Global A Go-Go presents:
Top ten compilations, reissues and historic recordings of 2019
On the January 6 edition of Global A Go-Go, we welcome in the new year with a look at my favorite new/old recordings of the last year: the best compilations, reissues and historic recordings released in 2019.
This is always a fun category for me — I learn so much from reissued recordings I wasn’t even aware of when they first were released, and I truly enjoy the curatorial ear and eye that labels like Analog Africa, Strut and Ostinato bring to their compilations.
There’s two more labels I’d like to shout out here for their great work in 2019: Vampisoul, in acknowledgement of the reissue series they’re doing in collaboration with Colombian labels Discos Fuentes, Codiscos and INS; and BBE (short for “Barely Breaking Even,” which is so apt for everyone working in this niche of the music business) who started a fabulous reissue partnership with Nigeria’s Tabansi Music Publishers.
With that as prologue, here are my top ten compilations, reissues and historic recordings of 2019, plus ten honorable mentions:
Top Ten Compilations, Reissues & Historic Recordings Of 2019
1. Los Shain’s (Peru) | El Ritmo De Los Shain’s | Munster
2. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party (Pakistan) | Live At WOMAD 1985 | Real World
3. Pour Me A Grog: The Funana Revolt In 1990s Cabo Verde | Ostinato
4. Jambu E Os Miticos Sons Da Amazonia (Brazil) | Analog Africa
5. Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars (Nigeria) | Sewele | Strut
6. Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu, Somalia 1972-1991 | Analog Africa
7. The Daktaris (USA) | Soul Explosion | Desco / Daptone
8. Alefa Madagascar! Salegy, Soukous & Soul From The Red Island 1974-1984 | Strut
9. Ondigui And Bota Tabansi International (Nigeria) | Ewondo Rythm | BBE
10. El Wali (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) | Tiris | Sahel Sound / Badawi Archives
Honorable Mention
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah (Morocco) | Al Hadaoui | Habibi Funk
Brother Resistance (Trinidad & Tobago) | Tonite Is De Night | Cree
Bulawayo Blue Yodel: Omasiganda, Troubadours & High Lonesome Sound Of Zimbabwe, Kenya & South Africa 1948-1959 | Olvido
Down In Jamaica: 40 Years Of VP Records | VP
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders (Morocco-USA) | The Trance Of Seven Colors | Zehra
Julian Y Su Combo (Colombia) | Noche De Fiesta | Vampisoul
Lumingu Puati (Zorro) (RD Congo) | Mosese | BBE
Nigeria 70 – No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987 | Strut
Star Band De Dakar (Senegal) | Psicodelia Afro-Cubana De Senegal | Ostinato
Ebo Taylor (Ghana) | Palaver | BBE
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Show Archive
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go - Go”
from Global a Go - Go
Hellcat/Epitaph - 2001
England UK
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Omar Shooli, “Hab Isii (Hug Me)”
from Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972 - 1991)
Analog Africa - 1986
Somalia
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Brother Resistance, “Crucial Decision ('92 Version)”
from Tonite Is De Night - Single
Cree - 1992
Trinidad & Tobago
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Odeyemi, “Oni Suru”
from Nigeria 70 (No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987)
Strut - 1987
Nigeria
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Star Band de Dakar, “Guajira Ven”
from Star Band de Dakar: Psicodelia Afro-Cubana de Senegal
Ostinato Records LLC - 1980
Senegal
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders, “Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La'Foh”
from The Trance Of Seven Colors
Zehra - 1994
Morocco-USA
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Ondigui And Bota Tabansi International, “Beza Bakili Ma Nyon”
from Ewondo Rythm
BBE Music - 1977
Nigeria
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El wali, “Song for the Prophet”
from Tiris
Sahel Sound / Badawi Archives - 1994
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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Ferro Gaita, “Rei Di Tabanka”
from Pour Me a Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde
Ostinato Records LLC - 1999
Cabo Verde
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Michael Majozi, “Sengihambile”
Olvido / Mississippi - 1954
South Africa
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go January 6th, 2020
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