Global A Go-Go presents:
A conjure man with seven hands swirling
Tony Allen was “perhaps the greatest drummer who ever lived” (Brian Eno), and “without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat” (Fela Kuti). Allen, who passed away five years ago this April, is the subject of two recorded tributes this month, one a posthumous collaboration with La BOA, the Bogotá Afrobeat Orchestra, and the other a poem by Anthony Joseph set to the music of Dave Okumu. You’ll hear both of them this week on Global A Go-Go.
Also this week (Sunday February 16, 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): New Brazilian sounds from Roberta Campos and Rogê, Jordan Wax’s New Mexico indie-klezmer in Yiddish, two new albums from Mali’s Kouyaté family tree, Santrofi celebrates their roots and leaps into the future of Ghanaian highlife, and a stellar jazz-meets-bump-jive reissue from South Africa’s Dennis Mpale.
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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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Anthony Joseph, “Tony”
from Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back
Heavenly Sweetness - 2025
Trinidad & Tobago-England UK
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André Abujamra, “Alma Não Tem Cor - Versão Multi 25 (feat. Perotá Chingò & Smarty)”
from Alma Não Tem Cor - Versão Multi 25 - Single
André Abujamra [dist. Tratore] - 2020
Brazil-Burkina Faso-Argentina
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Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, “Yosl Ber / A Patriot”
Oriente - 2009
USA-Germany
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Geoff Berner, “Swing A Chicken 3 Times Over Your Head”
from We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians
Oriente - 2015
Canada
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Gogol Bordello, “Raise The Knowledge”
American Recordings Catalog P&D - 2010
USA-Ukraine-Russia-China-Ethiopia-Ecuador-Belarus
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Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas & Uhuru Yenzu, “Gyae Su”
from Hitsville Re-Visited - EP
Mr Bongo - 2019
Ghana, 1984
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Dennis Mpale feat. Kippie Moketsi, “Dennis Groove”
We Are Busy Bodies - 2025
South Africa, 1977
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