January 3, 2020

Top ten compilations, reissues and historic recordings of 2019

On the January 6 edition of Global A Go-Go, we welcome in the new year with a look at my favorite new/old recordings of the last year: the best compilations, reissues and historic recordings released in 2019.

This is always a fun category for me -- I learn so much from reissued recordings I wasn't even aware of when they first were released, and I truly enjoy the curatorial ear and eye that labels like Analog Africa, Strut and Ostinato bring to their compilations.

There's two more labels I'd like to shout out here for their great work in 2019: Vampisoul, in acknowledgement of the reissue series they're doing in collaboration with Colombian labels Discos Fuentes, Codiscos and INS; and BBE (short for "Barely Breaking Even," which is so apt for everyone working in this niche of the music business) who started a fabulous reissue partnership with Nigeria's Tabansi Music Publishers.

With that as prologue, simply click "Read more" for my top ten compilations, reissues and historic recordings of 2019, plus ten honorable mentions:

Top Ten Compilations, Reissues & Historic Recordings Of 2019
1.  Los Shain's (Peru) | El Ritmo De Los Shain's | Munster
2.  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party (Pakistan) | Live At WOMAD 1985 | Real World
3.  Pour Me A Grog: The Funana Revolt In 1990s Cabo Verde | Ostinato
4.  Jambu E Os Miticos Sons Da Amazonia (Brazil) | Analog Africa
5.  Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars (Nigeria) | Sewele | Strut
6.  Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu, Somalia 1972-1991 | Analog Africa
7.  The Daktaris (USA) | Soul Explosion | Desco / Daptone
8.  Alefa Madagascar! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
9.  Ondigui And Bota Tabansi International (Nigeria) | Ewondo Rythm | BBE
10. El Wali (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) | Tiris | Sahel Sound / Badawi Archives

Honorable Mention
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah (Morocco) | Al Hadaoui | Habibi Funk
Brother Resistance (Trinidad & Tobago) | Tonite Is De Night | Cree
Bulawayo Blue Yodel: Omasiganda, Troubadours & High Lonesome Sound Of Zimbabwe, Kenya & South Africa 1948-1959 | Olvido / Mississippi
Down In Jamaica: 40 Years Of VP Records | VP
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders (Morocco-USA) | The Trance Of Seven Colors | Zehra
Julian Y Su Combo (Colombia) | Noche De Fiesta | Vampisoul
Lumingu Puati (Zorro) (RD Congo) | Mosese | BBE
Nigeria 70 - No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987 | Strut
Star Band De Dakar (Senegal) | Psicodelia Afro-Cubana De Senegal | Ostinato
Ebo Taylor (Ghana) | Palaver | BBE

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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

Upsetters | Jamaica | Fisher Man Version | Down In Jamaica: 40 Years Of VP Records | VP | 1977
Omar Shooli | Somalia | Hab Isii (Hug Me) | Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu, Somalia 1972-1991 | Analog Africa | 1986
Brother Resistance | Trinidad & Tobago | Crucial Decision ('92 Version) | Tonite Is De Night | Cree | 1992

Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars | Nigeria | Yabis | Sewele | Strut | 1986
Odeyemi | Nigeria | Oni Suru | Nigeria 70 - No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987 | Strut | 1987
The Daktaris | USA | Upside Down | Soul Explosion | Desco / Daptone | 1998

Star Band De Dakar | Senegal | Guajira Ven | Psicodelia Afro-Cubana De Senegal | Ostinato | 1980
Julian Y Su Combo | Colombia | Enyere Cumbara | Noche De Fiesta | Vampisoul | 1975
Los Shain's | Peru | Tenemos Que Irnos De Aqui | El Ritmo De Los Shain's | Munster | 1965
Los Shain's | Peru | Bule Bule | El Ritmo De Los Shain's | Munster | 1965

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party | Pakistan | Shahbazz Qalander | Live At WOMAD 1985 | Real World | 1985
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders | Morocco-USA | Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La'Foh | The Trance Of Seven Colors | Zehra | 1994

Lumingu Puati (Zorro) | RD Congo | Meaculpa Mawewe | Mosese | BBE | 1979
Ondigui And Bota Tabansi International | Nigeria | Beza Bakili Ma Nyon | Ewondo Rythm | BBE | 1977

El Wali | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Song For The Prophet | Tiris | Sahel Sound / Badawi Archives | 1994
Saka Dit The King | Madagascar | Ody Ody (Tse Mentsy Mandroso) | Alefa Madagascar! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut | 1987
Os Muiraquitans | Brazil | A Misturada | Jambu E Os Miticos Sons Da Amazonia | Analog Africa | 1976
Ferro Gaita | Cabo Verde | Rei Di Tabanka | Pour Me A Grog: The Funana Revolt In 1990s Cabo Verde | Ostinato | 1999

Michael Majozi | South Africa | Sengihambile | Bulawayo Blue Yodel: Omasiganda, Troubadours & High Lonesome Sound Of Zimbabwe, Kenya & South Africa 1948-1959 | Olvido / Mississippi | 1954

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