GLOBAL A GO-GO

WRIR's NACC World Top Ten   1 MDOU MOCTAR | Afrique Victime | Matador 2 LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD | At Pioneer Works | Sahel Sounds...

I don't play a lot of music from Japan on this program.  Fortunately for WRIR listeners, you have Banji Kaicho to more than cover for me...

WRIR's NACC World Top Ten 1 OKUTE | Okuté | Chulo 2 VAUDOU GAME | Noussin | Hot Casa 3 MDOU MOCTAR | Afrique Victime | Matador...

(photo by Tom Campagnoli) On July 11, 1981, Plan 9 Records opened for business at 2901 W. Cary Street in Richmond's Carytown neighborhoo...

This time on Global A Go-Go it's nuthin' but a global dance party: two continuous hours of music, spanning 30 countries and six deca...

WRIR's NACC World Top Ten   1 HAMDI BENANI, MEDHI HADDAB AND SPEED CARAVAN | Nuba Nova | Buda Musique 2 LAS CAFETERAS | "La Si...

Hamdi Benani was dubbed "l'ange blanc du malouf" (the white angel of malouf ) for his white violin and matching suit, and for...

WRIR's NACC World Top Ten 1 JOAO SELVA | Navegar | Underdog 2 NGOMA ZETHU | 7 Chapters Of Mystery | Bantu Entertainment Network 3 ...

The Walias Band was one of Ethiopian music's pioneers: they were the first independent band not financially tied to a hotel, club or the...

WRIR's NACC World Top Ten 1 MDOU MOCTAR | Afrique Victime | Matador 2 VAUDOU GAME | Noussin | Hot Casa 3 OKUTE | Okuté | Chulo...

Astronomical summer doesn't start for another week, but it's definitely meteorological summer here in the RVA, and that's got me...

WRIR's NACC World Top Ten 1 MDOU MOCTAR | Afrique Victime | Matador 2 MOH ALILECHE | Humanity Is Falling Apart | Flag Of Freedom...

It's not often here at WRIR that we have two different covers of the same song on our world music recommended list at the same time; in ...

WRIR's NACC World Top Ten 1 MDOU MOCTAR | Afrique Victime | Matador 2 COLOR DE TROPICO, VOL. 2 | various artists | El Palmas 3 U...

Everyone in the music business thinks they're a rebel.  And then there's Amha Eshete: in 1969 he defied Haile Selassie's Imperia...