O Lord, increase my bewilderment
If you saw the late, great Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band last fall at the Richmond Folk Festival or last spring at Get Tight Lounge — Hisham Mayet made that happen.
Hisham produced all three of Baba’s albums for Sublime Frequencies, the record label Hisham co-founded, and he was Baba’s road manager for that epic American tour. Hisham also produced the first recording of Omara Moctar aka Bombino, the Tamasheq desert blues guitarist who’s now an international star.
Along with his audio work, Hisham Mayet is also a film maker and photographer who describes his ouevre as “folk cinema.” This year the James River Film Festival is screening two of Hisham’s movies: The Divine River, a record of music, ritual, life and landscape along the Niger River in Mali and the Republic of Niger, and Oulaya’s Wedding, which takes you inside the week-long wedding of the daughter of Western Sahara’s most famous family band, Group Doueh.
The films will be shown at the Byrd Theatre on Saturday April 20 at 11:30 AM. This week, one lucky Global A Go-Go listener will win a pair of tickets to the screening, and all Global A Go-Go listeners will get to hear a set of music from the two documentaries.
Also this week (Sunday April 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): New Ghanaian music from Jembaa Groove and Florence Adooni, the South Bronx’s fabulous Ghetto Brothers, brand new singles by Altın Gün and Liraz, more sounds of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, and Senegal and Mali meet Australia in Ausecuma Beats.
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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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Dele Sosimi & The Estuary 21, “Mo Ṣe B'ọ́lá Tán (feat. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly)”
from The Confluence - EP
Wah Wah 45s - 2023
Nigeria-England UK
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Jembaa Groove, “Asem Ben”
Agogo Records - 2024
Germany-Ghana-Benin-Israel-Portugal-England UK-Cuba
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Cherry Bandora, “The Sound of Baglama”
from Back to the Taverna
Rebel Up Records & Rumi Sounds - 2023
Germany-Israel-Greece
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Koudede & Ousenni, “Bismillah”
from Folk Music Of The Sahel, Vol. 1: Niger
Sublime Frequencies - 2014
Niger
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Abdou Adamon, Moussa Baho & Rabiou Moussa, “Al Fulani”
from Folk Music Of The Sahel, Vol. 1: Niger
Sublime Frequencies - 2014
Niger
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Group Doueh, “Dun Dan”
from Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
Sublime Frequencies - 2007
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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Group Doueh, “Zayna Jumma”
from Zayna Jumma
Sublime Frequencies - 2011
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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Aziza Brahim, “Metal, Madera”
from Mawja
Glitterbeat Records - 2024
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic-Spain
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