Playlist for Al compás del mundo - programa #147, 9-26-24, greatest hits, programs #23-25 01 King Curtis - Heavenly Blues (USA) 02 Sun Ra - They'll Come Back (USA) 03 Duke Ellington - Portrait of Mahalia Jackson (USA) 04 Mal Waldron and Jackie McLean - Super Okra Blues (USA) 05 The Duke Pearson Nonet – Heavy Legs (USA) 06 Étoile de Dakar - Esta China (Senegal) 07 The Black Santiagos - Ole (Benin) 08 Antoine Dougbe - Nou Akuenon Hwlin Me Sin Koussio (Benin) 09 Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Nu te fermare (Italy) 10 Ando Drom - Keren chave (Hungary) 11 Paco de Lucia - La Tumbona (Spain) 12 Teodulo Naranjo - Son Del Viento (Mexico) 13 DJ Cheb I Sabbeh - Kese Kese (Algeria-India) I’ll share a secret: when time is short these “greatest hits” programs are a relief to prepare. Every weekly Al compás del mundo program, modestly speaking, is a compilation of superior sounds, well curated by me, your brilliant humble servant. But three or four such shows offer an embarrassment of riches

  Run list Al compás del mundo - programa #146, 9-19-24, women’s voices   01 Bessie Smith - Blue Spirit Blues (USA) 02 Alberta Adams – Remember (USA) 03 Abbey Lincoln - Straight Ahead (USA) 04 Sarah Vaughan – Interlude (USA) 05 Nina Simone - Four Women (USA) 06 Fontella Bass - Since I Fell for You (USA) 07 Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - How Long Do I Have to Wait for You (USA) 08 Laura Nyro & LaBelle - Gonna Take a Miracle (USA) 09 Rhiannon Giddens - Ten Thousand Voices (USA) 10 Nico - Winter Song (Germany) 11 P.J. Harvey - The Last Living Rose (England) 12 Alabama Shakes - I Ain't the Same (USA) 13 Janis Joplin – Summertime (USA) 14 Mother Earth - It Won't Be Long (USA) 15 La Santa Cecilia - La Morena (USA-Mexico) 16 Cassandra Wilson - VooDoo Reprise (USA)   These babes have lungs. Whether you accept “babes” as an appropriate label for the crooners, belters, songsters, nightingales, chanteuses, warblers, troubadours and serenaders

  Runlist - Al compás del mundo - programa #145, 9-12-24, Argentinian folklore   01 Los Rojas - Qué Lindo Es Estar De Vuelta 02 Coco Gomez - No Me Abraces Porque Lloro 03 Facundo Cabral - Señora de Juan Fernández 04 Horacio Guarany - Piel Morena 05 Eduardo Falu - Zamba de Vargas 06 José Larralde - Quimey Neuquén 07 Leda Valladares y María Elena Walsh - Chacarera de Tafi 08 Los Chalchaleros - Viene clareando 09 Erick Claros - Que No Te Olvida 10 Los Chaza - Cuando nada te debia 11 Jorge Cafrune - Baguala de Amaicha 12 Gustavo Patiño - Amores de primavera (huayno) 13 Mitote - Sol de los Andes 14 Canto 4 - Entre a Mi Pago Sin Golpear 15 Los Hermanos Abalos - La juguetona 16 Los Fronterizos - El quiaqueño 17 Dalmiro Cuellar y Orlando Rojas - Romanceros del Guadalquivir 18 Mercedes Sosa - Luna Tucumana 19 Los Cantores de Quilla Huasi - El Ventajao 20 Trio Gomez-Juárez-Gutiérrez - Una Chacarera   This is not a show for everybody. Your high school

A dozen dozens add up to program #144 this week, and being the ardent numerologist that I am, I have to regard this milestone with both admiration and suspicion. I’m pleased at myself for having found this Mexican radio gig in the first place and yet I can’t help but imagine we just might run out of musical attention-getting devices, say, by the year 2050. Maybe it’s time to play a little Stockhausen...? For example, his “Helicopter String Quartet”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13D1YY_BvWU  would be a sure crowd pleaser and I could take the rest of the week off. See what you think. Play it in a continuous loop for 60 minutes and see if it doesn’t rev your engine. Should it fail, I suppose you can always fall back on this week’s Al compás del mundo playlist wherein you shall discover Caribbean rhythms, a brief dalliance in religious or down-in-the-mouth folk tunes, a leap in faith to Asian overtures, and a final touch down in northern, central and southern Africa.  Which hour of list