This week, I'll run down my picks for the top new releases of 2015: a Top Ten plus ten more honorable mentions. Then next week (Dec 16), it's on to the best compilations, reissues and historic recordings of 2015. After a week off, I'll be back on Dec 30 with the best of the rest -- all the great songs that didn't fit onto the previous two programs.
Isn't that overkill? Not really, at least I don't think so. WRIR received 548 new world music releases in 2015; then there's all the new stuff that was never sent to the station that I bought or streamed during the year. Add them all up, and you'll see that my top-lists are just six or so percent of all the new music I heard in 2015. Far from overkill, I'd say it's actually pretty selective company.
Of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating -- tune in to Global A Go-Go in December and hear for yourself just how good a year in world music 2015 was. I'd say it was very good, in fact one of the best recent vintages.
Click "Read More" to see my 2015 Top Ten (new releases division).
