Global A Go-Go presents:
In Sudan, as in many African countries, if you made music in the 1960s with electric guitars and electric keyboards and a drum trap kit (all newly introduced on the continent), you probably called it “jazz.” You might have been playing rock ‘n’ roll or R&B or Cuban rumba or local styles on the new instruments — didn’t matter, it was all jazz.
Sharhabil Ahmed, still with us at age 84, is the King of Sudanese Jazz, crowned in a 1970s contest and never dethroned. His sound, a unique mixture of traditional Sudanese music with early 60s rock, surf, funk, Congolese music and East African harmonies, is the soundtrack of the the swinging 60s in Khartoum. Sharhabil has been anthologized for the first time ever, by Berlin’s Habibi Funk Records, and you’ll hear one of his tracks this week on Global A Go-Go.
Also this week (Monday August 3, 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): throat-singing Hank Williams; trippy cumbia; more IPM (intelligent pop music) from Brazil; two great central African guitar tracks; and John Lee Hooker crashes a Balkan beats dance party.
Podcast: radio4all.net/index.php/program/106282
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
Yat-Kha, “Ramblin' Man”
from Re-Covers (feat. Albert Kuvezin)
world village - 2006
Tuva Republic Russia
Anda Union, “Boomborai”
from The Wind Horse
Hohhot Records - 2011
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region China
Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn, “Four Seasons Medley: Four Seasons / Dark Ocean Waltz”
from Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2020
China-USA
Chico Trujillo, “Los Nervios Que Te di (feat. Kevin Johansen)”
from Reina De Todas las Fiestas
Barbès Records - 2015
Chile-Argentina-USA
Frente Cumbiero & Minyo Crusaders, “Un, Dos, Kung Fu”
from Minyo Cumbiero (From Tokyo to Bogota) - EP
Mais Um Discos - 2020
Japan-Colombia
Sharhabil Ahmed, “Zulum Aldunya”
from The King of Sudanese Jazz (Habibi Funk 013)
Habibi Funk Records distributed by Groove Attack - 2020
Sudan, 1960s
The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr, “Kaif Halo”
from Jazz, Jazz, Jazz (Habibi Funk 009)
HABIBI Funk Records - 2018
Sudan
Tim Maia, “Do Leme ao Pontal”
from World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can Live Forever - The Existential Soul of Tim Maia
LUAKA BOP - 1980
Brazil
Andre Abujamra, “Alma Nao Tem Cor - Multi 25 (feat Smarty & Perota Chingo)”
from Alma Nao Tem Cor - Multi 25 - single
Tratore - 2020
Brazil-Burkina Faso-Argentina
Džambo Aguševi Orchestra, “Old Bazaar Groove”
from Old Bazaar Groove (DJ Branski Mix) - Single
Asphalt Tango Records - 2020
North Macedonia-Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dubioza Kolektiv, “Boom! (feat. Džambo Agušev)”
from Happy Machine
Anzn / Zn Production - 2016
Bosnia & Herzegovina-North Macedonia
Shantel, “Disko Partizani (Marcus Darius meets Tricky Cris Remix)”
from BalkanBeats - A Night In Berlin
Piranha - 2008
Germany
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go August 3rd, 2020
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