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Charts August 2, 2015
WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten1 AMADOU BALAKE | In Conclusion | Sterns2 PAT THOMAS AND THE KWASHIBU AREA BAND | Pat Thomas And Kwashibu Area Band | Strut3 BRIAN CHILALA AND NGOMA ZASU | Vangaza! | SWP4...
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Program August 5, 2015
Photo by Jim NewberryHere's a musical instrument you haven't heard before on Global A Go-Go: the gyil is a 14-keyed tuned percussion instrument mounted on calabash resonators, which themselves are...
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Tromboranga | Golpe Con Melodia
ARTIST: TromborangaTITLE: Golpe Con MelodiaLABEL: self-releasedSpeaking of salsa expatriates (see my review of Quarter Street above), here’s the fifth album by Tromboranga, the Barcelona-based...
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Quarter Street | Quarter Street
ARTIST: Quarter StreetTITLE: Quarter StreetLABEL: HopeStreetSalsa is one of New York City’s contributions to world music, but it stopped being a New York-only thing a long time ago. Nowadays the global...
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SK Kakraba | Songs Of Paapieye
ARTIST: SK KakrabaTITLE: Songs Of PaapieyeLABEL: Awesome Tapes From AfricaSK Kakraba is a young virtuoso of the gyil, a tuned percussion instrument related to balafon and marimba that’s native to...
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October 2015 Concert Calendar
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Charts August 9, 2015
WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten1 LILA DOWNS | Balas Y Chocolate | Sony Music Latin2 MAZHAR VE FUAT | Turkuz Turku Cagiririz | Shadoks Music3 QUARTER STREET | Quarter Street | HopeStreet4 TROMBORANGA |...
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Program August 12, 2015
Shangaan electro is the traditional sound of Limpopo in northeastern South Africa, given a 21st century, Afro-futurist Soweto twist. It's an urban dance music that's fast, funny, funky and folkloric...
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Charts August 16, 2015
WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten1 CHICO TRUJILLO | Reina De Todas Las Fiestas | Barbes2 NOZINJA | Lodge | Warp3 AMADOU BALAKE | In Conclusion | Sterns4 WESTERN STANDARD TIME | A Big Band Tribute To The...
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Zedashe | Our Earth And Water
ARTIST: ZedasheTITLE: Our Earth And WaterLABEL: Living Roots MusicZedashe is a nine-person vocal and dance ensemble from the republic of Georgia, between the Black and Caspian Seas in western Asia....
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Program August 19, 2015
We'll get started this week with full-throated singing from Western Asia and Eastern Europe, from the former Soviet Union. Zedashe (pictured above) is nine-person vocal and dance ensemble from the...
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Charts August 23, 2015
WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten1 SPANGLISH FLY | New York Boogaloo | Chaco World2 ZEDASHE | Our Earth And Water | Living Roots Music3 TROMBORANGA | Golpe Con Melodia | self-released4 QUARTER STREET |...
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Program August 26, 2015
Moldova is one of the newest (formed in 1991), smallest (population of 3 million) and poorest (per capita GDP of $5,000) countries in Europe. Squeezed between Romania and Ukraine in eastern Europe,...
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Terakaft | Alone
ARTIST: TerakaftTITLE: AloneLABEL: Out|HereThe musical style from the Sahara Desert region commonly called desert blues (the Tamasheq locals themselves simply call it la guitare) has been around long...
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November 2015 Concert Calendar
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Program September 2, 2015
Orquesta El Macabeo (pictured above) is a 12-piece salsa band from Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. Their members' backgrounds are in punk, metal, ska, reggae and hip hop -- pretty much everything but...
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Charts September 6, 2015
These charts cover the two-week period August 24-September 6WRIR's CMJ New World Top Ten1 VARIOUS ARTISTS | The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cumbia | World Music Network2 BIG MEAN SOUND MACHINE / SUPER...
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Orquesta El Macabeo | "Eutanasia" b/w "En La Luna"
ARTIST: Orquesta El MacabeoTITLE: “Eutanasia” / “En La Luna”LABEL: VampisoulOrquesta El Macabeo is a young 12-piece Puerto Rican salsa ensemble. They’re a key piece of the modern indie-salsa movement –...
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Lura | Heranca
ARTIST: LuraTITLE: HerancaLABEL: LusafricaCabo Verde is an island nation off the coast of Senegal with a population of about half a million that has long punched way above its weight in the music...
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Program September 9, 2015
Cabo Verde is a nation of 500,000 people (with a disapora of equal size) where it seems like every fifth person is a musician. You'll hear three of those musicians, all women, on this week's program....
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