Al compas del mundo - programa #69

Al compas del mundo - programa #69 - potpourri

Let’s start the capsulation of this week’s program from the bottom. Don’t know how easily I could sneak Johnny Otis’s Signifyin’ Monkey on to the USA airwaves, but here in the very deep South there’s no issue. Sassy stuff and a righteous way to end the show. But there’s more…preceded by Nora Dean’s description of her improbable Jamaican boyfriend sporting barbed wire in his underpants. More efficient than a chastity belt. Preceded by Ethiopia’s prince of wailing saxophone, Getachew Mekurya raging alongside The Ex, a Dutch proto-punk aggregation. They match up nicely, methinks. Preceded by (amongst others) Holger Czukay, a founder of the group Can, experimenting successfully in a melding of traditional Iranian and Western melodies – Persian Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. Just ask Khameini! Trickling upwards past multiple hits and (and near-misses?) that all fit this week’s aspirations, we top off the set with the deliciously mysterious sound of the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers. Where did this music originate, or better, from what roots did it spring forth? God only knows.

MUSIC LIST POTPOURRI - First broadcaset 3-23-2023

01 Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Present Joys (USA)

02 Georgia Sea Island Singers - Beulah Land (USA)

03 Hoyt 'Floyd' Ming and His Pep Steppers - Indian War Whoop (USA)

04 Hermanos Calderon - Las Conchitas, (San Luis Potosi, Mexico)

05 Hermanos Bravo - A Santiago a Pie (Cuba)

06 Honoré Avolonto - Tin Lin Non (Benin)

07 Afous d'Afous - Tarhanam Toussassi (Algeria)

08 Vellezerit Aliu - Keq Kur Tkam (Albania)

09 Toinho de Alagoas - Balanço Da Canoa (Brazil)

10 Ramesh Das - Sharm-e Boos-e (Iran)

11 Holger Czukay - Persian Love (Germany-Iran)

12 Kebi Dhindsa - Chak deyan ge (India)

13 Ologte Ono with the Sahel Souls - Zota Yinne (Ghana)

14 Getatchew Mekurya & The Ex & Guests - Che Belew Shellela (Ethiopia and the Netherlands)

15 Nora Dean - Barbwire (in His Underpants) (Jamaica)

16 Johnny Otis -The Signifyin' Monkey (USA)

Comments

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