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This one is revisited Yugoslavia and some classics. Many great voices and guitars. Usual mix of oddities and curiosities. Hope you enjoy! Faithfully, Bo ❤️🫡☀️

The Damping Wells 148 with lily livered hasenpfeffer Dj Fiery Biscuits. Tracks by Dhangsha, Cygnet V Zer0, Kemper Norton, Alien Alarms/Desmesne Furze/Ned Rush, Automouse, McCloud+1, Acre, and Spheress. Chew the bone, pop kids!!!***

The sun is out and Liam's is also out with the musical rays! Here to bring you some crackers this Sunday afternoon. Featured artists are Elis Regina, Trampled by Turtles, and Van Morrison.

Aracataca's John Child catches up with recent releases and reissues from Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, Luisito Ayala y La Puerto Rican Power ft. Gilberto Santa Rosa, Steve Guasch & O.N.E., Pablo Pérez "El Alcalde de la Salsa", Reunidos Por La Salsa and Brooklyn Sounds; reissued salsa africana from Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band; and charanga from La Son Charanga. Plus two cuts from Charlie Aponte, featuring Héctor Santos y su Orquesta and El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico; and classic tracks from Tito Puente & Celia Cruz, Machito & His Famous Orchestra, Cortijo y su Combo ft. Ismael Rivera and Mauricio Smith.

Japan Blues serves up a golden hour of Enka. The unique Japanese genre, somehow taking in strands of Country ballad, Fado, Blues and pop, evoking a nostalgia for a time that possibly never was. Often orchestrally backed, plucking at the heart strings with sentimentality, exploring well trodden paths of regret, sadness, lost love, infidelity and heartbreak, easily identified by early listeners who had fled the countryside for work in the growing urban landscape. Best viewed from the melted ice at the bottom of a glass of your favourite poison, while slumped over the counter at a small bar, mulling over life’s blind cruelty. But it doesn’t have to be miserabilist, there is something to be gained from facing one’s pain, to emerge from the precipice and face the world anew. This is the magic we learned from the Blues, transported to the other side of the Pacific. The musical style evolved from the early days of recording, melancholic burusu (blues) ballads, but in the 1960s and 70s it was re-promoted by record companies and absorbed by a younger pop fandom. Singers would be rigorously trained in exacting vocal technique, and stage direction for TV. Often with an expanded vocal range, and emphasis on extending notes with an exaggerated vibrato and ornate vocal styling - sometimes taken to melodramatic extremes. Once established, artists could carve out their own small territory of individual style, but they would be expected to exactly reproduce all their hit song’s elements, and stage moves. Some numbers get down and moody, some playfully incorporate early synths, others slip into a groove. What may seem on the surface as formulaic is merely a starting point, a template, evolved over time, though others remain completely unchanged. The sounds that would be heard blaring out of karaoke bars - before J- & K-pop sidelined them - in the covered shopping arcades scattered across the country. Mostly written in minor scale, strongly emphasising the mood, which radiates so strongly it can cross the boundary of language.

New release this week includes afrobeat crew Soothsayers featuring Lizzy Dosunmu and Dele Sosimi both also part of Estuary 21, more afrobeat from Femi Kuti, and a jazz meets afrobeat from the Konkolo Orchestra. Oriental Brothers International from Nigeria get remixed by Brooklyn DJ Uproot Andy, I pull out tracks from Zimbabwean band Ilanga from 1987, and Leonard Zhakata once of the Sungura Boys. Music from the Cameroun includes Christian Dina Bollanga, a new compilation of previously unreleased tracks from Francis Bebey, and a preview of a gig coming up in Shoreham on 28th June featuring singer 'makossa meets soukous' Valerie Ekoume and one time part of Manu Dibango's crew. Plus a touch of Latin sounds from Doble R Super Stars

Ben Khan with another episode of Orientalism, showcasing unsung Eastern delights. This week featuring indelible treasures from Iran, India, Turkey, Morocco and Egypt

In this episode, Thiago digs into some obscure samba tracks and mixes things up with Brazilian rap midway through the show.

The mixed bag of all mixed bags – the may edition of footsteps is gentle yet severe, and somewhat sombre offering. File it under anticipation anxiety for the fast-approaching months of summer

latest TDW with spiralized monkey bars DJ Fiery Biscuits. Tracks by Caroline Kraabel/Khabat Abas, Simian Carbuncle, I'm Being Good, Younes Zarhoni, Mooris, Amanda Irrarazabal/Marco Albert, Christian Alvear/Seijiro Murayama, Sara Persico, Johann Mazé/Jihem Rita, and Anna Webber/Matt Mitchell/John Hollenbeck. Don't pick at it!

A classic from Ghana's drummers Wulomei, more from The Bigshots Gh, and end with the stunning Brighton appearance of Fra Fra gospel singer Florence Adooni. Three tracks from Analog Africa's new album Roots Rocking Zimbabwe with Thomas Mapfumo amongst them (1975-1980), a track from Harare's band The Storm, plus a track from Nigeria's evergreen Super Negro Bantous, and a recently rediscovered early album from the Lijadu Sisters . Two tracks from 'African Jazz invites OK Jazz' 1961 -1970 from a new Planet ilunga compilation, and from a similar period tracks from Matsuli's new compilation 'Zulu Guitar Blues'.

This show is an homage to the most beautiful country that ever existed. It’s the country I’ve been born in. Yugoslavia. Doesn’t exist anymore but it was a happy place and a place of incredibly talented people. The choices in this show are made very particularly for reasons I will present to you. Then I laced some of the Yugoslavian music with other stuff trying to put in some electronic choices to balance it out. Faithfully, Bo ❤️🫡☀️

New Violaa remix of Quantic & the late Abelardo Carbono's La PIna Madura, afrobeat from Konkolo Orchestra with Nongoma, Sub Saharan Africa meets Guimbri with Zar Electric's Bema Soudan, and Nigerain artist Oratio (grandson of legendary Twin Seven-Seven). PLus more fom Adooni and Fra Fra Soul, and the remastering of Zulu 78s from Matsuli. Pico Sound Systems with guitar music from African System International, new verison of Simi Rapp from Gyedu Blay Amboley, and jazz inflections form Oulma's new album on One World Records

This show is full of amazing voices. From the polyphonic harmonies and choirs to the singular genius of a human voice. As usual, a lot of everything, Ukraine and Georgia, Russia and other places. Cultural scrapbook for your enjoyment. Faithfully, Bo☀️❤️

Aracataca's John Child plays an exclusive track from Dorancé Lorza & Sexteto Café ft. Kike Harvey, together with new, reissued and vintage cuts from Gilberto Santa Rosa, Celia Cruz & Tito Puente, Charlie Palmieri, Fania All Stars ft. Ismael Rivera, Orquesta Típica Novel, Yambú and Setenta. Plus Aracataca remembers the Puerto Rican conguero William "Kachiro" Thompson, featuring Orquesta Zodiac, Bobby Valentín and Descarga Boricua.

Liam is busy preparing for the many events that Slack City will be hosting over next week so he has created a collection of songs whilst he gets the cables and transmissions up and ready! Featured artists are Gregory Porter, Louis Bellson, and We Are Birds.

Exploring the newest sounds that we found from crate digging

Stephen joins Ben again for another sizzling collab -expect heaters from Pakistan, Algeria, Armenia, India, Iran, Egypt

This week more from Ghana with another track from Gyedu Blay Ambolley, and tracks from Fra Fra gospel singer Florence Addooni's new album as she comes with her band to Lewes Con Club near Brighton on Sunday May 18. Another queen of Fra Fra and a big influence on Adooni was Christy Azuma here with Uppers International. From Nigeria come highlife from The Kings International Band from 1977, jazz from Ayetoro from 2006, and the new remix from Bosq of Konkolo Orchestra's Le Secret. From South Africa a brand new release from Matsuli Records of rare 78s remastered, and from Strut Records Edna Martinez presents Pico Sound System with some excellent South African bubblegum from the 80s.

The show this week is full of amazing vocals and some really good beats. Bass lines and atmospheric sounds. Upbeat and lively. New talent discoveries. Dance your pain away! Presented by Bo Produced by Liam Mustapha