Album of the week : Victor Deme on Chapa Blues
There seems to be a theme of guitars, sand dunes and pipes as in bagpipes not sea waves. Returning form a holiday in the Border region of Northumberland we kick off with some regional tunes. we follow the sand dunes of Northumberland to Niger and link guitars around the world.
WE also fit in music that will help pay and secure sanitation for one person from Africa for their entire life, there's a tribute to Fela Kuti born this day 1938 andfinally we squeeze in a bit of the Flying Chilli podcast form Alex Stewart.
Jill Turner can't quite believe that after a 30 year career for the Mandingo singer from Burkina Faso, this is Victor Deme's first recording. There's a gentle understated feel to the album as he sings his way through a varied and rich repetoire of mandingo blues, african folk with touches of salsa, flamenco and latin influences.
