Start with a base layer of heavy NYC salsa dura. Mix in an equal amount of modern Cuban big band music: songo and timba. Leaven with Colombia's Afro-Pacific sounds, add some Bronx hip-hop and Kingston dancehall, and the result is La Mambanegra from Cali, Colombia and a style they call "break salsa."
La Mambanegra is one of the most powerful dance bands in the world right now. No one else sounds like them, and La Mambanegra sound like nothing but themselves on every single one of their songs. Yet somehow this great combo is criminally underrecognized. Global A Go-Go will do its part this week to change that situation, spinning four La Mambanegra tracks including two from their new album.
Also this week (Sunday September 26, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards on the wrir.org archive player, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): more of Zimbabwe's mbira and the Sahara's desert blues, the sound of digital dancehall circa 1992, new music from Cyprus by Monsieur Doumani and the latest from Afro-Peruvian icon Susana Baca.
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
Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited | Zimbabwe | Disaster | Chimurenga Explosion | Anonymous | 2000
Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit Of The People | Zimbabwe | Kuende Mbire | Mbavaira | Awesome Tapes From Africa | 1983
The Green Arrows | Zimbabwe | Nyoka Yendara | Dzamuningwa / Nyoka Yendara - Single | Farayi Farayi | 1978
Dag Tenere | Niger-Mali-Burkina Faso | Koud Edhaz Emin | Iswat | Nomada Music | 2021
Les Filles De Illighadad | Niger | Eghass Malan | At Pioneer Works | Sahel Sounds / Pioneer Works Press | 2021
Tamikrest | Mali-Algeria-France | Awnafin | Tamotait | Glitterbeat | 2020
Shaggy & Rayvon | Jamaica-USA | Drive Me Insane | Drive Me Insane - Single | Mr. Doo Music | 2021
Shaggy | Jamaica-USA | In The Summertime (feat Rayvon) | Boombastic | Virgin | 1995
Chaka Demus & Pliers | Jamaica | Murder She Wrote | Murder She Wrote - Single | Taxi | 1992
Nardo Ranks | Jamaica | Them A Bleach | Them A Bleach - Single | Taxi | 1992
Macka B | England UK | Pull Up Your Pants | Pull Up Your Pants - Single | Chinelo | 2010
The Brian Jonestown Massacre | USA | Prsi Prsi | Mini Album Thingy Wingy | A Recordings | 2015
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis | Greece | Ouden Oida | NYN | Riverboat | 2016
Monsieur Doumani | Cyprus | Tiritichtas | Pissourin | Glitterbeat | 2021
Cechomor | Czech Republic | Co Sa Stalo Nove | Co Sa Stalo Nove | Columbia | 2005
La Mambanegra | Colombia | La Galeria | La Galeria | self-released | 2016
La Mambanegra | Colombia | Voy A Seguir | Los Ultimos Buses De Colores | Tambora | 2021
La Mambanegra | Colombia | Se Juntaban | Los Ultimos Buses De Colores | Tambora | 2021
La Mambanegra | Colombia | Me Parece Perfecto | El Callegueso Y Su Malamana | Movimientos | 2015
Susana Baca | Peru | Sorongo | Sorongo - Single | Real World | 2021
Jose "Cheo" Feliciano | USA | Anacaona | Cheo | Vaya | 1971
Cortijo & His Time Machine | USA | Carnaval | Cortijo Y Su Maquina Del Tiempo | Coco | 1973
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