We'll start this week's program with four selections from Sahel Sound's new Music From Saharan WhatsApp series. Throughout 2020, the label is releasing one EP a month that's been recorded by the artists on a cellphone in the southern Sahara, transmitted over WhatsApp, and uploaded to Bandcamp where it's available for a month before it disappears, just like a WhatsApp message does.
This subversive distribution model gives 100 percent of the proceeds to the musicians and reflects how most music is acquired in the region: by file sharing (with no payment to the artists, of course) over WhatsApp. It's also resulted in an immediacy that you just won't hear in other recordings -- it's the next best thing to the live performances we're all missing right now. You can read more about the series here.
Also this week (Monday June 29, 3:00-5:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): kora shredding; a taste of Afro-Japanese music; the latest from Ukraine's DakhaBrakha; Latin psych-funk from the 60s and 70s; and a Hailu Mergia sampler.
Podcast: radio4all.net/index.php/program/106049
All the podcasts: 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
Etran De L'Air | Niger | Houlhine Ayagolamane | Music From Saharan WhatsApp 01 | Sahel Sounds | 2020
Amaria Hamadalher | Niger | Tamiditine | Music From Saharan WhatsApp 05 | Sahel Sounds | 2020
Luka Productions & Kandiafa | Mali | Ballani Diarra | Music From Saharan WhatsApp 06 | Sahel Sounds | 2020
Alkibar Jr. | Mali | Soukabe Mali | Music From Saharan WhatsApp 04 | Sahel Sounds | 2020
Hailu Mergia | Ethiopia-DC USA | Shemendefer | Yene Mircha | Awesome Tapes From Africa | 2020
Hailu Mergia | Ethiopia-DC USA | Yegle Nesh | Hailu / Yegle Nesh - single | Philophon | 2015
Hailu Mergia & The Walias | Ethiopia | Tche Belew | Tche Belew | Awesome Tapes From Africa | 1977
Nico Gomez & His Afro Percussion Inc. | Netherlands-Belgium | Baila Chibiquiban (Tonton Boom edit) | Baila Chibiquiban - single | Matasuna | 1971
Irakere | Cuba | Bacalao Con Pan | Grupo Irakere | Areito | 1974
Ghetto Brothers | USA | Mastica, Chupa Y Jala | Power-Fuerza | Salsa International | 1972
Santana | USA | Jingo | Santana | Columbia | 1969
DakhaBrakha | Ukraine | Dostochka | Alambari | self-released | 2020
Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs | Bulgaria | Gajda | Cats, Dogs And Ghosts | Asphalt Tango | 2016
Morphine | USA | Wishing Well | Like Swimming | DreamWorks | 1997
Ajate | Japan | De De | Alo | 180g | 2020
King Sunny Ade & His African Beats | Nigeria | Ja Funmi | Juju Music | Mango | 1982
Toubab Krewe | USA | That Damn Squash | Stylo | self-released | 2018
Ba Cissoko | Guinee Conakry-France | Kora Rocks | Nimissa | Cristal | 2012
Afriquoi | England UK-The Gambia-RD Congo | Acid Attack | Time Is A Gift Which We Share All The Time | Mawimbi | 2020
Ba Cissoko | Guinee Conakry-France | Dandala | Sabolan | Marabi | 2003
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