So many things to feel guilty about
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (OTPMD for short) is a hard band to describe, an easy one to love. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, it is truly an orchestra: 12 players on viola, cello, bass violin, trombone and bugle plus guitars, marimbas (two of them, somehow) and drums. In their music you’ll hear post-punk, krautrock, African rhythms, brass bands, 20th century minimalism, free jazz and more, sometimes all in the same song.
OTPMD is touring the USA right now, and they will squeeze all dozen band members onto (or at least near to) the stage at the Get Tight Lounge on Wednesday June 25. You’ll hear their music this week on Global A Go-Go, and I will give away a pair of tickets to the concert as well. Opening for OTPMD will be the new Richmond folk-jazz-world supergroup Amminal, a band nearly as eclectic as the headliner. You’ll hear Amminal on this week’s program as well, from a session they recorded on Global A Go-Go in the spring.
Also this week (Sunday June 22, 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): New Latin sounds from Alfa & Manu Chao, Eljuri, Quitapenas and Systema Solar; the fabulous second studio album by Japan’s Minyo Crusaders; Soul Sugar and Dub Shepherds give Curtis Mayfield the reggae version treatment; two very welcome Malian reissues: Super Djata Band’s Authentique 81 and Wagadu Grooves Vol. 2; and classic South Africa kwaito by Moskito.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/120439
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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Alfa & Manu Chao, “A Me Mi Piace”
Because Music - 2025
Italy-France-Spain
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Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, “Blabber”
from We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway.
Bongo Joe - 2021
Switzerland
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Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, “So Many Things (To Feel Guilty About)”
from We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway.
Bongo Joe - 2021
Switzerland
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Glen Brown, “I'm Your Puppet”
from Boat to Progress! The Original Pantomine Vocal Collection 1970-74
VP Records - 2016
Jamaica, 1972
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Soul Sugar meets Dub Shepherds, “Give Me Your Love”
from Give Me Your Love - Single
Gee - 2025
France-England UK
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Donovan Carless, “Be Thankful For What You Got”
from Be Thankful For What You Got - Single
Giant - 1974
Jamaica
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Norma Fraser, “First Cut Is the Deepest”
from Full Up: Best of Studio One, Vol. 2
Studio One - 1978
Jamaica, 1967
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Super Djata Band de Bamako, “Zani Djabaté”
from Authentique Vol. 2 Feu Vert 81-82
Numero Group - 2025
Mali, 1981
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Souley Kanté, “Bi Magni”
from Wagadu Grooves Vol. 2: The Hypnotic Sound of Camara 1991-2014
Hot Mule - 2025
Mali, 2001
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