#2475: Buoyant Afro-pop

New Sounds is serving up Afro-pop and groove pop music, African-style on this program. Listen to electrified traditional music with a merciless groove from the Congo, Senegalese pop, Afro-flamenco, a brass band from Benin, and a host of others. Sample the original sounds of Konono No. 1’s melodic electric likembés (thumb pianos), coupled with found percussion of pans, pots and car parts, which, although distorted, are really danceable. Plus, there’s West-African steeped groove rock by Toubab Krewe - a quintet out of Asheville, North Carolina by way of Mali, Zimbabwe, Congo, Brazil & the Caribbean. Also, listen for the combined sound of military brass bands, voodoo ritual chants and rhythms, scratchy American jazz records, with a dash of Fela’s Afrobeat that is Benin’s Gangbé Brass Band. And much more.

PROGRAM # 2475, Afropop (First aired on Wednesday, 11-16-05)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Thione Seck	Orientation	Woyatina [5:30]	Stern’s Music #1100** www.sternsmusic.com*
Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim	Ceasefire	Ya Salam [7:00]	Riverboat #1038** www.worldmusic.net*
Gangbe Brass Band	Whendo	Noubioto [3:30] Remember Fela [4:30]	World Village #468050 ** www.worldvillagemusic.com*
Konono No. 1	Congotronics	Paradiso [7:00]	Crammed Discs #27 www.crammed.be*
Daby Balde	Introducing Daby Balde	Kaye Waxma [5:00]	World Music Network #104 www.worldmusic.net *
Toubab Krewe	Toubab Krewe	Mali Sadjo [3:30]	www.toubabkrewe.com
Thione Seck	Orientation	Mouhabibou [5:30]	See above.

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