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Favoriting June 28, 2025

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J.K. Mayengani and the Shingwedzi Sisters  Khubani   Favoriting Various Artists: Next Stop Soweto Volume 2  Strut  Vibrant 22-track set of soulful mbaqanga 'n' hidden psych-funk outta South Africa, from 1969 to 1976! - amazon    0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gypsy Caravan  Soweto Mujibha   Favoriting Various Artists: Roots Rocking Zimbabwe - The Modern Sound of Harare' Townships 1975-1980  Analog Africa  The 25 songs presented in this project showcase the birth of the modern music industry in Zimbabwe and the explosion of creativity bands of the 1970s and 80s delivered is endlessly rewarding. - PR  *   0:03:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gasper Nali  Chaka Chino Ndikwatila   Favoriting Chule Chule Iwe  Spare Dog Records  Gasper Nali is a not-so-traditional babatoni player from Malawi. This babatoni is an African one-string home-made 3-metre long bass guitar, and with a stick and an empty beer bottle, together with a cow skin kick drum and catchy melodies, he creates the most amazing and danceable original Afro Beats possible! - PR  *   0:06:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Madalisto Band  Chemwa   Favoriting Ma Gitala  Les Disques Bongo Joe  A celebration of journey, triumph, and faith, Madalitso Band make life affirming, joyous music brought to life on the streets of Lilongwe in Malawi and now reunited with their Swiss label Bongo Joe Records. - PR  *   0:10:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kawere Boys Band  Lawrence Swa   Favoriting P.O Kanindo    The Kawere Boys was a 1970s Kenyan band comprising Benga musicians led by Cheplin Ngode Kotula, Juma Charlie, and Otieno Ogor. For the band's four years reign in the music industry, its reputation in Luo country soared because of the members' distinctive sound and appearance. - african music library    0:15:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Damily  Mangebakebake   Favoriting Early Years - Madagascar Cassette Archives  Les Disques Bongo Joe  This album returns to the roots of the legendary guitarist and shows his early works cassettes recorded in Madagascar between 1995 and 2002. Entirely devoted to Tsapiky music, his career, which began in 1986, is deeply rooted in the South West part of Madagascar, his native city of Tuléar and the bush around it. - PR    0:25:31 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mamehy  Je mitsiko ro mokotse ("Those who talk dirty behind your back tire themselves out for nothing")   Favoriting Various Artists: Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar  Sublime Frequencies  Tsapiky music from Southwest Madagascar features wild ecstatic vocals, distorted electric guitars, rocket bass, and the amphetamine beat! Unlike anything else, this is THE high life music you've always wanted - ceremonial music played with abandon and extreme intent, honoring the living and dead alike. - bandcamp  *   0:33:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
D'Gary & Jihé  Mihasy Lonaky   Favoriting Horombe    D'Gary is one of the most astonishing guitarists in the world. He hails from Madagascar, and although his music is richly informed by the Indian Ocean island's traditional music, he has developed a unique style on his open-tuned acoustic guitar: melodically and harmonically intricate, rhythmically frenetic. On his first two albums he played his guitar and sang accompanied by a lone drummer, but for HOROMBE he formed Jihé, a group of singers and percussionists that marvelously succeeds in keeping up with him. - amazon    0:39:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Aleksand Saya x Sarera  Soma   Favoriting Fikira  Kayamba Records  ‘Fikira’ is a cultural experiment that fuses the musical heritage of two French islands in the Indian Ocean: Mayotte (where the group Sarera hails from) and Réunion (where the group Aleksand Saya hails from). - PR  *   0:44:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Witch  Tiponde Madzi   Favoriting Sogolo  Partisan  Following their remarkable global resurgence and critical acclaim around 2023’s reunion album Zango–their first in nearly 40 years–Zamrock pioneers WITCH (We Intend To Cause Havoc) return with an even bolder creative statement with their follow-up, SOGOLO. Its name is derived from the Zambian word for “future”. - PR  *   0:52:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kizaba  Kitoko   Favoriting Future Village  Future Village  Lionel KIZABA, singer-songwriter, 2024-2025 Radio-Canada Revelations, multi-instrumentalist, and pioneer of Afro-Congolese electro music based in Montreal, has paved a unique musical path that takes his vast international audience on a journey through his Afrofuturistic universe. - home page  *   0:55:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Nasibo Mutize  Stop Over   Favoriting Stop Over  Zigwiton  Stop Over is a musical collaboration between Nasibo, a Zimbabwean singer and mbira player based in Harare, and Raphael Joly, a French guitarist who has lived in Addis Ababa for 18 years. - PR  *   0:59:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mandé Sila Featuring Habib Koite, Aly Keïta & Lamine Cissokho  Fimani   Favoriting Live @ Levon Helm  Contre-Jour  Three standard-bearers of West African musical traditions come together to celebrate Mandé Sila: the way of the Mandingo empire, symbolizing languages, cultures, music, and the entire organology of West Africa. - PR  *   1:03:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kanazoé Orkestra  Dabara   Favoriting Balabeatz    Kanazoé Orkestra are back with their highly anticipated fourth album "Balabeatz," a captivating blend of Afro-grooves deeply rooted in the West African, Burkinabé and Mandinka heritage. Hailing from a long lineage of griots, Seydou Diabaté , aka Kanazoé, inherited his profound connection to the balafon from his father at an early age. - PR  *   1:10:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Neba Solo  Vantigue   Favoriting Tuma Duma    Neba Solo is the stage name of Souleymane Traoré, a musician based in Mali, West Africa. Neba Solo plays a kind of balafon, a marimba with wooden keys mounted on a wooden frame and attached to resonating chambers made from dried gourds. Traoré hails from the village of Nebadougou, in the eastern part of the Sikasso region of Mali. His stage name derives from his home town, plus the shortened form of his first name. - wiki  *   1:15:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kouyate Lansine  Diali Kunda   Favoriting Various Artists: Tales of the Marimba    The youngest son of the renowned Malian bard Siramori Diabaté, Lansiné was born into the tradition of the Kela griots (bards or diplomats of West Africa). This group of griots is particularly renowned for their narratives of the epic of Sundiata. His mother remains for many Malians one of the greatest jelimusow (female bards), who paved the way for modern Malian female singers. - home page    1:20:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Faraon Bantu y Champetaman  Marimba de guapi hasta el Congo - Grupo Gualajo remix by Cubain Kabeya   Favoriting Kalakuta Champetuo  Palenque  Another musical Manifesto from El Faraon Bantu and DJ ChampetaMan, producer of the label Palenque Records, with new musical journeys and ultra sensorial experiences. This new Ep features tracks with the great Tony Allen, the architect of Afrobeat in the time of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, as well as more classics and mystical revelations of the new gospel of El Faraon Bantu. - PR  *   1:26:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Nidia Góngora  Mi Marimba   Favoriting Pacífico Maravilla    From the banks of the Timbiquí River to global stages, Nidia Góngora's voice carries the cadence of the mangrove and the strength of the drum. With Pacífico Maravilla, her first solo album, she presents a sonic manifesto that immerses us in the essence of her homeland and artistic evolution. For over 25 years, Nidia has blended tradition with innovation, collaborating with artists like Quantic, Bomba Estéreo, and Ondatrópica. - PR  *   1:30:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
De Mar y Rio  Bailen y Gocen   Favoriting Bailen y Gocen  Palenque  Afrocolombian music at its best with De Mar y Rio Bailen y Gocen, is the first musical child of the pacific youth group of the moment De Mar y Rio, is an album of traditional marimba music. Its members come from different territories such as Timbiqui, Cali, Guapi, Iscuande, El Charco, Lopez de Micay and Buenaventura, who coincided years ago in Cali in search of better horizons of life and decided to form a powerful musical group under the direction of maestro Felipe Amú, which today is consolidated in their first album, in which they unite the knowledge learned in each of the schools and traditional musical currents from where they come from. - PR    1:34:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
La Banda de Alexis  Caderona   Favoriting Various Artists: Guasá, Cununo y Marimba - Afro-Colombian Music From The Pacific Coast  Vampi Soul  The music of the Colombian Pacific is one of the greatest treasures of Colombia and its African past, but not many people remember the songs recorded on anthologies, which are largely a forgotten chapter of Colombia´s musical history. It comprises genres such as currulao and chirimía and many others that are yet to be discovered by most Latin music lovers. - bandcamp    1:37:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Los Nemus Del Pacifico  Mi Gran Amor   Favoriting Montuniando Con Los Nemus    Los Nemus del Pacífico are a Colombian salsa music band. They are especially known for son montuno music, as highlighted in their video Los Nemus Del Pacifico: Greatest Hits of Salsa & Son Montuno on Discos Fuentes. - wiki    1:46:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Larry Harlow  Guasasa   Favoriting Electric Harlow  Fania  Harlow was a noted salsa bandleader and multi-instrumentalist, although he primarily played piano. He produced over 260 albums for Fania Records as well as his manager and musician friend Chino Rodriguez two albums for Salsa Records and including his brother Andy's four albums on the Fania stable mate Vaya Records between 1972 and 1976: Sorpresa La Flauta, La Música Brava, El Campesino and Latin Fever. The first garnered a gold disc and spawned "La Lotería", the company's biggest selling 45 rpm release to date. - wiki    1:51:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Contrabandeando  El Maleficio de Micaela   Favoriting El Maleficio de Micaela    Contrabandeando managed to capture something complex on stage: the blend of visual arts and music, which merges perfectly in this EP, as it is also a picture book that tells a story about the ills of humanity and empathy. Zaida Escobar's live painting, the visuals playing with the book's illustrations, and the voiceover of "Babalú" managed to draw the audience into the mystique of the story with impeccable aesthetics. - PR (translated)  *   1:56:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Bongo Hop  Mi Olla   Favoriting La Pata Coja  Underdog Records  After eight years in Colombia working as a DJ, promoter and music journalist, trumpeter Etienne Sevet returned home to Lyon, France to form the Afro Caribbean band The Bongo Hop. - francerocks  *   2:01:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Femi Kuti  After 24 Years   Favoriting Journey Through Life  Partisan    *   2:06:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Luigi Cinque  Poetry Masaba   Favoriting Kromosoma Maris    Kromosoma Maris is the new album by Luigi Cinque, a "film-like" sonic journey that transcends time and space. The work, conceived as a diary, blends current recordings with unreleased material and memories from past tours. - PR  *   2:14:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Grecia Albán  Con Mi Tambor   Favoriting Nubes Selva  Folkalist  For Ecuadorian singer and songwriter Grecia Albán, honoring tradition means nurturing it by embracing change. In NUBES SELVA (which translates loosely to "Cloud Jungle"), her debut release on Folkalist Records, Albán sings over a canvas of reimagined folkloric rhythms. - bandcamp  *   2:20:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Qais Essar & Sonny Singh: Sangat  Pavan Guru   Favoriting Single    GIG: Joe's Pub Wed at 9:30: Afghan American rabab virtuoso Qais Essar has joined forces with Sikh American trumpet player and singer Sonny Singh in a new project that obliterates musical, political, and religious boundaries. - home page    2:23:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ammar El Sherei  Balad El Mahbob   Favoriting Music From The East  WeWantSounds  Ammar El Sherei was a famous musician, composer and music critic of El Sherei family in Minya, Upper Egypt. He has had an impact on Egyptian instrumental and vocal music, in addition to his scoring of many films and television series, even though he was blind. - elcinema  *   2:31:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Abu Saber  Ya Allah Ank Zinat يا الله انك زينة (Oh, God, You Are Beautiful)   Favoriting Various Artists: Born in the City of Tanta - Lower Egyptian Urban Folklore and Bedouin Shaabi from Libya's Bourini Records 1968-75  Sublime Frequencies  Far from the bustling cosmopolitan center of Cairo, north and northwest, in towns like Tanta and Alexandria and extending across the Saharan Desert to the Libyan border, dozens of fully marginalized artists were developing a raw, hybrid shaabi/al-musiqa al-shabiya style of music, supported by smaller upstart, independent labels, including the short-lived but deeply resonant Bourini Records. - bandcamp  *   2:35:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Al Andaluz Project  Mina Nawa (Maalouf Tunecino)   Favoriting The Songs of Iman Kandoussi - Traditional Arabic Andalusian    With the aim of reviving the music of the Jewish-Sephardic, Christian and Arabo-Andalusian cultures, as they were in Moorish-ruled Spain in peaceful and mutually beneficial coexistence, the band recorded four studio and one live album between 2006 and 2013 and played numerous concerts and festivals throughout Europe. - PR    2:39:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bedouin Burger  Dabkeh   Favoriting Ma Li Beit    For Bedouin Burger, Zeid Hamdan invents new rhythms, crunchy and crackling, tending towards trance, above which Lynn Adib's diaphanous voice hovers. Their playing field is endless, and everything is only just beginning. - PR    2:42:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars  Satisfaction (Sabienu)   Favoriting Chronika  Borscht Beat  GIG: Monday night as part of big New York Sings Yiddish concert at Central Park Summerstage.    2:46:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Benedicte Maurseth  Sommarbeite   Favoriting Mirra  Hubro  On the album Mirra, the innovative folk musician Benedicte Maurseth once again invites us to the vast Hardangervidda plateau—this time with a focus on the wild reindeer. - PR  *   2:56:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
john_zilla:

good afternoon Rob and all!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Bas NL:

Hi Rob! Hi all!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
luca:

saturday is BACK
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Welcome back, Rob. Summer vacation went well, I trust? 🏖️
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Rob W:

Hi John, Bas, Luca and Ken, yes, very well, thanks!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Bas NL:

↳ Song: "Chaka Chino Ndikwatila" by "Gasper Nali"
Gasper Nali makes such happy music! Love it!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
chresti:

Hi Rob and sound paradisians!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Rob W:

Hi chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
Ike:

Greetings, humans!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
Rob W:

On behalf of my fellow humans, greetings, Ike!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Hallo, Rob Weisberg and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
Rob W:

Hi Chris, I hope all is well in Kensington.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
fred:

Just back from seeing Oki for the second time this week. To be honest, I was really there for his wife Rekpo, hoping to score a Marewrew record (didn't work)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
Rob W:

Sorry about that fred. Where did you see him?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
fred:

↳ Rob W @6:42
The Japanese cultural center in Paris, a great place with not enough shows
  6:54pm
Carmichael:

Heya Rob. Listening from the gym.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Rob W:

↳ fred @6:51
The Japan Society in NY is kind of similar in that regard fred, at least when it comes to live music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
fred:

↳ Rob W @6:57
Here they're more into (Western) classical music, in which I'm not interested
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Rob W:

↳ Carmichael @6:54
Hi Carmichael. You get extra points for productive listening. (Cooking while listening counts too.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
fred:

↳ fred @7:00
I did see Kuniko Kato twice there though, she's wonderful
  7:16pm
Carla in NC:

Enjoying this music at dinner time!
Avatar 🌍 7:17pm
slugluv1313:

greetings and welcome back, Rob! Paradisians!

so glad i got home in time for your show!

(been listening, but the Starving Feline Brigade *needed* their dinner first and foremost! 😸😸)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Rob W:

Hi and thanks slugluv, yes, kittens come first!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Bas NL:

Will continue to listen away from the computer so thanking you early Rob! Good to have you back! Bye all!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

Hey Rob and everyone. Been lurking in my car, finally back to my motel room.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "Vantigue" by "Neba Solo"
this reminded me of Shangaan electro/dance music from Soweto
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Rob W:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:21
Hi Peter, I hope the road is treating you well, and thanks Bas!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Rob W:

↳ joe mulligan @7:24
Interesting, I hadn't thought of that but I may have to steal that joe for a future segue.
Avatar 🌍 7:30pm
slugluv1313:

↳ Bas NL @7:19
have a great night and week, Bas!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
chresti:

Later Bas!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
radioronan:

Here for the halfway point! Good evening Rob and hello citizens of the comment board!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Rob W:

Good evening radioronan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
DC:

Sounding good DJ, gracias!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

↳ Rob W @7:25
The road is treating OK, thank you. But I see more cars in an hour in NJ than I do in a month back home. Uff.
Avatar 🌍 7:42pm
slugluv1313:

↳ fred @6:51
hi fred!

agreed, what Rob said @6:57!

for about four years in the 1980s, i worked about a block from The Japan Society in NYC -- but i never visited! 🤯🤯 (weird, bc at the time, i was researching the Shamisen -- looking into purchasing one, learning how to play, etc.)

(could have been bc i was working nights at the time -- and realized how depressing that could be, at least for me: going to something, enjoying, and then -- ick! i gotta go to work 😩)

going to check The Japan Society's website, see what they have going on 😺😺
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Handy Haversack:

Rob! Border Smashers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Rob W:

Handy!
  7:50pm
12 cc:

Whoa! I just turned up the volume! for this one!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Rob W @7:50
Greetings from ever so slightly away from it all! We were listening while eating. Well, feeding. We were at a low ebb after a hot afternoon on the water.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
coelacanth∅:

Good evening and Welcome back Rob!
Avatar 🌍 7:53pm
slugluv1313:

↳ fred @6:36
looks like Oki Dub Ainu Band is going to be performing at The Japan Society in June 2026!

thank you, fred! 😺😺
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Rob W:

Thanks for the research slugluv and thanks fred for leading the way!
  8:06pm
Jude:

Hey Rob! Welcome back, good to hear you here, Thanks for the great music again....
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
chresti:

↳ Handy Haversack @7:51
Hi Handy, my son gave me a vest that has pockets for ice packs!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ chresti @8:10
Or pockets for crow food when it's less hot.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
chresti:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @8:11
There's outer pockets for peanuts!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Rob W:

↳ Jude @8:06
Thanks Jude!
Avatar 🌍 8:33pm
slugluv1313:

↳ Song: "Pavan Guru" by "Qais Essar & Sonny Singh: Sangat"
lovely 🪻🪷🌿
  8:33pm
Carmichael:

Pretty specific pockets, ha ha

Home from the gym. Fort Point IPA, ice cold …
  8:35pm
Saltonstall:

The beauty of WFMU- Rob mentions a Sami vocalist and I immediately think “toiling”. Thanks Dan Bodah and Rob!
  8:42pm
Saltonstall:

“yoiking” haha
Avatar 🌍 8:43pm
slugluv1313:

↳ Song: "Ya Allah Ank Zinat يا الله انك زينة (Oh, God, You...
❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

amazing compilation -- there was an event/exhibition at Record Grouch (Greenpoint?) earlier in June -- gotta see if the exhibit is still there!
Avatar 🌍 8:48pm
slugluv1313:

↳ slugluv1313 @8:43
oh bummer -- looks like today was the last day, closing event started at 7pm
Avatar 🌍 8:49pm
slugluv1313:

↳ Song: "Dabkeh" by "Bedouin Burger"
DABKEH! 🔥🔥🔥
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
chresti:

↳ slugluv1313 @8:48
it's only 5:49 here!
Avatar 🌍 8:52pm
slugluv1313:

↳ chresti @8:50
hi chresti!

OOPS.! maybe some time travel is in order? 😺😺
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Thank you, Rob.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
chresti:

Thanks Rob!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Rob!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ chresti @8:10
Nice!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
radioronan:

Thanks Rob..cheers y'all!..Hi neighbor Handy!
Avatar 🌍 8:59pm
slugluv1313:

amazing as always -- thanks so much, Rob!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Damn, this flew by. Thanks, Rob!
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