6 April 2016, World Cafe

Programme airs on 6 April 2016, 10 - 12pm South African time on Fine Music Radio, 101.3 Fm in the Cape Town area or via live stream

http://iono.fm/embed/streampage/prov/234 or go to http://www.fmr.co.za/ and press the "Listen Live" button at the appointed time

1 Debo Band – Ney Ney Waleba (Sub Pop)

Album: Debo Band

10-piece from Boston with one of the best releases of the last 5 years. Classic golden age Ethio stuff with a riffy guitar undercarriage. Look out for stuff by violinist Keathe Hostetter's other band, Qwanqwa, in June.

2 Asselefetch Ashine & Getenesh Kebret & Army Band – Amlak Abet Abet (Buda Musique)

Album: Ethiopiques 13: Ethiopian Groove

... speaking of stuff from the golden age of Ethiopian music...from 1976

3 Getatchew Mekurya – Gedamay (Buda Musique)

Album: Ethiopiques 14: Negus of Ethiopian Sax

Ethiopian saxophonist with his take on warrior music or "shallela", sounding suspiciously like Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler

4 Sons of Kemet – Play Mass (Naim)

Album: Lest we forget what we came here to do

Shabaka Hutchings seems to be inspired by a lot of cool stuff - Ethio anything, Albert Ayler and New Orleans second line music to mention a few

5 Galactic feat Casa Samba – Magalenha  (Anti/Epitaph)

Album: Carnivale Electricos

New Orleans band with New Orleans-based samba collective and a song by Carlinhos Brown who hails from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

6 Los Corraleros – Que regreses ya (Discos Fuentes)

Album: Nueva Tumbao

The year is 1969, the rhythm is pasaje, the label is cult

7 Meridian Brothers – Contienda (Soundway Records)

Album: Los Suicidas

Columbia's Eblis Alvarez's new album is inspired by the mad hammond organ innovations of Jaime Llano Gonzalez, now 83, and once given the "Order of the Horsemen" among other gongs

8 Bereto – La Pantalla (World Village)

Album: Impredecible

Bereto are indebted to that off-shoot of cumbia in Peru that incorporated all kinds of stuff including surf guitar - chicha

9 Los de Abajo – Actitud Calle (Wrasse)

Album: Actitud Calle

Mexican ska-fusion band from 2010

10 Lila Downs – Dulce Veneno (Sony Music)

Album: Balas y Chocolate

From a 2015 album that takes in all of kinds of Mexican music. An album you should look into.

11 Vin Gordon & The Aggrovators – Split Second (Pressure Sounds)

Album: Bunny Striker Lee & Friends: Next Cut

Striker was an early dub innovator who worked with King Tubby.  Vin Gordon aka Don Drummond was one of heck of a trombone player and a founding member of the Skalalites (speaking about ska)

12 New Age Steppers – Love Forever (On-U Sound)

Album: New Age Steppers

From 1981, a classic cross-breeding of punk and reggae, with Ari Up of The Slits singing on a song by Bim Sherman, a regular on the On-U Sound label

13 The Comet Is Coming – Cosmic Serpent (The Leaf Label)

Album: Prophecy

Another manifestation of Shabaka Hutchings

14 Dennis Brown – Blessed are the men (the pill) (Auralux Recordings)

Album: Sufferation – The Deep Roots of Niney The Observer

Awesome dub by one of the best of the 70s, Niney The Observer

15 Ti L’Afrique – Soul Sok Sega (Strut)

Album: Soul Sok Sega: Sega Sounds from Mauritius 1973-1979

The funk invasion of 70s fetched up everywhere, including the shores of Mauritius

16 Rokia Traore – Ile (Nonesuch)

Album: Ne so

From her new, ultra-pleasant new album

17 Orchestre du Bawobab – Senegaal sunugaal  (Buur Records)

Album: Senegaal Sunugaal

A classic from 1975 with Barthelemy Attisso supplying the seriously wonderful guitar

18 Guadalupe Plata –Serpientes Negras (Everlasting Records)

Album: Guadalupe Plata

From Libeda in Spain and named after the Virgin Mary of the town.  They like her so much they've named every album they've made after her.  A little confusing.  At least the songs are called different things.

19 Mamak Khadem – Do, Don’t (Innova)

Album: The Road

The Iranian singer's Balkanesque version of a poem by 19th century calligrapher, musician and government bureaucrat, Ali Akbar Sheyda

20 Kapela Maliszow – Furtok (Karrot Kommando)

Album: Mazurki Niepojete

A father and his 12 year old daughter and 16 year old son from the Caparthians, between Poland and the Ukraine

3 tunes from the Artic circle ...

21 Varttina – Raijan Joika (Westpark Music/Proper)

Album:  Viena

From the Viena Karelia region, Finland - music inspired by the last surviving rune singers

22 Ayarkhaan- Maany Hatyn

Album: Dobun Duoraan

From the Sakha region aka Yakutia, Siberia

23 Tanya Tagaq Gillis – Seamless (Jericho Beach)

Album: Sinaa

From Cambridge Bay, Canada

Two songs ... a bit removed from the normal playlist ...

24 Joanna Newsom – Time, as a symptom (Drag City)

Album: Divers

25 Lou Reed – Turning time around (Reprise)

Album: Ecstasy

26 Maggie Bjorklund – The Unlucky (Bloodshot)

Shaken

Danish pedal steel player with a tune which seems to be inspired by Ennio Morricone's soundtracks

27 Tord Gustavsen – I see you (ECM)

Album: What was said

Norwegian pianist with German-Afghan Simin Tander and song based on a poem by Hans Adolph Brorson and translated in Pashto

28 Fitkinwall – Highwire (gfr)

Album: Lost

Ruth Wall on concert harp and Gaelic wire strung harp and pianist Graham Fitkin on piano and Moog with some new age fare - hopefully not too dodgy