Leah and Pendo Zawose have been making Wagogo music in Tanzania all their lives. But always in the background -- women's jobs in Wagogo music has always been drumming and harmony singing, not songwriting or lead singing or playing the crucial tuned instruments illimba (thumb piano), chizeze (spike fiddle) and marimba (same as in English).
With the release of Maisha by the Zawose Queens, Wagogo women are finally out in front of the band. Leah and Pendo's eleven original songs, backed by traditional instruments and unusually sensitive electronics and production from Englishmen Tom Excell and Oli Barton-Wood, are going to turn a lot of people on to a sound they've never heard before. You'll hear three of them this week on Global A Go-Go.
Also this week (Sunday June 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): Classic zouk béton from the French Antilles in the 80s; LA LOM takes on Peruvian chicha; the original sound of cumbia from Colombia's Los Gaiteros De San Jacinto, who will be performing in Richmond on July 19; the latest from Austin's Superfónicos; and two sets of Colombian champeta featuring a new track from Meridian Brothers and some unlikely covers.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/118124
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
Jocelyne Béroard | Martinique France | Sa Ki Ta La | Siwo | GD Productions | 1986
Zouk Time | Guadeloupe France | Guetho À Liso (feat. Kanda Bongo Man) | Guetho À Liso | Liso Music Production | 1987
Jacob F. Desvarieux & Georges Décimus (Kassav') | Guadeloupe France | Zouk La Sé Sèl Médikaman Nou Ni | Yélélé | Heavenly Sweetness | 2024-1984
The Zawose Queens | Tanzania-England UK | Lulelule | Maisha | Real World | 2024
The Zawose Queens | Tanzania-England UK | Maisha | Maisha | Real World | 2024
The Zawose Queens | Tanzania-England UK | Mapendo | Maisha | Real World | 2024
LA LOM | USA | Danza De LA LOM | Danza De LA LOM - Single | Verve | 2024
Los Wembler's De Iquitos | Perú | Sonido Amazonico | Ikaro Del Amor | Barbès | 2017
Los Blue Kings De Ñaña | Perú | El Rey Loco | La Pildorita / El Rey Loco - Single | FTA | 1973
Juaneco Y Su Combo | Perú | Vacilando Con Ayahuasca | El Gran Cacique | Infopesa | 1972
Los Gaiteros De San Jacinto | Colombia | El Octubre Que Venía | Orgullo Colombiano | OM Producciones / Bad Vibes Good Friends | 2024
Kiko Villamizar | USA-Colombia | Todo El Mundo | Todo El Mundo | Wepa | 2022
Superfónicos | USA-Colombia | La Semilla | La Semilla - Single | Spaceflight | 2024
Grupo Fantasma | USA | Realizando | El Existential | Nat Geo Music | 2010
Meridian Brothers | Colombia | Mis Soledades | Mi Latinoamérica Sufre | Ansonia / Bongo Joe | 2024
Machuca Cumbia | Colombia | Staying Alive | Travolteando Fiebre Cumbiambera | Machuca | 1978
Grupo Abharca | Colombia | Schallcarri | Africa Llama | Caliente | 1978
Viviano Torres & Ane Swing | Colombia | Happy Embarrased | Joyas Champetuas De Todos Los Tiempos | Palenque | 2022-198x
The Bongo Hop | France-Colombia | Ventana (feat. Nidia Góngora) | Satingarona Pt. 1 | Underdog | 2024-2016
Luis Towers | Colombia | Mamá Africa | Champeta Criolla Vol. 2: The Real Motherf*ckers Of Afrocolombian Music | Palenque | 2003
Charles King | Colombia | Amanecer | Amanecer | El Pico Producciones | 2015
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