By Calc0pyr1te
exciting global music alternative to juke box radio
It ’s International Surf Music Month and National Accordion Awareness Month! There are a lot of ways to celebrate June. We choose debuts of the best in global grooves like: flamenco synthpunk from Seville’s Salvar Donana, new Sufi fusion from...
Diversify your global investment with an hour of what the world is listening to! Groove Professor, Jef Stott gets us started with new ear candy. Tunisian-American EMEL introduces 100% woman-made music. Another Ska-laden debut from Los Furios, Cambodian psych from...
Electric strings on different things this hour. Adama Yalomba plugs in the ancient N’dan, a six string harp from Mali. From Niger it’s frenetic distortion by Tuareg rocker Mdou Moctar. Balkan Taksim wrap the sounds of the baglama, Aytac Dogan...
The world gifts us her best spins this week! You gotta love an album that starts with a flourish and ends with a bang. We debut the closer from Bab L’Bluz’ new release. Mexican-Canadian Boogat shares a Brazilian twist in...
The sounds of our ancestors morph into the future with digital creativity! Debuting a global sci-fi soundtrack from DJ Raff and La Yegros. Radio fans, Los Furios salute the airwaves with another spin from Old Ghosts. An oldie but goodie,...
Today’s theme is Imagination Unlimited (by Claudio Corona). Quebec City Mexican-Canadian Boogat drops Del Horizonte with the album opener featuring Okan. From the imagination behind Eccodek and Peppermoth comes Sonova, funky grooves to heal a desperate world. Plus, Seville-based nuevo-flamenco...
Putumayo continues to make world music accessible to the globally-curious. We sample two of their latest compilations off the top. Talk about global music projects; Vancouver’s Los Furios have just released Old Ghosts recorded in different venues, studios, kitchens and...
Not all wonders are celestial. Consider this week’s playlist which transits from Sicily (Galathea) to Ecuador (Hermanos Guitierrez), intersecting new spins from CeU and Afro Celt Sound System. And, Skeewiff redux Nancy Sinatra. One of these days these beats are...
Opening new frontiers in Afrobeat from the most unexpected places! From Chile comes the 13 piece Newen Afrobeat featuring Fela Kuti’s former band leader, and London Afrobeat Collective celebrate Freedom. The two Ottawa founders of Souljazz Orchestra introduce us to...
Once again, it’s an embarrassment of brand new spins that keeps World Beat Canada well beyond the rest. This week a trio born in Moscow combine traditional folklore and electronic savvy as the Nickadimus Experience. ZA! and Perrate introduce us...
Wrap your ears around some sassed-up Serbian Balkan brass. It’s our debut of the playful ShazaLaKazoo! Plus, more ginchy cool tropical from Cheo. And, first spins for Meril Wublin and Nabihah Iqbal. Vancouver’s Empanadas Ilegales share the most Canadian tune...
Join us for rockin’ Moroccans (new Bab L’Bluz and Sami Galibi), tropical hot sauce from Montreal (MTL Sauce Picante), hypnotic Portuguese from Sus, Nigerian slow cook from Dele Sosimi and The Estuary while Skeewiff re-invent Misrilou, the tale of love...
An hour that totally rocks off the top! Tokyo Ska Paradise debut an action-packed cinematic soundtrack for The Last Ninja, then frenetic Tuareg shredder Mdou Moctar unleashes the first single for a forthcoming album. Guelph, Ontario’s Jaffa Road get the...
Our world. It’s weird and wonderful. We share a bit of both for your ears each week. French Moroccan phenom, Bab L’Bluz will be dropping their 2nd album shortly. We tease you with a debut. You’ll meet Go.Soul.Map. (that’s Sicilian...
Hand-crafted and curated, culled from the cutting-edge of global music expression. Debuts this week from the undisputed queen of nu-cumbia La Yergos, London Afrobeat Collective, Temporal Waves, Balthvs, Eric Hilton and Radiotronica. Connect with our playlist at World Beat Canada...
From trance to dance, Galician producer Baiuca shifts gears on his new single. The queen of flow Espanol, Ana Tijoux returns with her first new album in 10 years. We debut our pick from Vida. Eccodek treats us to a...
Shut up! Seriously? The Afro Celt Sound System is back? It’s true, with a brand new single for Valentine’s called Magical Love. Plus, new Ibibio Sound Machine and Kiran Ahluwalia serves a Pancake breakfast for her beau Rez Abasi. New...
From Abstraktor to Yin Yin it’s a cornucopia of contemporary global grooves this hour. So many fresh spins, like Empanadas Ilegales from their Vancouver rooftop! Haitian American, Nathalie Joachim asks Who Are You while Oluma ask what would happen if...
Kiran Ahluwalia serves up a tasty breakfast for Valentines, a new single from the forthcoming Comfort Food. Meanwhile DJ Massimo Napoli delivers Sacred Love from Sicily. Vancity bhangra rockers En Karma are back along with surprising reggae from landlocked Switzerland...
Second singles from two forthcoming releases by eclectic French-Colombian bassist/singer Eda Diaz and the flawless Flaws from Musow Danse by Les Amazones d’Afrique. More Nu-Norwegian from Gangar, preserving a language and culture it’s the Garifuna Collective and Seun Kuti joins...
Two trips to Senegal for DK Phone and soul food from Awale Jant Band. New for 2024 from Radiotronica and we go underground with Da Lata and Underground System. PLUS, local love from Compassion Gorilla and Los Duendes. Can you...
New music for a new year, it ’s always a good policy around here! First out of the gate, perfect for a US election year, it’s Peyoti For President plus reggae from the Whytehouse. A deep new groove from Bahama...
Inside spins from the global albums that topped our chart each month in 2023. We wrap up the year with a calendar of the best beats from World Beat Canada Radio!
A one hour palette cleanser for your ears. No jingle bells, just joy to the world music makers everywhere with freshly baked treats from Sandunes, Los Duendes even Vancity’s own Rumba Calzada with a Latin twist on M’s Pop Muzik!...
A couple of ground pounders to start; rai and chaabi from Sami Galibi and Gdzilla from Lagos with a new EP. Cool Canadian from Kiran Ahluwalia and Eccodek remixed by the Delia Derbbyshire Appreciation Society. Madrid Trio, Demetrio riff on...
For those about to rock, we salute you! Global plugs in this hour with some new tropical rock from Toronto by Blumarelo, distortion meets ritualism in Senegal by Ndox Electrique, and The Lost Fingers do a Django Reinhardt-inspired tribute to...
If you enjoyed our Album/Single Cover Of The Week, stay tuned for the debut of the track. Plus, Acid Arab gets even phatter with the R3HAB remix of Habaytak. C’ammafunk from Salerno, Italy summon the Thunder, Eccodek gets the King...
Globetrotting on a wave of new music. Lenhart Tapes debut a retooling of lost Serbian folk, then to Venezuela for new tropi-pop from Mito & Comade. On to France for a Bhangra Wedding with Ollie Goes To Bollywood, Ritmo Machine...
Follow your ears to the outer limits of global expression! Ritualistic voices welded with alt rock discord by Ndox Electrique. Kiran Ahluwalia sets the scene for her progressive new Punjabi single Dil, Monophonics use bouzouki to reimagine California Dreamin’ and...
An oddball collection of global grooves including debuts from London Afrobeat Collective, Mandela Mecha, tabla maestro Ritesh Das, musical alchemy from Eccodek with The Simplest Thing, Thievery Corp’s Eric Hilton, Greco rock from Vancity’s Yannis Fyssas, wonky Morricone inspiration from...
Defending a woman’s right to self-expression, a collective from around Africa and debut from Les Amazones d’Afrique. Also, a female duo in a complex relationship with Cuba, Okan present Okantomi. New west coast world beat from Khanvict X Raginder and...
Scaring up plenty of debuts, many from Canadian world beaters! Ritesh Das, the driving force behind the Toronto Tabla Ensemble with his first solo project, Los Duendes approach the release of Me Recuerdas, Eccodek pulls the pin on Mjstake Of...
New South American sounds abound this episode with debuts from Afro-Peruvians Novalima and a dancefloor bolero from Colombia’s Sinego. DK Phone finds tragic inspiration in the former salve island of Goree in a mesmerizing slice of Afro-futurism from Senegal. And,...
Music: the universal salve for our stressed out world. This hour, Madrid’s Demetrio forge an uneasy synergy between rock, speed metal and symphonic. NYP Records release the new comp Global Afrobeat Movement 4, Khiyo salutes Bangladesh from the London underground...
A sip of kava and we’re off on an intoxicating trek around the planet with new spins from Maiiah & Angels Of Libra, Thievery Corp’s Eric Hilton with chanteuse Natalia Claviar and another take on Eccodek’s Second Bird Calling getting...
Booster beats of Afro-Sitar Funk, leading edge Venezuelan and Balkan Metal. PLUS, debuts of Chilean Cumbia from Vancity’s Los Duendes and instro-soul from Idle Moon (opening for Polyrhythmics at The WISE Hall, November 10th). Keeping time with the beat of...
New music from ancient strings in Cantabria and Andalucia. Second Bird Calling - the second single from Eccodek’s Mistake Of The Ear, The Peppermoth Variations. Finnish Electronica, Ghanian superstar Rock Dawuni and The Loving Paupers desperate search for weed. Blazing...
Extinct World from MXTX, The Promising Gambler from Kevin Finseth, Cecilia Noel in Cars, Learning To Swim with The Skints, Too Much Promiscuity (leads to insanity) according to Manu Chao and Microdosing with African Head Charge. It’s life and how...
We tease a spin from the forthcoming album ’Sahel’ by Niger’s Grammy-nominated guitarist, Bombino. german duo EsRAP torch a Benz, The Surfrajettes turn Britney’s Toxic into a twang-driven instrumental and Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale turn in a snakey track...
Exploring the many facets of afro-futurism with spins from Kampala’s Faizal Mostrixx, South Africa’s Bokani Dyer and Saharan Tuaregs Khalab & M’berra Ensemble. A soulful debut from Whistler’s Ethiopian-Canadian Zada, new Navaris with Bill Laswell and Nortec Noir from Espectro...
For your dog days, music that’s daisy fresh! A brand new spin for Eccodek from Mistake Of The Ear (The Peppermoth Variations) converging both passion projects. Southern fried instro from Raul Malo with The Mavericks and All The Time In...
Running the global gamut from Latintronix to Turkish Psych, Cumbiadelica to Electrotango and Jazz Sitar, where the edge of the world becomes the centre of attention!
Light fingers pocket some precious spins this week, starting with The Heist by Antwerp Afrobeaters, Kolonel Diafaar. Sultry and steamy coos from Nu Nairobi and Pacifika, Kurt Vile gets the Tuareg blues wfrom Tinariwen and The Budos Band reverse engineer...
15 exciting spins squeezed into 60 minutes. This is concentrated global goodness with fresh tracks from The EEs, Witch No He & Sus Santos, plus surf, punk, sci-fi guitarist Scott Helland with Soylent Seafom Green. It’s our people that make...
In defense of international and independent music in the face of rampant nostalgia; new spins from Austin’s Caramelo Haze, Ritmo Machine, north and south through Brazil, up into the Spanish Sierra Norte, it’s World Beat Canada Radio, Playing For Change!
Raid our music collection each week, fresh spins every episode this week from Baraka Moon, Bad Colours, Dubby Stardust, Dobet Gnahore, even some tropical cow pop from The Whytehouse! Chill and thrill to World Beat Canada Radio!
New coolness from African Head Charge, Stephanie Santiago, Faizal Mostrixx & Bahama Soul Club. Join us for every twist and turn in this ride on the global side. Stick it out for the intrigue of Top Secret Agent Man On...
Global futures and revivals! Turkish disco from Lalalar, Puerto Rican boogaloo from Spanglish Fly and The Sound Of Silence from Raul Malo + brand new Crystal Fighters, Alpha Yaya Diallo and The Scimitars. Music from the sharpened edge on World...
We play both kinds of music, Country and Western. The Mavericks’ guitarist Raul Malo drops Say Less , an instrumental album of twngy goodness, Plus, Bokani Dyer’s S. African Afrobeat while Five Alarm Funk and Cimafunk get the funk out....
Aggressive, progressive and impressive mix of global beats from Africa, Japan, India and Italy with debuts from WITCH, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Kevin Finseth & Asli Maj, Kiltro and Captain Planet. For your ears only on World Beat Canada Radio!
