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Music for the Masses: Fall 2021 New Release Roundup (Audio)
In this broadcast a small sampling of Fall 2021 releases, re-releases, compilations, and collaborations by artists from across our planet. This broadcast features new music by Atabal (Puerto Rico), Ballaké Sissoko (Mali), Batila (Congo/Angola), Carles Gutiérrez (Spain), Cheikh Ibra Fam (Senegal), Conjunto Imagen (Puerto Rico), David Scott McLean (USA), Emmanuel Jal (Sudan), Kasai Allstars (D.R. Congo), Kasfelgues (Ivory Coast), Kitka (USA), Kolonien (Sweden), The Kutimangoes (Denmark), Les Tireux d’Roches (Canada), Leyla McCalla (USA), Mamak Khadem (Iran, UK), Miroca Paris (Cape Verde, Portugal), Havana Meets Kingston (Cuba, Jamaica), Oliver Nayoka (Nigeria), Rokia Koné and Jackknife Lee (Mali), Sarah Aroeste (USA), Sheykhar (India), Sonia Aimy (Nigeria, Canada), and Walaa Sbait, Feras Naddaf, Deeb Amoury (Palestine); plus a collection of Highlife classics from Ghana and a re-released Ethiopian gem from 1975 by Hailu Mergia and The Walias Band.
"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid globe-hopper and armchair traveler alike. You might want to pack a map and a sandwich. Catskill resident "DJ Neva" is an ethnomusicologist, producer, and long-time cultural activist, specializing in music from the entire African continent, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America, the Maghreb, and the Middle East, and the Roma (Gypsy) diaspora. Formerly the producer of "Continental Drift" on WBAI-FM and New York International on Haitian community station Radio Soleil in NYC. The show is broadcast live from Catskill, NY.