Global A Go-Go presents:
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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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
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Aurita Castillo y Su Conjunto, “Chambacú”
from Festival con Aurita, Vol. 2
Discos Fuentes - 2021
Colombia, 1965
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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
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders, “Mahraba”
from The Trance Of Seven Colors
Zehra - 1994
Morocco-USA
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![Alouane (Live) [feat. Majid Bekkas]](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/63/a5/9a/63a59a0c-f290-cfff-f278-f6ef80a07002/197190306118.jpg/150x150bb.jpg)
Waaju, “Bania (feat. Majid Bekkas) [Live - Edit]”
from Alouane (Live) [feat. Majid Bekkas]
BBE Music - 2024
England UK-Morocco
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Orchestre Safari Sound, “Mwanakwetu”
Buda Musique - 2025
RD Congo-Tanzania, 1983
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Maroon Commandos, “Bi Sophia N°1 (El Sofia)”
from Piconema: East African Hits On the Colombian Coast
Rocafort Records - 2023
Kenya, 1981
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