Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (OTPMD for short) is a hard band to describe, an easy one to love. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, it is truly an orchestra: 12 players on viola, cello, bass violin, trombone and bugle plus guitars, marimbas (two of them, somehow) and drums. In their music you'll hear post-punk, krautrock, African rhythms, brass bands, 20th century minimalism, free jazz and more, sometimes all in the same song.
OTPMD is touring the USA right now, and they will squeeze all dozen band members onto (or at least near to) the stage at the Get Tight Lounge on Wednesday June 25. You'll hear their music this week on Global A Go-Go, and I will give away a pair of tickets to the concert as well. Opening for OTPMD will be the new Richmond folk-jazz-world supergroup Amminal, a band nearly as eclectic as the headliner. You'll hear Amminal on this week's program as well, from a session they recorded on Global A Go-Go in the spring.
Also this week (Sunday June 22, 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): New Latin sounds from Alfa & Manu Chao, Eljuri, Quitapenas and Systema Solar; the fabulous second studio album by Japan's Minyo Crusaders; Soul Sugar and Dub Shepherds give Curtis Mayfield the reggae version treatment; two very welcome Malian reissues: Super Djata Band's Authentique 81 and Wagadu Grooves Vol. 2; and classic South Africa kwaito by Moskito.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/120439
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
Alfa & Manu Chao | Italy-France-Spain | A Me Mi Piace | A Me Mi Piace - Single | Because Music | 2025
Eljuri | Ecuador-USA | La Vida | La Vida - Single | Manovill | 2025
Quitapenas | USA | Jaguar | Retumba! EP | Nepantla | 2025
Systema Solar | Colombia | El Pum Pum | Futurx Primitivx 2025 | Sambumbia | 2025
Minyo Crusaders | Japan | Hiroshima Kiyari Ondo | Tour of Japan | 180g | 2025
Minyo Crusaders | Japan | Nanbu Tawaratsumi Uta | Tour of Japan | 180g | 2025
La Sonora Mazurén | Colombia | Desliz | Bailando con Extraños | Barbès | 2023
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Switzerland | Blabber | We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway. | Bongo Joe | 2021
Amminal | RVA USA | Autumn's Tongue | Live on WRIR April 13, 2025 | unreleased | 2025
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp | Switzerland | So Many Things (To Feel Guilty About) | We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway. | Bongo Joe | 2021
Glen Brown | Jamaica | I'm Your Puppet | I'm Your Puppet - Single | Pantomine | 1972
Mahalia Saunders | Jamaica | Piece Of My Heart | Piece Of My Heart - Single | Upsetter | 1971
Soul Sugar meets Dub Shepherds | France-England UK | Give Me Your Love | Give Me Your Love - Single | Gee | 2025
Donovan Carless | Jamaica | Be Thankful For What You Got | Be Thankful For What You Got - Single | Giant | 1974
Norma Fraser | Jamaica | The First Cut Is The Deepest | The First Cut Is The Deepest - Single | Coxsone | 1967
Super Djata Band de Bamako | Mali | Zani Djabaté | Authentique Vol. 2 Feu Vert 81-82 | Numero Group | 2025-1981
Aboubakar Traoré & Balima | Burkina Faso-Mali-Belgium | Sonfo | Sababu | Zephyrus | 2024
Souley Kanté | Mali | Bi Magni | Wagadu Grooves Vol. 2: The Hypnotic Sound of Camara 1991-2014 | Hot Mule | 2025-2001
Moskito | South Africa | Idolar | Idolar | Awesome Tapes From Africa | 2025-2001
V-Mash | South Africa | Naughty Boy | Naughty Boy | Gallo | 1989
Black Moses | South Africa | Crocodile's Rock | M 2 | Priority | 1988
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