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Yeni Nostalji | Yeni Nostalji
ARTIST: Yeni NostaljiTITLE: Yeni NostaljiLABEL: RopeadopeIf you want to be an artist, you need to follow your obsessions down their rabbit hole. That’s what Christina Gleixner did four years ago when...
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Los Texmaniacs | Cruzando Borders
ARTIST: Los TexmaniacsTITLE: Cruzando BordersLABEL: Smithsonian FolkwaysGrammy award-winning Los Texmaniacs, who played the Richmond Folk Festival in 2010, are one of the most accomplished Tejano bands...
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Nickodemus | A Long Engagement
ARTIST: NickodemusTITLE: A Long EngagementLABEL: WonderwheelNick DeSimone, aka Nickodemus, is an NYC-based producer and DJ best known for his Turntables On The Hudson club nights (now in their 20th...
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Bombino | Deran
ARTIST: BombinoTITLE: DeranLABEL: PartisanOumara “Bombino” Moctar is a Tamasheq guitarist and singer from Agadez, Niger. Of all the second generation of tichumaren (sometimes called “desert blues”)...
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Charts May 20, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 YENI NOSTALJI | Yeni Nostalji | Ropeadope2 LOS TEXMANIACS | Cruzando Borders | Smithsonian Folkways3 NICKODEMUS | A Long Engagement | Wonderwheel4 AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST 2 |...
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Charts May 27, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 BOMBINO | Deran | Partisan2 YENI NOSTALJI | Yeni Nostalji | Ropeadope3 LOS TEXMANIACS | Cruzando Borders | Smithsonian Folkways4 NICKODEMUS | A Long Engagement | Wonderwheel5...
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Program May 30, 2018
The godfather of champeta is back! Abelardo Carbono (pictured above) made a series of brilliant recordings in Barranquilla in the 1980s that fused Afro-Colombian rhythms with sounds from the crates of...
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Nicola Conte & Spiritual Galaxy | Let Your Light Shine On
ARTIST: Nicola Conte & Spiritual GalaxyTITLE: Let Your Light Shine OnLABEL: MPSNicola Conte is an Italian guitarist, producer and DJ best known for his work in acid jazz, bringing improvised music...
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Charts June 3, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST 2 | various artists | Analog Africa2 BOMBINO | Deran | Partisan3 LES POULES A COLIN | Morose | self-released4 NICOLA CONTE AND SPIRITUAL GALAXY | Let...
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Program June 6, 2018
Two legendary African singers passed away in recent days. Kasse Mady Diabate (pictured above), the man Salif Keita called "the greatest singer in Mali," was a direct descendant of the jelis...
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Charts June 10, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 ANGELIQUE KIDJO | Remain In Light | Kravenworks2 YENI NOSTALJI | Yeni Nostalji | Ropeadope3 MYSTIC BOWIE | Mystic Bowie's Talking Dreads | MTMB Entertainment4 EL DUSTY |...
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Mystic Bowie | Mystic Bowie's Talking Dreads
ARTIST: Mystic BowieTITLE: Mystic Bowie’s Talking DreadsLABEL: MTMB EntertainmentI didn’t expect to be reviewing two albums of Talking Heads covers this week. You may have already heard about Angelique...
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Angelique Kidjo | Remain In Light
ARTIST: Angelique KidjoTITLE: Remain In LightLABEL: KravenworksRemain In Light by Talking Heads is one of the last albums I thought needed to be remade. This 1980 classic is the high point of that...
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El Dusty | Cumbia City
ARTIST: El DustyTITLE: Cumbia CityLABEL: AftercluvDusty Oliveira is a young DJ-producer from Corpus Christi, Texas with a fresh take on electro-cumbia. El Dusty started as a turntablist, the sampler is...
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Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba | Routes
ARTIST: Diali Cissokho & Kaira BaTITLE: RoutesLABEL: Twelve | EightNorth Carolina has become an exporter of top-shelf West African music in recent years. The trend started with Asheville’s Toubab...
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Program June 13, 2018
North Carolina has become an exporter of top-shelf West African music in recent years. The trend started with Asheville's Toubab Krewe, followed shortly by Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba (pictured...
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Charts June 17, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 DIALI CISSOKHO AND KAIRA BA | Routes | Twelve | Eight2 ANGELIQUE KIDJO | Remain In Light | Kravenworks3 YENI NOSTALJI | Yeni Nostalji | Ropeadope4 LOS TEXMANIACS | Cruzando...
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Program June 20, 2018
Desert blues superstar Oumara "Bombino" Moctar (pictured above), the "Sultan of Shred" from Agadez in Niger, has just released his sixth album. It's the first in ten years that he's recorded in Africa...
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Charts June 24, 2018
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 NICOLA CONTE AND SPIRITUAL GALAXY | Let Your Light Shine On | MPS2 BOMBINO | Deran | Partisan3 NICKODEMUS | A Long Engagement | Wonderwheel4 LISTEN ALL AROUND: THE GOLDEN AGE...
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Program June 27, 2018
Jupiter Bokondji is the rare Congolese musician who isn't steeped in rumba Congolaise and soukous. He grew up in East Berlin, and he and his band Okwess (pictured above) are making Central African...
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