Nkumba System is a band with members from three continents: South America (Colombia), Africa (Cameroon) and Europe (France). And their music is as polyglot as you might suspect: cumbia and makossa, currulao and soukous and a whole lot more.
Their album Bailalo Duro! was my favorite new release of 2021. (It actually came out in November of 2020, but who's counting?) But somehow I only played three of its songs on Global A Go-Go all year. This week we remedy the situation by spinning four in a row from Bailalo Duro!
Also this week (Sunday January 16, 1:00-3:00 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): a deep dive into South African jazz, some jazzy calypso, Brazil's BaianaSystem and a bootleg mashup of Fela and Santana.
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
Hotel X | RVA USA | Woza Mtwana | Live On WRIR Oct 18, 2017 | unreleased | 2017
Pat Matshikiza & Kippie Moketsi | South Africa | Tshona | Tshona! | We Are Busy Bodies | 1975
Abdullah Ibrahim & Basil Coetzee | South Africa | Next Stop Soweto | African Horns | Camden | 197x
Dollar Brand | South Africa | African Marketplace | African Marketplace | Elektra | 1980
Andy Narell & Relator | USA-Trinidad & Tobago | Gavaskar | University Of Calypso | Heads Up International | 2009
Lord Kitchener | Trinidad & Tobago | The Road | The Road - Single | Jump Up | 1963
Azie Lawrence & The Carib Serenaders | Jamaica-England UK | West Indians In England | West Indians In England - Single | Mezzotone | 1959
Sons Of Kemet | England UK-Barbados | For The Culture (feat D Double E) | Black To The Future | Impulse | 2021
BaianaSystem | Brazil | Brasiliana (feat Chico César) | OxeAxeExu | Maquina De Louco | 2021
Manu Chao | France-Spain | Clandestino | Clandestino | Virgin | 1998
Manu Chao | France-Spain | Desaparecido | Clandestino | Virgin | 1998
Amadou & Mariam | Mali | Sénégal Fast Food | Dimanche À Bamako | Because | 2004
Nkumba System | France-Colombia-Cameroon | Paisano (feat Mamani Keita) | Bailalo Duro! | Prado | 2020
Nkumba System | France-Colombia-Cameroon | Este Bolsillo | Bailalo Duro! | Prado | 2020
Nkumba System | France-Colombia-Cameroon | Mujer Hermana (feat Pedro Ojeda) | Bailalo Duro! | Prado | 2020
Nkumba System | France-Colombia-Cameroon | Cacerolazo | Bailalo Duro! | Prado | 2020
Sam Redmore | England UK | Jingo Thief Thief | Bootleg Remixes | unreleased | 2022
Nickodemus | USA | Give The Drummer Some | Endangered Species | Wonderwheel | 2005
Lack Of Afro | England UK-USA | On My Way (feat Herbal T) | One Way: Remixes & Rarities | Freestyle | 2012
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