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This Island Earth
Sunday May 9th, 2021 with Neil Bakshi
This week: new classical music from Korea, a listen to a live set from West-African saxophonist Dexter Johnson and his Band Super Star Band of Dakar, and, a new record from Tony Allen.

TAL
dal:um - similar & different New
Thunder Shower
Park Jiha - Philos
From "Gyemyungarakdodeuri"
Soo Eun Kwak And La-onG - Gayageum, Be the Legend
Moon Of My Hometown
Byungki Hwang - The Best Of Korean Gayageum Music
Geomungo Factory
su:um - 2nd
Bania
Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & James Holden - Marhaba
Sirmaqabe (No Secrets)
Iftin - Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991)
Black Woman
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - 11th Street, Sekondi
Missing live music? Me too, so to try to get that live concert vibe, here's a set of Senegalese Afro-Cuban standards from saxophonist and bandleader, Dexter Johnson. All from the record recorded in 1969, "Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile".
Angelitos Negros
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
Para Que Bueno
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
Soy Hijo Del Siboney
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
Caminho De São Tomé
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
Borinquen Tropical
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
El Corazon
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
Malonga
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
Soy El Rey
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
Something You Got
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar - Live A L'Étoile
Mouhamadou Bamba
Orchestra Baobab (Baobab-Gouye-Gui de Dakar) - Mouhamadou Bamba
Boulmamine
Orchestra Baobab (Baobab-Gouye-Gui de Dakar) - Mouhamadou Bamba
Who
The Montgomery Express - The Montgomery Movement
D.A.I.S.Y.
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
Kings and Queens
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings E&F Sides
Lycra-Limão
Lucas Santtana - 3 Sessions In A Greenhouse New
Olooh, A War Dance for Peace
Kasai Allstars - single New
Rain
Falle Nioke & sir Was - Marasi EP New
Next up, music from a new posthumously released record from Tony Allen.
There Is No End
Tony Allen - There Is No End New
Black Rich with Koreatown Oddity
Tony Allen - There Is No End New
Cosmosis with Skepta, Ben Okri
Tony Allen - There Is No End New
Dear in the Headlight with Danny Drown
Tony Allen - There Is No End New
Hustle with Kojey Radical
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future New
Interactive CKCU
peebee
This posthumous Tony Allen (on now) is TOTALLY KILLING!! (... blast, there goes the budget, yet again....)

3:52 PM, May 9th, 2021