Put your cellphone down, in the place of me

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