These strings / This drum / From another world they come

British guitarist Justin Adams and Italian drummer-violinist Mauro Durante might seem to inhabit entirely separate musical universes. Adams is Robert Plant’s right-hand man, produced Tinariwen and Rachid Taha, and has worked with Brian Eno, Sinéad O’Connor and Jah Wobble.

Durante leads Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (who have now played twice at the Richmond Folk Festival), who have reinvigorated the Southern Italian music and dance tradition of pizzica or tarantella, and is a virtuoso of the tamburello frame drum.

When they met, they quickly figured out what they had in common — trance music and the blues. That became the framework for their duo, which has toured the world and has now released one of the most fully realized albums of 2024, Sweet Release. You’ll hear two songs from it this week on Global A Go-Go.

Also this week (Sunday November 10, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, and any old time at my podcast site): Back to Colombia for bullerengue, cumbia (including Yeison Landero, who will be playing Richmond in January) and Bogotá tropical prog; new jazzy gnawa from Waaju featuring Majid Bekkas; the killer Afro-Manding groove of The Gambia’s Bai Janha; and the latest in Buda Musique’s Zanzibara series of the historic sounds of Tanzania.

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Show Archive

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Playlist:

Oliver Lake, “Separation”

from Matador Of 1st & 1st

Passin Thru - 1996

USA

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”

from Global a Go-Go

BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001

England UK

Justin Adams & Mauro Durante, “Sweet Release”

from Sweet Release

Ponderosa - 2024

England UK-Italy

Justin Adams & Mauro Durante, “Ghost Train”

from Sweet Release

Ponderosa - 2024

England UK-Italy

Delgrès, “Lese Mwen Ale”

from 4:00 AM

[PIAS] - 2020

France

La Rueda, “Candelilla”

from Calentando La Nevera

Mambo Negro - 2024

Colombia

Aurita Castillo y Su Conjunto, “Chambacú”

from Festival con Aurita, Vol. 2

Discos Fuentes - 2021

Colombia, 1965

YEISON LANDERO, “Cuando Lo Negro Sea Bello / Cumbia en Cuarentena (Live Version)”

from Cuando Lo Negro Sea Bello / Cumbia en Cuarentena (Live Version) - Single

Bazurto Music - 2020

Colombia

Andrés Landero Y Su Conjunto, “Canto A Mi Machete”

from La Fiebre

Discos Fuentes - 1972

Colombia

Kumbia Boruka, “Santa Suerte”

from Santa Suerte

Kumbia Boruka - 2023

México-Chile-Argentina-France

Noblezza, “Coletera”

from Pura Melaza & Puro Love

Codiscos - 2021

Colombia

Romperayo, “Pindongos (versión acelerada)”

from INSURGENTES CARISMATICOS

ROMPERAYO - 2024

Colombia

Meridian Brothers, “Mandala”

from Mi Latinoamérica Sufre

Bongo Joe - 2024

Colombia

La Sonora Mazurén, “Desliz”

from Bailando con Extraños

Barbès Records - 2023

Colombia

Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders, “Mahraba”

from The Trance Of Seven Colors

Zehra - 1994

Morocco-USA

Waaju, “Bania (feat. Majid Bekkas) [Live - Edit]”

from Alouane (Live) [feat. Majid Bekkas]

BBE Music - 2024

England UK-Morocco

Karantamba, “Ndigal”

from Galgi

Teranga Beat - 2024

The Gambia, 1988

Guelawar Of Banjul, “Ya Mom Sumaray”

from Dieuf Dieul Khadin Rassoul

Sonafric - 1982

The Gambia

Orchestre Safari Sound, “Mwanakwetu”

from Zanzibara 11 - Congo In Dar: Dance No Sweat; Orchestre Maquis Du Zaire & Orchestre Safari Sound / 1982-1986

Buda Musique - 2025

RD Congo-Tanzania, 1983