Global A Go-Go presents:
The folks at Milan’s Dig This Way Records have a reminder for us: all the crates will never completely be dug. The latest evidence is their reissue of Drunkard by the Central African Republic’s Vibro Success Intercontinental Orchestra.
Vibro Success were the first band to use a drum kit in Congolese-style rumba. They were Bangui’s biggest band in the 1970s, became the toast of Yaoundé and N’Djamena due to their constant touring of neighboring Cameroon and Chad, and recorded a series of albums in Aba, Nigeria for the Ben Limited record label, hence the “Intercontinental Orchestra” moniker.
I can’t speak to all of their recorded output, but I can tell you that 1978’s Drunkard is on par with the best music of Africa’s post-independence era. And that’s saying something, since they’re a band I had literally never heard of under a few weeks ago. Hear them for yourself this week on Global A Go-Go.
Also this week (Sunday April 3, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards on the wrir.org archive player, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): a boatload of excellent new releases from artists who, like Vibro Success, you have probably never heard before — Stephanie Santiago, Kiko Villamizar, The Bongo Hop, The Bogie Band featuring Joe Russo, Reggaesta and Congotronics International. And plenty of Global A Go-Go classics to balance the scales.
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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
Quantic, “Muévelo Negro (feat. Nidia Góngora)”
from Magnetica
Tru Thoughts - 2014
England UK-USA-Colombia
The Bogie Band, Stuart Bogie & Joe Russo, “The Prophets In The City (Arrival)”
Royal Potato Family - 2022
USA
Los Calvos, “Salsa y Sandunga”
from Salsa y Sandunga - Single
El Palmas Music - 2022
Venezuela, 1968
Reggaesta Productions & Earl 16, “Cocaine”
from Cocaine (Remix) - EP
Echo Beach - 2022
Italy-Jamaica-England UK
The Tamlins, “Baltimore”
from Sly & Robbie Presents Sounds of Taxi 1st Volume
Taxi Records - 2012
Jamaica, 1980
Marty Dread, “What I Am (feat. Gaudi)”
from It Sometimes Rains in Paradise
Five corners records - 2011
USA
Bob Marley & The Wailers, “Concrete Jungle”
from Catch a Fire (Deluxe Edition)
Universal-Island Records Ltd. - 2001
Jamaica, 1973
Kasai Allstars, Masanka Sankayi & Mutumilayi, “Wa Muluendu”
from Congotronics 2: Buzz'n'rumble from the Urb'n'jungle
Crammed Discs - 2005
R.D. Congo
Konono N°1, “Mama Na Bana”
from Assume Crash Position (Congotronics 4)
Crammed Discs - 2010
R.D. Congo
Congotronics International, “Where's the One (feat. Kasai Allstars, Deerhoof, Juana Molina, Konono N°1, Skeletons & Wildbirds & Peacedrums) [Single Edit]”
Crammed Discs - 2022
R.D. Congo-USA-Argentina-Sweden
Vibro Success Intercontinental Orchestra, “The Drunkard”
from Drunkard
Dig This Way - 2022
Central African Republic, 1978
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go April 3rd, 2022
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