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Music for the Masses: Salsa Africana #3 (Audio)

Dec 22, 2024

Winter has officially arrived, the holidays are here, and we've come to heat your home with music! Kick off those snow boots and get your dance on as we bring you two hours of burning African salsa classics from across the Motherland. Join us as we travel from Cuba back to Africa, where the rhythms that gave birth to what we now know as "salsa" originated. Featuring a range of styles spanning the early 1960s to the present from Benin, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, and Senegal. (Part 3 of a very occasional series.)

"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 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.

Playlists and more information here.

Selection of original DJ mixes here.

Playlist:
  • Mr. Yunioshi / Henry Mancini
  • Kiko Medina / Le Tropical Jazz
  • Jeancy / Papa Wemba
  • Capitale / Super Cayor De Dakar
  • Matinda comono / Verckys
  • Je veux être noir / Manu Dibango
  • Gatax / Rudy Gomis
  • Africa Challenge / Toumani Diabaté
  • Onwu Dinjo / Artistes variés
  • Seyni / Laba Sosseh
  • Kay Len Fecce / Wey Len Nobel
  • Gendamou Na Wili We Gnannin / T.P. Orchestre Poly Rythmo
  • Gambia Su Nous Raew / Super Eagles
  • Paquita / Tabu Ley
  • Baden Djougou / Amadou Ballaké
  • Atchêgbê / Michel Pinheiro
  • Drapeau blanc / Koffi Olomidé
  • Ayô bie amhan yê / Eba Aka Jérome
  • Dior / Trippie Boi
  • Dégoo / Super Cayor de Dakar
  • Francoise / Henri Dikongué
  • I Faram Gami I Faram / Mulatu Astatke
  • Chérie Sandra / Kékélé
  • Lamento Cubano / Amara Touré
  • M'Beddemi / Cheikh Lô
  • Mison / Orchestra Baobab
  • Oye Sabroso Son / Papa Noel