Maritime music and Salento soul
Lopa Kothari presents the best in folk and roots-based music from around the world, with Bahamian harmonies and footstomping rhythms from southern Italy.
Lopa Kothari presents the best in folk and roots-based music from around the world. This week she sets sail, taking in the traditional harmonies of Bahamian ensemble The Dicey Doh Singers, and a song for the sea from Mauritian “griot of the islands” Menwar. Also, Officina Zoè offer up a footstomping take on ancestral rhythms from Salento in southern Italy, and Argentinean musician Marco Grancelli shares the fruits of a South American road trip on his debut solo album.
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Grupo de Música Popular da Universidade do Minho
Farol de Montedor
- Cumpadre.
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Cesária Évora
Mar Azul
- Mar Azul.
- Lusafrica.
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Marco Grancelli
Alma Challuera
- Camino Trunco.
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Orchestra Mambo International
Yembereque
- ¡Apúntalo!.
- Loft.
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Mau Gatiyo
La nave del tiempo
- In-Correcto 232: La nave del tiempo.
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Officina Zoè
Marinaru
- Mari e Marenne.
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Menwar
Melodi la Mer
- Ay Ay Lolo.
- Marabi Productions.
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KITKA Women's Vocal Ensemble
Dosč, Dosč
- Kolo.
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ADG7
Ta
- Ta.
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Samba Touré
Assouma Kagne
- Baarakelaw.
- Glitterbeat Records.
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Gaoussou 'Sobra' Kouyaté
Niaba
- Sobra Dance.
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Wallace House
The Eddystone Light
- English Folk Songs.
- Folkways Records.
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Dicey Doh Singers
The Sloop John B.
- The Bahamas: Islands of Song.
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
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Charlie Wheatley
Bristol sailor man / Lemmie Brazil's no.2 / Y Washael
- Bristol sailor man / Lemmie Brazil’s no.2 / Y Washael.
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