Les jaloux saboteurs

It's highlife time once again on Global A Go-Go with a new album from Okwy Osadebe, son of one of the biggest stars of 1960s and 70s Nigerian Igbo highlife, plus a track from a new compilation of Burger-Highlife made by Germany's Ghanaian immigrants in the 80s and 90s.  And we'll expand from there into Cameroon and Chad, turning the whole second hour into a giant African guitar music dance party.

 

In this week (Sunday March 19, 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) 's first hour, you'll hear the pioneers of Berber rock, a new single from Zimbabwe's Mokoomba, a dub version of one of Fela Kuti's most famous songs, and of course much more.

Podcast: radio4all.net/program/115008

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

 

Rachid Taha | Algeria-France | Aïta | Je Suis Africain | Believe | 2019

Les Abranis | Algeria-France | Therrza Rathwenza | Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983 | Bongo Joe | 2023-1980

Tamikrest | Mali-Algeria-France | Imanin Bas Zihoun | Chatma | Glitterbeat | 2013

 

Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited | Zimbabwe-USA | Marudzi Nemarudzi (Different Races) | Rise Up | Real World | 2006

Comrade Fatso & Chabvondoka | Zimbabwe | Like A Riot Needs A Petrol Bomb | House Of Hunger | self-released | 2008

Mokoomba | Zimbabwe | Nzara Hapana | Nzara Hapana - Single | Out Here | 2023

 

Hotel X | RVA USA | Black Man's Cry | Ladders | SST | 1995

tUnE-yArDs + Angelique Kidjo + Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson + Akua Naru | USA-Benin | Lady | Red Hot + Fela | Knitting Factory | 2012

Jungle Fire | USA | Comencemos (Let's Start) | Tropicoso | Nacional | 2014

Captain Yossarian | Germany | Zombie | Zombie - Single | Echo Beach | 2023

 

Okwy Osadebe & Highlife Soundmakers International | Nigeria | Igbo Amaka | Igbo Amaka | Odogwu Entertainment / Palenque | 2023

Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe & His Nigeria Sound Makers International | Nigeria | Osondi Owendi | Osondi Owendi | Polydor | 1984

 

A.B. Crentsil's Ahenfo Band | Ghana | Mame Dwen Meho | Borga Revolution, Volume 2: Ghanaian Dance Music In The Digital Age, 1983-1996 | Kalita | 2023-1985

Moni Bilé | Cameroon | Osi Tapa Lambo Lam | O Si Tapa Lambo Lam | Toure Jim's | 1983

 

Maître Gazonga, L'International Challal | Chad-Cote D'Ivoire | Les Jaloux Saboteurs | L'International Challal D'Hamed Gazonga | Tangent | 1983

Tribu Baharú | Colombia | Made In Tribu Baharú | P​a'l​ ​M​á​s Exigente Bailador | Tambora | 2015