Outernational - All
Wednesday Aug 31, 2011
Various Artists
String Of Pearls: International 78s
Recommended by: Clone
A selection of string music from different countries. more...
| LP | Mississippi: MR-041 | out of stock |
Thursday Jul 28, 2011
Tony Allen and The Afro Messengers
No Discrimination
Recommended by: Clone
After 14 years of close collaboration Tony Allen stopped working with Fela Anikulapo Kuti. After breaking from the band during the gigs at Berlin's fe... more...
| LP | Kindred Spirits: KSTA03 | out of stock |
Tony Allen Plays With Afrika 70
Progress
n 1976 Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Afrika 70 released a total of 8 albums including the hit 'Zombie'. At the time of their height Tony Allen, Fela's drumm... more...
| LP | Kindred Spirits: KSTA04 | out of stock |
Monday May 16, 2011
Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra
Ayodegi
Recommended by: Dollkraut | Clone | Clone
This 10 musicians strong outfit from Paris have followed up their well received Definitely Roots album with another incredibly strong mix of Afrobeat,... more...
| 2LP | Masta Conga Production: Masta Conga 02 | out of stock |
Wednesday Apr 6, 2011
l'Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti
Kanaga De Mopti
Recommended by: Clone
Starting a brand new Mali series, Kindred Spirits brings us this wonderful piece of West-African government-funded music by the Kanaga De Mopti orches... more...
| LP | Kindred Spirits: KSMALI01 | out of stock |
Sunday Feb 20, 2011
Various Artists
Something Is Wrong - Songs From East Africa
Selections from an HMV run of more than four hundred 78s, recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid-1930s till the mid-1950s. more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP050-2 | out of stock |
Various Artists
Bellyachers, Listen - Songs from East Africa, 1938-46
Recommended by: Clone
Selections from an HMV run of more than four hundred 78s, recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid-1930s till the mid-1950s more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP050-1 | out of stock |
Various Artists
Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain, 1927-1929
Recommended by: Clone
Made in London, these recordings were issued originally by the Zonophone record label over three years from late 1927. The first West African Zonopho... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP033 | out of stock |
Thursday Jan 27, 2011
Tunde Williams Plays With Africa 70
Mr. Big Mouth
Tunde Williams blows from menthol-cool to incinerating on these wonderful vintage tracks. Afrika 70, recorded in 1975, produced by Fela Kuti.
| LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP101 | out of stock |
Thursday Nov 18, 2010
Mulatu Astatke
Ethio Jazz
Recommended by: Clone
AFRO CLASSIC REPRESSED!!! Mad grooves from the Ethiopian scene of the 70s -- featuring work by the enigmatic Mulatu, plus some of the other extra-cool... more...
| LP | L'Arome Productions: LAP005LP | out of stock |
Tuesday Sep 28, 2010
Various Artists
Afro-Beat Airways
Organ-driven Afro-beat, cosmic Afro-funk and raw, psychedelic boogie. Just some of the flavours to be found on this highly danceable compilation by Sa... more...
| 2LP + Booklet | Analog Africa: AALP068 | out of stock |
Tuesday Sep 7, 2010
Various Artists
Disc 'O' Lypso
Recommended by: Clone
Awesome collection of phat grooving disco and boogie funk! Tracks like The Star Beams - Disco Stomp, Okyerema Asante - Sabi (Get Down), Billie Cole -... more...
| 2LP | Trans Air: TRA424001 | out of stock |
Thursday Aug 12, 2010
Various Artists
Afro-Beat Airways
Recommended by: Clone
Organ-driven Afro-beat, cosmic Afro-funk and raw, psychedelic boogie ... just some of the flavours to be found on this highly danceable compilation by... more...
| CD | Analog Africa: AACD068 | out of stock |
Wednesday Jul 14, 2010
Various Artists
Shangaan Electro - New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
An astounding compilation of the breakneck Shangaan dance output of the Nozinja studio in Soweto, recorded between 2006 and 2009. The traditional Shan... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP052 | in stock |
Various Artist
To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings From Istanbul
Recommended by: Clone
The music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating. Drawn... more...
| 4LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP048 | out of stock |
Thursday May 27, 2010
Tony Allen
Lagos No Shaking
Tony Allen is the co-creator of Afrobeat, and one of the most distinctive and in-demand drummers on the planet. No one swings like this Nigerian rhyth... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP020 | out of stock |
Thursday Apr 29, 2010
Various Artists
The World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From The Congo, 1954-55
The presentation of vintage recordings from the EMI Archive in Hayes, this album uncovers the dizzy beginnings of the golden age of African music — zi... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP040 | in stock |
Friday Apr 16, 2010
Various Artists
Give Me Love: Songs Of The Brokenhearted - Baghdad, 1925-1929
Recommended by: Clone
In the mid-1920s The Gramophone Company employed two or three Europeans to criss-cross Iraq. They logged regional demographics, assessed the German co... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP035 | in stock |
Various Artists
Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive
Recommended by: Clone
Thirty amazing tracks recorded between 1903 and 1957, everywhere from England — Percy Grainger’s recording of the title song in 1908 — to the court of... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP036 | in stock |
Various Artists
Marvellous Boy: Calypso From West Africa
Recommended by: Vereker | Clone
The inter-war dance bands of British West Africa are often strikingly similar in sound to Trinidadian orchestras like Lovey's String Band (credited wi... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP038 | in stock |
Various Artists
Africa Boogaloo: The Latinization Of West Africa
Drawn from exceedingly rare records, mixing the celebrated and unknown, this is the sequel to The World Is Shaking, and the companion of Marvellous Bo... more...
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP041 | out of stock |
Thursday Nov 26, 2009
Mulatu Astatke
The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975
Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his... more...
| 2LP | Strut: Strut051lp | out of stock |
Wednesday Nov 25, 2009
Fela Kuti
Beasts Of No Nation / Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
Classic Afro Funk from Fela Kuti repressed by the Slow to Speak guys
| LP | Celluloid: Cell0822 | out of stock |
Wednesday Aug 5, 2009
Mulatu Astatke
Mulatu of Ethiopia
Recommended by: Luca Lozano
Amazing funky Afro-Jazz Funk masterpiece. This can compete with Fela Kuti's best works. Rare US vinyl re-issue!! more...
| LP | Atlantic: Worthy1020 | out of stock |
Monday Dec 31, 2007
Ismo Laakso
Ofelia
Ismo Laakso's very well produced and spaceously mixed Ofelia (from 1996-99) is a blend of industrial, avant garde, modern classic, bleeps and clicks.... more...
| LP | Sahko Puu: PUU045 | in stock |
