Kaya 959 The World Show With Nicky B

The World Show With Nicky B

The World Show is informative, expansive, and largely pan-African. This is a musical journey that bridges generations and genres, travelling across continents and timelines, with in-depth interviews and features. ‘The World Show’ is a four-hour global journey through sound – featuring the freshest tracks from home and afar.
Weekly English South Africa Arts · Performing Arts
301 Episodes
280 – 300

Bongeziwe Mabandla

Bongeziwe Mabandla, who has been described as a “modern miracle” by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and who was recently profiled in prestigious UK music magazine, Songlines. Over the past eight years, this Joburg-based artist has steadily built his career and with a recent string of performances across Europe and Africa…
8 Mar 2020 47 min

Ramiro Naka,singer, songwriter and guitarist

Coming from Guinea Bissau, this Paris-based artist draws on his roots by blending a mix of musical genres, including fado, samba and salsa percussions, into the traditional Gumbé style - a rhythm originally played with big drums but also a dance, with contagious energy. Ramiro speaks of Guineans as the…
19 Jan 2020 28 min

Hervé Celcal.

We celebrate #Jazzuary with our special guest, jazz pianist Hervé Celcal. Coming from Martinique in the French West Indies, Hervé trained on classical piano from the age of 7, and after introducing traditional West Indian pieces in to his classical repertoire, he was introduced to jazz and improvisation. After settling…
12 Jan 2020 38 min

Seun Olota

With fresh sounds from around the world, the feature is an Afrobeat explosion - inspired by our special guest Seun Olota. Simply known as Olota, this Nigerian Afro-fusion artist has ‘built his music niche within the context of dance music, hymnal, choral and therapeutic music with original compositions for strings,…
8 Dec 2019 40 min

Mo Laudi

Known for being the first South African DJ/MC to have mixed in London clubs during weekly residencies and on RadioClit; Mo Laudi then moved to Paris in 2009, and he has since been spreading his Afro-groove and deep house in Parisian clubs - bringing together Detroit techno, Chicago house with…
1 Dec 2019 35 min

Aziz Sahmaoui

Our special guest is the Moroccan-born musician, Aziz Sahmaoui - an acclaimed singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and heroic exponent of his region’s Gnawa music. For more than 20 years Aziz has worked to bring the sound of his native Morocco to life, far beyond the often superficial boundaries imposed by the…
24 Nov 2019 25 min

Kyekyeku (Tche-Tche-Kou)

Ghanain guitarist Kyekyeku (Tche-Tche-Kou), who encapsulates a new generation of Ghanaian musicians who “make the distant past meet contemporary idioms” of West Africa’s musical heritage. His music draws from the forest folk Palmwine blues and the cross rhythms of Ghana that gave birth to some of the Africa’s intrinsic styles,…
17 Nov 2019 10 min

Herve Samb

Senegalese guitar virtuoso and composer, Herve Samb - a prolific artist who has recorded on more than hundred albums and performed in almost every part of the world, working with the likes of Pat Metheny, Cheick Tidiane Seick, Toure Kunda, Paco Sery, Lionel Loueke, Jimmy Cliff, Pharoah Sanders, Meshell Ndegeocello,…
17 Nov 2019 54 min

Cheick Tidiane Seck

Known as the elder statesman of Malian music, Cheick’s career began in Bamako in the early ’70’s with legendary bands such as Les Ambassadeurs and the Super Rail Band - groups which launched the careers of artists like Salif Keita and More Kante. With his new release ‘Timbuktu’, Cheick Tidiane…
13 Oct 2019 45 min

Yuri Lenquette

The internationally acclaimed photographer, Yuri Lenquette. Having started his career as a journalist, Yuri began to devote himself entirely to photography in 1986. He has since collaborated with some of the most renowned artists of the last twenty-five years.
13 Oct 2019 23 min

Jonathon Jurion

Jonathon Jurion,vibrant pianist from Guadeloupe, Jonathon Jurion. With his first solo release, Jurion explores the legacy of American saxophonist Marion Brown, a cult figure whose time in Paris left an indelible mark on the French Jazz scene. The session blends traditional Ka drums from Guadeloupe and the exceptional double bass…
6 Oct 2019 38 min

The World Show with Nicky B is joined by Jérémy Labelle

Jérémy Labelle, who is best known simply as ‘Labelle’. Born in France to a Réunionese father and a French mother, Labelle moved to Reunion island in 2011 to further develop a sound he dubs “Maloya electronica” - an amalgamation of synthetic and acoustic sounds, blending ancient tradition with modern technology…
15 Sep 2019 36 min

The World Show With Nicky B is joined by Ozane

Ozane - a talented, young Reggae Dancehall, modern Afrobeat singer and music producer from Togo. Ozane brings a new concept to the world of music, which he calls ‘Afro Dancehall’ - a mix of African traditional percussion with ragga roots.
15 Sep 2019 15 min

Vincent Ségal-French cellist and bassist

Vincent is highly regarded for his versatility, and for the the variety of his collaborations and unusual projects. He has worked with the likes of Steve Nieve, Elvis Costello, Cesaria Evora, Blackalicious, Carlinhos Brown, the French reggae band Tryo and many others… In 1986 he and Cyril Atef and formed…
1 Sep 2019 47 min

Brett Sroka

A composer, musician, sound artist and curator traversing the spheres of improvisation, technology and contemporary art. He has released six records of original music, with his electro-acoustic jazz trio, Ergo, and melodronoise duo Cherubim. His installations and collaborations have been presented internationally at some of the worlds most reputable galleries…
25 Aug 2019 18 min

May Kassem

An award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, radio producer, music composer and teacher. After studying and living in the US, May is currently back in Lebanon where she presents two music programs on 96.2 FM Radio Liban « Poivre Noir, Piment Rouge » (world music) as well as « Champ Sonore » (electronic,…
25 Aug 2019 28 min

Wael Jegham aka ‘Ghoula’

Special guest is the Tunisian artist, Wael Jegham aka ‘Ghoula’ - an award-winning multi-instrumentalist musician and composer of Tunisian and international film music. He’s a digger, passionate about old North African vinyls, and in 2016, he released his first album ‘Hlib El Ghoula’, which means "milk of the ogress", a…
18 Aug 2019 35 min
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