Around the World
31 May 2024
This week on Around the World
Music this week from: Barcelona, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Finland, Flanders, France, Gabon, Granada, Greece, Haiti, India, Ireland, Istanbul via Amsterdam, Italy, Japan, Northern Ireland, Poland, and a place where Tunisia meets Nigeria.
You can hear: Altin Gün, Aywa, Damir Imamovic, Dumai Dunai, Dystoh, Emel & Eva Alordiah, Eskorzo, Hajda Banda, Janine Mathias, Karkum Project, Leyla McCalla, Mari Kalkun, Nancy Vieira, Otherish, Pamela Badjogo, Raphael Gimenes, Riki Rivera, Spilar, Suistamon Sähkö, Sunny Jain, Suzumeno Tears, Swar Ahmed & Friends (Beyond Skin), Voodoo Drummer, Wesli, and Ye Vagabonds.
The Featured Album this week - YIÊH by Pamela Badjogo
Pamela Badjogo - YIEH (Official Music Video)
This week’s featured album ids from the Gabonese singer and former member of Les Amazon d’Afriques. She now lives in Paris and has released her third album. You can find it on Bandcamp.
The following is edited from Wikipedia.
Pamela Badjogo (born 3 December 1982) is an Afro-Jazz musician from Gabon and a former member of Les Amazones d'Afrique.
Whilst living in Bamako, Badjogo began singing and recording in studios and collaborating with French producer In 2015 Bajogo crowd-funded her first solo album Mes Couleurs. In 2017 she performed at the closing ceremony for the Africa Cup of Nations.
Badjogo moved to Lyons in 2017 to work on a new musical project with artists from Perigord.
Badjogo was one of the original line-up of the Les Amazones d'Afrique. The group used music to confront issues affecting women, as Badjogo said: 'We are sick of seeing women suffer because of violence ... In the family, in the war zones. We want it to stop. The group's first album, République Amazone, was a protest record explicitly addressing against the inequality and sexual violence faced by women.
Badjogo is a vocal advocate for women's rights. As part of her performance for the Africa Cup of Nations, she and other artists, including Josey from Côte d'Ivoire, Rokia Traoré from Mali, Charlotte Dipanda and Coumba Gawlo Seck, presented a new composition called Pour nos sœurs et pour nos mères, to raise awareness of cancers that affect women.
Edited from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Badjogo
There’s more to be read here at World Music Central https://worldmusiccentral.org/2024/02/29/multifaceted-gabonese-afrojazz-singer-pamela-badjogo/
And at Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pamelabadjogo
Ye Vagabonds - Nine Waves (Full Video Album)
I’ll be playing Blue is the Eye from Nine Waves, the new album from Ye Vagabonds. The award winning, Carlow-based brothers Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn have been described as being at the fore of a new wave of Irish folk.
The video above is for the whole album. Kick off your shoes and put up your feet for a musical and visual treat.
Suistamon Sähkö: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Towards the end of the show I’ll be talking about a concert I attended at Tallinn Music Week 2022 where I saw the excellent Suistamon Sähkö play. I thought I’d share this with you.
Next week
It is unlikely that I will be able to post a preview next week. I’ll be in Salzburg and probably not properly equipped to put the newsletter together. But I do have a playlist already. I plan to play music by:
Ali Doğan Gönültaş, Balkalar, Béla Fleck, Giuliano Gabriele, Gordan, Joe Arroyo, Katja Šulc, Kiran Ahluwalia, La Yegros, Lass, Len Boogsie Sharpe, Newen Afrobeat & Lido Pimienta, Ngwaka Son Systeme, Peter Tosh, Pilani Bubu & Marthe, Prabh Deep, Rei, Silent Stream of Godless Elegy, Spilar, Suonno D'Ajere, and Toco
The featured album will be Donegal by Altan.
Where and when to listen.
Friday:
Akaroa World Radio 2:00 pm local New Zealand Time (3:00 am GMT 4:00 am CET)
NAR-GROUP Germany – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
Mosel Radio – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
NAR-Alf – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
Saturday:
RCFM (Radio City FM) Duisburg, Germany 3:00 – 5:00 pm CET
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
Essential Radio Midnight to 2:00 am GMT (1:00 am CET)
Sunday:
West Coast FM Namibia 10:00 pm to 12:00 noon Central Africa Time (2:00 to 4:00 GMT)
NFRS Osaka Japan: 12:00 noon local time (3:00 am UK time 4:00 am CET)
973FM in Singapore and 11:00 pm local time (3:00 pm/15:00 hours UTC – Universal Time).
Bangor FM 107.9 7:00 pm local time (8:00 pm CET)
Slice Audio 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Ferry FM 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Radio Larne 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Armagh City Radio 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Monday:
SparkFlame Radio: 00:00 am GMT (01:00 CET)
Waterwaves Radio: 8:00 pm GMT (21:00 CET)
KNC Radio St Lucia 6:00 am local time (10:00 am GMT 11:00 am CET)
BR2 Pure Gold Radio – Costa Blanca, Spain 10:00 pm local time (CET)
Akaroa World Radio 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
Tuesday:
Lisburn’s 98FM – 7:00 pm local time GMT (8:00 pm CET)
FM105 Down Community Radio – 7:00 pm local time GMT (8:00 pm CET)
Wednesday:
World FM 4:00 am local New Zealand Time (5:00 pm Tuesday GMT, 6:00 pm CET)
Slice Audio 4:00 am local time GMT (5:00 am CET)
Radio Skye (Radio Garden) 10:00 pm GMT (11:00 pm CET)
Stirling Community Radio 10:00 pm GMT (11:00 pm CET)
Thursday:
Radio Larne 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)