Global A Go-GoGlobal A Go-Go: Wednesday April 29, 3-5 PM

(Photo at University of Richmond's Booker Hall by WRIR's own DJ Carlito)

I'm back and I'm bearing plenty of new music — that's the focus of this week's program.  Journalist/musician Banning Eyre's new biography of Thomas Mapfumo (pictured above in colorful shoes) is about to be published by Duke University Press; Eyre has curated a best-of CD to complement his book, so you'll hear the words and music of the Lion of Zimbabwe.

Also new to Global A Go-Go this week: smoking Malian sounds from Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba and Khaira Arby, a beautiful new collaboration between French guitarist Titi Robin and Moroccan sintir player Mehdi Nassouli, and the reissue of a 1970's Turkish folk-rock nugget by Mazhar Ve Fuat.  And plenty of great older music to go along with it.

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/80495

All the podcasts: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go