Al compas del mundo – programa #73

Al compas del mundo – programa #73 - Potpourri Cha Cha Cha

War - What is It Good For? - Appropos of Nothing

You can’t go wrong leading off the show with The Pogues, feeling all blotto and disgusting. Then follow up with Stick in the Wheel, the singer wishing from her jail cell that she ‘n Becky hadn’t nicked stuff from the retail park (shopping center?). What do pre-war Ukrainians sing about? Haven’t a clue.

And the post-war Japanese adoption of American musical tastes is always, or at least, sometimes, worth a listen. The birth of bubblegum music? But then back to serious…beats and brass from the Banda Misterioso; Ocho with quintessential West Coast smooth-ness undressing your mind; Masanka Sankayi out of the slums of Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with new electric music for the mind and body. Lastly, a dose of the blues - just to lift your spirits!

An interesting side note: Lata Mangeshkar, the Indian film songstress, has made more commercial recordings than any other human ever was.-J.H.

Masanka Sankayi

Tonight's set causes me to conjure backwards! Heard Lata in S.F. in a liquour store - as a street guy egged on a cop / Saw Hound Dog at Gordon Commons - He arrived in a Cadillac in snow so deep - First set totally up - Second Set Way the hell down - He had the Blues, and Paul DeMark of the opening act told me why/ Now Otis Spann, played when I lived in Milwaukee in the last months of his life at the Milwaukee Vocational School and cover was $1 - why didnt I to? I always have to ask. Now Otis Spann. He effused Blues./Saw the Poques twice [and the Popes once] - Very competetive in my recollection of the Drunkest bands I ever saw. -J.V.

Potpourri Run List - First broadcast 4-20-23

01 The Pogues - The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn (Ireland)

02 Stick in the Wheel - Me N Becky (England)

03 Yagody - Kupalinka (Ukraine)

04 Yara Families with Folk Special - Go Go Chimbooraa (Japan)

05 Lata Mangeshkar - Aj Mere Man Men (Hindustani film Aan) (India)

06 Chaba Minoucha - Ghir habibi ouana (Marocco)

07 Itih S - Dalu Minggu (Indonesia)

08 Ocho - Undress My Mind (USA)

09 Orquesta Akokan - La Corbata Barata (Cuba y USA)

10 Banda Misterioso - Rango Recargado (Oaxaca, Mexico)

11 Juan Madera - La Pollera Colorá (Colombia)

12 Canción anónimo de Ghana

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

14 Masanka Sankayi - Soif Conjugale (DR Congo)

15 Radio Citizen - The Hop (Germany)

16 Muddy Waters - She's All Right (USA)

17 Otis Spann - Worried Life Blues (USA)

18 Hound Dog Taylor - Taylor's Rock (USA)

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