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World Circuit

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World Circuit is a British world music record label, established in London in the mid-1980s, that specializes in Cuban and West African recording artists, among other international music stars. The label's founding principle was to be an artist-led company with all aspects of each release tailored to the artist. This continues to be the label's way of working. World Circuit celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006 by releasing 'World Circuit Presents...', a 2-disc retrospective compilation album. In 2018, World Circuit was acquired by BMG Rights Management.

In 1986, the label released its first albums, María Rodríguez's 'La Tremenda' and Abd El Gadir Salim's 'Sounds of Sudan Volume One'. World Circuit's first taste of major success came in 1993 with the teaming of Ali Farka Touré and American guitarist Ry Cooder on the Grammy award-winning album, 'Talking Timbuktu'. In 1996, British world-music producer Nick Gold of the World Circuit record label invited Cooder to Havana, Cuba, where they recorded the multi-million selling 'Buena Vista Social Club' album, produced by Cooder.

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Peel was an early supporter of World Circuit, giving airtime to two of the label's first three album releases, by Maria Rodriguez and Shirati Jazz, with tracks also played by Andy Kershaw when sitting in for JP.

Despite World Circuit's success as a promoter of world music, however, including African artists enjoyed by Peel, relatively few of the label's releases were heard on his shows after the early 1990s, with coverage perhaps delegated to roots music specialist Kershaw. [1] The label's huge international hit 'Buena Vista Social Club' is not known to have been played by Peel.

Plays[]

(Radio plays by Peel of single-artist releases on World Circuit Records. See below for various artist (v/a) compilations.)

1986
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Augustin Opiyo

- Shirati Jazz

1987
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Orchestra Baobab - Werente Serigne

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Mauritania My Beloved Country-2

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Oumou Sangaré - Diya Gneba (Official Audio)

1989
1990s
2000s
  • 29 March 2001: Orlando 'Cachaito' Lopez: Oracion Lucumi (LP: Cachaito)

Compilations[]

(Radio plays by Peel of various artist (v/a) compilations released by World Circuit.)

(LP - Cumbia Cumbia)

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