Program January 3, 2018

I'm going to start 2018 with one more look back at 2017: an overview of the five extraordinary live performances I was fortunate to host last year on Global A Go-Go.

Richmond bands Afro-Zen Allstars (pictured above with me at WRIR) and Hotel X helped raise money by playing live on the air during WRIR's fund drives.  Gamelan Raga Kusuma celebrated their tenth anniversary by bringing dozens of players and instruments up the stairs and into Studio C.

Ex-Richmonder Joshua Camp visited Global A Go-Go to play songs from his recent solo project C.A.M.P.O.S. (Cumbias And More Psychedelic Original Sounds).  And The Nile Project brought musicians from up and down the Nile River, seven countries in all, to our community radio station for an amazing performance and cross-cultural experience.

I'll revisit all five of these live-in-concert recordings on this week's program, and throw in a few other items that fit the mood.

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/95510
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

C.A.M.P.O.S. | RVA USA | My Bird Has Many Voices | Live on WRIR 2017-02-08
Andrea Echeverri | Colombia | Ruisenora | Ruisenora | Nacional | 2013
Rana Santacruz | Mexico-USA | Yo Se | Chicavasco | self-released | 2010

C.A.M.P.O.S. | RVA USA | Out In The Field | Live on WRIR 2017-02-08
Lila Downs | Mexico-USA | La Cumbia Del Mole | La Cantina: Entre Copa Y Copa … | Narada | 2006
La Misa Negra | USA | Tambo, Tambo | La Misa Negra | NAM Entertainment | 2017

Hotel X | RVA USA | Woza Mtwana | Live On WRIR 2017-10-18
Hotel X | RVA USA | Madiba's Dance | Live On WRIR 2017-10-18

Afro-Zen Allstars | RVA USA | Wu Beat | Live On WRIR 2017-04-26
Afro-Zen Allstars | RVA USA | Guragigna | Live On WRIR 2017-04-26

Gamelan Raga Kusuma | RVA USA | Katale Ngonkek | Live On WRIR 2017-03-15
Gamelan Raga Kusuma | RVA USA | Tabuh Dang | Live On WRIR 2017-03-15

Anthony Davis | USA | Wayang No. II (Shadowdance) | Episteme | Gramavision | 1981

The Nile Project | Burundi-Egypt-Eritrea-Ethiopia-Kenya-Sudan-Uganda | Fulani | Live On WRIR 2017-03-22
The Nile Project | Burundi-Egypt-Eritrea-Ethiopia-Kenya-Sudan-Uganda | Mabein Gabalein | Live On WRIR 2017-03-22

Waaberi Band | Somalia | Oktoober Waatee? Waa Taayadii | Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa | Ostinato | 1969