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Charts March 16-22, 2019
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE | Doko Mien | Merge2 DAKTARIS, THE | Soul Explosion [Remastered] | Desco / Daptone3 COCHEMEA | All My Relations | Daptone4 DEXTER STORY | Bahir |...
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Program November 18, 2019
Funana is the accordion-based dance music of the badius, the escaped enslaved people who populate Santiago Island in Cabo Verde. It's fast-paced and exciting, and dangerous enough that it was...
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Charts November 9-15, 2019
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 JUANA MOLINA | Forfun [EP] | Crammed2 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE | Doko Mien | Merge3 LOCOBEACH | Psychedelic Disco Cumbia | Dorsal Fin/Peace & Rhythm4 ADNAN OTHMAN |...
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Well-behaved women seldom make history
On the November 25 edition of Global A Go-Go, I'll feature two African women making waves right now by playing instruments that had been reserved solely for men.Asmaa Hamzaoui plays the Moroccan...
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Charts November 16-22, 2019
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 JUANA MOLINA | Forfun [EP] | Crammed2 POUR ME A GROG: THE FUNANA REVOLT IN 1990S CABO VERDE | various artists | Ostinato3 ADOLFO ECHEVERRIA Y SU ORQUESTA| Sabroso Bacalao |...
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Change at Jamaica for Babylon
In 1979, Vincent (Randy) Chin and his wife Patricia of Randy's Record Shop in Kingston, Jamaica started the VP Records imprint in Jamaica, Queens. Forty years on, VP is the world's largest independent...
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Charts November 23-29, 2019
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 KOKOLO AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA | 100 Fevers | Peace & Rhythm2 LONDON AFROBEAT COLLECTIVE | Humans | self-released3 LAKOU MIZIK | HaitiaNola | Cumbancha4 OTAVA YO | Do You Love...
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A little dabke'll do ya
Omar Souleyman is back! Syria's king of dabke (living in Turkey right now for safety's sake), the best thing to happen to electronic dance music since the drum machine, has a new album. You'll hear a...
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Charts Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2019
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 STRICTLY THE BEST, VOL. 60 | various artists | VP2 ONIPA | "Onipa / Makoma" [Single] | Strut3 CHRIS DE WISE SHEPHERD | "Nera Wo'o Soke" [Single] | Lokalophon4 KEITH AND TEX |...
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Tougher than tough
"Rougher than rough / Tougher than tough / Strong like lion / We are iron." Rude boys take over Global A Go-Go on December 16: classic tracks from the 1960's and a new one inna rudee stylee by The...
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Top ten new releases of 2019
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.On the December 23rd edition of Global A...
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Top ten singles & EPs of 2019
This week on the December 30th edition of Global A Go-Go, I'll unwrap my favorite singles and EPs of 2019.I've been doing top ten album lists since WRIR went on the air in 2005, but this is the first...
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Top ten compilations, reissues and historic recordings of 2019
On the January 6 edition of Global A Go-Go, we welcome in the new year with a look at my favorite new/old recordings of the last year: the best compilations, reissues and historic recordings released...
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Charts Dec 7, 2019 - Jan 3, 2020
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 ALEFA MADAGASCAR: SALEGY, SOUKOUS AND SOUL FROM THE RED ISLAND | 1974-1984 | various artists | Strut2 WUTA MAYI | La Face Cachee | Sterns3 JUANA MOLINA | Forfun [EP] |...
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Introducing Eric Godsey
On the January 13th edition of Global A Go-Go, I'll be joined in the studio by Eric Godsey, a recent WRIR volunteer who, like yours truly, digs music from around the world.Eric is a musician (drummer...
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Charts January 4-10, 2020
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 SAIGON SOUL REVIVAL | Hoa Am Xura | INFRACom!2 EL WALI | Tiris | Sahel Sounds3 JOUWALA COLLECTIVE | Bazaar | self-released4 LOS SHAINS | El Ritmo De Los Shains | Munster5...
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The real boogaloo
This week's show happens on January 20: Martin Luther King Day and the Virginia legislature's annual Lobby Day, when citizens from across the commonwealth are encouraged to visit Richmond's Capitol...
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Please, machine, make my day
Bosnia's Dubioza Kolektiv is back with #fakenews, their ninth album of Balkan-flavored ska, punk, reggae, electronica, hip hop and rock. And they're here to puncture some of that fake news, telling us...
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Charts January 11-24, 2020
WRIR's NACC World Top Ten1 AFRICA EXPRESS | Egoli | self-released2 NIGERIA SOUL POWER 70: AFRO-FUNK, AFRO-ROCK, AFRO-DISCO | various artists | Soul Jazz3 PUT ON YOUR BEST DRESS: SONIA POTTINGER, SKA...
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Maximum enjoyment
Producer and anthologist Lucas Silva likes to call his home country of Colombia "the Soukous Republic of America." Indeed, Congolese soukous is perhaps the most central element of champeta, the...
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