Global A Go-Go presents:
The sound that crushes
The teeming metropolis of Kinshasa is home to the music some folks call Congotronics, although that name is a bit too reductive to describe what’s going on. The artists in question may or may not be using electronics, but they are tapping into traditional rhythms from all across their vast nation, as did the founders of Congolese rumba more than a half century ago.
But it’s a new era for better or worse (for many in Kinshasa, a lot worse) and bands like Kin’Gongolo Kiniata (“the sound that crushes” in Lingala) with their MacGyvered homemade instruments fabricated from trash and their thoroughly punk-rock attitude are what Kinshasa sounds like in 2024. You’ll hear Kin’Gongolo Kiniata’s new single this week on Global A Go-Go, along with a couple of their predecessors.
Also this week (Sunday November 24, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, and any old time at my podcast site): An all-African first hour featuring new music from Aboubakar Traoré & Balima and Dogo Du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band, plus a new compilation of the best of Benin’s Albarika Store record label; Leenalchi’s post-modern take on Korean pansori; more Anatolian rock with Aylin’s Soulgarden’s debut album and a vintage reissue of Cem Karaca; and some Macedonian brass madness including a band from Indiana from the 1940s.
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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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Kasse Mady Diabate, “Eh Ya Ye”
from Kassi Kasse (Music From the Heart of Mali's Griot Tradition)
Hemisphere - 2002
Mali
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Aboubakar Traoré & Balima, “Gnani”
from Gnani - Single
Zephyrus Records - 2024
Burkina Faso-Mali-Belgium
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Gnonnas Pedro et ses Dadjes, “Dadje Von O Von Non”
from Legends of Benin
Analog Africa - 2009
Benin, 1977
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T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou, “Aiha Ni Kpe We (edit)”
from The Albarika Story
Acid Jazz - 2024
Benin, 1978
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Jupiter Bokondji & Okwess International, “Bana Ya Congo”
from Man Don't Cry
Label Kinoise - 2006
RD Congo
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Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band, “Roob Lor Pu Tai”
from 21st Century Molam
Studio Lam - 2014
Thailand-England UK
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Barış Manço, “Kirpiklerin Ok Eyle”
from Dağlar Dağlar - Barış Manço Klasikleri
Coşkun Plak - 1987
Turkey, 1971
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Elia Kalkoff, “Chanakale”
from Complete Recordings Of The Macedonian Band Of Fort Wayne, Indiana ca. late 1940s
Canary - 2024
USA-Greece, 1940s
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Džambo Aguševi Orchestra, “Čoček Gazda Unikat”
from Čoček Gazda Unikat - Single
Asphalt Tango Records - 2022
North Macedonia
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