Global A Go-Go presents:
“World music” is a silly name for a genre. To paraphrase Louis Armstrong, all music is world music — I ain’t never heard a Martian sing a song. Anyway, it’s not a genre at all, more like a point of view: That my culture isn’t the sun around which everything else orbits.
Maybe my favorite definition of world music is this one from journalist and musician Ian A. Anderson: “Local music from somewhere else.” What does world music sound like from a Japanese perspective? Global A Go-Go looks at that question on this episode through the eyes of three Japanese bands: Ajate, Minyo Crusaders and of Tropique (the latter is pictured above).
Also this week (Sunday March 12, 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): A repressing of the best gnawa album I’ve ever heard, the sci-fi psychedelia of Mexico City’s Monstruos Del Mañana, the rediscovery of Helen Nkume, new Afropop from Kimi Djabaté and Black AD, and some post-Mas soca.
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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
Club d'Elf, “Rope On Fire”
from Electric Moroccoland (feat. John Medeski)
Face Pelt Records - 2018
USA, 2011
Maalem Mahmoud Gania, “Sadati Houma El Bouhala”
from Colours Of The Night
Hive Mind Records - 2017
Morocco, 2013
Nicola Conte & Spiritual Galaxy, “Cosmic Peace”
MPS - 2018
Italy-Sweden-Finland-USA-South Africa-England UK-Ghana
Lijadu Sisters, “Orere-Elejigbo”
Knitting Factory Records - 2012
Nigeria, 1979
Kandy Guira, “Africa (feat. Jowee Omicil)”
from Nagtaba
Vlad Productions - 2021
Burkina Faso-France-Canada
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go March 12th, 2023
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