Al compas del mundo - programa #85

Al compas del mundo - programa #85 - Popurrí mundial

Another week, another trip around the globe. I like a narrow focus at times but a potpourri might just be my favorite type of program. Where else does Jamaican R&B lead off for Cannonball Adderley and Algerian Amazight (Berber) music? The Tuvan throat singers, Alash, do the seemingly impossible with their voices followed by Sebastian Cabot bringing it all back home with his. And coming home to roost is the jovial animosity between Bobby and the ex, Joanie, both claiming it ain’t me, babe. Many other good things worked into the show as well: Little Hudson blues, Congolese cha cha cha, Byard Lancaster off an “acid jazz” album (wtf is acid jazz?), Papago Warrior with their version of the familial-everybody-dances Waila, or Chicken Scratch dance. Envy No Good? The Mercury Dance Band from Ghana speaks truth. The Greek musical hero, Mikis Theodrakis, wrote lots of tunes in his days, most of them of a progressive bent. He composed soundtracks for the movies Z and State of Seige – always fighting the fascists, but his masterpiece was Canto General, sampled here with a cast of (sounds like) hundreds. The music is onomatopoeiac, full of glory, strength and bravery. And bravery was called for when Yanka Dyagileva sang her Russian protest song back in the 70’s. I don’t believe she enjoyed a very lengthy artistic career.

Playlist forPopurrí mundial, first broadcast 7-13-23

Deep throaters from Tuva

01 Skorpyons Of Jamaica - Think (About It) (Jamaica)

02 Cannonball Adderley - Mini Mama (USA)

03 Chérifa - Sniwa D Ifengalen (Kabilia, Algeria)

04 Alash Ensemble -Tuva (Tuva, Russia)

05 Sebastian Cabot reading lyrics from Bob Dylan's It Ain't Me Babe (excerpt) (England)

06 Bob Dylan & Joan Baez - It Ain't Me Babe (USA)

07 Grateful Dead - Cold Rain and Snow (USA)

08 Little Hudson - I'm Looking For A Woman (USA)

09 Camille Feruzi and his Mystérieux Jazz - Emiyama (Congo)

10 Brazil Capoeira with Nazare Pereira - Rasteira (Brazil)

11 Byard Lancaster - Us (USA)

12 Cassimbas Negras - Bumburumbumbum (Colombia)

13 Mercury Dance Band - Envy No Good (Ghana)

14 Papago Warrior - Where the Chiefs At (Papago - Tohono O'odham, USA)

15 Mikis Theodorakis - Main Title (O Andonis) - Z - Original Soundtrack (Greece)

16 Mikis Theodrakis con Maria Farandouri - Algunas Bestias, de Pablo Neruda (Greece)

17 Yanka Dyagileva - Na Cherniy Den (Russia)

18 Yıldız Çam - Keşbükünün köprüsü (Turkey)

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