Al compas del mundo - programa #84 - Potpourri of international music

Get ready to stretch! This week’s Al compas program’s like a yoga session. Do your ears hang low? Can you stretch them to your toes? Are you up to hear Cuban bop and Egyptian pop? Do the Tigers of New Orleans make you want to drop (and earn your very own funerary second line hop?) Can you handle the gospel according to Ahmed? Does Occitania even exist…perhaps betwixt Israel and Hungary? Make room for flexibility and funky dance moves with the likes of Willie Colón and Mbongwana Star. Can you handle a Venzuelan joropo and the Maria Chuchena string strum – both with compelling rhythm so similar must be incestuous cousins? Mali and Uganda, they’ll make you want to holla and throw up both your hands. Plus a Brazilian cowboy tune’ll take you back to the stockyards and leave you stretched out just enough, hopefully, that you’ll join Los Xochimilcas in singing “Liberty, liberty, it’s the right of humanity…though it’s easier to find burros in the ocean.” Got that? 1-2-3 and repeat.

List for Potpourri of international music - First Broadcast 7-6-23

01 Chappottín y sus Estrellas - Alto Songo (Cuba)

02 Salamat - Leyl Y A Bo Elyali (Egypt)

03 The Tigers, from Shout and Testify - Don't Leave Me (USA)

04 Golden Gate Quartet - Golden Gate Gospel Train (USA)

05 Ahmed Malek – title unknown (Algeria)

06 Dupain - Lusina (Occitania-Marroco)

07 Klezmorim - Sonya Anushke (Israel-USA)

08 Kolinda - Somogyi ugros (Hungary)

09 Angkanang Kunchai - Isan Lam Plearn (Thailand)

10 Willie Colón - Che Che Cole (Puerto Rico-USA)

11 Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa to the Moon (DR Congo)

12 El Cubiro Luis Lozada - El Joropo Recio (Venezuela)

13 La Musgaña - Charro Salmantino a Trio (Spain)

14 Conjunto Alma Jarocha - Maria Chuchena (Mexico)

15 Abraham Hanna Dicko - Alfaro (Mali)

16 Akuseka Takuwa Kongo Group - The Benefits of Coffee (Uganda)

17 Clemilda - Recordação De Vaqueiro (Brazil)

18 Los Xochimilcas - Rosas (Burros) en el mar (Mexico)

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