The Motherland Influence presents:
The Motherland Influence: May 15, 2022 5:00-7:00 PM
African, Latin & Caribbean music.
Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gabon, Guinee-Bissau, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Cabo Verde, Brazil….more
David Noyes The Motherland Influence May 15th, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: African music, Caribbean music, Latin music
Ambiance Congo / The Other Black Music presents:
Ambiance Congo: May 8, 2022 3:00-5:00 PM
WELCOME!
A variety of songs from the 50s to recent years.
David Noyes Ambiance Congo / The Other Black Music May 8th, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: African music, Congolese music
The Motherland Influence presents:
THe Motherland Influence: May 1, 2022 5:00-7:00 PM
Rudy Gomis live in Central Park
African, Latin & Caribbean music.
Start with my favorite song with the late Rudy Gomis and Orchestra Baobab.
We’ll also have little set of music from Venezuela and Panama and MORE with some Nigerian highlife and east African classics.
A big THANK YOU! to all new and continuing donors.
You love WRIR and we love you!
David Noyes The Motherland Influence May 1st, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: African music, Caribbean music, Latin music
Ambiance Congo / The Other Black Music presents:
Ambiance Congo: April 24, 2022 3:00-5:00 PM.
David Noyes Ambiance Congo / The Other Black Music April 24th, 2022
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows
Tags: African music, Congolese music
The Motherland Influence presents:
The Motherland Influence: April 17, 2022 5:00-7:00 PM
Music for today. And more!
David Noyes The Motherland Influence April 17th, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: African music, Caribbean music, Latin music
Ambiance Congo / The Other Black Music presents:
Ambiance Congo: April 10, 2022 3:00-5:00 PM
Jolie Detta & Bozi Boziana
WELCOME!
Let’s start with an amazing piece of music from l’Orchestre Somo Somo in 1976. Vocals by the great Youlou Mabiala, guitars by Mose Se Sengo (Fan Fan).
And it just keeps coming for the next two hours, a lot on original vinyl like the Anti-Choc album shown above.
We have other stations around town that play “all the hits from the 70s to today”, but you’ll see that they’re just missing out…You’ll only hear it here on WRIR!
David Noyes Ambiance Congo / The Other Black Music April 10th, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: African music, Congolese music
The Motherland Influence presents:
The Motherland Influence: April 3, 2022
G.Kabaka Opara on guitar
WELCOME!
I’ll be playing all African music today, starting with sizzling hot late ’70s highlife out of eastern Nigeria.
The featured artist in the first hour will be guitarist Godwin Kabaka Opara with The Oriental Brothers International and the Kabaka International Guitar Band, including a track from the newly reissued album on the Colombian Palenque Records label. The rest of set will be all 70s and 80s vinyl tracks by Kabaka’s band and few others.
In the second hour you will hear music from the brand new compilation of 80s music from Orchestre Massako of Gabon on the Analog Africa label. There will also be some great rare 80s vinyl tracks by Mack Joss with Orchestre Massako and some songs by other bands of the era.
This one loves volume.
David Noyes The Motherland Influence April 3rd, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Ambiance Congo / The Other Black Music presents:
Ambiance Congo: March 27, 2022 3:00-5:00 PM
WELCOME!
It’s time for another program where I feature a few of the very many extremely talented and innovative solo guitar artists of Congolese popular music.
I may omit some of your favorites as no one can pack a representative song from all the greats into a mere two hours.
This is at least the fourth or fifth time I’ve featured the guitar. I keep doing it because the guitar has, sadly, become a lowly background instrument in so much contemporary music replaced, like drums and even voices by keyboards and electronic sounds.
I’m doing a bit of digging to find great guitar music from this modern age. I’ll try to represent some in the future.
Want to learn more and hear more great Congolese guitar music? Don’t miss The Rumba Kings documentary coming this Thursday evening to the James River Film Festival at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts!
David Noyes Ambiance Congo / The Other Black Music March 27th, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: African music, Congolese music
Real Splashy Radio presents:
REAL SPLASHY RADIO EP. 12 WENDIGO MIX
Trying to embrace the positive a bit more and what better way is there to do that than through music? The sun has been radiating love and light and the frequencies are just right to create some head-bobs and sweet, sweet smiles. I hope you enjoy this mix that I have prepared. The artist interviews will continue next week. I wanted to use this episode as a canvas to paint the image that should hopefully speak to what I am listening to currently/listen to on the regular-degular. Some friends and favorites will be featured in the mix as always as well as some new discoveries! Join me as we continue spanning far and wide through the genres that bend the bodies in all sorts of wonderful ways. This is the Wendigo mix, something to play to let you know “when to go”. Whether you’re on the move or just racing through your mind. From Splashtown with Love!
Sap Evans Real Splashy Radio March 22nd, 2022
Posted In: Blogging, Music, Music Shows, Website
Tags: African music, blues, Darkwave, Electro, electronica, futurepop, goth, Heavy metal, HIPHOP, music, Music show, obscure, post-punk, RAP, RVA, RVA Music, rva radio, rvamusic, synthpop, variety, WRIR
The Motherland Influence presents:
The Motherland Influence: March 20, 2022 5:00-7:00 PM
Couple in the park, Bangui Central African Republic. Photographer unknown
WELCOME!
African, Latin & Caribbean music.
We start by celebrating NATURE with Tilda & Rocafil Jazz International of Cameroon & Nigeria.
Then we’ll jump not some classics from the Central African Republic,
Music from Guinea, Congo, Mali, Cuba, Colombia, Guadeloupe…
David Noyes The Motherland Influence March 20th, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: African music, Caribbean music, Latin music