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World Beat Canada Radio February 22 2025

Alsarah & The Nubatones revisit the concept album with Seasons Of The Road, a project 5 years in the making. Fela's saxman son, Femi Kuti is back with political polemic. Ghanian highlife icon, Ebo Taylor celebrates his 90th with a new release. Just some of fresh spins this week as we keep time with the beat of the world.

 

Alsarah & The Nubatones - Fael Fi Aldawam

Femi Kuti - Politics Don Expose Them 

Alex Henry Foster - A Silent Stream  CANCON

Don Barbarino X Rise Ashen - Mbirabrac CANCON

Warsaw Village Band & Bassalyki - Czas Kosic (Time To Reap) 

Ebo Taylor/Adrian Younge/Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Obi Do Wa (If Someone Loves You​)

Al-Qasar - Kisisel Isa (Personal Jesus)

Rares Cara - 50-50 (feat. Tania Morales) 

The Chamanas - Purple Yellow Red & Blue 

Manika Kaur - Siddharha 

The Altons - Del Cielo Te Cuido 

Bab L'Bluz (Gitkin Remix) - Bangoro 

The Harpoonist (Shawn Hall) - Heartbreak Autobahn 

Shane Sato - Gospel Type 

 

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World Beat Canada Radio February 15 2025

Warsaw Village Band treat us to a new release called Sploty (Twines). New music from Poland wraps the hour as well, with some choice tracks in between; eurotronics X flamenco from Andalucia, Vancouver percussionist Chris Couto appears on Putumayo's World Groove, plus debuts from Al-Qasar and Balthvs. Keeping time with the beat of the world!

 

Warsaw Village Band & Bassalyki - Siwa Zezulejko  

Ralxx.Me X Losoho - Del Querer Al No Querer 

Couto w/ Toto Berriel - Bailadora  CANCON

Moonshine Collective - Afrotopia CANCON

Al-Qasar - Ssir w Ztam (Get Busy) w/ Sami Galbi

Kit Sebastian - New Internationale 

M,Robin Scott & Rumba Calzada - Pop Muzik CANCON

Balthvs - Stand Up (King Canyon Remix) 

Red Baraat - Azad Azad 

Regina - Totuus Minusta 

Ilessi - Navio Negreiro 

Salvar Donana - Utopia 

Saagara - Earth,Water and The Holy Groove

 

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World Beat Canada Radio February 8 2025

The freedom of music, marked safe ​from imperialistic expansionism, with West Coast Canadian global from Locarno, MNGWA and a new remix from Sonova. With, overseas stops in Belarus, Bogota and something edgy from Baaba Maal. It's the true north, strong and free from World Beat Canada Radio!

 

Nevrida - Vyasna 

Balthvs - AIO (Paper Water Remix)  

MNGWA - Nubes de Sal  CANCON

Locarno - La Iguana CANCON

Baaba Maal - Freak Out )

RoB Love - No More

Soweto Gospel Choir X Groove Terminator - Troubled 

Alpacas Collective - Gunkali 

Sofia Kourtesis - El Carmen 

The Sway Machinery - My Angel's House 

Sonova - Track The Groove CANCON

Sinead O'Connor feat. Seun Kuti - James Brown 

Tako Toki - Tubes 

 

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World Beat Canada Radio February 1 2025

Flying the colours of change, it's a global revolution of rhythms. Gipsy Power Band turn rumba on it's ear, Eccodek flies the Red, White And Mali Wobble Tip mix, West Coast ​kalimba from Robin Layne and the Melody makers, Ndox Electrique from Senegal trade riffs with ritual, and Al-Qasar return with a new Personal Jesus. Keeping time with the beat of the world. World Beat Canada.

 

Gipsy Power Band - La Quinqui 

Les Amazones D'Afrique - Wa Jo (feat. Jemiriye & Mamani Keita)

Robin Layne & The Melody Makers - Paka Mwimbo CANCON

Eccodek - Red White And Mali CANCON

MPeach, Uproot Andy - Fuego De Colores 

Al-Qasar - Kisisel Isa (Personal Jesus) 

El Dusty X DJ Kane - Tra Tra Tra 

Sonantes - Defenestrando 

SoulParlor - Nothing Ever Changes feat. Jacob & The Appleblossom (Afronaut & MdCL Remix) 

Speed Caravan - Kalashinick Love 

Dios Ke Te Crew - Deja Vu 

Kokoroko - Higher 

Ndox Electrique - He Yay Naine 'u

Salvar Donana - Amanecer 

Danzon El Gato - Ronda 

 

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World Beat Canada Radio January 25 2025

Take comfort in the words of MLK, "Only when it's dark enough can you see the stars." The future still sparkles in global music! We venture north to the land of the Sami for new music from Pauanne and Assu, then two from Western Canada's Latin community, new spins from Kinshasa and Zululand, and Spencer Davis gets Balkan brassified! Welcome to World Beat Canada!

 

Pauanne - Pelkka Perseve Neitsyt 

Assu - Albbas (Lynx) 

Montuno West - Coquito 

Alex Cuba - Tiene Sabor 

Saagara - God Of Bangalore 

Sam Redmore - El Camino (feat. Ellie Coleman)

Fanfare Ciocarlia - I'm A Man 

Mthuthu - Bambanani 

Rokia Traore - Tounka 

Shiran - Nifrah Farah (DJ Kobayashi remix) 

Joao Selva - Amor Em Copacabana 

Jupiter & Okwess - Congo Blinders

Flamingo Pier - Mazunte 

Los Baby Jaguars - Playa Boogaloo 

 

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World Beat Canada Radio January 18 2025

Musical waves from the Caribbean (or the Gulf Of America as somebody calls it). We start with a new spin from Guadaloupe's Dowdelin. Alex Cuba does it all on his latest, Voce De Mi Familia, California Dreaming in Vladivostok and roots reggae from Hawaii (which would make an adorable province don't you think?). World Beat Canada Radio!

Dowdelin - Something Going On 

Al-Qasar - Sham System 

Alex Cuba - A La Loma De Bel  CANCON

Caracol - Infini feat. Mike Clay CANCON

Altin Gun - Leylim Ley 

Ani Cordero - Es Amor 

Mumiy Troll - California Dreaming 

Sami Galbi - Dakchi Hani 

Batuk - Vida ft. Nandi Ndlovu

The Green - Mama Roots (feat. J. Boog) 

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 feat. Damian Jr. Gong Marley - Dey

Alpacas Collective - Movefeze (feat. Neg Madnick)

Klik & Frik - El Plan (Cyma Remix)

The Ratchets - The Way Things Are (​Glory Bound) 

Kidso - Ylva 

 

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World Beat Canada Radio January 11 2025

Tired of your watercolour world, painted with the same old brush? Express yourself through Cubism, Dadaism and pop art's influence on music. Fresh spins for 2025 from Lalalar who combine Anatolian psych, spaghetti western and hazy electronics, and Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, an evolving 12 piece from Geneva, Canadian worldbeaters Boogat and Okan team up, Seu Jorge taps Ziggy Stardust from The Life Aquatic and Cornershop reprise a Brimful Of Asha. It's World Beat Canada Radio!

 

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Breath

Lalalar - Hem Evimsin Hem Cehennemin 

Boogat w/ Okan - Mas Que Un Chingo CANCON

Mohamed Assani - Serendipity CANCON

Indian Man - Sudan Module (feat. Emmanuel Jal & Nyaruach) 

Seu Jorge - Ziggy Stardust 

Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha 

Za! & Perrate - La Milonga 

Jef Stott - Yara 

The Ratchets - Holy Mother Of God (Bunker Rock Strawberry Zaiquiri Mix) 

The Hylozoists - Soixante-Sept  CANCON

Dahlia Dumont - Semi-Automatic Trinket (Take It!) 

Bound 16 - It's Only Time

 

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World Beat Canada Radio January 4 2025

We begin the New Year the way we ended the old one, with another challenging listen from Avalanche Kaito on Glitterbeat Records, the label that continues to push the possibilities of global music. Sonova is treated to an Eccodek remix, Arturo Bergmann reveals Tinariwen's influence while Tinariwen dig into the past for an album of rarities. World Beat Canada, always up to date in rapidly changing times.

Avalanche Kaito - Borgo 
Lolomis - Sidrabina
Art Bergmann - Mirage (The Apostate) CANCON
Sonova - Track The Groove (Eccodek Groovinator Remix) CANCON
Fely Tchaco - Zante (Remix) 
Beninghove's Hangmen - When The Levee Breaks
The Bolokos - Ti Kanno 
De Pedro - Que Puedo Hacer Por Ti 
Alex Henry Foster - A Silent Stream CANCON
Joao Selva - Banho De Mar 
Tinariwen - Amoss Idjraw
Bossacucanova with Roberto Menescal - Train To Ipanema 1940 

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