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

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Playlist:

    Time: June 29 - 11:00:00 am
  • Matador Of 1st & 1st

    Oliver Lake, “Separation”

    from Matador Of 1st & 1st

    Passin Thru - 1996

    USA

  • Time: June 29 - 11:01:00 am
  • 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

  • Time: June 29 - 11:05:00 am
  • Etran De L'Air, “Houlhine Ayagolamane”

    from Music From Saharan WhatsApp 01

    Sahel Sounds - 2020

    Niger

  • Time: June 29 - 11:10:52 am
  • Amaria Hamadalher, “Tamiditine”

    from Music From Saharan WhatsApp 05

    Sahel Sounds - 2020

    Niger

  • Time: June 29 - 11:13:31 am
  • Luka Productions & Kandiafa, “Ballani Diarra”

    from Music From Saharan WhatsApp 06

    Sahel Sounds - 2020

    Mali

  • Time: June 29 - 11:17:31 am
  • Alkibar Jr., “Soukabe Mali”

    from Music From Saharan WhatsApp 04

    Sahel Sounds - 2020

    Mali

  • Time: June 29 - 11:25:00 am
  • Yene Mircha

    Hailu Mergia, “Shemendefer”

    from Yene Mircha

    Awesome Tapes From Africa - 2020

    Ethiopia-DC USA

  • Time: June 29 - 11:31:26 am
  • Hailu / Yegle Nesh - Single

    Hailu Mergia, “Yegle Nesh”

    from Hailu / Yegle Nesh - Single

    Philophon - 2015

    Ethiopia-DC USA

  • Time: June 29 - 11:34:43 am
  • Hailu Mergia & The Walias, “Tche Belew”

    from Tche Belew

    Awesome Tapes From Africa - 1977

    Ethiopia

  • Time: June 29 - 11:44:00 am
  • Ritual

    Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc., “Baila Chibiquiban”

    from Ritual

    Omega - 1971

    Netherlands-Belgium

  • Time: June 29 - 11:48:20 am
  • Bacalao Con Pan

    Irakere, “Bacalao Con Pan”

    from Bacalao Con Pan

    Escondida Music - 1974

    Cuba

  • Time: June 29 - 11:52:07 am
  • Power Fuerza

    Ghetto Brothers, “Mastica, Chupa y Jala”

    from Power Fuerza

    Salsa Records - 1972

    USA

  • Time: June 29 - 11:56:01 am
  • Santana

    Santana, “Jingo”

    from Santana

    Columbia/Legacy - 1969

    USA

  • Time: June 29 - 12:04:00 pm
  • DakhaBrakha, “Dostochka”

    from Alambari

    self-released - 2020

    Ukraine

  • Time: June 29 - 12:11:30 pm
  • Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs, “Gajda”

    from Cats, Dogs And Ghosts

    Asphalt Tango Records - 2016

    Bulgaria

  • Time: June 29 - 12:16:01 pm
  • Morphine, “Wishing Well”

    from Like Swimming

    DreamWorks - 1996

    USA

  • Time: June 29 - 12:23:00 pm
  • Ajate, “De De”

    from Alo

    180g - 2020

    Japan

  • Time: June 29 - 12:32:05 pm
  • Juju Music

    King Sunny Ade, “Ja Funmi”

    from Juju Music

    Universal-Island Records Ltd. - 1982

    Nigeria

  • Time: June 29 - 12:43:00 pm
  • Stylo

    Toubab Krewe, “That Damn Squash”

    from Stylo

    Toubab Krewe - 2018

    USA

  • Time: June 29 - 12:47:02 pm
  • Nimissa

    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

  • Time: June 29 - 12:51:15 pm
  • Time is A Gift Which We Share All The Time - EP

    Afriquoi, “Acid Attack”

    from Time is A Gift Which We Share All The Time - EP

    Mawimbi - 2020

    England UK-The Gambia-RD Congo

  • Time: June 29 - 12:56:15 pm
  • Sabolan

    Ba Cissoko, “Dandala”

    from Sabolan

    Marabi productions - 2005

    Guinee Conakry-France

    Global A Go-Go    June 29th, 2020

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