Album of the week : World Routes on the Road - A Double CD compilation on Nascente
Todays album of the week is the marvellous comp "World Routes on the Road". Selected from the archives of the august BBC Radio 3 broadcast, World Routes. It's packed to bursting with heartfelt melodies, twangs, bangs and rarities. Brilliantly played, brilliantly recorded and at last sound recordists get the recognition due. We bring you three tracks and read out James Parkin's engaging stories behind the music.
Staying with field recordists we introduce you to Chris Kirkley, the Alan Lomax of the Sahel. Seemingly never without a mike and always happening upon some brilliant guitar band or other, he documents and publishes it all in his blog, Sounds of the Sahel. We introduce you to one of his encounters, from Senegal, the band Lewlewal de Podor.
Plus tracks from the Mighty Sparrow, that K Frimpong track sampled by Blitz the Ambassador, The Black Rhythm Truth Band out on Soundway, Melingo and finally a duo that were jaw droppingly good at Musicport 2011, Randolph Matthews & Byron Johnston - go explore !
News in : New Release on Soundway Records, Nigeria Afrobeat Special - The new explosive sound in 197O’s Nigeria. Soundway Records storms into 2010 with a cherry picked selection of explosive afrobeat from 1970’s Nigeria complementing the burgeoning Nigeria Special series. 
New release : On the Soundway label more vintage sounds, 
demonstrating tropical music and national pride during the fertile decades of the 1960s & 70s Panama! 3 is the latest edition of the much lauded and heavily championed Panama compilations and continues to explore the extraordinary dimensions of Panamanian music during the 1960s and 70s. 
News in from Soundway: Ghanaian highlife,rock, and soul collide in Soundway’s most ambitious project to date,
Soundway Records step back into Africa with thirty-three original and previously un-reissued tracks from Ghana delivering a follow on of sounds from the hugely successful CD/LP Nigeria Special. 
Hot on the heels of their last compilation Panama 2!, Soundway hit us with another solid selection of 20 tracks. 
explores the unique and overlooked sounds from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Researched and well dug by Hugo Mendez who provides the 24 page liner notes complete with vintage cover art and untold stories behind the music. 
News in from Soundway Records: Presenting 
- showcasing the unique tropical music created in Panama during the fertile decades of the 1960s and ‘70s, whilst producing one of the sure-fire summer soundtracks of the year! 
An in-depth look at the music of a Nigerian legend, who combined the rhythms and traditions of the historic culture of the Empire of Benin with the sounds of Highlife, Soul and Reggae to produce his own unique and culturally vital musical hybrid.
