Global A Go-Go presents:
One night on earth
Derek Gripper is a guitarist from Cape Town, South Africa who has made a specialty of playing the kora music of West Africa on the classical guitar. To give you an idea of how good he is at it: Producer Lucy Durán played Gripper’s recording of Toumani Diabaté’s song “Jarabi” for Toumani (who’s probably the world’s most famous kora player). His response, paraphrased: “Did you actually see him play this music on one guitar?” Yeah, he’s that good.
Anyway, Derek Gripper is visiting Richmond this week to play at the Robinson Theater in Church Hill on Thursday. He calls this concert “Music from the Strings of Mali” and he’s joined by Irish guitarist Redmond O’Toole; more details can be found here: concerts.derekgripper.com. You’ll hear Derek Gripper’s music this week on Global A Go-Go, and Toumani Diabaté’s as well.
Also this week (Sunday November 26, 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): New throat singing from Mongolia by Batsükh Dorj, rocksteady from the mid 60s and the current Jamaican sounds of Samory I and Stephen Marley, after 44 years finally the first studio album by Senegal’s Dieuf Dieul de Thiès, and more Ghanaian burger highlife.
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Show Archive
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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
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Victor Axelrod & Leon Dinero, “If You Ask Me To”
from If You Ask Me To: Victor Axelrod Productions for Daptone Records
Daptone Records - 2023
USA, 2019
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Alton Ellis, “Cry Tough”
from Be True to Yourself: The Godfather of Lover's Rock (Anthology 1965-1973)
Trojan Records - 2004
Jamaica, 1967
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Derrick Morgan, “Tougher Than Tough (Rudie in Court)”
from Best of Derrick Morgan (Expanded Version)
Trojan Records - 1967
Jamaica
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Stephen Marley, “Cast The First Stone (feat Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley)”
from Old Soul
Stephen Marley (Tuff Gong) - 2023
Jamaica-USA
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Tiken Jah Fakoly, “One Step Forward (feat Max Romeo)”
from Racines
Universal Music Division Barclay - 2015
Cote D'Ivoire-Jamaica
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Derek Gripper, “Jarabi (Passion)”
from One Night on Earth: Music from the Strings of Mali
New Cape Records - 2012
South Africa
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Derek Gripper, “'56”
from One Night On Earth: Music From The Strings Of Mali
New Cape Records - 2012
South Africa
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A.K. Yeboah, “Nde Den Ya”
from Nde Yen Da (feat. K.K's No. 2 Band) - EP
BBE Africa - 2023
Ghana, 1985
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Nana Aboagye Da-Costa, “Sikyi Medley: Nsamafo Mmegya Nsa, Ohemaa, Odomaa, Ohia Ese Oden Efie Nefie”
from Borga Revolution, Volume 2: Ghanaian Dance Music In The Digital Age, 1983-1996
Kalita - 2023
Ghana-Netherlands, 1991
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