Consistent fantasy is reality

Gaye Su Akyol (pictured above)'s most recent album is entitled Consistent Fantasy Is Reality (or Istkrarli Hayal Hakikattir in the original Turkish).  She's saying that we have to dream into action the reality we want to live.  Or you could flip the notion over and use it as a slogan for, let's say, Fox News.

Either way, it's a hell of a good title.  You'll hear Akyol this week in a set of Turkish psychedelic-tinged music from the past and present, all with a kind of science-fiction feel to it.

Also this week (Monday July 13, 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): birdsong of Latin America, cadence-lypso from the French Caribbean, blues and spirituals with a Global A Go-Go twist, West African highlife from 1958 to today, and Arabic pop and electronic dabke from Palestine and Syria.

Podcast: radio4all.net/index.php/program/106124
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

Andrea Echeverri | Colombia | Ruisenora | Ruisenora | Nacional | 2013
The Garifuna Collective | Belize | Black Catbird | A Guide To The Birdsong Of Mexico, Central America & The Caribbean | Shika Shika | 2020
Kobo Town | Canada-Trinidad & Tobago | Postcard Poverty | Jumbie In The Jukebox | Stonetree / Cumbancha | 2013
Aurelio | Honduras | Bisien Nu | Laru Beya | Sub Pop / Next Ambiance | 2011

Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek | Turkey-Germany-France-England UK-Italy | Deniz Dalgasiz Olmaz | Deniz Dalgasiz Olmaz - single | Bongo Joe | 2020
Gaye Su Akyol | Turkey | Istikrarli Hayal Hakikattir | Istikrarli Hayal Hakikattir | Glitterbeat | 2018
Ersen Ve Dadaslar | Turkey | Derman Bulunmaz | Dunden Bugune | Sahinler | 1977
Baris Manco Ve Kaygisizlar | Turkey | Trip (Fairground) | Hava Narghile: Turkish Rock Music 1966 To 1975 | Dionysus | 1968

H.W.T. Band | Guadeloupe | Good Trip | Cadence Revolution: Disques Debs International Vol. 2 | Strut | 1981
Dany Play | French Guiana | Fa'Waka (Part 1) | Voyage … Voyage … Voyage | Vogue | 1978
Smoke | Dominica | Lina Femm'Foll | Cadence Revolution: Disques Debs International Vol. 2 | Strut | 1977
Midnight Groovers | Dominica | O Ti Yo | Midnight Groovers | 3A | 1977

Little Axe | USA-England UK | If I Had My Way | Stone Cold Ohio | Real World | 2006
Bahama Soul Club | Germany-USA | Never Roam No More (feat John Lee Hooker) | Bohemia After Dawn | Buyu | 2020
St Germain | France | Real Blues | St Germain | Nonesuch | 2015
Gilber T | Brazil | Sinnerman | Sinnerman - single | Tomba | 2020

Santrofi | Ghana | Odo Maba | Alewa | Out Here | 2020
Bobby Benson & His Combo | Nigeria | Taxi Driver, I Don't Care | Taxi Driver, I Don't Care - single | Philips | 1958
Prince Nico Mbarga & Rockafil Jazz | Nigeria | Sweet Mother | Sweet Mother | Rounder | 1976

Zenobia | Israel | Halak Halak | Halak Halak | Acid Arab | 2020
TootArd | Golan Heights Syria-Switzerland | Moonlight | Migrant Birds | Glitterbeat | 2020
Rizan Said | Syria-Sweden | High Tension Zamer | King Of Keyboard | Annihaya | 2015
Omar Souleyman | Syria-Turkey | Dazeitlak Dezzelli | Jazeera Nights: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Syria | Sublime Frequencies | 2010