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Takao

Stealth

Recommended by: Mattheis

”Stealth” is certainly an apt title for this disarming collection of crypto-New Age. From its opening, one might be forgiven for assuming that what fo... more...

• 01 Stealth
• 02 Water Music
• 03 Boat
• 04 Matsura

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Kukangendai

Zureru

New Ryuichi Sakamoto collaboration, with Tokyo experimental rockers Kukangendai.

• 1 Kukangendai × Ryuichi Sakamoto - Zureru
• 2 Kukangendai - Suuji
• 3 Kukangendai - Suuji (remodel by Ryuichi Sakamoto)

The Sakai Ishinage Odori Preservation Society

Sakai Ishinage Odori

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff

Heavy 1980s regional festival taiko drum ensemble more...

• 1 Yose Daiko
• 2 Ishinage Odori
• 3 Bukkiri Daiko
• 4 Yose Daiko (Sugai Ken mix)

The Kizaki Odori Preservation Society and Clark Naito

Kizaki Ondo

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff

Insane prediction of distorted techno, all made by local folkloric musicians in the 80s.

• 1 Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society - Kizaki Ondo
• 2 Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society - Kizaki Ondo (1981 Instrumental)
• 3 Clark Naito - Kizaki Ondo
• 4 Clark Naito - Kizaki Ondo (2018 instrumental)

Willy Nfor

Movements

For the 7th release on his label,Temi Kogbe compiles Willy Nfor's greatest songs from his solo works. The session player (bass) was involved heavily i... more...

• 01 Boogie Down In Africa
• 02 Happiness
• 03 Lyndaa
• 04 Sunshine

Jean-Pierre Boistel / Tony Kenneybrew

Percussions Pour La Danse

Deep late 80's percussion LP created to accompany contemporary jazz-dance classes. African instrumentation meets Western Jazz arrangements and compute... more...

• 1 Remedios
• 2 Dans Le Secret & Clepsydre
• 3 Des Perce-bois
• 4 Cest A Sete

Cara Stacey & Camilo Angeles

Ceder

In the follow up to her staggering psychedelic jazz debut, 'Things That Grow', we are delighted to see Cara Stacey's return to Kit Records. Here she t... more...

• 1 Jazmin
• 2 When We Made a Space Inside Each Other
• 3 Unpan Un Sol
• 4 Stolen

Fanna-Fi-Allah

Muraqaba Buda Musique

California based group Fanna-Fi-Allah have been touring their particular strain of Qawwali (Sufi praise music) for the past 17 years. Despite being... more...

Shigeo Tanaka

Yumi Kagura

Japanese folk!

• 1 Takusa Saimon
• 2 Inagahachiman Jinja Yumi Kagura Hono

Agrim Agadez

Musique Guitare de la Republique du Niger

Contemporary field recordings from the Sahelian empire of Niger. Focusing on guitar music throughout the country, from meditative starlight ballads, f... more...

• 1 Fatou Seidi Ghali - Migrid Noulhawan
• 10 Amaria Hamadalher - Bahouche
• 2 Etran De L'Ai?r - Iban Mano D'Ikhya
• 3 Mdou Moctar - Adounia Tiyoun

King Ayisoba

Modern Ghanaians

King Ayisoba is a star in Ghana. His kologo-playing is both melodic and percussive. With his producer Panji Anoff he changed the Accra music scene by... more...

• 5 Modern Ghanaians
• 6 Africa
• 7 Dont Joke To Your Father
• 8 Baaba Poore

Various Artists

This Is Kologo Power!

Recommended by: Moscoman

The kologo is a goat-skinned calabash with two strings. This is a kind of Ghanaian blues, full of soul, suffering and protest, and rhythmic charge. S... more...

• 1 King Ayisoba - Africa
• 10 King Ayisoba - Nerba
• 2 Ayuune Sule - Who Knows Tomorrow
• 3 Agongo - I Am Suffering

Jacob Mafuleni and Gary Gritness

Batanidzo

The mbira maestro from Zimbabwe Jacob Mafuleni and his wife Martha Thom on vocals and percussion team up with electro-funk prodigy Gary Gritness for a... more...

• 1 Mayarira
• 2 Mweya We Chikoni
• 3 Zvichapera
• 4 Mukuru

Various Artists

Sky Girl

Sky Girl is a mysteriously melancholic and sentimental journey through folk-pop, new wave and art music micro presses that span 1961-1991. more...

• 01 Linda Smith - I So Liked Spring
• 02 Karen Marks - Cold Cafe
• 03 Bruce Langhorne - Leaving Del Norte
• 04 The Seraphims - Conciousness Of Happening

Various Artists

Bed of Pain

Recommended by: Clone

Wicked Ian Nagoski selection of rebetika 78s. Stunning Greek blues with recurrent themes of free love, hash, fucking over the cops, death and existent... more...