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Global Rhythm Radio
Apr 18, 2024 6:00 PM – 7:55 PM
Music
With Toby Roberts, Shelby Athouguia, Chris Miranda
Matt Moon takes you on a trip around the world with the finest international music. Parisa takes over for the 4th Thursday of the month.
Shelby Athouguia standing in for Matt Moon. Thank you for spending your Thursday night here on Community Radio
7:17 PM |
| Les Filles de Illighadad Achibaba Les Filles de Illighadad Sahel Sounds 2016 Fatou Seidi Ghali, founding band member, would practice in secret a cousin’s electric guitar and taught herself to play. Ghali has become the first professional female guitarist amongst the Tuareg. With Alamnou Akrouni and Amaria Hamadalher, Ghali formed Les Filles de Illighadad (The Daughters of Illighadad, their native village), in 2017, the first female Tuareg band. |
7:15 PM |
| Mop Mop Alfa Lunar Love Agogo Records 2016 Andrea Benini better known by his stage name Mop Mop, is an Italian musician and producer. He performs with his band, the Mop Mop Combo, as well as a DJ worldwide. Mop Mop achieved international recognition when he was included in the soundtrack of Woody Allen's To Rome With Love in 2012. |
7:10 PM |
| Letta Mbulu Nomalizo In The Music The Village Never Ends RCA Records Label 1996 Letta Mbulu is a South African jazz singer who has been active since the 1960s
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7:05 PM |
| Sona Jobarteh Mamaké Fasiya African Guild Records 2011 Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer. She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player to come from a griot family. |
7:02 PM |
| Piero Umiliani Nel Villaggio Continente Nero Jaipur Music 2021 Italian composer of film scores
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6:59 PM |
| Pat Thomas Awurade Mpaebo Coming Home Strut 2016 Pat Thomas was born in Agona, Ghana. His father was a music theory instructor and his mother a bandleader. |
6:56 PM |
| Sessa Pele Da Esfera Estrela Acesa Mexican Summer 2022 From Brazil
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6:52 PM |
| Owiny Sigoma Band Nabed Nade Ei Piny Ka (Rework) Owiny Sigoma Band Brownswood Recordings 2011 Founded in 2009, the Owiny Sigoma Band began during a cultural exchange project in Kenya entitled ‘The Art of Protest’. A group of london based musicians including Jesse Hackett, his brother Louis and school friend Tom Skinner were introduced to local musicians Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko. Whilst both of them were singers, Nyamungu specialised in playing the Nyatiti, a stringed lute popular amongst the Luo people in western Kenya, whilst Owoko would play the Nyaduonge drum. |
6:49 PM |
| Nahawa Doumbia Diby (L'ombre) Diby Cobalt 2003 singer from Mali's Wassoulou region |
6:45 PM |
| Meitei Chouchin Komachi Métron Records 2019 Hiroshima based experimental composer, was influenced from the tranquility and traditional Japanese mood while growing up with his grandmother, his music and art are driven by bringing back what he believes is fading away from the Japanese society generation after generation. |
6:40 PM |
| Keisuke Sakai Mizu Sumu Wa No Ne - EP Lemongrassmusic 2011 music producer, Ambient live musician, and synth player living in Tokyo. |
6:38 PM |
| Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 Mais Que Nada Greatest Hits A&M 1970 Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 is the first album by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. Referring to the song "Mas que Nada" Mendes said in 2014: "It was the first time that a song in Portuguese was a hit in America and all over the world". |
6:34 PM |
| Chiwoniso Zvichapera Zvichapera - Single Nyami Nyami Records 2015 Chiwoniso Maraire was a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter, and exponent of Zimbabwean mbira music. She was the daughter of Zimbabwean mbira master and teacher Dumisani Maraire. Describing the mbira, an instrument traditionally used by male musicians, she said, "It is like a large xylophone." She died at age 37 due to complications of Pneumonia. |
6:29 PM |
| Nicola Cruz La Mirada Prender el Alma ZZK Records 2015 Ecuadorian DJ and producer Nicola Cruz effortlessly blends ancestral Andean cosmology and folkloric music customs from across the globe into decidedly contemporary electronic expressions. |
6:25 PM |
| N'Gou Bagayoko Kulu Kulu Frikyiwa la musique des maquis 2002 From Mali. He learnt playing guitar mainly by listening to the kamalen n'goni, a Malian instrument with 8 strings and a large calebash as a resonance box. The style he plays is inspired by the rhythm of the didadi, the music of Bougouni, and it is this combination of blues (kamalen n'goni) and swing (didadi) which makes his first album so attractive. |
6:23 PM |
| Ana Mazzotti Bairro Negro Ana Mazzotti Far Out Recordings 1977 Dubbed a “super-musician” by fellow Brazilian virtuoso Hermeto Pascoal, Mazzotti’s short but rich musical career culminated in just two studio albums: Ninguem Vai Me Segurar (1974), and Ana Mazzotti (1977). Outside circles of Brazilian funk aficionados, these two gems of spellbinding samba-jazz, lysergic funk and trippy bossa have remained relatively obscure. Ana died at the age of 37 in a battle with cancer. |
6:20 PM |
| Michel Banabila Echo Transformations Echo Transformations Knekelhuis 2021 Dutch composer and sound artist.
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6:16 PM |
| Francis Bebey Fleur Tropicale African Electronic Music (1975-1982) Born Bad Records 2012 A Cameroonian musicologist, writer, composer, and broadcaster. He was also the first African musician to use electric keyboards and programmable drum machines which he set alongside off the traditional African instruments. |
6:11 PM |
| Gia Fu Canton Mambo Canton Mambo - Single Kong Records Ltd. 2023 Gia Fu, a DJ/selector and music producer from Hong Kong, specializes in Afro-Latin music, particularly Salsa and associated rhythms. Beyond extensive touring as an international DJ and music producer, her research work explores how cultures - including her own Chinese heritage and Latin American influences - enrich one another. Having grown up in a culturally vibrant environment, her upbringing fuels her passion for challenging stereotypes and promoting inclusion within the music industry. |
6:08 PM |
| Joel Vandroogenbroeck Fairy Tale (Analog Remaster) Far View Drag City Records 2021 Belgian composer, arranger, keyboardist, flutist, sitarist, vocalist, harpist, percussionist, producer, engineer and conductor. |
6:04 PM |
| Afel Bocoum Penda Djiga Lindé World Circuit 2020 A musician from Mali, noted as a singer and guitarist. He is from the town of Niafunke on the River Niger, and a member of the Sonrai people. Bocoum is an agricultural advisor by profession. |
6:01 PM |
| Rajery Pk 18 Bedia Les Studios de la Ruche 2014 Pronounced "Rajer" A player of the valiha from Madagascar who founded the modern valiha orchestra. The valiha is a tube zither from Madagascar made from a species of local bamboo: it is considered the "national instrument" of Madagascar. |
Coming up
7:55 PM | Knitting Identities/Tejiendo Identidades (News/Public Affairs) |
8:00 PM | Halftime at the Apocalypse (Music) with Jeff Rogers, Kevin |
9:55 PM | The Nonprofit Spotlight (News/Public Affairs) |
10:00 PM | Hex Enduction Hours (Music) with Julio Peña |
11:55 PM | Community Wellness Beat (News/Public Affairs) with Lady T |
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10:00 AM | Morning Music Mix (Music) with Duncan |