Around the World – 24 & 26 October 2021

SliceAudio and FerryFM, and Radio Larne plays-out Around the World on Sundays from 10.00 pm – midnight local time. The show is also available Tuesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Lisburn’s 98 FM, Bangor FM and Down Community Radio.

You can hear the show anytime here on MixCloud.

Artist	Track	Album

Khaled	Sahra	Sahra
Haris Alexiou	O Anthropos Mou	Horizonte 2
The Beatles	Back In the U.S.S.R.	The Beatles 1967-1970 (The Blue Album)
Leningrad Cowboys	Happy Together	Happy Together
Balimaya Project	Soninka/Patronba	Wolo So
Sofia Rei	Un Mismo Cielo	Umbral
Xavier Boderiou	Kick Start Jigs (with Sylvain Barou & Antoine Lahay)	Liamm (with Sylvain Barou & Antoine Lahay)
Tony Allen, Dave Okumu & Joan As Police Woman	Geometry of You (Edit)	Geometry of You – Single
Leningrad Cowboys	Gimme All Your Lovin’	Happy Together
Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray	Lamizè Pa Dous	Leave the Bones
Cimarron	Orinoco Suite	Orinoco
Part 2
islandman & Tamikrest	Tarhamanine Assinegh	Godless Ceremony
Mostar Sevdah Reunion	Zapjevala Sojka Ptica	Sarajevo Skenderija (Live Album)
Zűrös Banda	A mérai hegytetőn	2021
Leningrad Cowboys & Alexandrov Ensemble	California Girls	Happy Together
Fapy Lafertin New Quartet	Torontoi emlek	Atlântico
Califato ¾	Canelita en rama	La Contraçeña
Leningrad Cowboys	Sweet Home Alabama	Happy Together
Sidi Touré	Bortchin	Afrik Toun Mé
Amira Medunjanin	Šta Će mi Život	For Him and Her
Gisela João & Xinobi	Tábuas Do Palco I (Xinobi Remix)	Tábuas Do Palco I (Xinobi Remix) – Single
Dizzy Mandjeku & Alé Kumá	Canción De Amor Y Muerte	De Palenque À Matongé
Afrika Mamas	Ibhodwe	Ilanga

Around the World is on Slice Audio, Ferry FM, and Radio Larne on Sundays at 10:00 pm to midnight. On Tuesdays at 7:00 pm the show is broadcast on Bangor FM, Lisburn’s 98FM and FM105 Down Community Radio.

See last week’s running order is here

Hear Part 1 on Mixcloud here

Hear Part 2 on Mixcloud here

Featured Album: There’s a story behind this week’s featured album. I had the car radio on in my constant search to find something – anything – worth listening to. The Beatles’ Back in the USSR came on. This track I do like – among my favourite Beatles cuts.

I thought – “There must be a newer better version of this.” I went in search. In short there isn’t.

Here’s the Beatles:

The “best” I could find was this from Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl – but even that’s not quite what I was looking for – and any it’s not released as a record so I couldn’t play it anyway.

Here’s that version

(And please, don’t mention Billy Joel.)

But I did come across a version by The Leningrad Cowboys (it’s not up to much either). “Who,” I wondered, “Are the Leningrad Cowboys?”

I’d like to make three points

1. I don’t like comedy music – it doesn’t make me laugh. (Yes, there are exceptions. Mike Absalom in 1973 for example. Well, I was very young at the time.)

2. The Leningrad Cowboys are not from Leningrad (as St. Petersburg was known for a time). They are from Finland.

3. They perform with The Red Army Choir! (Technically Alexandrov Ensemble. There is no Red Army anymore)

I did find an album – Happy Together – and I wanted to play a track, but I couldn’t decide which. So I’m playing four. It’s the featured album this week.

Here’s a taste.

Other music to tune in for:

A band you will be hearing a lot more from on the show is Balimaya Project’s Wolo So which has just been released. It is utterly fantastic. Here’s a short documentary about them and the album.