Hindsight 2020 | 7-10 PM EST

 

Now playing on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Bodega Pop spins three hours of our favorite tracks from reissues + compilations from the year of COVID-19

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Femmes du Maghreb | 7-10 PM EST

 

Now playing on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, a century of recordings featuring women from Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia

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SPACE | 7-10 PM EST

 

Now playing on Bodega Pop on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Cosmic emanations from Estonia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Myanmar, Russia ... and beyond

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Which One Is Pink?

 

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Maalam Soudani | Essoauira (1999) (FLAC re-up)

I've re-ripped this cassette in FLAC at correct speed. Get it here.

Original post:

Another cassette from the Algerian bodega here in Astoria, this time a terrific gnawa recording featuring vocals, tbal, and gimbri, the latter presumably plucked by our man decked out above, Maalam Soudani.

I mentioned this cassette on my show last week and, unless misunderstood him, Tim wrote in the comments that he knew Soudani back in the day in Essoauira.

If we're lucky, perhaps Tim will share with us what he knows about Soudani's life and work; I wasn't able to find anything about him online, but the music is [squeezes fingers together and presses them to lips] ... mmmwah!

Link to download [and Tim's reply!] in comments.

Wild Thing

 

The obscure Japanese avant-gardist. A forgotten cumbia crooner. Egyptian entertainers of the eighties. The bridge from molam to luk thung. Nigeria's hardest, funkiest rockers. La Guarachera de Cuba.

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