"I PREDICT A GRIOT, MADERA"

Special guest Kora player extraordinare Diabel Cissokho and his band were guest with Madera Verde before their upcoming album launch of "Tambacounda Express" at Rich Mix, London, on June 29th!

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diabel-cissokho-album-launch-tambacounda-express-...

CA VA, MADERA?

Oui Madame! MADERA is back from a trip to Paris, laden with French Caribbean vinyl + featuring a hot mix from Franco - Spanic DJ RAFAEL ARAGON (Global Hybrid Records) on the eve of his London debut. Allez, salut maintenant ...

TRACKLIST

MY KINGDOM, MY KINGDOM FOR A GUEST!

Having set the bar high by promising the SOAS Radio public a live guest per show, MADERA VERDE delivers once again ... this week joined in the studio by his teenage son Dexter, to see what the the yoof think of all this Wold Music 2.0 malarkey ...

WHEN MADERA MET ATTA

Its an Electric Africa special today with special guest Atta Kouassi from the FOCUS Organisation - a group of dynamic London-based music promoters relentlessly pushing all things culturally African. Also on the show, new BAABA MAAL. AFRIQUOI, AZIZA BRAHIM, and classic KANDA BONGO MAN, MANU DIBANGO & LEA LIGNANZI.

WORLD MUSIC DIVA ALERT!

To celebrate the launch of Natacha's new album "Myriad Road" and a string of UK dates, MADERA chews the cud with her about Arab Jazz fusion, her musical influences, and passes on questions flung at her by ex musical partners Transglobal Underground & Fun Da Mental.

NATACHA ATLAS - Nile

FAIROUD - Ya Jabal Eli Beed

NATACHA ATLAS - Ya Tara

DAVID BOWIE - Let Me Sleep Beside You

NATACHA ATLAS - Nafs El Hikaya

NITIN SAWNEY & NATACHA ATLAS - Can't Breathe

NATACHA ATLAS & KULLY B - Ya Leili-nu

MADERA'S CARNIVAL MADNESS (BY PROXY)

Whilst we gently freeze our buns off up here in Europ, its hot & heavy Carnival time in the Southern Hemisphere. So to (enviously) celebrate (from a distance), MADERA presents a stonking mini mix from Minais Gerais Dj Maco Maltauro from Coletivo Paraquedas ... topped & tail with the usual World 2.0 glitchiness of course.

WINSTON REEDY, Dim The Lights

ST GERMAIN, Pink Panther Theme

NINA HAGEN, African Reggae

DENNIS BOVELL, Aged Dub

WINDEL HAYE, Haunted House

TAGGY MATCHER, Chameleon

BUSY SIGNAL, Text Message

CUTTY RANKS, Limb By Limb

J STAR, Wooha Tempo

HORSEMAN, Computer

DJ VADIM FEATURING DEMOLITION MAN, Badman

CACHIMBO E GERALDO MOUZINHO, A Reposta De Sao Jose Dos Cacetes (Kosta Kosta Flute Refix)

CHAKA DEMUS & PLIERS, The Boom

BITUAYA, La Calesa

MAD MAX, Chop Chop Zouk

BONGA, Mona Ki Ngi Xica

ITS A BOY, MADERA!

First show on 2016, and MADERA delivers a bonny bouncing whopper of a show. No complications to report, mother and baby are doing well, cigars all round ...

Reggae legend alert! Join Madera for a live one hour special with UK reggae & dub undisputed Don Dada, the incredible Dennis Bovell. So much good writing, playing & mixing all the way from Janet Kay, Matumbi, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Slits to Tamikrest, Arcade Fire & Golden Teacher. And some great anecdotes along the way too ...

MADERA ON THE ONES & TWOS ...

Its another vinyl special today! Old school meets new cool with lots of music not available digitally; fresh World Music 2.0 swag from the recent Independent Label Market held in London's East End.