Global A Go-Go presents:
It sure seems to me as though a lot of my favorite musicians died in 2021. Maybe it’s just that I’m getting older. Maybe it’s that I’ve been thinking more about my own mortality lately.
Mostly it’s that we’re living through a golden era of death — a (hopefully) once-in-a-century pandemic. Just in 2021, about 13,000,000 more people died worldwide than would have been expected had there not been a COVID pandemic. (My source for this number is The Economist’s excess deaths model.) More than a few of the unfortunate have been great musicians.
This week on Global A Go-Go (Sunday January 2, 1:00-3:00 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), we’ll celebrate the lives and times of 21 musicians from around the world who passed away last year, leaving us to safeguard the evidence of their genius. And I do mean genius — just about every track on this show is a stone-cold classic.
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
Alemayehu Eshete, “Ayalqem Tèdènqo”
from Éthiopiques, Vol. 8: Swinging Addis (1969-1974)
Buda musique - 2005
Ethiopia, 1971
Dub Colossus, “Uptown Top Ranking”
from Addis Through the Looking Glass (Bonus Track Version)
Real World Records - 2011
England UK-Ethiopia
Brother Resistance, “Crucial Decision”
from Tropical Disco - Tonight Is De Night - EP
Bear Family Records GmbH - 2019
Trinidad & Tobago, 1972
Jacob Desvarieux, Kassav' & Georges Decimus, “Zouk-la sé sel médikaman nou ni”
from Yélélé
Note A Bene - 1984
Guadeloupe-France
Johnny Pacheco & Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, “La Esencia Del Guaguancó”
Fania - 1970
Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico USA
Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound, “Consolación”
from Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound
Fania - 2020
Puerto Rico USA, 1970
Celia Cruz, Orquesta Harlow & Larry Harlow, “Gracia Divina”
from Hommy: A Latin Opera
Fania - 1973
USA
Orchestra Baobab, “Mouhamadou Bamba (feat. Orchestra Baobab)”
from Mouhamadou Bamba (feat. Orchestra Baobab)
Sterns Africa - 1980
Senegal-Guine Bissau-Mali-Togo
Sir Victor Uwaifo and His Titibitis, “Aibalegbe”
from Edo Funk Explosion, Vol. 1
Analog Africa - 2021
Nigeria, 1982
Abelardo Carbonó y su Conjunto, “Muévela”
from El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbono
Vampisoul - 1982
Colombia
Le T.P.O.K. Jazz & Franco, “Missile”
from Francophonic, Vol. 2
Editions Populaires - 2009
RD Congo, 1983
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go January 2nd, 2022
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