Meet La Sonora Mazurén
Richmond has hosted three Colombian bands in the last six months: La Perla, Meridian Brothers and Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto. And now add a fourth, the biggest and maybe the most exciting of all of them: La Sonora Mazurén (LSM), who will play the Get Tight Lounge on Wednesday September 25.
LSM is a seven-piece rhythm machine from Bogotá with four percussionists (including two of the women from La Perla) and a bass guitar laying down the grooves, plus electric guitar, keyboards, accordion and lots of voices on top. They’re a sort of pan-American psychedelic dance band who take traditional rhythms from all over South and Central America in unexpectedly lysergic directions.
I’ll introduce you to LSM this week on Global A Go-Go by playing a couple of tracks from their marvelous forthcoming third album Magnetismo Animal which will be released on October 4 (I think this will be an American radio premiere) and a couple of older ones as well.
Also this week (Sunday September 1, 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): Some dubby reggae to get things started, Central African guitar hits, acoustic Mande music from Mali, West African funk and hip hop, and soulful house music from South Africa.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/118625
All the podcasts: radio4all.net/series/Global%20A%20Go-Go
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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Linval Thompson, JonQuan & Ticklah, “Bound To Fall”
Easy Star - 2024
Jamaica-USA
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Bwaluka Founders Band, “Kimbera”
from Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola
Strut - 2024
Zambia, 1979
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Bassekou Kouyate, “Djonkolon (feat. Amy Sacko)”
from Djudjon, L'oiseau de Garaná (feat. Amy Sacko)
One World Records - 2024
Mali
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Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats, “Let Them Talk”
from Let's Have A Party
P-VINE RECORDS - 1974
Sierra Leone-Ghana
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Soweto Gospel Choir & Groove Terminator, “Ride Like the Wind”
from History of House
Music is Fun / House Of Latroit / Gallo - 2024
South Africa-USA
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Revolution, “Vhavenda (feat. Philip Tabane)”
from The Journey
Four Sounds Productions - 2002
South Africa
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Di Groovy Girls, “Ririmi Rotsombela”
from Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola
Strut - 2024
South Africa, 1992