Wo'Pop on 90.3 KEXP

07/07/2024

Hi all. Here is the playlist of my most recent show on KEXP. Lots of exploration and new works from artists worldwide. I focused on touring acts so you can go check them out live.
Concert Calendar: https://seattle.samamusicarts.org/
Hope you like it

LISTEN HERE
https://kexp.org/archive/

JULY 2, 2024 Wo'Pop on 90.3 KEXP

1. Odofo Nyi Akyiri Biara - Ebo Taylor & The Sweet Beans
Album: Afro-Beat Airways: West African Shock Waves - Ghana & Togo 1972-1978
2010 - ANALOG AFRICA
Oct 15 Ebo Taylor / Pat Thomas @ Neumos (Seattle)
Oct 18 @ The UC Theatre (Berkeley)
Tickets:
https://www.axs.com/events/588964/ebo-taylor-pat-thomas-tickets/staticDetails?_locale=en-US
https://theuctheatre.org/events/buy-tickets/ebo-taylor-pat-thomas/detail

2. Feels So Good - Marcos Valle & Leon Ware
Album: Feels So Good
2024 - FAR OUT
The lovechild of Brazilian maestro Marcos Valle and North American soul legend and producer extraordinaire Leon Ware
Sep 26 Marcos Valle @ the Neptune (Seattle)
Sep 22 @ The UC Theatre (Berkeley)
Tickets:
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0F006096F3E445D5?brand=neptuneseattle
https://www.eventticketscenter.com/marcos-valle-berkeley-09-22-2024/6424584/t
Bandcamp: https://marcosvalle.bandcamp.com/album/feels-so-The

3. Tropical Man - Menahan Street Band & Rogê
Album: Tropical Man
2024 - DIAMOND WEST RECORDS
Brazilian / Soul / Tropicalia

Menahan Street Band is a Brooklyn based instrumental funk / soul band formed in 2007. Collab with Brazilian singer Rogê
Get this track here. https://roge.bandcamp.com/album/menahan-street-band-ft-rog-tropical-man-mis-filos

4. Ndiri Ndanogio Niwe (Batida 1977 Remix) - Mbiri Young Stars
Album: Um
2020 - SOUNDWAY
Kenyan music group formed in the late 1970s by musician Simon Kihara, also known as Musaimo from Kangema.
Bandcamp: https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/mbiri-young-stars-ndiri-ndanogio-niwe-batida-1977-remix

5. B**go B**g (Francis Mercier remix extended) - Manu Chao
Album: B**go B**g - Je ne t’aime plus (Francis Mercier remix)
2023 - RADIO BEMBA
Manu Chao is a French-Spanish singer, songwriter and guitarist. Remixed by Haitian DJ and producer Francis Mercier
Bandcamp: https://manuchao.bandcamp.com/album/bongo-bong-francis-mercier-remix

6. Ntyia - Zar Electric
Album: Hawa
Year -
Musical trio from Marseille, France that blends music from the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the West
At Vancouver Folk Festival July 19-22
Tickets: https://thefestival.bc.ca/

7. Ayo Nigla - Bombino
Album: Live at KEXP 09 28 2023
Year -
Omara "Bombino" Moctar is a Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist from Niger. His music is sung in Tamasheq and often addresses Tuareg geopolitical themes.

July 3 Bombino / Publish The Quest / Darek Mazzone @ Nectar Lounge
Tickets: https://www.tixr.com/groups/nectarlounge/events/bombino-with-publish-the-quest-and-dj-darek-mazzone-kexp--96257

8. Tiger Phone Card - Dengue Fever
Album: In the Ley Lines
2009 -
July 15 Dengue Fever / Darek Mazzone @ Crocodile Cafe (Cambodian Rock) –
Tickets: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/dengue-fever-diminished-men-darek-the-crocodile-tickets/13452374
Sep 28th | Dengue Fever @ Union Square (San Francisco)
Tickets (FREE with RSVP): https://www.cambodiaday.com/
Dengue Fever came to the KEXP studio for a live in-studio session in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLlumUrfM4

9. Skip Funk (Feat Dj Feel-X) - Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa
Album: Festival Músicas do Mundo 2009
2009 - C MARA MUNICIPAL DE SINES
The Warsaw Village Band is a Polish band that was formed in 1997. Often described sonically as "Trance Minimal Roots", the band blends traditional and trance music with folklore.
Bandcamp: https://warsawvillageband.bandcamp.com/track/skip-funk

10. Tannal - Ablaye Badji Band
Album: Aduna
2024 -
Senegal/Poland. Afro-Polish
Created by Senegalese musician and kora player Ablaye Badji, a multi-instrumentalist and a member of the renowned griot family, the Cissokos.

11. Suba - Zouratié Koné
Album: Suba
Year -
Burkina Faso-Belgium
Zouratié Koné is a master percussionist, descendant of a family of Griots (traditional healing artists/storytellers) who was born in Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) and lived in Mali and Ivory Coast.

12. Dakchi Hani - Sami Galbi
Album: Dakchi Hani
Year -
Swiss-Moroccan musician, Sami Galbi draws from the music of raï and chaâbi Using analog machines, Galbi blends North African popular and folkloric music, giving them a pop texture and a club atmosphere.
Bandcamp: https://samigalbi.bandcamp.com/track/dakchi-hani

13. Голос води - Dakhabrakha
Album: Голос води
2019 - [NO LABEL]
Pluve Choven
Sept 27 & 28 | DAKHABRAKHA with DJ Darek Mazzone @ Nectar Lounge
Tickets:
https://www.tixr.com/groups/nectarlounge/events/dakhabrakha-with-dj-darek-mazzone-friday-early-show--109443
Dakhabraka Live @ KEXP (In-Studio Performance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxg1dL_x0gw

14. Layla - ספי ציזלינג
Album: The Librarian
Year -
Sefi Zisling - Tel Aviv: jazz and funk trumpeter. For his third album ‘The Librarian’, Sefi combines classic elements with psychedelic funk, soul, and spiritual jazz.
Bandcamp: https://sefizisling.bandcamp.com/album/the-librarian

15. Mare Mare - Newen Afrobeat feat. Dele Sosimi
Album: Grietas
2024 - LICHENS FAMILY
Newen Afrobeat is the first Afrobeat Band in Chile. "Mare Mare" represents an exciting sonic exploration, born from collaboration with Dele Sosimi, set to be featured on Newen Afrobeat's upcoming album.
Bandcamp:https://newenafrobeat.bandcamp.com/track/mare-mare-ft-dele-sosimi

16. Moulay Abdellah - Omary, Badr Sabry, Salah Fafah
Album: Moulay Abdellah
Year -
Produced by Moroccan DJ Omary and featuring Singer Badr Sabry and Violonist Salah Fafah. This track serves as a tribute to the ancestral Aita Marocaine music and the iconic figure of Saint Moulay Abdellah Amghar.
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/moulay-abdellah/4610021

17. Rosamaria - Frankie Lluc
Album: Rosamaria
Year -
DJ / Producer based in Attica, Greece
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/frankielluc

18. Afro Beat - Aderemi Kabaka
Album: Remi Kabaka -Roots Funkadelia
1979 - BBE
Lagos
Nigerian Afro-rock avant-garde drummer.
Bandcamp: https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/roots-funkadelia

19. Dey (feat. Damien Marley) - Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Album: Heavier yet (Lays The Crownless Head)
Year -
Son of celebrated Nigerian Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti expands the musical traditions of Yoruban folk, jazz, and horn-driven funk. He performs with his father's legendary Egypt 80 group, debuting new music from his forthcoming album, Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head).

SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 | July 18-19 @ SF Jazz
Tickets: https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/2024-summer-sessions/seun-kuti-egypt-80/

20. Jantra (Misumena Remix) - Feej
Album: Jantra
2004 -
Musical producer duo, Misumena, weaves f afrobeats, amapiano, house, and drumnbass, crafting what they fondly term as "borderless beats."
Bandcamp: https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/jantra-remixed

21. Simigwa Do ( Whiskey barons Remix) - Gyedu-Blay Ambolley
Album: Simigwa Do
Year -
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a Ghanaian highlife musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. Originator of the musical genre "Simigwa" -- incorporating rap into local highlife rhythms
Aug 1 Gyedu-Blay Ambolley w/ guests @ Tractor Tavern
Tickets: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/jazz-is-dead-presents-gyedu-tractor-tickets/13372044?pl=tractor&REFID=clientsitewp

22. Estático - Azymuth feat. Márcio Lott
Album: Brazilian Soul
2004 - FAR OUT RECORDINGS
Brazilian jazz-funk trio formed in 1973
Sep 11 Azymuth w/ Brainstory @ Tractor Tavern (Seattle)
Sept 22 Marcos Valle w/ Azymuth @ UC Theatre (Berkeley)
Tickets: https://www.axs.com/events/615425/azymuth-tickets/staticDetails
https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/32984159/marcos-valle-berkeley-the-uc-theatre?clickref=1100lyDVdy9J

23. Viva Tu - Manu Chao
Album: Viva Tu
Year -
Manu Chao is a French-Spanish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has announced a new album after a 17 year hiatus.

24. Arajghiyine - Tinariwen
Live at KEXP 2023
Year -
Aug 9 Tinariwen @ Showbox S**o (Tuareg Desert Blues)
Aug 12 Tinariwen @ UC Theatre Berkeley
Tickets:
https://www.ticketweb.com/event/jazz-is-dead-presents-gyedu-tractor-tickets/13372044?pl=tractor&REFID=clientsitewp
https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/37124122/tinariwen-berkeley-the-uc-theatre?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwyo60BhBiEiwAHmVLJXbfBGT7PIokGGlRto6hDZlLFpS0YLWwT1sq_mtxgg_B6vxKZvWupBoCMywQAvD_BwE

25. Layla - Rasco
Album: Layla
2024 - BATOV RECORDS
Jerusalem
Rasco is Eden Atiya (guitars, vocals), Gaya Wajsman (bass, vocals), and Itay Hamudi (drums) – a genre-defying trio pushing the boundaries of Garage and Shoegaze.
Bandcamp: https://rascoband.bandcamp.com/album/dmaot

26. "Okusho" - Okvsho
Album: A Place Between Us
2024 -
Two brothers who grew up in the city of Zurich with influences from oldschool beatmaking and house/electronic music to the modern Jazz-Scene, Funk and Neosoul.
Bandcamp: https://soulofzurich.bandcamp.com/album/a-place-between-us

27. Hezalli - Bab L’ Bluz
Album: Swaken
2024 - REAL WORLD RECORDS LTD.
Bab L' Bluz is a Moroccan-French rock band that was formed in Marrakesh in 2018. The band consists of lead vocalist/ electric awisha Yousra Mansour, electric gimbri player and multi-instrumentalist Brice Botti
Bandcamp: https://bablbluz.bandcamp.com/album/swaken

28. Bhairavi (Part 1) - Madhuvanti Pal
Album: The Holy Mother
2023 - SUBLIME FREQUENCIES
Madhuvanti Pal, previously known as Madhuvanti Murali Mohan, was born in Kolkata in 1992 to a lineage of educators spanning four generations. This is the first Vinyl LP ever released featuring a woman playing the Rudra Veena. Madhuvanti Pal teaches the Rudra Veena and builds her own instruments.
https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/madhuvanti-pal-the-holy-mother-plays-the-rudra-veena

29. Süpürgesi Yoncadan - Altın Gün
LIVE at KEXP 2019
Year -
Turkish psychedelic rock, also known as Anatolian rock, band from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bandcamp: https://altingunband.bandcamp.com/
LIVE in station performance @ KEXP: https://youtu.be/nNVsS3Jxf1Q

30. Suzanne - Fabrizio De André
Album: Canzoni
1974 - BMG
Italy "He was one of the first Italian performers to integrate his songs with musical influences from different ethnic backgrounds, including those of native Americans." -nytimes

31. Enerjy - انرژی - Liraz
Album: Enerjy - انرژی
2024 - BATOV RECORDS
Liraz Charhi is an Iranian-Israeli actress, singer and dancer.
Bandcamp: https://lirazzan.bandcamp.com/album/enerjy

32. Seguiriya - ZA! + Perrate
Album: Jolifanto
Year -
Based in Seville, Spain -- PERRATE is a Spanish singer-songwriter who is rooted in the traditions of Andalusian flamenco, jazz, rock, and hip-hop.
Bandcamp: https://zaperrate.bandcamp.com/album/jolifanto

33. ooo - ooo
Album: Forest Law
2020 -
From Hornchurch, Essex, and now based in London, Forest Law makes warm, eclectic compositions in his garden shed.
Bandcamp: https://forestlawbjr.bandcamp.com/track/ooo-i

34. Toubouk ine chihoussay - Etran de L’Aïr
Album: Agadez
2022 - SAHEL SOUNDS
Etran de L’Aïr (or “stars of the Aïr region”) has played for over 25 years -- they emerged as stars of the local wedding circuit. Beloved for their dynamic repertoire of hypnotic solos and sun schlazed melodies, Etran stakes out a place for Agadez guitar music.
Jul 19 | LIVE at Westlake Park (Seattle, WA)
Jul 22 | LIVE at Clock-out Lounge (Seattle, WA)
Tickets: https://www.songkick.com/artists/10172905-etran-de-lair

35. Bulbul - Rehman Memmedli
Album: Bulbul
Year -
Azerbijan

36. Hejira - Michael Shrieve
Album: Drums Of Compassion
2024 -

36. Admas - Esy Tadesse
Album: Ahadu
2024 - FPE RECORDS

36. Bsslama Hbibti - Fadoul
Album: Habibi Funk (An Eclectic Selection Of Music From The Arab World)
2017 -

Photo by Matthew Thompson

07/03/2024

On the air

06/15/2024

Playlist of my most recent radio show
Many world premiers.

https://kexp.org/archive/

JUNE 11, 2024 WO’POP PLAYLIST

1. I'm So Strong - Doctor Rhythm feat. Spirits Rejoice
Album: Big 5 Boogie
Year -
South Africa

2. Jeanne - Air feat. Françoise Hardy
Album: Pop Romantique: French Pop Classics
1999 - EMPEROR NORTON
Francois Just Passed

3. Intro - Los Chicos Criollos
Album: Tango Session
Year -
Miami/Buenos Aires

4. Stand Strong - TC & The Groove Family
Album: Stand Strong
Year -
Uk/Leeds/Lagos/Acara

5. Bom Bom w Mayra Andrade (Ikonika Remix) - Batida
Album: Bom Bom
2024 - CRAMMED DISCS
Lisbon
Angolan born, Lisbon raised Pedro Coquenão (aka Batida), an artist referred to as a game changer on the Afro-Electronic scene, has not released an album of original tracks on his own since 2014. In the meantime, he completed a long international tour, recorded an album with the legendary Konono No.1, presented the performance “The Almost Perfect Dj”, exhibited his biggest installation yet at Africa 2020, in France, staged the musical IKOQWE, as part of his “Alojamento Artístico Local” at Casa Independente, released the album “The Beginning, The Medium, The End and The Infinite” by IKOQWE (his project un collaboration with Ikonoklasta), made videos and short movies, took hold of Padrão dos Descobrimentos (the biggest colonial monument in Portugal) by projecting his film “O Princípio, o Meio, o Fim e o Infinito” in 2021, concluded a four-year series of his radio program “Oceano Atlântico” on Antena 1 (Portugal) and RDP Africa, and started his monthly “Neon Colonialismo” broadcast on Worldwide FM.

6. Imidiwanine (My Friends) with Bombino - Idan Raichel
Album: And If You Will Come To Me
2019 - CUMBANCHA
Bombino At Nectar July 3

7. Fly With Me - Ibrahim Maalouf
LIVE at KEXP 4-30-24
Year -

8. Far Away - Ibrahim Maalouf
LIVE at KEXP 4-30-24
Year -
In 18 albums, Ibrahim Maalouf has gone from winner of the world's greatest international classical trumpet competitions to the most popular jazzman on the French music scene. Filling Istanbul's Volkswagen Arena, New York's Lincoln Jazz Center and Washington's Kennedy Center, in 2016 he became the first jazzman in history to sell out France's biggest concert hall, Paris Bercy's Accor Arena. (Artist Bio )

9. Feeling Good - Ibrahim Maalouf
LIVE at KEXP 4-30-24
Year -
Spotted by living legend Quincy Jones and described as a "Virtuoso" by the New York Times, Ibrahim has collaborated in recent years with Wynton Marsalis, Angelique Kidjo, Melody Gardot, the Chronos Quartet, Trilok Gurtu, Josh Groban, Marcus Miller, Salif Keita, and many others.
In 2021 he appeared on Stephen Colbert's Late Show with Jon Batiste, who introduced him as a living jazz legend.

10. Au Revoir - Ibrahim Maalouf
LIVE at KEXP 4-30-24
Year -
As a teenager, Ibrahim came top of the most important international competitions, which encouraged him to start a career as a classical soloist. From the 2000s onwards, spotted for the colours and singularity of his improvisations, he has been collaborating in all fields of music, namely pop, jazz and so-called "world music". Exceptional artists such as Sting, Salif Keita, Amadou & Mariam, Tryo, Matthieu Chedid or Angélique Kidjo call on him to enhance their works. Recently, the French pop-folk singer Joyce Jonathan called on Ibrahim to produce, compose and co-write her latest EP " TOI ET MOI "

11. Interview - Ibrahim Maalouf
Live at KEXP 4-30-24
Year -

12. Gubèlyé - ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ
Album: Broken Flowers
2005 - DECCA RECORDS
June 12 & 13 at the UC Theater/Berkley

13. Ethio Blue - Meklit Hadero
Album: Ethio Blue
Year -
June 12 & 13 at the UC Theater/Berkley

14. Nido - Ou
Album: Uranio
2024 - SPOOT MUSIC
Sardinia/Rome

15. Onze e quinze - Evinha
Album: Cartão postal
1971 - ODEON
Rio

16. Bo Yamba Ngai - Fanie Fayar
Album: Bo Yamba Ngai
Year -
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Fanie Fayar is an artist who draws on her origins and tradition by making her powerful voice from the Congo River resonate with Pygmy and African polyphonies. She is a singing teacher and plays traditional instruments such as: the sanza, the balafon, the ndara and the tam-tam.
Winner of The Upbeat Best New tALENT CONTEST

17. Barrio Hustle - Hermanos Gutiérrez
Album: Barrio Hustle
Year -
Hermanos Gutiérrez is a Latin instrumental band formed in 2015 in Zürich by Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers Alejandro Gutiérrez and Estevan Gutiérrez. In 2022, the US label Easy Eye Sound released the band's fifth album, El Bueno y el Malo
wikli

18. The Call Of Michael Olatunji - Michael Shrieve
Album: Drums Of Compassion
2024 - 7D MEDIA
Gorgeous new Record from the Santana drummer and collaborator with many

19. Chi Mali Wali (Roots) - Ahmed Moneka
Album: Kanzafula (Afro Iraqi Sufi music)
Year -
Toronto/Baghdad

20. Mahal - Glass Beams
Album: Mahal
2024 - NINJA TUNE
Melbourne

21. Zafa - El Khat
Album: Mute
2024 - GLITTERBEAT
World premier
El Khat is a homemade junkyard band led by multi-instrumentalist Eyal El Wahab. Named for the drug used so widely chewed across the Arab Peninsula, The band brings original compositions inspired by the music of the golden age in Aden, Yemen.
Israel/Poland/Yemen

22. Imazighen - Bab L’ Bluz
Album: Swaken
2024 - REAL WORLD RECORDS LTD.
Moroccan-French rock band that was formed in Marrakesh in 2018. The band consists of lead vocalist/ electric awisha Yousra Mansour, electric gimbri player and multi-instrumentalist Brice Bottin
Bab L’ Bluz is devoted to singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija. Ancient and current, funky and rhythmic, soaring vocals and bass-heavy grooves
https://bablbluz.bandcamp.com/album/swaken

23. Faça Ai-Ai, Meu Menino - Maria da Conceiacao
Album: Portuguese Folk Music Volume 5: Algarve
1963 -

24. Deep - Kyungso Park
Album: Dung-TTA
Year -
Seoul/Trad Fusion
s a gayageum player, composer and improviser, Kyungso Park*, preeminent contemporary musician, sways between traditional and contemporary art. She is known for expanding the scope of gayageum music and challenging its often traditional role.

25. Pavan Guru - Sonny Singh
Album: Sage Warrior
Year -
New record from the USA based Singh artist

26. Salgir River - Nastasia Y
Album: Kyiv Soul
Year -
Ukraine/Canada

27. Touch Me Not - Dengue Fever
Album: Ting Mong
2023 - TUK TUK RECORDS
At Crocodile July 13. Seattle
LA. group blends the sounds of Cambodian rock and pop music from the 1960s and 70s with elements of psychedelic rock and various world music styles.
https://denguefever.bandcamp.com
Live on KEXP 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLlumUrfM4

28. Les Assassins' - Combo Daguerre
Album: Fracassines
2024 - BARBÈS RECORDS

29. Voilà - Françoise Hardy
Album: C’est chic! French Girl Singers of the 1960s
2010 - ACE
Vinyl. As a leading figure of the yé-yé movement, Hardy "found herself at the very forefront of the French music scene" and became "France's most exportable female singing star", recording in various languages, appearing in movies, touring throughout Europe, and gaining plaudits from musicians such as Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and Mick Jagger.
passed yesterday

30. Bossa - Ahmed Malek
Album: Musique originale de films
2016 -
Algerian Composer

31. Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) - Soweto Gospel Choir & Groove Terminator
Album: Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)
2024 - MUSIC IS FUN
Cover of the Rozalla classic from 1991!

32. Good Life (mayj-C Remix) - Soweto Gospel Choir & Groove Terminator
Album: Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)
2024 - MUSIC IS FUN

33. Buzzi Ayazi - Buzz Ayaz
Album: Buzzi Ayazi
2024 - GLITTERBEAT
WORLD PREMIER!
Like a refreshing breeze, Buzz Ayaz’s vibrant Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia and dark funk flow from the stage to the audience, who have quickly fallen for the Cypriot quartet. Buzz’ Ayaz is a brand-new project with Antonis Antoniou at the helm. Antoniou, known for award-winning bands such as Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke, has met the world’s expectations for Buzz Ayaz’s synergy, sound, and quality immediately. The band’s four musicians—all activists in their own right—hail from the divided capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, and their sound reflects a mosaic of cultures, traditions, and the island’s turbulent political reality.

34. Viva Tu - Manu Chao
Album: Viva Tu
Year -

35. Walk Through Fire - Yannis & The Yaw feat. Tony Allen
Album: Walk Through Fire
2024 - TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS
From the upcoming five-track EP 'Lagos Paris London'! Pre-order it: https://www.yannisandtheyaw.com
"In 2016, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a two-day session working with the great drummer Tony Allen - heading into a smoke-filled, ‘70s throwback studio in Paris, Yannis had expected them to make a nostalgic Afrobeat record. Yet something very different emerged."

06/03/2024

https://www.ticketweb.com/event/dengue-fever-darek-mazzone-the-crocodile-tickets/13452374

Find tickets for Dengue Fever, Darek Mazzone showing at the The Crocodile - Seattle, US Monday Jul 15, 7:00PM Tickets starting at $32.00

05/28/2024

https://seattle.samamusicarts.org/calendar/internal/65dc8f57ffe57445074b8db0

The healing power of global sacred music through live and streamed events. Join now and acquire your passport to a symphony of experiences.

05/16/2024

MAY 7, 2024 WO’POP SHOW PLAYLIST

kexp.org/archive

1. Bixiga breque - Salvador Araguaya
Album: Redemunho
Year -
Brazilian producer and dj based in São Paulo. Resident at Sonido Tropico
https://salvadoraraguaya.bandcamp.com/

2. Kraj Bitola - Zarina Prvasevda
Album: Eho
Year -
Zarina is a Macedonian artist, a vocal performer and a musician that stages both Macedonian and World traditional music.
www.instagram.com/zarina.prvasevda/

3. Prayer For the Mothers - Yael Deckelbaum
Album: Prayer For the Mothers
Year -
Yael Deckelbaum, is an Israeli/Canadian singer/songwriter and activist. In 2016, Her song “Prayer Of The Mothers”, originally written to support the Women Wage Peace Movement, went viral on social media.
yaeldeckelbaum.com

4. Blen - Qwanqwa
Album: Qwanqwa Volume 3
2020 - WUZZAWAZZEE INDUSTRIES
"QWANQWA is a five-piece ensemble based in Addis Ababa, dedicated to furthering Ethiopia’s unique string traditions. Inspired by a shared passion for Ethiopian music, the group brings together some of the most accomplished traditional players in the country; creating a space to explore new sounds and break the rules in a very traditional musical culture."-bandcamp
Live at High Dive, Seattle, WA [Fremont] on Thursday (05/09) at 8:00 pm
https://www.tixr.com/groups/highdive/events/qwanqwa-with-extra-thick-89145

5. Lep - Blick Bassy
Album: Mádibá
2023 - INFINÉ
Blick Bassy on Tues, May 7th at The Sunset Tavern
Tickets: https://dice.fm/event/x3w8m-kexp-the-crocodile-presents-blick-bassy-zack-medlin-7th-may-the-sunset-tavern-seattle-tickets?lng=en-US
Blick Bassy is a Bassa singer-songwriter from Cameroon. Bassy writes his songs in his native language, Bassa. Currently based in Paris, Bassy is an African composer who creates music at the crossroads of soul, folk, and electro.
https://blickbassy.bandcamp.com/

6. Pinagsanga - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live on KEXP
2024 - KEXP
Small Island Big Song is a multi-platform project uniting the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans through songs, a contemporary and relevant musical statement from a region at the frontline of the Climate Crisis.
www.smallislandbigsong.com

7. Sarbon - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live at KEXP
2024 - KEXP
www.smallislandbigsong.com
Small Island Big Song is a multi-platform project uniting the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans through songs.
To learn more about the climate crisis and its impact on our oceans, consider listening to "How Changing Ocean Temperatures Could Upend Life on Earth" (The Daily, Podcast)

8. Aoka - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live on KEXP
2024 - KEXP
Small Island Big Song is a multi-platform project uniting the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans through songs, a contemporary and relevant musical statement from a region at the frontline of the Climate Crisis.
www.smallislandbigsong.com

9. Kinimale - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live on KEXP
2024 - KEXP
Founded by Taiwanese producer BaoBao Chen and Australian music producer and filmmaker Tim Cole in 2015, the two have been recording and filming with over a hundred musicians in nature across 16 island nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
www.smallislandbigsong.com

10. Phawhaw - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live on KEXP
2024 - KEXP
www.smallislandbigsong.com

11. Gasikara - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live on KEXP
2024 - KEXP
Small Island Big Song is a multi-platform project uniting the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans through songs, a contemporary and relevant musical statement from a region at the frontline of the Climate Crisis.
www.smallislandbigsong.com/

12. Mauruuru Te Atua - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live on KEXP
2024 - KEXP
www.smallislandbigsong.com

13. Pacific Log Drumming - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live on KEXP
2024 - KEXP
Small Island Big Song (KEXP In-Station Performance, May 7th, 2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVLm8LZ_qY

14. Dodo - Small Island Big Song
Album: Live on KEXP
2024 - KEXP
https://www.smallislandbigsong.com
Small Island Big Song - Full Performance (Live on KEXP):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVLm8LZ_qY

15. Para de fazer besteira - Marcos Valle
Album: Break n’ Bossa, Chapter 4
2001 - SCHEMA RECORDS
Marcos Kostenbader Valle is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and record producer who has produced bossa nova, samba, and fusions of rock, soul, jazz, and dance music with Brazilian styles.
At The Neptune theater in Seattle on September 26
https://www.stgpresents.org/calendar/event/5643

16. HIDDO DHAWR - Sahra Halgan
Album: HIDDO DHAWR
2024 -
Sahra Ahmed Mohamoud is a Somali singer and cultural activist based in Hargeisa, Somalia.
Sahra arrived in Europe in 1992, a political refugee from her native Somaliland, a territory in the North East of Somalia (East Africa).
https://sahrahalgan.bandcamp.com/

17. Song Of The Caravan Riders - Huun‐Huur‐Tu/Carmen Rizzo /Dhani Harisson
Album: Dreamers In The Field
2024 - BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (US) LLC
Dreamers In The Field blends Huun-Huur-Tu’s trademark throat singing and traditional Tuvan instruments with the modern production from Grammy-nominated producer and musician Carmen Rizzo (Seal, Alanis Morissette, Coldplay) and Grammy-Award winning musician Dhani Harrison.

18. Harmonics in the Wind - [no artist]
Album: Tuva, Among the Spirits: Sound, Music and Nature in Sakha and Tuva
1999 - SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Tuvan and Sakhan music. In these unprecedented on-site recordings, master musicians imitate and interact with the natural acoustic environment. Recorded in 1995-1998 on horseback, in creek beds, caves, canyons, and grasslands.
https://folkways.si.edu/tuva-among-the-spirits-sound-music-and-nature-in-sakha/world/album/smithsonian

19. Mas que nada - Luis Enriquez
Album: Mojo Jazz Presents Family Affair: From Latin… to Jazz Dance
2015 - MILESTONE RECORDS LTD
Brazilian bossa nova musician born in the city of Tubarão. He lived in the USA (New York), working with such artists as Oscar Brown Jr., Bobby Hackett and fellow Brazilian expatriates Sivuca and Dom Um Romao.

20. Ahan - Angélique Kidjo, Ibrahim Maalouf
Album: Queen of Sheba
2022 - MI’STER
A collaboration based on the riddles Queen of Sheba asked King Solomon (Old Testament). Angelique chose seven of those riddles and Ibrahim put those poems to music.
http://www.kidjo.com/queen-of-sheba
Angélique first met Ibrahim in New York during her project on Oum Kalthoum, and was greatly impressed by his musicality. Together, they searched for a story linking Africa to the Middle East.

21. Nar II - Emel
Album: MRA
2024 - LITTLE HUMAN
Emel Mathlouthi (Arabic: آمال المثلوثي) is a Tunisian singer-songwriter and musician. She rose to fame with her protest song "Kelmti Horra" ("My Word is Free"), which became an anthem for the Tunisian Revolution and the Arab Spring.
https://emelmathlouthi.com/
KEXP Live In-Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RweO4jokjMY

22. Raiou - Céu
Album: Novela
Year -
Céu is a Brazilian (São Paulo) singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label. Her most recent album, "Novela" (released April 2024), is a compilation of 12 songs woven together with captivating collaborations and featured artists.
https://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/ceu/

23. Late Checkout at the Cedarwood Inn - Dengue Fever
Album: Ting Mong
2023 - TUK TUK RECORDS
Newest release from LA-based Dengue Fever who have an extensive discography dating back to 2003 blending rock and pop music of 1960s and 70s Cambodia with psychedelic rock and various world music styles.
https://denguefever.bandcamp.com/track/late-checkout-at-the-cedarwood-inn
July 15 at the Crocodile Cafe Seattle
Tickets: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/dengue-fever-the-crocodile-tickets/13452374?pl=crocodile
KEXP In-Station - Full Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLlumUrfM4

24. Black Sand - Glass Beams
Album: Mahal
2024 - NINJA TUNE
"The genesis for the Melbourne-based trio, which formed around founding member Rajan Silva, was through the rekindling of childhood memories relating to his father, who emigrated to Melbourne from India in the late 1970's."
https://glassbeams.bandcamp.com/album/mahal
LIVE in Seattle May 21st at The Crocodile
Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/105220772-glass-beams-at-the-crocodile
LIVE in San Francisco May 27th at The Independent
Tickets: https://www.ticketnetwork.com/tickets/6288775

25. Agya - Jembaa Groove feat. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley
Album: Ye Ankasa We Ourselves
2024 -
Aug 1. Gyedu-Blay-Ambolley at the Tractor tavern
https://www.ticketweb.com/event/gyedu-blay-ambolley-w-guests-tractor-tickets/13372044
The second album from this Berlin-based collaborative project between Ghana-born percussionist/vocalist Eric Owusu and Germany-born bassist/composer Yannick Nolting is another groovy blend of traditional West African and highlife rhythms infused with classic jazz and soul touchpoints that's all complemented beautifully by Owusu's vocals that are sung in Twi, Ga, and Pidgin English. –Alex Ruder

26. Dew - Shay Hazan
Album: Wusul
2024 -
Tel-Aviv based musician Shay Hazan (b.1989) is a composer, producer, bassist & Guimbri player
https://shayhazan.bandcamp.com/

27. Orewa - Savana Funk & Gaudi
Album: Raha
Year -
Savana Funk are a trio based in Bologna, Italy. A mixture of African music, funk, blues, psychedelic rock and jazz influences runs throughout their sound.
Gaudi is an Italian musician /solo artist based in London, UK
https://savanafunk.bandcamp.com/
https://gaudimusic.bandcamp.com/

28. Imazighen - Bab L’ Bluz
Album: Swaken
2024 - REAL WORLD RECORDS LTD.
Moroccan-French rock band that was formed in Marrakesh in 2018. The band consists of lead vocalist/ electric awisha Yousra Mansour, electric gimbri player and multi-instrumentalist Brice Bottin

Bab L’ Bluz is devoted to singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija. Ancient and current, funky and rhythmic, soaring vocals and bass-heavy grooves
https://bablbluz.bandcamp.com/album/swaken

29. Mokili - KOKOKO!
Album: Butu
2024 - TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS
Pioneers of Kinshasa’s sonic revolution, KOKOKO! have captivated global audiences with their striking sonics and energetic performances since 2017.
https://www.kokokomusic.com/
KEXP Live In-Station Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYdP5csCC3E

30. Aj Lulaj Lulaj - Kosy
Album: Siew
Year -
KOSY (Warsaw)-- intriguing female voices connected in song. Aleksandra Gronowska, Kasia Pakosa, Anastazja Sosnowska, Kasia Szetela-Pękosz combine their arrangements with traditional folk material.
The music is based on traditional songs of Lower Silesia in southwest Poland, a region with a turbulent history, seat of the ancient Kingdom of Poland, bordering on modern-day Germany and the Czech Republic.

31. I Like the Motorcar - Derek Gripper
Album: A Year Of Swimming
2020 -
Derek Gripper is one of South Africa’s leading guitarists whose love of the kora set him transcribing and recording some of its greatest works, changing the face of classical guitar.
https://www.derekgripper.com/
LIVE at Rainier Arts Center on May 6th
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/105304152-derek-gripper-at-rainier-arts-

32. Fracking - Tanya Tagaq
Album: Animism
2014 - SIX SHOOTER RECORDS
Tagaq (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᓐᔭ ᑕᒐᖅ) is an improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling novelist. A member of the Order of Canada, Polaris Music Prize and JUNO Award winner, Giller Prize Long Listed and bestselling author and recipient of multiple honourary doctorates, Tagaq is one of the country’s most original and celebrated artists. "
From Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island.
https://tanyatagaq.bandcamp.com/
https://www.tanyatagaq.com/

33. Pomok naka Poktoinskwes - Jeremy Dutcher
Album: Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
2018 - [NO LABEL]
Jeremy Dutcher, a Tobique First Nation native now based in Montreal, revitalizes Wolastoqey language through operatic compositions. His 2018 debut album, "Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa," reinterprets traditional Wolastoqey songs from early 20th-century wax-cylinder recordings. Dutcher's tenor voice bridges past and present, celebrating Indigenous Canadian culture with profound resonance.
Watch Jeremy Dutcher's 2019 KEXP performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGZgeM__Rf0

34. Lejliia - Božo Vrećo
Album: Moj Sevdah
Year -
Božo Vrećo (Serbian Cyrillic: Божо Врећо; born 18 October 1983) is a Bosnian musician.
https://bozovreco.com/en/home/

35. Ez Kî Me - Meral Polat Trio
Album: Ez Kî Me
2022 - AUDIOMAZE
Istanbul

36. Last Tango in Paris (encore) - Gotan Project
Album: La revancha del tango (live)
2005 -
Paris/Buenos Aires