I’m a gypsy, I’m a musician
This week (Sunday June 18, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site) on Global A Go-Go, we’ll spend most of our two hours in south-eastern Europe. You’ll hear the “wedding music” of Macedonian saxophonist Ferus Mustafov, who passed away on May 22, and of Bulgarian clarinestist Ivo Papasov, who’s still very much with us.
And we’ll cover almost the whole region: music from Romania (Fanfare Ciocărlia), Moldova (Zdob și Zdub, pictured above), Serbia (Šaban Bajramović), Montenegro (Ansambl Montenegro, natch), Bosnia & Herzegovina (Goran Bregović), Turkey (Altın Gün) and more, if you can believe that.
And not from south-eastern Europe: This week is the 75th anniversary of the landing of the HMT Empire Windrush in the Port of Tilbury, carrying 693 Caribbean British subjects who intended to resettle in the United Kingdom. The Windrush’s arrival marked the beginning of the mass migration of people of color from the outskirts of the British Empire to its center, an event that would reshape Great Britain. We commemorate the occasion with a set of songs by and about the Windrush generation.
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Show archive
Playlist
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global A Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
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Yuri Yunakov, Ivo Papasov, Salif Ali & Neshko Neshev, “Oriental”
from Together Again
Traditional Crossroads - 2005
Bulgaria
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Saban Bajramovic & Orkestar Salijevic, “Pijanica”
from Pijanica
Take it or Leave it Records - 2021
Serbia, 1986
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Fanfare Ciocărlia, “Kan Marau la (featuring Dan Armeanca - Romania)”
from Queens and Kings
Asphalt Tango Records - 2007
Romania
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Shantel, “Ya Rayah (Balkan Mix)”
Essay Recordings - 2006
Germany-Serbia-Bulgaria-Greece
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Goran Bregović, “Ne Siam Kurve Tuke Sijam Prostitutke”
from Karmen (With A Happy End)
Music Star / Mascom - 2013
Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2007
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Esma Redzepova, “Durdevdan, Durdevdan”
from Stand Up, People
Asphalt Tango Records - 2013
North Macedonia, 1969
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Ansambl Montenegro, “Djelem, Djelem”
from Stand Up, People
Asphalt Tango Records - 2013
Montenegro, 1968
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Zdob și Zdub, “Sunt hoinar, sunt lautar (Radio Edit)”
from 20 de veri
Universal Music Romania - 2015
Moldova
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Kardaşlar, Ünol Büyükgönenç, “Deniz Ustu Kopurur”
from Deniz Üstü Köpürür / Çökertme - Single
Şahinler - 1973
Turkey
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Lord Kitchener, “London is the Place for Me”
from 8
Honest Jon's Records - 2019
Trinidad & Tobago-England UK, 1951
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Young Tiger, “I Was There (At the Coronation)”
from London Is the Place for Me
Honest Jon's Records - 2011
Trinidad & Tobago-England UK, 1953
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Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Inglan Is A Bitch”
from Bass Culture
UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) - 1980
England UK
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Anthony Joseph, “Calling England Home”
from The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives
Heavenly Sweetness - 2021
Trinidad & Tobago-England UK
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Ebo Taylor & The Pelikans, “Gyae Su Na Nkomo”
from Ebo Taylor and The Pelikans
Comet Records - 2023
Ghana, 1976
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