Folk - All

Various Artists

Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980

Born on the campuses of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, and centred around newly formed independent label and left-wing stronghold URC, this Japanese form of... more...

• 01 Hiroki Tamaki - Kawa (River)
• 02 Happy End - Kaze Wo Atsumete (Gather the Wind)
• 03 Takashi Nishioka - Man In No Ki (The Crowded Tree)
• 04 Ken Narita - Gingatetsudo No Yoru (Night on the Galactic Railroad)

Nora Guthrie

Emilys Illness / Home Before Dark

Nora, being the daughter of the giant of American folk Woody Guthrie - he whose guitar was once emblazoned with ''this machine kills fascists'' (boy d... more...

• 1 Emilys Illness
• 2 Home Before Dark

Roger Fakhr

East Of Any Place

A wonderful psych-folk-tinged four tracker by Roger Fakhr. Recorded in the late 1970's in Beirut, around the same time as his just as wonderful ''Fine... more...

• 01 (You Look) So Funny
• 02 Dawn
• 03 East of Any Place
• 04 Queen Of Diamonds

Use Knife

Peace Carnival (Muqataa Remix)

In an inspiring collaboration uniting artists from different corners of Europe and the Middle East, Palestine's Muqata'a, French-Irish Zoe McPherson,... more...

• 1 Feed The Gentry ft. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Rabih Beaini Edit)
• 2 Ptolemaic (Zoe Mc Pherson Remix)
• 3 Coup Detat (Muqataa Remix)

Hyu

Inaudible Works 1994-2008

16 pieces of hard-to-classify music, created during the period 1994-2008, a cornucopia of playful, intelligent, questing and eminently listenable elec... more...

• 01 Godel Escher Bach in the Circle of Fifths
• 02 Cutie Bam-boo Dance
• 03 Num
• 04 WigWig

Georgia + Dove

Air from Air

The poetry of the human voice encounters the magic of contemporary electronic musical technology. Heart, mind and spirit, conveyed by the word, are au... more...

• 1 07091521 - Heat of the Cheek
• 2 10102002 - Your Feet
• 3 30071845 - This is Bee Wine
• 4 13022078 - I’m Looking Down at Me Sinking

NTsKi

Calla

NTsKi, Japan-based vocalist/songwriter/producer; pronounced n-t-s-k-i. Calla is her 2nd album, a unified statement of her musical vision at this point... more...

• 01 Milk White Steed
• 02 If (Calla Version)
• 05 Hanauranai
• 06 Calla Lily

Kumachan Seal

Kumachan Seal

Kumachan Seal: solo project of Japanese vocalist / songwriter / producer Sairi Ojima, who has been playing in numerous indie bands, including Neco Nem... more...

• 01 Graze
• 02 Trap for Catching Wolf
• 03 Radonamin
• 04 Pedicure

Kojun

The Water Garden

A buoyant masterpiece from the early 90s, “The Water Garden” was created by Okinawa-born Kojun Kokuba under the inspiring image of a “happy Asia” thri... more...

• 1 Kaw
• 2 Parade
• 3 Lady with Chinese Parasol
• 4 Gate of Market

Laure Boer

Les cites englouties

Laure Boer is Kashual again. And not so Plastik. Zoning dark-ish into her inner realms of journey music. Poetic, psychic, reflective, ejective. She si... more...

• 1 Soleil ebloui
• 2 Voler
• 3 Les cites englouties
• 4 Tourner en rond

Jun Arasaki and Nine Sheep

Kajyadhi-fu bushi (Visible Cloaks remix)

Printed on special paper embossed with matte silver aluminium foil. Please consider the jacket illustration as an image as the texture of the original... more...

• 1 Kajyadhi-fu bushi
• 2 Kajyadhi-fu bushi (Visible Cloaks remix)

Goat

New Games / Rhythm & Sound

Goat (formed by Koshiro Hino / YPY) will soon start their 2nd Europe tour in 2018 including a new annual series of events called MODE curated by Ryuic... more...

• 1 New Games
• 2 std
• 3 Solid Eye
• 4 Ghosts Part 1

Federal Duck

Federal Duck

Orange color vinyl version. Federal Duck was one of the many college bands to pop up during the psychedelic years and made a name for themselves as sk... more...

• 01 Knowing That I Loved You So
• 02 Easy Virtue Blues
• 03 Tomorrow Waits For Today
• 04 Just Like The Snow

Various Artists

Hedzoleh Soundz remixes (Mark Ernestus remix)

After reissuing Hedzoleh by Hedzoleh in 2022, a collaborative effort by Meakusma and Soundway, this new 12inch features remixes by Jimi Tenor, Mark Er... more...

• 1 Kaa Ye Oyai Don T Be In A Hurry (Mark Ernestus Remix)
• 2 Rekpete - (Jimi Tenor Rework)
• 3 Y Yei Baa Gbe Wo (Gavsborg Remix)
• 4 Sacha Todd S Simplex Meets Hedzoleh (Waltraud Blischke Remix)

Anatolian Weapons

Earth LP

The Athenian producer Aggelos Baltas alias Anatolian Weapons captures on the album Earth the feeling of an optimistic future that grows on the soil of... more...

• 1 Heliotrope
• 2 Mountains
• 3 Earth
• 4 Three Suns I

Altin Gun

Kalk Gidelim / Su Siziyor (remixes)

Hot on the heels of their highly acclaimed fifth album ''A?k,'' the Turkish-psych band Alt?n Gün return with a two-song summer remix single. The tw... more...

• 1 kalk gidelim remix
• 2 su siziyor remix

Hamza El Din

Al Oud

His second album is similar in tone to his debut, featuring original compositions based on Nubian folk traditions, masterful oud playing, and soothing... more...

• 1 Childhood (Assaramessuga)
• 2 The Spirits (Shortunga)
• 3 Grandfathers Stories (Annun Sira)
• 4 Did Nura Remember (Gillina Nura)

Hamza El Din

Music Of Nubia

Hamza El Din (July 10, 1929 – May 22, 2006) was an Egyptian composer, oud player, tar player, and vocalist. Performing on the oud (the Arabian short-n... more...

• 1 Fegir Nedan (Call To Worship)
• 2 Desse Barama (Peace)
• 3 Aiga Denos Ailanga (Give Back My Heart)
• 4 Hoi To Irkil Fagiu (The Message Bearer)

Gidia

Struga

Ritualistic, tribal industrial double lp from George Kondaktor and George Lemos direct from the mountains of Greece. Open circuit feedback laden elect... more...

• 01 Gidia To Kyma
• 02 Souravli
• 03 House Of Gidi
• 04 Tragos

Various Artists

Ghost Riders

Recommended by: Wrong Sal

A North American road trip of coming of age garage soul mapped by Ivan Liechti, Ghost Riders is Efficient Space’s latest narrative compilation, hoveri... more...

• 01 The Mod 4 - A Puppet
• 02 The Yardleys - Just Remember
• 03 Decompressed Impossibility - You Cant Ride Away
• 04 The Living End - Brigitta

Quiet Voices

Hantologies

Quiet Voices is a collaborative musical and sound art project, mixing ambient & electronic music, cinematic atmospheres & spoken word, founded by Jean... more...

• 1 A Story Of New Ancestors
• 2 When Computers Began To Misbehave
• 3 And Time Went By
• 4 Quiet Voices Of The Ether

Various Artists

Padang Moonrise

Padang Moonrise is the story of modern Indonesian music that emerged underneath the volcanoes of Java and Sumatra. Java, the most populous island in t... more...

• 01 Orkes Teruna Ria - Bulan Dagoan
• 02 Yanti Bersaudara - Gumbira
• 03 Orkes Suita Rama - Tepui Tepui
• 04 Band Nada Kentjana - Djaleuleudja

Slumberland & Sainkho Namtchylak

Lightkeeper

Expect the rattling drones of motorized chanters grinding against the unearthly sounds of a Siren. Morphine Records is coming up with a massive lo... more...

• 1 Zarja Zakat Zarja
• 2 1000 Days
• 3 Bullroarer
• 4 Il Widna

Mario Rui Silva

Stories From Another Time

The roots of Angolan popular music explored in the meticulous guitar studies of Ma?rio Rui Silva. For fans of Nana? Vasconcelos, John Hassell’s Fourth... more...

• 01 kazum-zum-zum
• 02 kizomba kya kisanji
• 03 dembita
• 04 ngisumba

Leo Nocentelli

Another Side

At just sixteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As... more...

• 01 Thinking Of The Day
• 02 Riverfront
• 03 I Want To Cry
• 04 Pretty Mittie