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Program December 13, 2017: Top Ten New Releases Of 2017
It's the most wonderful time of the year .... That's right, it's the time of the year when Global A Go-Go unwraps its favorite albums of the last 12 months.This week, it's my Top Ten new releases of...
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Program December 20, 2017: Top Ten Compilations Of 2017
It's time for program #2 in Global A Go-Go's three-week recap of 2017. This week: my ten favorite compilations, reissues and historic recordings of the year, plus five honorable mentions.Since I...
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Program December 27, 2017: The Best Of The Rest, 2017 Edition
For the last six years, I've ended the calendar year with a program I call "The Best Of The Rest": my favorite new songs that didn't get played in my two-week review of that year's best albums. I...
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Program January 3, 2018
I'm going to start 2018 with one more look back at 2017: an overview of the five extraordinary live performances I was fortunate to host last year on Global A Go-Go.Richmond bands Afro-Zen Allstars...
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Charts January 7, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO | Canzoniere | Ponderosa2 SWEET AS BROKEN DATES: LOST SOMALI TAPES FROM THE HORN OF AFRICA | various artists | Ostinato3 HAMAD KALKABA AND THE...
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Program January 10, 2018
Antibalas (pictured above), America's finest Afrobeat band and one of the best live acts you'll ever see, celebrates their 20th anniversary this year. They're playing two nights at the Hamilton in DC...
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Spanglish Fly | Ay Que Boogaloo!
ARTIST: Spanglish FlyTITLE: Ay Que Boogaloo!LABEL: Chaco WorldBoogaloo was arguably the first Nuyorican music: a mix of mambo with R&B that started in the early 60s, became a craze in ‘66 and was...
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Plena Libre | Amores En El Camino
ARTIST: Plena LibreTITLE: Amores En El CaminoLABEL: GN MusicaNow in its 25th year, Plena Libre has become an institution – probably the world’s best known band specializing in the indigenous rhythms of...
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Roberto Lopez | Criollo Electrik
ARTIST: Roberto LopezTITLE: Criolo ElectrikLABEL: StonetreeRoberto Lopez is a Colombian guitarist now based in Montreal who’s best known for his large ensembles, the Roberto Lopez Project and the...
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Drunken Foreigner Band | White Man Disease
ARTIST: Drunken Foreigner BandTITLE: White Guy DiseaseLABEL: Electric CowbellMolam is the country music of Laos and northeastern Thailand. In the 1970s, it was cross-fertilized with rock (especially of...
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Charts January 14, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 ROBERTO LOPEZ | Criollo Electrik | Stonetree2 PLENA LIBRE | Amores En El Camino | GN Musica3 NAINO! SPANISH GIPSY SOUL FUNK DISCO 1974/1984 | (various artists) | Adarce4...
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Program January 17, 2018
My grandparents came to the USA from Italy in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. Back then, plenty of Americans wanted to keep out people from shithole countries like Italy. The more...
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Charts January 21, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 HAMAD KALKABA AND THE GOLDEN SOUNDS | 1974-1975 | Analog Africa2 HOLLIE COOK | Vessel Of Love | Merge3 LA MISA NEGRA | La Misa Negra | NAM Entertainment4 TRIO DA KALI AND...
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Program January 24, 2018
The great Kabyle (Berber) singer-songwriter Lounes Matoub (the painting above is by Lisa-nne: https://lisa-nne.deviantart.com/art/Matoub-Lounes-510846413) would have been 62 years old Wednesday.That...
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Little Axe | London Blues
ARTIST: Little AxeTITLE: London BluesLABEL: Echo BeachLittle Axe (aka Skip McDonald, aka Bernard Alexander) was part of two of the 20th century’s most influential studio bands: the unnamed house band...
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Levanta Poeira
ARTIST: various artistsTITLE: Levanta PoeiraLABEL: Jazz & MilkLevanta poeira means “kick up dust” in Portuguese; it’s an apt title for the first Brazil-focused release from German dance music label...
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Los Chicos Malos | Los Chicos Malos
ARTIST: Los Chicos MalosTITLE: Los Chicos MalosLABEL: VampisoulVampisoul continues mining the Discos Fuentes catalog with a reissue of this salsa gorda gem from 1980. Los Chicos Malos was a short-lived...
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Camarao | The Imaginary Soundtrack To A Brazilian Western Movie, 1964-1974
ARTIST: CamaraoTITLE: The Imaginary Soundtrack To A Brazilian Western Movie, 1964-1974LABEL: Analog AfricaForro is one of the indigenous musical styles of Brazil’s largely rural northeastern province...
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Charts January 28, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 CAMARAO | The Imaginary Soundtrack to a Brazilian Western Movie (1964-1974) | Analog Africa2 LOS CHICOS MALOS | Los Chicos Malos | Vampisoul3 LEVANTA POEIRA | various artists...
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Program January 31, 2018
It's mambo time this week on Global A Go-Go -- you'll hear the Syrian-American mambo king of Brooklyn Eddie "The Sheik" Kochak (pictured above), plus new mambos by Orquesta Akokan and Sonido Gallo...
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