Description
Glyn Phillips steers the good ship "WorldBeatUK" in search of the best sounds from around the world to bring home to discerning ears and jaded palates! In this show he has dug up a treasure chest of music released around 2014-2015 but shipwrecked in the digital oceans of his hard drives...
As when you discover that missing ring or cufflink amidst old coins, kids toys and crushed-up biscuits when you plunge your hand into the gaps at the back of your sofa, so Glyn has unearthed some gems that missed the boat. Hence the title: Back Of The Sofa!
Lots of afrocentric grooves from relatively new label Philophon (including Ghanaian Frafra gospel from Alogte Oho Jonas and Guy One), Manuel Diogo from Angola, Nigeria's Ginger Johnson, Namibia's Elemotho, Senegal's Ablaye Cissoko and South Africa's Simphiwe Dana. Enjoy!
There's also Bengali Baul, Kurdish, Levantine, Kiwi, Haitian, Brazilian & Philippine music, Georgian polyphony, Finnish Kantele, Czech folk, klezmer & flamenco!
