African Crossover Music

For this New Sounds, listen to musicians from Belgium, Switzerland, the U.K., and Italy working together with musicians living in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.  Hear the late American slide guitarist Bob Brozman (he passed too soon, on April 24, at the age of 59) working together with Guinean kora player Djeli Moussa Diawara from a record called “Ocean Blues.” Then there’s music from another American guitarist Ry Cooder, collaborating with the late great Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure, along with some Saharan desert blues from Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara. 

Listen to the Owiny Sigoma Band, where London-based musicians traveled to Nairobi in Kenya to collaborate and music from the Zita Swoon Group, an Antwerp-based collective together with musicians from Burkina Faso.  Plus, hear Senegalese kora player Noumoucounda Cissoko accompanied by Swiss musicians, Phat 4, and much more.

PROGRAM # 3460, African Crossover Music (First aired on 4/26/2013)