May 25, 2024

Afro-hayashi

What happens when you take Japanese traditional ohayashi festival music, add African grooves to it and play it on homemade bamboo instruments?  You get the band Ajate, whose superb new album Dala Toni is the latest in global music made in Japan.  Hear it for yourself this week on Global A Go-Go.

Also this week (Sunday May 26, 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): Olivier Conan's new Combo Daguerre project, great new music from Sahra Halgan and Delgrès, Orquesta Akokán's modern mambo, Tidiane Thiam says "Africa, it's time" and the latest from female gnawa pioneers Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou.

 
 
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
 
Michel Polnareff | France | La Poupée Qui Fait Non | Michel Polnareff | Disc'Az | 1966
Combo Daguerre | USA-France-Perú-Colombia-Venezuela | Les Assassins | Les Assassins - Single | Barbès | 2024
Sullivan | France | Haschish-Faction | Les Pays Des Merveilles | Vogue | 1967
François Wertheimer | France | L'Automne | Le Compagnon De Voyage / L'Automne - Single | BYG | 1971
 
Alain Péters | La Réunion France | Caloubadia (1981) | Rest' La Maloya | Bongo Joe | 2015
Delgrès | France | À La Fin | Promis Le Ciel | Discograph | 2024
Sahra Halgan | Somaliland-France | Laga | Hiddo Dhawr | Danaya | 2024
Moonlight Benjamin | Haiti-France | Moso Moso | Siltane | Ma Case | 2018
 
Orquesta Akokán | Cuba-USA | Con Licencia | Con Licencia - Single | Daptone | 2024
Ned Sublette | USA-Cuba | Cheaters' Motel | Cowboy Rumba | Palm Pictures | 1999
David Byrne | USA | Make Believe Mambo | Rei Momo | Luaka Bop | 1989
 
Omar Pene | Sénégal | Mon Mari | Myamba | Faces | 2005
Tidiane Thiam | Sénégal | Yangue | Africa Yontii | Sahel Sounds | 2024
Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck | Sénégal | Sehilam | Djam Leelii: The Adventurers | Mango | 1989
 
Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou | Morocco | Lalla Malika 1 | L'bnat | Ajabu! | 2024
Maalem Mahmoud Gania | Morocco | Sidi Sma Ya Boulandi | Colours Of The Night | Hive Mind | 2023-2013
Aziz Sahmaoui & University Of Gnawa | Morocco-Sénégal-France | Ganga Sound Of Mbirika | Poetic Trance | Blue Line | 2019
 
Ajate | Japan | Kopi Lakanka | Dala Toni | 180g | 2024
Minyo Crusaders & Frente Cumbiero | Japan-Colombia | Tora Joe | From Toyko To Bogotá EP | Mais Um | 2020

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