Sounds from the Global Village marks the birthday of Poncho Sanchez – Latin soul-jazz star and one of this year’s Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners; continues with music from October featured artists Orchestra Baobab from a classic album recorded in Paris in the ‘70s; highlights new releases from Afro Funk and Staff Benda Bilili; and serves up some surprise classics from Bill Withers and James Brown.
An eclectic, world music-based show, Sounds from the Global Village features the latest and best in world music new releases and classics along with a wide variety of artists and selections from other genres that have influences from around the world. Informative and entertaining, current yet set in a wider musical and historical context, the show draws on the knowledge, experience and congenial personality of host Chris Heim – and a library of over 40,000 albums, including many out-of-print titles – to pull these musical strands together into an intriguing and captivating whole
As Duke Ellington famously said, there are two kinds of music. Sounds from the Global Village plays the good kind…from all over the world. With a fresh, inventive musical mix and welcoming presentation, Sounds from the Global Village is like nothing else on radio, offering a special kind of “go-to” program that speaks to the joys of musical discovery.