September 13, 2020

OK boomer, where's the beef?

Cumbia and hip hop are like peanut butter and chocolate: two great tastes that taste great together.  Each lends the other something that's lacking: hip hop gives cumbia some of the edge that's been rounded off by two centuries of popular use, and cumbia gives hip hop back some of the musicality that's been lost to economics or copyright law or just plain slackness.

Ana Tijoux has a great new cumbia rap song about COVID-19, police brutality and corruption in Chile; it will be on her forthcoming album Antifa Dance.  You'll hear it and a few more cumbia raps on this week's edition of Global A Go-Go.

Also this week (Monday September 14, 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): some melancholy Balkan music, salsa classics, more desert blues, the new album from Wassoulou songbird Nahawa Doumbia and rock 'n' roll gnawa style.

Podcast:  radio4all.net/index.php/program/106608
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

Boris Kovac & LaDaABa Orchest | Serbia | Begin-ing | The Last Balkan Tango: An Apocalypic Dance Party | Piranha | 2001
Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar | Croatia-France | Makedo | Ruke | Menart | 2002
Jaakko Laitinen & Vaara Raha | Finland | Lahdon Kyyneleet | Borek | Playground Music Finland | 2020

Charlie Rodriguez Y Su Conjunto | USA | Cuchillo Para La Pina Cubana | Charlie Rodriguez Y Su Conjunto Canta Ray Reyes | Guajiro | 1980
Juan Pina Con La Revelacion | Colombia | Chana | Juan Pina Con La Revelacion | Vampisoul | 1975
Pete Rodriguez | USA | Pete's Madness | I Like It Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi) | Fania-Craft-Concord | 1967

Frente Cumbiero | Colombia- Guyana-England UK | Ariwacumbe | Meets Mad Professor | Vampisoul | 2011
Ana Tijoux | Chile-France-Puerto Rico USA | Pa Que (feat PJ Sin Suela) | Pa Que - single | Victoria Producciones | 2020
DJ Guztabo | Argentina-Mexico-USA | Kumbia Queers vs. Beastie Boys (mash-up) | Kumbia Queers vs. Beastie Boys (mash-up) - single | DJ Guztabo's Myspace page, baby! | 2007
Systema Solar | Colombia | Yo Voy Ganao | La Revancha Del Burro | Sambumbia | 2013

Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur | Niger-Ethiopia | Toumast Enkere | Afropentatonism | Piranha | 2020
Terakaft | Mali | Talikoba | Aratan N Azawad | World Village | 2011
Tinariwen | Mali | Oualahila Ar Tesninam | Amassakoul | Independent | 2003
Tamikrest | Mali-Algeria-France | Imanin Bas Zihoun | Chatma | Glitterbeat | 2013

Nahawa Doumbia | Mali | Blonda Yirini | Kanawa | Awesome Tapes From Africa | 2020
Coumba Sidibe | Mali | Kouloun Yelima Djohba | Gnogonte | Syllart | 1989
Oumou Sangare | Mali | Wele Wele Wintou | Seya | Nonesuch | 2009

Bab L'Bluz | Morocco-France | Waydelel | Nayda! | Real World | 2020
Club D'Elf | USA | Sunshine Of Your Love | Electric Moroccoland | Face Pelt | 2011
Hassan Hakmoun | Morocco-USA | Balili | Unity | Healing | 2014

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