Midweek Mixdown: Radio Martiko

The deep digging crew at Radio Martiko have a cure for the winter blahs with a fishing-themed mix of vintage gems. Link below.

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To comfort our mood during this gloomy period, we decided to repost an old mix with songs from the deep bottom of the infinite pool of sadness : El Blues del Pescador.

Not sure if the musicians in the mix – including Tito Avila, Salim Djilali, Lavidas, Fatima Gassim and Amir Rassaie – descend from a family of fishermen, but all these songs have a kind of nautical touch to our ears. Let's dream and wander off to the ports and shores of Barranquilla, Nador, Varna, Piraeus, Bandar Abbas, Mogadishu & Port Sudan. The image above is fisherman from Port Said, Egypt playing a simsimiyya.

Check out Radio Martiko's delightful El Blues del Pescador mix right here.