Our man in Iquitos
Iquitos, the capital of the Peruvian Amazon with half a million residents, is the largest city in the world that can’t be reached by road. It’s been a hotbed of chicha and Peruvian cumbia since the 1960s, and on this week’s edition of Global A Go-Go you’ll hear four bands that originated in Iquitos, including Ranil y su Conjunto who are the subject of a new compilation album from Vampisoul Records.
Also this week (Sunday September 14, 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): An all-South American first hour with Brazilian samba-soul, including a newly reissued single of Trio Ternura, and Colombian champeta highlighted by a deeply-dug 1992 track by Q.A.P. Band; more music from the Anatolian rock revival like the new single from Eje Eje; the latest in Afropop by Habib Koité’s Mandé Sila, Amadou & Mariam and Star Feminine Band; and some Afrobeat to close out the show, including a new cover of Fela Kuti’s “Zombie” by Kotoa, an Afrobeat-dub band from South London.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/120943
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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Juca Chaves, “Take Me Back To Piauí”
from Take Me Back To Piauí / Vou Viver Num Arco-Íris - Single
Som Livre - 1970
Brazil
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Ranil, “Las Oladas”
from Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical - Sonido amazónico
Vampisoul - 2025
Peru, 1976
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Viviano Torres & Ane Swing, “Happy Embarrased”
from Joyas Champetuas De Todos Los Tiempos
Palenque - 2022
Colombia, 1980s
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QAP Band aka Swin Batuka, “La Picosa (Remix)”
from La Picosa (Remix) - Single
Club Coco - 2025
Colombia, 1992
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Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, “Nem Kaldı”
from 2015 - 2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years of Sonic Explorations
Les Disques Bongo Joe - 2025
Turkey-Germany-France-England UK, 2017
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Mandé Sila, “Foro Bana”
from Live @ Levon Helm Studios
Contre-Jour - 2025
Mali-Côte d'Ivoire-Senegal
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The Mauskovic Dance Band, “Repeating Night”
from 2015 - 2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years of Sonic Explorations
Les Disques Bongo Joe - 2025
Netherlands, 2017
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