"World music" is a silly name for a genre. To paraphrase Louis Armstrong, all music is world music -- I ain't never heard a Martian sing a song. Anyway, it's not a genre at all, more like a point of view: That my culture isn't the sun around which everything else orbits.
Maybe my favorite definition of world music is this one from journalist and musician Ian A. Anderson: "Local music from somewhere else." What does world music sound like from a Japanese perspective? Global A Go-Go looks at that question on this episode through the eyes of three Japanese bands: Ajate, Minyo Crusaders and of Tropique (the latter is pictured above).
Also this week (Sunday March 12, 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 repressing of the best gnawa album I've ever heard, the sci-fi psychedelia of Mexico City's Monstruos Del Mañana, the rediscovery of Helen Nkume, new Afropop from Kimi Djabaté and Black AD, and some post-Mas soca.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/114956
All the podcasts: radio4all.net/series/Global%20A%20Go-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
Club D'Elf | USA | Rope On Fire | Electric Moroccoland | Face Pelt | 2011
Maalem Mahmoud Gania | Morocco | Sadati Houma El Bouhala | Colours Of The Night | Hive Mind | 2023-2013
Milton Nascimento | Brazil | San Vicente | Clube Da Esquina | Odeon | 1972
Monstruos Del Mañana | México | Bwana Afya | Espejos | self-released | 2022
Nicola Conte & Spiritual Galaxy | Italy-Sweden-Finland-USA-South Africa-England UK-Ghana | Cosmic Peace | Let Your Light Shine On | MPS | 2018
Florence Adooni | Ghana | Mam Pe'ela Su'ure | Mam Pe'ela Su'ure / Naba Aferda - Single | Philophon | 2021
Lijadu Sisters | Nigeria | Orere-Elejigbo | Horizon Unlimited | Afrodisia | 1979
Helen Nkume | Nigeria | Music | And Her Young Timers Band | Dig This Way | 2023-1978
Ajate | Japan | Sowah | Alo | 180g | 2020
Minyo Crusaders | Japan | Aizu Bandaisan | Echoes Of Japan | Mais Um | 2019
of Tropique! | Japan | Guacharaca Moo | Buster Goes West | Electric Cowbell | 2023
Kimi Djabaté | Guiné-Bissau-Portugal | Kambem | Dindin | Cumbancha | 2023
Cheikh Lô | Burkina Faso-Sénégal | Kelle Magni | Lamp Fall | World Circuit | 2005
Kandy Guira | Burkina Faso-France-Canada | Africa (feat Jowee Omicil) | Nagtaba | Vlad Productions | 2021
Black AD | France | Mali | Ididja, Volume 1 & 2 | self-released | 2022
Scrunter | Trinidad & Tobago | She Want Me To Sing In She Party | Soca Baccanal | J.B.S. | 1986
Shadow | Trinidad & Tobago | Bass Man | Bass Man: 1974 Road March King | Straker's | 1974
Olatunji | Trinidad & Tobago | Engine Room | Engine Room - Single | De Red Boyz | 2022
Bunji Garlin | Trinidad & Tobago-Jamaica | Big Bad Soca (remix feat Shenseea) | Big Bad Soca (remix feat Shenseea) - Single | VP | 2018
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