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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Playlist:

    Time: March 12 - 9:00:00 am
  • Matador Of 1st & 1st

    Oliver Lake, “Separation”

    from Matador Of 1st & 1st

    Passin Thru - 1996

    USA

  • Time: March 12 - 9:01:00 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: March 12 - 9:06:00 am
  • Electric Moroccoland (feat. John Medeski)

    Club d'Elf, “Rope On Fire”

    from Electric Moroccoland (feat. John Medeski)

    Face Pelt Records - 2018

    USA, 2011

  • Time: March 12 - 9:12:00 am
  • Colours Of The Night

    Maalem Mahmoud Gania, “Sadati Houma El Bouhala”

    from Colours Of The Night

    Hive Mind Records - 2017

    Morocco, 2013

  • Time: March 12 - 9:25:00 am
  • Clube Da Esquina

    Milton Nascimento, “San Vicente”

    from Clube Da Esquina

    Hemisphere - 1971

    Brazil

  • Time: March 12 - 9:28:34 am
  • Espejos

    Monstruos Del Mañana, “Bwana Afya”

    from Espejos

    Independent - 2022

    México

  • Time: March 12 - 9:35:00 am
  • Let Your Light Shine On

    Nicola Conte & Spiritual Galaxy, “Cosmic Peace”

    from Let Your Light Shine On

    MPS - 2018

    Italy-Sweden-Finland-USA-South Africa-England UK-Ghana

  • Time: March 12 - 9:44:40 am
  • Mam Pe'ela Su'ure - Single

    Florence Adooni, “Mam Pe'ela Su'ure”

    from Mam Pe'ela Su'ure - Single

    Philophon - 2021

    Ghana

  • Time: March 12 - 9:48:00 am
  • Horizon Unlimited - EP

    Lijadu Sisters, “Orere-Elejigbo”

    from Horizon Unlimited - EP

    Knitting Factory Records - 2012

    Nigeria, 1979

  • Time: March 12 - 9:52:32 am
  • Helen Nkume, “Music”

    from And Her Young Timers Band

    Hive Mind - 2023

    Nigeria, 1978

  • Time: March 12 - 10:05:00 am
  • Ajate, “Sowah”

    from Alo

    180g - 2020

    Japan

  • Time: March 12 - 10:13:13 am
  • Echoes of Japan

    Minyo Crusaders, “Aizu Bandaisan (Latin)”

    from Echoes of Japan

    Mais Um Discos - 2019

    Japan

  • Time: March 12 - 10:18:26 am
  • Buster Goes West

    of Tropique, “Guacharaca Moo”

    from Buster Goes West

    Electric Cowbell Records - 2023

    Japan

  • Time: March 12 - 10:26:00 am
  • Dindin

    Kimi Djabaté, “Kambem”

    from Dindin

    Cumbancha - 2023

    Guiné-Bissau-Portugal

  • Time: March 12 - 10:31:04 am
  • Lamp Fall

    Cheikh Lô, “Kelle Magni”

    from Lamp Fall

    World Circuit - 2005

    Burkina Faso-Sénégal

  • Time: March 12 - 10:35:15 am
  • Nagtaba

    Kandy Guira, “Africa (feat. Jowee Omicil)”

    from Nagtaba

    Vlad Productions - 2021

    Burkina Faso-France-Canada

  • Time: March 12 - 10:39:00 am
  • Black AD, “Mali”

    from Ididja, Volume 1 & 2

    self-released - 2022

    France

  • Time: March 12 - 10:47:21 am
  • Soca Baccanal

    Scrunter, “She Want Me To Sing In She Party”

    from Soca Baccanal

    J.B.S. - 1986

    Trinidad & Tobago

  • Time: March 12 - 10:52:00 am
  • The Best of the Shadow Vol. 1

    Shadow, “Bassman”

    from The Best of the Shadow Vol. 1

    JW Records - 2009

    Trinidad & Tobago, 1974

  • Time: March 12 - 10:57:05 am
  • Engine Room - Single

    Olatunji, “Engine Room”

    from Engine Room - Single

    De Red Boyz - 2022

    Trinidad & Tobago

    Global A Go-Go    March 12th, 2023

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