Global A Go-Go presents:
We’ll start this week’s program with four selections from Sahel Sound’s new Music From Saharan WhatsApp series. Throughout 2020, the label is releasing one EP a month that’s been recorded by the artists on a cellphone in the southern Sahara, transmitted over WhatsApp, and uploaded to Bandcamp where it’s available for a month before it disappears, just like a WhatsApp message does.
This subversive distribution model gives 100 percent of the proceeds to the musicians and reflects how most music is acquired in the region: by file sharing (with no payment to the artists, of course) over WhatsApp. It’s also resulted in an immediacy that you just won’t hear in other recordings — it’s the next best thing to the live performances we’re all missing right now. You can read more about the series here.
Also this week (Monday June 29, 3:00-5:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): kora shredding; a taste of Afro-Japanese music; the latest from Ukraine’s DakhaBrakha; Latin psych-funk from the 60s and 70s; and a Hailu Mergia sampler.
Podcast: radio4all.net/index.php/program/106049
All the podcasts: radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a GO-GO”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
Etran De L'Air, “Houlhine Ayagolamane”
from Music From Saharan WhatsApp 01
Sahel Sounds - 2020
Niger
Luka Productions & Kandiafa, “Ballani Diarra”
from Music From Saharan WhatsApp 06
Sahel Sounds - 2020
Mali
Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc., “Baila Chibiquiban”
from Ritual
Omega - 1971
Netherlands-Belgium
Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs, “Gajda”
Asphalt Tango Records - 2016
Bulgaria
Ba Cissoko, “Kora Rocks (feat. Ibrahima Kourou, Abdoulaye Kouyate, Alhassane Camara, Laurent Rigaud 'Samba' & Ava Saty Marching Band)”
from Nimissa
Cristal records - 2011
Guinee Conakry-France
Afriquoi, “Acid Attack”
from Time is A Gift Which We Share All The Time - EP
Mawimbi - 2020
England UK-The Gambia-RD Congo
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go June 29th, 2020
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