Music by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Red Baraat, both of whom will be at the Richmond Jazz Festival on Sunday; a set of new and old reggae; diving into Sudanese pop music; Indian and Balkan brass
Produced live in the studios of WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio in Richmond, Virginia every Wednesday from 3 to 5 PM. Available as a webstream simulcast at wrir.org. Downloads for rebroadcast on other non-profit radio stations and as podcasts via the A-Infos Radio Project at radio4all.net. And more information about all of those options and more on my blog, globalagogo.com.
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
Ladysmith Black Mambazo | South Africa | Nomathemba | Long Walk To Freedom | Heads Up | 2006 Abagqomi | South Africa | Bakhuzeni | Golden Afrique Vol. 3 | Network Medien Juluka | South Africa | Simple Things | Scatterlings | Warner Bros | 1982
Staff Benda Bilili | R.D. Congo | Je T'aime | Tres Tres Fort | Crammed | 2009 Jupiter & Okwess | R.D. Congo | Ekombe | Kin Sonic | Everloving | 2018
Pad Anthony | Jamaica-Canada | Lead The Way | single | Ram Goat | 2018 Alpheus | England UK | Light Of Day | Light Of Day | Liquidator | 2018 Hortense Ellis | Jamaica | I Can't Stand The Rain | single | Joe Gibbs Music | 1979
Pluto Shervington | Jamaica | Ram Goat Liver | single | Wild Flower | 1974 Mystic Bowie | Jamaica-USA | Piece Of My Heart | Mystic Bowie's Talking Dreads | MTMB Entertainment | 2018 Apache Indian with Desmond Dekker | England UK-Jamaica | The Israelites | Time For Change | API | 2005
Saied Khalifa | Sudan | Idg Aloolli | Two Niles To Sing A Melody: The Violins And Synths Of Sudan | Ostinato | 1970 Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour | Sudan | Qamar Al Massa | The Shaigiya Sound Of Sudan | Ostinato | 197x
Ali Hassan Kuban | Egypt | Bettitogor Agil | Walk Like A Nubian | Piranha | 1991
Red Baraat | USA | Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai | Sound The People | Rhyme & Reason | 2018 Band Master Rangeela & Rasila | India | Emosonal Attyachar | Dev.D original soundtrack | T-Series | 2008
Lemon Bucket Orkestra | Canada | Freedom | If I Had The Strength | Six Degrees | 2018 Goran Bregovic | Bosnia & Herzegovina | Ne Siam Kurve Tuke Ne Sijam Prostitutke | Karmen (With A Happy End) | Universal IS | 2007 Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra | Serbia | Turbo Dizel | Gipsy Manifesto | Piranha | 2013