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theartsdesk Radio Show 9
theartsdesk Radio Show 9
Listen to the hottest new transcontinental music
Saturday, 23 May 2015
Sounds of the Congolese underground: Mbongwana Star
Been a while since you checked out the best and latest world music releases? theartsdesk’s global music expert Peter Culshaw's selects the best music released in the last month or so.
His peripatetic wanderings take in hot New Orleans brass, Indian psychedelia, Ethiopian fuzz-tone guitar, Brazilian reggae, English folk, underground Congolese music, a bunch of Italian eccentrics, Senegalese funk and numerous stops in between, including a side project from everyone’s favourite south London rockers Fat White Family. Albums of the moment include those by Blick Bassy, Sacre Delone Cuore, Flavia Coelho, Cheikh Lo, Mbongwana Star and Songhoy Blues.
Recorded in the Meattransmission radio bunker in Shoreditch, with normal co-pilot Joe Muggs otherwise engaged, Peter is flying solo. Enjoy the trip.
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Tracklist:
Mighty Souls Brass Band - STS - Blue Barrel
Ananda Shankar - Dancing Drums - Rough Guides
Blick Bassy - Wap Do Wap - Sony Music
Ayub Ogada - Kodhi - Long Tale Recordings
Ayalew Mesfin - Hasabe - Rough Guides
Songhoy Blues - Soubour - Transgressive Records
Cheikh Lo- Degg Gui – Chapter 2/ Wagram Music
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoi Ba - Siran Fen - Glitter Beat
Mbongwana Star - Malukayi - World Circuit
Terakaft - Anabayou - Outthere Records
Trio Da Kali - Dissa - World Circuit
Flavia Coelho - Por Cima - Discograph
Ceu - Comadi - Urban Jungle Records
Sacre Delone Cuori - Una Danza- Glitter Beat
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Tienime Tata - Poderosa Music & Art
The Eccentronic Research Council - Sweet Saturn Mine - Without Consent
Surf City - Beat The Summer Heat - Fire Records
Xaos - Pontos Blues - IRL
Soap Kills - Leh Zaalen- Crammed Discs
Niyaz – Sabra Ba Naz – Six Degrees (free with this month’s Songlines Magazine)
Manu Delago - Disgustingly Beautiful- Tru Thoughts
Olivia Chaney - Swimming In The Longest River - Nonesuch
Barbed Wire For Kisses - The Lads In Their Hundreds - Crown
Werkha - Flinch/Quiver – Tru Thoughts
Cesaria Evora - Sodade - Sony
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