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Fruko Y Sus Tesos | A La Memoria Del Muerto
ARTIST: Fruko Y Sus TesosTITLE: A La Memoria Del MuertoLABEL: VampisoulWhat we now call salsa, the admixture of Cuban son montuno with Puerto Rican bomba and plena, American jazz and soul, and rock ‘n’...
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Charts March 5, 2017
WRIR's RWR World Music Top Ten1 Ani Cordero | Querido Mundo | self-released2 Ibibio Sound Machine | Uyai | Merge3 Tinariwen | Elwan | Anti-4 Systema Solar | Rumbo A Tierra | Nacional5 Yeni Nostalji |...
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Program March 8, 2017
Here's four words you don't hear often these days: good news from Zimbabwe. That's what Mokoomba (pictured above) is -- a young band from Victoria Falls making excellent original music, reaching an...
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Meta & The Cornerstones | Hira
ARTIST: Meta & The CornerstonesTITLE: HiraLABEL: MetarizeReggae is a Jamaican style that is now one of the world’s most cosmopolitan musical genres. Meta & The Cornerstones is a perfect...
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Charts March 12, 2017
WRIR's World Music Top Ten1 Ibibio Sound Machine | Uyai | Merge2 Hard Proof | Stinger | Modern Outsider3 Flavia Coelho | Sonho Real | World Village4 Meta & The Cornerstones | Hira | Metarize5 Fruko...
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Program March 15, 2017
Gamelan Raga Kusuma, Richmond's community Indonesian gamelan orchestra, is ten years old this year. In honor of the occasion, they're performing Sunday night at the Grace Street Theater with their...
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Charts March 19, 2017
WRIR's World Music Top Ten1 The Nile Project | Jinja | self-released2 Nathaniel Braddock | Quadrille & Collapse | Invertebrata3 Fruko Y Sus Tesos | A La Memoria Del Muerto | Vampisoul4 Ibibio Sound...
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Program March 22, 2017
As you probably know, we loving having musicians play live at WRIR. Not every radio station, and certainly not every low-power FM station, has the facilities and expertise to do this -- we make a...
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Charts March 26, 2017
WRIR's World Music Top Ten1 Red Baraat | Bhangra Pirates | Rhyme & Reason2 Ondatropica | Baile Bucanero | Soundway3 Orquesta El Macabeo | La Maldicion Del Timbal | Peace & Rhythm4 Meta &...
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Program March 29, 2017
Tinariwen, who will perform at the Barns at Wolf Trap on April 19, is the band that in 1979 invented what they call tishoumaren or assouf and many others know simply as desert blues, the Sahara...
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Tamikrest | Kidal
ARTIST: TamikrestTITLE: KidalLABEL: GlitterbeatTamikrest (“alliance” in the Tamasheq language) is the standard-bearing band of desert blues for assouf music’s second generation. Founded in Kidal, Mali...
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Orquesta El Macabeo | La Maldicion Del Timbal
ARTIST: Orquesta El MacabeoTITLE: La Maldicion Del TimbalLABEL: Peace & RhythmPuerto Rican salseros Orquesta El Macabeo played live on my radio show in September 2015. When they arrived, you’d have...
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Ondatropica | Baile Bucanero
ARTIST: OndatropicaTITLE: Baile BucaneroLABEL: SoundwayThe second album from Ondatropica, the Colombian project organized by Will (Quantic) Holland and Mario (Frente Cumbiero) Galeano, builds on the...
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Charts April 2, 2017
WRIR's World Music Top Ten1 Orquesta El Macabeo | La Maldicion Del Timbal | Peace & Rhythm2 Fruko Y Sus Tesos | A La Memoria Del Muerto | Vampisoul3 various artists | Synthesize The Soul:...
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Program April 5, 2017
Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure (pictured above) is an incendiary live performer, kind of a cross between his father Ali Farka Toure and Jimi Hendrix. If you saw him at the 2008 Richmond Folk...
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Uzelli Psychedelic Anadolu
ARTIST: various artistsTITLE: Uzelli Psychedelic AnadoluLABEL: UzelliIn recent years, there’s been a bunch of reissues of Turkish pop and rock music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Now Uzelli is licensing a...
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Vieux Farka Toure | Samba
ARTIST: Vieux Farka ToureTITLE: SambaLABEL: Six DegreesAli Farka Toure didn’t want Boureima, his second child, to become a musician. But his son, now known to many as Vieux Farka (Old Donkey), proved...
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Mamadou Kelly | Politiki
ARTIST: Mamadou KellyTITLE: PolitikiLABEL: Clermont MusicGuitarist Mamadou Kelly is one of the stalwarts of the Songhai blues idiom that was popularized by Ali Farka Toure. For years he played in the...
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Charts April 9, 2017
WRIR's World Music Top Ten1 Vieux Farka Toure | Samba | Six Degrees2 Ondatropica | Baile Bucanero | Soundway3 Ibibio Sound Machine | Uyai | Merge4 Cilantro Boombox | Shine | self-released5 Oumou...
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Program April 12, 2017
It's all the usual great music plus a couple of guests this week on Global A Go-Go.At 3:30, Morgan Niles of WRIR's News & Public Affairs Committee (and of Zodiac Audio Almanac, Friday at 1 AM)...
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