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Playlists from previous weeks are available below... please use your mouse to click on the brown text for the date, this will open up a new page with the full details of the playlist plus the podcasts which are active for upto one month after the original broadcast date.
bucket60.jpg4th and 11th August 2010 GondwanaSound playlist

Welcome to another round the world music adventure with a difference. We're taking it easy over the month of August as most people are on their summer holidays we've prepared a selection of some of our favourite tropical tracks. Sound crews Tropical Treats and Sofrito get a look in along with vinyl that is now seeing the light of day due to the record digging endeavours of labels including Analog Africa, Soundway Records and Vampisoul. There's a Nina Simone remix in there and a couple of surprises. Thanks to DJ Moos for blogging some of his cumbia collection which has come in handy. Hope you hear something you enjoy.
star and phones only60.jpg28th July 2010 GondwanaSound playlist

Welcome to another round the world music adventure. In today's broadcast we have some highlights from our interviews with artists at WOMAD starting with Chiekh Lo talking about the significance of the track Seyni from his forthcoming album Jamm. We have Steven Sogo talking about his aspirations plus Nick Page explaining the cold war paranoia that influenced the new Syriana project. After nearly bursting our eardrums at DAM's set, we caught up with Tamer, sisha in one hand computer in the other as he blogged about the gig. He tells us about some of the problems they encounter with their political concerts.

We also include the presentation of the Songlines music awards to Staff Benda Bilili and to Justin & Juldeh plus the Lucy Duran presentation of the fRoots award to Staff Benda Bilili for album of the year.
21st July 2010 GondwanaSound Playlist

Part three of a three part series previewing the WOMAD festival.

Welcome to another round the world music adventure, the third in our series looking at artists appearing at the WOMAD festival at Charlton Park. Jill is taking a look at the artists appearing on Sunday but cheats a little after few late deliveries of cd's arrived on the GondwanaTowers doormat. We're off to the festival with cameras, mikes and notepads in hand to bring back some of the sounds and images of the festival. Until then I hope you hear something you like. Tell your friends and let them know about the podcasts.
womad60.jpg14th July 2010 GondwanaSound Playlist

Part two of a three part series looking at artists performing at WOMAD 2010

Welcome to this week's round the world music adventure once again Melstar enthuses about artists appearing at WOMAD 2010 a few in partcular but you'll have to listen to find out. WOMAD takes place on the weekend of 23rd - 25th July there's so much to see and hear check out the timetable here. Once in your browser you'll need to scroll down to see all three days.

Hope you hear something you enjoy.
womad60.jpg7th July 2010 GondwanaSound Playlist

Part one of a three part series looking at artists performing at WOMAD - Charlton Park 2010

Welcome to another round the world music adventure with Melstar in the hotseat taking a look at some of the artists performing at this year's WOMAD festival. Click here for the WOMAD 2010 timetable. With so much music going on this year Mel finds herself in a complete spin and forgets an album of the week...but hey so much music such little time, it would have been impossible to fit one in.

Hope you hear something you enjoy.
grupo60.jpg30th June 2010 GondwanaSound Playlist

Album of the week: El Existential from Grupo Fantasma on the National Geographic Label

Welcome to this week's round the world music adventure and we start off with two tracks from Ghana, something old and something new, one for each goal that put them through to the quarter finals of the World Cup. With England's disappointing result we're now backing Ghana. We have a couple of references to Colombian sound systems, new releases from Cheikh Lo, Carlou D, Luisa Maita, Lepisto and Lehti and our album of the week from the mighty Texan ten peice is also out this month.

Hope you hear something you like.
23rd June GondwanaSound Playlist

This is work in progress as the broiadcast was a rush montage of sounds and interviews from Africa Oye - it is in the process of being re-edited as a stand alone podcast.
nextstop160.jpg16th June GondwanaSound playlist

Album of the week : Next Stop...Soweto. Township Sounds Of The Golden Age Of Mbaqanga Various Artists on the Strut! Label.

Welcome to another round the world music adventure in which we remember the Soweto Uprisings this very day on the 16th June 1976, when over 500 people including young children lost their lives in what started as a peaceful demonstration over education rights. The iconic photo taken by Sam Nzima showing 12 year old Hector Pieterson dying in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubo changed the world's perception of apartheid South Africa. Things would never be the same.

Where there are negatives there are positives and our album of the week is from Strut, Next Stop Soweto... township jive from the golden age of Mbaqanga. Apologies in advance for pronunciations, I remember having a conversation with Dewi as to which language other than Welsh was the biggest challenge for radio presenters and he decided it was Zulu or Xhosa. So with that and the other languages of South Africa its an upward climb...

Its a vuvzela free zone but we do have a few football songs to start us off I hope you hear something you enjoy and if you miss the droning background sounds, we're asking DJ UMB to do a vuvuzela remix special...
yeswecan60.jpg9th June GondwanaSound playlist

Album of the week : Yes We Can: Songs About Leaving Africa compiled by Rose Skelton on Out|here records.

Welcome to this week's world music adventure and with so much live music going on Mel's in a spin as she takes the hot seat at the last minute and welcomes Gail Cooke into the studio to talk about The Big Sessions Festival. Also dropping some tunes from recently departed artists, Doreen Thobekile, Jackson Kaujewa and Lobi Traore plus artists appearing at Africa Oye festival and right up her street is her choice for album of the week, an important testimony to our times, Yes We Can: Songs About Leaving Africa. Hope you hear something you enjoy.
zumra60.jpg2nd June 2010 GondwanaSound playlist

Album of the week : Zumra from Amira and Merima Kljuco on World Village.

Welcome to this week's round the world music adventure and for those of you who couldn't get down to London for Balkan fever we have three cuts from purveyors of Bosnian Sevdah, Amira and Merima who's album Zumra is our choice for album of the week. We continue the Balkan thread with a track form Besh o Drom who wowed the audiences live. Plus we have something from Tim and Hami of Transglobal Underground's new project, "Unite a Gathering of Stangers" and exploration of East European migration songs. We open the broadcast with two cheeky new releases from Soundway records, a re master of two classic 70's albums from Ghana, The Kusum Beat and Hedzoleh with some mighty flute playing...a theme we carry over in the later half of the broadcast, particularly with Sue Miller and her Charanga Del Norte and new releases form Choc Quib Town and Saravah Soul.....hope you hear something you like.

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