi | Ere Gobez | FPE | 2016

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band (Germany) | P.I.M.P. | 55 | Big Crown | 2016
Lakou Mizik (Haiti) | Zao Pile Te | Wa Di Yo | Cumbancha Discovery | 2016

David Nesselhauf (Germany) | Come Along Bintang Bolong | Afrokraut | Legere | 2016
Baaba Maal (Senegal) | Jam Jam | The Traveler | Palm / Marathon Artists | 2016
Penny Penny (South Africa) | Siyayi Vuma | single | W Baloyi Music Production | 2016

Side Effex (Jamaica) | Salvation | single | Liondub International / 100 Lane | 2016
Karikatura (USA) | Miesto | Speak Now | Ropeadope | 2016
The Lickshots (USA) | Afro Slang | The Lickshots | Rockers International | 2016

La Mambanegra (Colombia) | La Galeria | La Galeria | self-released | 2016
El Dusty feat MLKMN & Happy Colors (USA-Mexico-Dominican Republic) | We Out Chea | single | AfterCluv Dance Lab / Meccalani | 2016
C.A.M.P.O.S. (RVA USA) | Luz Blanca, El Cantante | Miracles & Criminals | Peace & Rhythm | 2016

Afous D'Afous (Algeria) | Tarhanine Tegla | single | Sahelsounds | 2016
Imarhan (Algeria) | Imarhan | Imarhan | City Slang | 2016

Konono No. 1 (RD Congo) | Kuna America | Konono No. 1 Meets Batida | Crammed | 2016
Luka Productions (Mali) | Bondala | Mali Kady | Sahelsounds | 2016