Label: Honest Jons - All

Tuesday Feb 13, 2024

Lamin Fofana

Lamin Fofana And The Doudou Ndiaye Rose Family

Epic, grooving, dazzlingly creative, perfectly attuned blends of complex mbalax drumming, field recordings, thumping kick-drum, and cosmic, bubbling,... more...

12inch Honest Jons: HJP098

Holy Tongue / Beatrice Dillon / Lamin Fofana / LABOUR

HJP 097

Four dazzling, extended engagements with mbalax master-drumming. The contribution from Holy Tongue is chase-the-devil steppers — thumping, clangoro... more...

2x12inch Honest Jons: HJP097

Thursday Aug 18, 2022

Shackleton

The Majestic Yes (Mark Ernestus Version)

Twenty minutes of startlingly original music, with Shackleton the maestro at the top of his game, and a characteristically evilous dub by Mark Ernestu... more...

12inch Honest Jons: HJP096
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Monday Oct 25, 2021

Madteo

Head Goes Wrong By Noise

Visceral, elemental, electronic funk, conjured from scraps of sound, breath, mutterings, dubwise remembrances, scuffling, sweat and blood, thin air —... more...

2LP Honest Jons: HJRLP86
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Madteo

Str8 Crooked

Three dazzling re-routings of Detroit machine funk — Moodymann in particular — into deep mid-Atlantic co-minglings with raw, old-school hiphop and hou... more...

12inch Honest Jons: HJP095

Thursday Dec 19, 2019

DJ Sotofett & Osaruxo

Hebi

Hebi is tough, stomping, mesmerizing romany funk, riding Far East from the Baltic Sea on clopping hooves of uranium, with synths from spaceways furthe... more...

10inch Honest Jons: HJP092

Monday Oct 14, 2019

The Music Improvisation Company

1969, 1970

''The original concepts of vocal and instrumental music are utterly different. The instrumental impulse is not melody in a 'melodious' sense but an ag... more...

2LP Honest Jons: HJRLP209

Tribe Of Colin

Age Of Aquarius

Something special: someone we've been getting excited about, making his debut on Honest Jon's! Juddering bangers and hypnotic body-rockers, dazed s... more...

2LP Honest Jons: HJP088
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Thursday May 9, 2019

Friday Dec 21, 2018

DJ Sotofett

Dub Off

Three murderous steppers dubs on a propulsive, rat-tat-tat rhythm, combining mystical spaciousness with detail and ferocity. Angry-lion bass and smear... more...

10inch Honest Jons: HJP086

DJ Sotofett & Maimouna Haugen

C'est l'aventure

Precious, timely, moody reflections on migrating from Côte d’Ivoire to Moss, in Norway, over ruff breakbeat funk supplied by the nimble bass-playing o... more...

10inch Honest Jons: HJP085

Monday Dec 17, 2018

10inch Honest Jons: HJP024
10inch Honest Jons: HJP017

Moondog

The Viking Of Sixth Avenue

Thirty-six tracks from 1949 to 1995, most of them exceptionally rare and reissued now for the first time, all of them miraculous. more...

2LP Honest Jons: HJRLP018
LP Honest Jons: HJRLP107

Thursday Dec 7, 2017

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Book Of Sound

“We started with the principle – the cosmic idea that we were taught by our father from a very young age – that the stars and planets make a sound, th... more...

2LP Honest Jons: HJRLP074

Monday Jan 23, 2017

2x12inch Honest Jons: HJP084 (77403)

Friday Dec 30, 2016

Obadikah

Obadikah

This is lovely. Brand-new, rambunctious, rootsy, spiritual brass-band music from Lagos, with singing, drums and home-made percussion. Obadikah is a... more...

LP Honest Jons: HJRLP113

Mark Ernestus vs. Obadikah

April

A re-work by Mark Ernestus of the opener of Honest Jons' new LP by the Obadikah brass band, from Lagos. Beautifully textured, shuffling Lagos funk, o... more...

10inch Honest Jons: HJP083

Thursday Oct 27, 2016

Kassem Mosse

Disclosure

ierce, subtle music, radically strange and unafraid of the deep, but with a killer understanding of rhythm. Lush drum-machine nocturnes, gnarly electr... more...

2LP Honest Jons: HJRLP73

Tuesday Sep 20, 2016

Thursday Jul 28, 2016

LP Honest Jons: HJP081

Kassem Mosse

Chilazon

Blinding jammed house trips & beyond.

12inch Honest Jons: HJP082
10inch Honest Jons: HJP080