Viking's Choice 2022: Outer Sounds Around the World

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this year-end episode, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Bob Boilen around the globe to experience Vietnamese ambient, Chilean speed metal and auto-tune'd Ghanaian gospel music.

Featured Tracks and Artists:

• BKO: "Sadiona" from Djine Bora
• Cheba Wahida: "Jrouli Jrouli" from Jrouli
• Sơn FM: "Go Into the Mountains" from Points of Light (ST๐๐๗)
• Switchblade: "夜に踊る" from Blue Matter
• Romperayo: "El Borracho" from Así No Se Puede Muchaches
• La Colonie de Vacances: "L'amour universel" from ECHT
• No Home: "Emerald Green Mirror" from Young Professional
• Vórtize: "Mundo Bipolar" from ¡Tienes Que Luchar!
• Linda Ayupuka: "Yine Faamam" from God Created Everything

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0:00.0	For our music it's all songs considered. It's the end of the year. It is Viking's choice and I and you out there
0:08.4	are about to be turned on to things. I know you and I know I have never heard before.
0:14.3	Is that right? I think that's true. That's Lars Godridge. Here's our Viking. Every year you do this to me Lars.
0:21.6	I do this to you. Yeah. It's this thing where I listen to music umpteen hours a day. Yeah. And I think I've heard like
0:29.3	I think you've heard like a good like a good swath of the music that is available in the world. But then you realize
0:37.5	no it is but a but we are but a pin drop in the world of music Bob and sometimes this really frustrates me
0:47.4	but it also gives me excitement. You swim in a very different pool oftentimes or yeah and so you're here today
0:54.8	turn us on to something loud something mindful something thoughtful something
1:00.0	and brush something whatever you're starting off we're starting off with BKO from Molly.
1:30.5	they
1:55.6	I don't mind, I don't mind.
2:05.6	That wasn't used to you, wasn't it?
2:07.6	No, wasn't.
2:08.8	But I feel like I want to scream as soon as I hear it.
2:11.9	It sends chills through my whole being when I hear that scream.
2:16.1	This is really cool.
2:17.3	So tell me about BKO besides being the initials of an airport.
2:21.6	Right.
2:22.6	BKO's initials of the airport in Bamako, Molly and Bob, you play a lot of like a desert
2:30.5	rock and Molly and rock music on this show.
2:33.2	I think it's both like a sweet spot for both of us.
2:36.1	And I thought it'd start with maybe something familiar to all of the ones considered fans,
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