Music of Tropical Islands (#1415)

Hour 1 (artist – song – album):
Agrupamento da Ilha – Bo gosa di só txi – Léve Léve: São Tomé & Principe Sounds (70s-80s)
Celeste Mendoza – Mi Rumba Echando Candela – Cuba Classics 2, Dancing with the Enemy
Andy Hamilton – Mango Time – Jamaica by Night
Cuban Collective – Sol Sol – Sol Sol
Small Island Big Song ft’ Vaiteani & Luc – Ta’u Tama – Our Island
Small Island Big Song ft’ Emlyn, Putad, Sauljaljui, Vaiteani & Selina Leem – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) – Our Island
Vicente Kelly – Polin Tin Shete Buraco (Polin Has Seven Holes) – ABC Island Primer
Taj Mahal Meets The Culture Musical Club Of Zanzibar – Zanzibar – Mkutano
Lakou Mizik – Kay Granpa (feat. Tank and the Bangas) – HaitiaNola
Tonga Boys – Kwiduko – Vindodo
Edmony Krater & Tisseur – Tijan – Heavenly Sweetness 15th Anniversary – Tropical
Christine Salem – Django – Salem Tradition
LaBelle – Grand Maître (feat. Ballaké Sissoko) – univers-île
Orchestre Tropicana D’Haiti – Foufoune – Yolande

Hour 2:
I Gusti Sudarsana – ngipiang tunanangan – Degung Bali, Pt. 2 (Lounge Music)
Chichi Peralta – Procura – Putumayo Presents Republica Dominicana
Te Vaka – Havili – Havili
M’Toro Chamou – Mwengé – Sika Mila
Mighty Power – The Millionaire – All Time Calypso Hits from Trinidad and Tobago
Count Owen – Island in the Sun – Jamaica Is the Place to Go: An Invitation to Jamaican Mento
Cesária Évora – Apocalipse – Cabo Verde
Macka B – 4 Minute Vacation – Global Messenger
Duke Kaleiolani Ching – On the Beach at Waikiki – Legends of the Steel Guitar: Past, Present & Future
Ziggy Marley – World Revolution (feat. Samuill Kalonji) – Rebellion Rises
RAM – Jijem Byen – Ram 6: Manman M Se Ginen
Luis Vargas – Tranquila – Putamayo Presents Republica Dominicana
Telek – Bunaik – Serious Tam
Saratuspersen – Sundanese in Bali – Rough Guide to Undiscovered World

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Global Songs of War and Peace (#1226)Global Songs of War and Peace (#1226)

Originally assembled as a collections about war and peace for Memorial Day in the USA, this playlist works just as well in light of the smaller but no less devastating violence of school shootings. Violence is a problem in many cultures, as these songs illustrate. We need to do better, and soon.

Hour 1
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin – Masters of War – Touristes
Atamina – When Two Elephants Fight – Sycophantic Friends
Phạm Mộng Hải – For the Fallen – Hanoi Masters: War Is a Wound, Peace Is a Scar
Yuriy Gurzhy & Wladimir Kaminer vs. Zelwer – The New Adventures Of Soldier Tufaiev – Electric Gypsyland 2
Balkan Beat Box – War Again – Blue Eyed Black Boy
Karibuni Addis – No Child Soldier – Back Road to Ethiopia
Hadag Nahash – War – 6
Amabutho – Amabutho (the Warriors) – Sikelela
Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac – Oran an t-Saighdeir/The Soldier’s Song – Seinn
Haris Alexiou – Soldier – Mondo Greece
Aditya Prakash Ensemble – The Warrior (feat. B.C. Manjunath & Josh Johnson) – Diaspora Kid
Yannick Noah – War / No More Trouble – Hommage
Soweto String Quartet – Ukusina Kwa Mabutho (The Dance of the Warriors) – Millennia
Moana & The Tribe – Warrior Woman – Rima
André Sampaio – Stop Fighting Immigrants (feat. Okwei Odili) – Alagbe

Hour 2
Invisible System – Kele (War) – Dance to the Full Moon
Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band – Warriors – Bone Reader
Morgane Ji – Woman Soldier – Woman Soldier
Warsaw Village Band – When Johnny Went to Fight In the War – Uprooting
FolkBeat – Сила Богатырская/The Strength of the Warriors – I’m Marching on My Own
Nytt Land – The Last War – The Last War – EP
De’Anza – War – Cosmic Dream
Ahmed Mukhtar – After the War – The Road To Baghdad
Baaba Maal – War – The Traveller
Tony Allen – Don’t Fight (edit) – Homecooking
Achien’g Abura – Spirit of a Warrior – Spirit of a Warrior
Chiwoniso – Rebel Woman – Rebel Woman
Mari Boine, Chiwoniso & Banda Dida – War Leaves No Victors – Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

Top 10 World Music Albums, January (#1259)Top 10 World Music Albums, January (#1259)

Artist – Song – Album

Hour 1
Didon – Oh Maiden – يا للّا – Tunesian Tale
Tanxugueiras – Arica – Diluvio
Sonido Verde de Moyobamba – La Longuita – Sonido Verde De Moyobamba
Taraf Syriana – Me Dukhhap tuke – Taraf Syriana
Vusi Mahlasela, Norman Zulu & Jive Connection – Anastacia – Face to Face
Sona Jobarteh – Fondinkeeya – Badinyaa Kumoo
Mawaca – TANT DEMAN / BOI DA BEIRA (feat. Cristina Guiça) – Nama Pariret
Debashish Bhattacharya – The Sound of the Soul – The Sound of the Soul
Mwezi Waq. – Ngayo ha ngayo – Le Blues des Sourds-Muets
Meral Polat Trio – Bile Bile – Ez Kî Me
Natacha Atlas – Moustahil – Halim
Hamid El Kasri – Bouhali – Roots & Plugged

Hour 2
Nenĭa Iră – La hyène – Nenĭa Iră
Sevara Nazarkhan – Ei Nozanin (Beautirul) – Yol Bolsin
Totó La Momposina – Los Sabores del Porro – Carmelina
Payadora Tango Ensemble – Don’t Let Us Starve (feat. Aviva Chernick & Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk) – Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango
Mahsa Vahdat & Skruk – Home of the Moon – Braids of Innocence
Tárkány Trió – Szombathelyi csárdások és lefogás – A cimbalomprímás
Buika – Echate a Mi Vera – Buika
S.E. Rogie – Recipe for Truth and Lasting Happiness – The New Sounds of S.E. Rogie
Shooglenifty – Scraping the Barrel (Live Version) – Radical Mestizo
Dicro – Bom de briga – Dicró
Bajofondo Tango Club – Fairly Right Featuring Elvis Costello – Mardulce
Barika – Eh Baba – Remember

Top 10 World Music Albums, March 2024 (#1320)Top 10 World Music Albums, March 2024 (#1320)

Hour 1 (artist – song – album)
#10 Otava Yo – Timonia – Loud and Clear
#9 Tiken Jah Fakoly – Le balayeur (Acoustic Version) – Acoustic
#8 Sutari – Włosy (feat. Tara Fatehi Irani, Roxana Ghari & Sara Ramezani) – #kołysankidlaświata #lullabiesfortheworld
#7 Hulbækmo & Jacobsen familieorkester – I småskauen/Kleivhøslåtten – Rundsnurrknurr
#6 Aynur – Narînê – Rabe
#5 Touki – Tellem Dreams – Plastic Man
#4 Kavita Shah – Joia – Cape Verdean Blues (feat. Miroca Paris)
#3 Sahra Halgan – Diiyoohidii – Hiddo Dhawr
#2 Aziza Brahim – Thajliba – Mawja
#1 Amsterdam Klezmer Band – A Greater Plan – Bomba Pop
Värttinä – Ukko Lumi – Oi Dai
Nuria Rovira Salat – Rayo de Luz – Amor de Flores
Khadja Nin – Free (Sina Mali, Sina Deni) – Sambolera
Pamela Badjogo – Polyphonies (feat. Kelly Khumalo) – YIÊH
Seffarine – Masari – De Fez a Jerez

Hour 2
Autorickshaw – Sunrise – Autorickshaw
Joyce – Banana – Féminina
Leilía – Olvídame – Madama
Elvic Kongolo – Likelele (feat. Stella Mwangi) – Likelele single
Vaovy – Gike – Angira
Tunto – Zambezi Music – Huoleton
Dazibao – Croc’ et Franklin (with Vincent Noiret) – Alma
Yosef Gutman Feat. Lionel Loueke – Kol Didi – Soul Song
Karandila Gypsy Brass Orchestra – Krasi and Ronny – Cyclops Camel
Mari Boine – Čuvges Vuovttat, Duođalaš Čalmbi – Goaskinviellja – Eagle Brother
Shay Hazan – Oladipo – Wusul
Madera Limpia – Danza Mulata – La Corona
Peliroja – Situaciones – Injusticia
Sia Tolno – Tchekantche – Eh Sanga