WorldBeatUK with Glyn Phillips - Mayday! Mayday! (01/05/2017)

In "Mayday! Mayday!" Glyn Phillips looks at the new and forthcoming releases as we celebrate the 1st May 2017. With a feature on the Sterns compilation album of old East African dance music, "Urgent Jumping" and the latest album from West African legends Orchestra Baobab, WorldBeatUK is packed full of music for emergencies - just pull the ripcord and inflate this raft of great music from around the world!

There's some reinvigorating americana and canadiana, nourishing oldies and newies from Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the UK - as well as rehydrating music from Iraq and Venezuela. There's also the first two tracks from an album that I feel will certainly work its way onto my Best Of 2017 list, by the Pentecostalist Blues Preacher and activist, the Rev Sekou with "In Times Like These" (more from this on next show as well).

So if you're in trouble, just dial up WorldBeatUK and let me throw you a musical lifeline!