Tonight each set begins with a track from my Top Ten Releases of 2009. Enjoy!
= = = Set 1: about 9:02 pm
Title: "Kiota"
Artist: Mamane Barka
CD: Introducing Mamane Barka
Country: Niger
"Phumela"
Neco Novellas
New Dawn/Ku Khata
Moçambique/Netherlands
"Strange, Isn't It?"
Oliver Mtukudzi
Soundtrack to Shanda
Zimbabwe
"La Lune de Gorée"
Gilberto Gil
Quanta
Brasil
= = = Set 2: about 9:24 pm
"Kodé (Love)"
Kimi Djabaté
Karam
Guinea-Bissau
"Ngambi"
Patrick Bebey
Oa Na Mba
France
"Thimlela"
Hugh Masekela
Time
South Africa
"Dabia Baba"
Sekou Diabaté
Guitar Fö
Guinée
= = = Set 3: about 9:48 pm
"De Qué Te Vale"
Puerto Plata
Casita de Campo
Républica Dominicana
"Dieman Noba Smoke Tafee"
S. E. Rogie
Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana
Sierra Leone
= = = Set 4: about 10:03 pm
"Tenhert"
Tinariwen
Imidiwan : Companions
Mali (Tuareg)
"The Heathen"
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Exodus
Jamaica
"Tezalègn Yètentù"
Tlahoun Gèssèssè
Ethiopiques 17
Ethiopia
"Dagamasi"
Africando featuring Gnonnas Pedro
Gombo Salsa
various Africa/Latin America
= = = Set 5: about 10:23 pm
"Seya"
Oumou Sangare
Seya
Mali
"Sicel 'iZulu (Prayer for Rain)"
Ramadu
Izambulelo
Zimbabwe
"Yau"
Aurelio Martinez
Garifuna Soul
Honduras
"Ami Kita Bay"
Orchestra Baobab
Made in Dakar
Sénégal
= = = Set 6: about 10:32 pm
"Africa"
Blick Bassy
Léman
Cameroon
"Me Faltaron Cosas"
Manolín—El Médico de la Salsa
Jaque Mate Cuba
"Habari Yako"
Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loka
Retrospectiva
Angola/D.R. Congo/USA
= = = Set 7: about 10:50 pm
"Sumanai"
Sara Tavares
Xinti
Portugal
= = = Set 8: about 11:03 pm
"Lemalin"
Rachid Halihal
Arabian Music from Morocco
Morocco
"Ifanla (Ifa is Infinite)"
Solá Akingbolá
Routes to Roots
Nigeria/UK
"Mystic Man"
Peter Tosh
The Toughest
Jamaica
"Baro"
Habib Koité & Bamada
Baro
Mali
= = = Set 9: about 11:23 pm
"Tindo"
Baaba Maal
Television
Sénégal
"Hwehwe Mu Ya Yi Wo Mpena"
K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas
Ghana Soundz
Ghana
"Mado Zaina, Pt. 1"
Bana Likasi
The Nairobi Beat—Kenyan Pop Music Today
Kenya
= = = Set 10: about 11:42
"Africa Landó"
Novalima
Coba Coba
Perú
"Dinheiro Remix"
Choppa
Waga Waga
Moçambique
"She's Left Me/T Ja Yi"
Moh Alileche
In Memory of a Hero
Algeria (Amazigh)/USA