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Down on the World Beat farm we hand-pick every single single from a bounty of new summer releases. And, this week we present an encore hour of only debuts, including The Zawose Queens from Tanzania, Amadou & Mariam from Mali, Molchat Doma from Belarus and Manu Chao from all over the place! It's what the world sounds like today, World Beat Canada Radio.
All new, all debuts! It's a full hour spotlighting our most recent arrivals, from Angelica Garcia and Alex Henry Foster to Seun Kuti, Sinsei 80, Sonova and Tasheeno! From the underground to the leading edge we're keeping time with the beat of the world at World Beat Canada 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 Iraq's Ahmed Moneka, Sonova's got your motivation from the new Future Grateful Vol.1, even some nu-disco from Estonia. Of course we honour the squeeze box with Madagascar's Regis Gizavo and catch a wave with Quebec City's Babalooneys! Surf's always up at World Beat Canada Radio.
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 Dengue Fever and a positive spin from Nosotros are also in the mix. Then, Kyiv's Natasia Y decries Russia's ecocide in Ukraine plus challenging Balkan experimental folk from Gordan. Hope holds up the world with World Beat Canada Radio!
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 and quanun around electronic beats. We debut the first of 3 EPs which comprise Andrew McPherson's new groove project, Sonova, and sample fresh tastes from Ibibio Sound Machine and Venezonix' update of Golpe De Tamobor rhythm from Venezuela. It's your world. Tap into World Beat Canada Radio!
Mdou Moctar - Tchinta
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 a collab with Diogo Ramos from the new Del Horizonte. Cuckoo is the latest release from Toronto's Slavic/Balkan/Klezmer/party Punks, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, and skate punk turned twang guitarist, Tommy Gerrero takes us Through The Mosaic. It's a lot to love from World Beat Canada Radio!
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, Spanish Flea from the Tijuana Brass gets Skeewiff'd and we share the opener from CeU's 6th album, Novela. And, there's plenty more where in the world those came from, this week on World Beat Canada!
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