Welcome to the online home of GondwanaSound -- a two hour weekly broadcast featuring global roots and grooves, music, news, interviews, old favourites and new releases.
Bringing you a two-hour weekly broadcast entails lots of listening, talking and researching -- not all of which makes it into the show. Rather than keeping it all to ourselves, we'd like to share it here.
Just to let you know that GondwanaSound is rebroadcast at a new time on African Internet Radio.
CD4 the Band play Spirit, Canal Street Manchester on December 1st. Raising awareness of HIV through Music and Art CD4, the community project and live band, take their latest album and anthemic track " Safe Sex" to Manchester for World Aid's Day now in its 21st year.
News in from Tom Rose of Navigator Records. Jon Boden's second solo album Songs from the Floodplain (released March 2nd 09) builds on the critical success of 2006's Painted Lady in bold style. In it he imagines a rural community surviving in the aftermath of apocalyptic turmoil, coming to terms with what they have lost and confronting the new order, alongside the everyday concerns of love, loss, fear and hope. The subject matter is dark but the songs are surprisingly upbeat, catchy and often uplifting. Read on for live dates...
News gleaned from MySpace : The album “RADIO MINDELO” holds a collection of Cesaria Evora’s very first recordings from the early 60s. Born on the 27th August 1941, Cesaria was around twenty then. She had been discovered at the age of fifteen by musician and songwriter Gregorio Gonçalves (Ti Goy), who continued to sponsor her and follow her artistic progress. Indeed, ten of the twenty-two songs performed by Cesaria on this CD were written by Ti Goy.
Sue Miller relives the excitement of their Carnegie Hall concert on July 1st 1998. This 2 disc CD set provides us with fresh takes on BVSC favourites, covering 16 extended tracks of Cuban Son, Danzón, Chachachá and Bolero and featuring some outstanding performances by Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa, Guajiro Mirabal and Rubén González…..
