Global A Go-Go presents:
It was great to meet so many Global A Go-Go listeners at the La Perla show at Get Tight Lounge last Saturday night! And the Colombian takeover of Richmond continues on Monday May 13, once again at Get Tight (Richmond’s Colombian embassy, I guess?), with a performance by another one of Bogotá’s hottest bands, Meridian Brothers.
I’ve seen them before and they’re not to be missed. Meridian Brothers’ forthcoming album Mi Latinoamérica Sufre takes a characteristically off-center approach to champeta, the uniquely Colombian mixture of traditional rhythms with African highlife, soukous and Afrobeat. If you want to get an idea of what they sound like, I’ll play Meridian Brothers’ brand new single this week on Global A Go-Go alongside other Colombian artists past and present working in the champeta groove.
Also this week (Sunday May 12, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): The new album from Richmond’s own Mighty Joshua; new Afro sounds by Amadou & Mariam, Aboubacar Traoré and Afla Sackey; Eastern European roots music including the latest from Russia’s Otava Yo; Get in the Garage presents current garage rock from Yiddishland, Turkey via Israel, London and Brooklyn; and the latest guitar heroics of Mdou Moctar, who will be playing Richmond’s Friday Cheers on June 7.
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global A Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
Linval Thompson, JonQuan & Victor Rice, “Cultivator”
from Cultivator - Single
Easy Star Records - 2024
Jamaica-VA USA-Brazil
The Bongo Hop, “Nos Coje la Tarde (feat. Pao Barreto)”
from Satingarona, Vol. 1
TheUnderdogRecords - 2024
France-Colombia, 2016
Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu, “It's Not Easy”
Wah Wah 45s - 2024
Ghana-England UK
Abelardo Carbono, “La Negra Kulengue”
from El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbono
Vampisoul - 2013
Colombia, 1982
Meridian Brothers, “En El Caribe Estoy Triste”
from En El Caribe Estoy Triste - Single
Ansonia / Bongo Joe - 2024
Colombia
Čechomor, “Co Sa Stalo Nové (What Happened Next)”
from Co Sa Stalo Nové:
Columbia - 2005
Czech Republic
Abdallah Oumbadougou, “Tenertin Taranin Tenertine Ounour Nin”
from Amghar: The Godfather Of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1
PETALUMA RECORDS - 2024
Niger, 2000s
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go May 12th, 2024
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