Global A Go-Go presents:
Photograph by Michael Lease
I’m going to start this week’s program with a tribute to George Floyd in honor of his family — that is, all of us.
Rastafarians have a theory of language called Wordsound: a word should sound like what it means. So ‘oppressor’ doesn’t make sense — you can’t start a negative term with the “up” sound. Rasta says ‘downpressor’ instead, giving you the image of a man with his knee on your neck, pressing down.
In these times, it’s incumbent on all of us to choose: Am I an uplifter or a downpressor? I don’t think there’s an in-between.
Also this week (Monday June 8, 3:00-5:00 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), Global A Go-Go uplifts you with a song by Idir, who brought Algerian Kabyle music to the world; women of cumbia; Igbo Afrobeat from Nigeria; the first ever international release from Djibouti; and a Balkan beats dance party.
Podcast: radio4all.net/index.php/program/105882
All the podcasts: radio4all.net/index.php/series/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
Idir, “A Tulawin (Une Algerienne Debout) (feat Manu Chao)”
from Identites
Saint George - 1999
Algeria-France
Franck Biyong, “Anywhere Trouble (feat. Cristina Violle)”
from Trouble - EP
Hot Casa Records - 2019
Cameroon
Nohe & Sus Santos, “Come As You Are”
from Tempestad
Avokado Artist Recordings - 2020
Honduras-Mexico-USA
Lila Downs, “Viene la Muerte Echando Rasero”
from Balas y Chocolate
RCA Records Label - 2015
Mexico-USA
Ethio Stars, “Yetentu Tez Alew (feat. Mulatu Astatke)”
from Addis 1988 (feat. Mulatu Astatke)
Piranha - 1992
Ethiopia
Dur Dur Band, “Shaleedayaa”
from Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972 - 1991)
Analog Africa - 1991
Somalia
Groupe RTD, “Halkaasad Dhigi Magtiisa (That's Where You'll Leave His Reward)”
from The Dancing Devils of Djibouti
Ostinato Records LLC - 2020
Djibouti
Sharhabil Ahmed, “Argos Farfish”
from The King of Sudanese Jazz (Habibi Funk 013)
Habibi Funk Records distributed by Groove Attack - 2020
Sudan, 1960s
Rotfront, “Kontrabanda (feat. RasKar)”
from 17 Deutsche Tänze
GMO - 2014
Germany-Ukraine-Hungary-Russia
Džambo Aguševi Orchestra, “Brasses for the Masses”
Asphalt Tango Records - 2020
North Macedonia
Shantel & Mahala Raï Banda, “Mahalageasca”
Essay Recordings - 2006
Romania-Germany
Geo Da Silva, “I'll Do You Like A Truck (Balkanik remix)”
from I'll Do You Like A Truck (Balkanik remix) - single
YouTube - 2008
Romania
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go June 8th, 2020
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