Tomorrow night’s radio show will feature special guest C. Joynes, playing ‘a sketchy and highly subjective selection of music from across Africa, drawing mostly on cassettes and CDs bought from vendors and market stalls – a hybrid of commercial folk and pop releases for Africans, rather than either ethnographic field recordings or world music releases destined for the European/US market.’ We’ve been planning this for a long time, and as it’s an area of music I know next to nothing about, I’m personally looking forward to it.
