I don't follow poetry nearly as closely as I follow music, but I know enough to realize the T.S. Eliot Prize is a big deal. It's given annually to the author of the best new poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland. And this year it was awarded to Anthony Joseph, who you've heard on Global A Go-Go many times, for his collection Sonnets For Albert.
Joseph is a poet and novelist, lecturer in English at King's College London and a recording artist with ten albums to his name where his voice interacts with the melodies and rhythms of calypso, soca, jazz, Afrobeat and funk. On this episode of Global A Go-Go you'll hear three selections from those albums, going back as far as 2011 and up to his most recent release, 2021's The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives.
Also this week (Sunday April 9, 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): Immy Owusu's "Afrodelik lo-fi highlife"; Benin's Gangbé Brass Band, the world's most valuable collaborators; the funky sounds of Somalia; what's new in reggae; and cumbia, gradually then suddenly.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/115166
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
S.E. Rogie | Sierra Leone | Baby Lef Marah | The 60's Sounds Of S.E. Rogie Vol. 1 | Rogiphone | 1986-196x
Immy Owusu | Australia | Flashback | Flashback - Single | Hopestreet | 2023
Mawuli Decker | Ghana | Mawu Nafako Nam | Borga Revolution, Volume 2: Ghanaian Dance Music In The Digital Age, 1983-1996 | Kalita | 2023-1983
Hazmat Modine | USA-Benin | Child Of A Blind Man (feat Gangbé Brass Band) | Cicada | Barbes | 2011
Kala Jula & Gangbé Brass Band | Mali-Switzerland-Benin | Treme Cissé | Asro | Buda Musique | 2023
Gangbé Brass Band | Benin | Remember Fela | Whendo | Contre-Jour | 2003
4 Mars | Djibouti | Natesha (Compassion) | Djibouti Archives Vol. 1: Super Somali Sounds From The Gulf Of Tadjoura | Ostinato | 2021-199x
Dexter Story | USA | Wejene Aola (feat Kamasi Washington) | Wejene Aola - Single | Soundway | 2016
Dur-Dur Band Int. | Somalia | Wan Ka Helaa | The Berlin Session | Out Here | 2023
Bakaka Band | Somalia | Geesiyada Halgamayow (Brave Fighters) | Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu, Somalia 1972-1991 | Analog Africa | 2019-1978
Val Bennett | Jamaica | The Russians Are Coming | Who Wants Some? | Gorgon | 2023-1967
Martha & The Muffins | USA-France | Echo Beach (Grant Phabao remix) | Echo Beach: 40 Year Anniversary Remixes | Echo Beach | 2023-2010
Reggaddiction | Canada | Harvest (feat D.M. & Lilly Mason) | Ganja Harvest | NuFunk | 2022
Antidoping | México | No Te Desamines | No Te Desamines - Single | Faro Latino | 2023
Hugo Blanco Y Su Arpa Viajera | Venezuela | Infinito | Saturno 2000: La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962-1983 | Analog Africa | 2022-1962
Grupo Kual? | México | Kumbia De La Changa (feat Ramón Rojo Sonido La Changa) | Konexiones | Discos Rolas | 2022
Son Rompe Pera | México | Cumbia Is The New Punk | Chimborazo | AYA | 2023
Los Bitchos | England UK | Tequila | Pah! | City Slang | 2023
Anthony Joseph | Trinidad & Tobago-England UK | Calling England Home | The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives | Heavenly Sweetness | 2021
Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band | Trinidad & Tobago-England UK | Started Off As A Dancer | Rubber Orchestras | Heavenly Sweetness | 2011
Anthony Joseph | Trinidad & Tobago-England UK | Slinger | Caribbean Roots | Heavenly Sweetness | 2016
No comments:
Post a Comment