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Playlists
 | 10th March 2010 GondwanaSound Playlist | Album of the week: Smile from Skeletons on Impossible Ark Records. Welcome to another round the world music adventure with a number of album launches, local gigs a plenty, a listener request, sacred music and an album of the week that comes from Skeletons, a made up band, an invention from the creative genius of Benedic Lamdin. On the subject of the band he says, "I kid you not, it doesn't exist, these musicians never stood in the studio together, they just passed through my house or left some scraps of sound behind after sessions...like a guy, pieced together and ready for the bonfire." Hope you hear something you enjoy. |
| 100303 European World Music Charts | No album of the week as we take a look at this month's European World Music charts. Mel hasn't posted her playlist yet please come back to this page soon. | |
 | 24th February 2010 GondwanaSound playlist | Album of the week: Ali and Toumani from Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate on World Circuit. Welome to your next round the world music adventure. For those of you who like your African Music with a deep and heavy funk groove and a touch of fuzz guitar you'll jump with joy at Strut's re-release of Afro-Rock Volume One - out of print since 2002 and credited with started the "craze" for record digging and retro releases from the motherland. Hear a track on this week's broadcast along with a cut from Ofege's album Try and Love and some seriously heavy rocked out fuzz guitars from Zambia in the 70's courtesy of Amanaz, who's re-release on the Shadoks label is "a hallucinogenic £32" from Honest Jons. We play a track from Amanaz today - see what you reckon. Our album of the week, in complete contrast is some of the most beautiful music I've heard so far this year, Ali and Toumani with three cuts from the album you'll hear an |
 | 17th February 2010 GondwanaSound playlist | Album of the week: 'Adagh' from Tamikrest on the Gliterrhouse Label. Welcome to another round the world music adventure and as the African Soul Rebels 2010 tour kicks off in the UK we join the rebellious spirit starting the broadcast with Gil Scot-Heron's The Revolution will not be televised from 1974 followed by the people's poet and veteran of the Soweto Uprising, Mzwakhe Mbule's Change is Pain from 1986. Two artists linked by their social commentary rooted in black freedom. Gil Scot Heron with the civil rights movement in the US and Mzwakhe Mbule with the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, two artists who would surely have influenced the first African Soul Rebels - Lesego Rampolokeng with the Kalahari Surfers Celebrating another rebel, Grammy Award winning Oumou Sangare calls for women to rise up and challenge the "big shot" men, her new approach to music and powerful lyrics Oumou joins TP Orchestre Polyrythmo to complete the line up for the African Soul Rebels tour. |
 | 10th February 2010 GondwanaSound playlist | Album of the week: Tommy T - The Prester John Sessions on Easy Star Welcome to your latest around the world music adventure. We start with strings, the violin, nyckleharpa and cittern of acoustic trio Bellevue Rendezvous who take us on a trip to St Kilda before we progress onto a dark song of revenge from the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Bringing us out of that mood is our album of the week 'The Prester John Sessions' from Tommy T. Bassist with Gogol Bordello, he leaves the brash rock sounds of the punk ska gypsy band behind him, as he pulls in the gorgeous voice of Gigi on his Ethiopian journey to discover his own roots. We continue with all new releases this week, the Rough Guide to Arabic Lounge, the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, Ali and Toumani and Adama Yalomba. |
 | 3rd February 2010 GondwanaSound playlist | No Album of the week as we take a look at the European World Music Charts As Sheffield based Rafiki Jazz begin their UK tour we start the show with Hebu form their album More Big Musik from Over There and finish the show with a reconstruction of the track at the hands of Maurice Foulton's Bubble Tease Communications, to wish Mim well as she packs her bags and heads of to the Sauti Za Busara festival and a private audience with Biki Dude, no less !! We play a couple of new releases and take you through the European World Music charts. Hope you hear something you enjoy. |
 | 27th January 2010 GondwanaSound Playlist | Album of the Week : Afrolution Vol.1: the Original African Hip Hop Collection/+DVD Welcome to your round the world music adventure with Melstar in the hotseat and an African hip hop special. Its also the last week of the Amnesty Send a message of Hope campaign and GondwanaSound sends greetings cards to Paraguay and Pakistan. |
 | 20th January 2010 GondwanaSound playlist | Album of the week, Home is where the Hut is from The Hut People on Fellside Records. Welcome to your latest round the world music adventure. Please donate to the Disasters Emergency Committee there's a link on the front page of the website and to concentrate our thoughts we open the broadcast with two Haitian tracks. One from Les Shleu Shleu a sixties dance band from Haiti, the precursor to all the retro tropical funk that's being dug up and reissued right now. We follow that with a stunning track from one of the best albums from last year Ti Coco and Wanga Neges' Haiti Colibri. Our album of the week comes from The Hut People and extraordinary combo of Percussion and Piano Accordian. Ever since we saw them at Musicport two years ago we've been waiting in anticipation for their debut album and we haven't been disappointed. Hope you enjoy the three tracks that we've picked out for you. With two new releases from Toureg artists,Nabil Othmani and newcomers and young pretenders for the Tinirawen crown, Tamikrest both with their own approach to Tamasheq music and beyond. Plus two tracks from two more exceptional dug up funk compilations two more exceptional albums for your collection. We hope you enjoy another eclectic round the world music adventure. You can buy what we're playing here and please spread the word we want more people to listen to all the wonderful global roots and grooves. |
 | 13th January 2010 GondwanaSound playlist | No album of the week as we look at the European World Music charts. Welcome to your GondwanaSound weekly round the world music adventure. First of all, before we talk about the music, this programme was pre-recorded so although it was broadcast on the morning that the news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti broke around the world, at the time of recording we were unaware of what lie ahead. You can donate to the Disasters Emergency Appeal here. |
 | 30th December 2009 GondwanaSound Playlist | Album of the week: Devla, Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven from Boban i Marko Markovic on Piranha Records Welcome to our last round the world music adventure for the year and for the decade....how did that happen ? Well what can you do in hour, apart from play some tunes, share the studio with Mel and reflect on 2009. |
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