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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...

• 1 Progress
• 2 Afro disco Beat

Various Artists

Lagos Chop Up

Fela's success in the West has hidden from view the diversity of modern Nigerian music. Like Lagos All Routes, whilst Chop Up sets out to put things i... more...

• 01 sir shina adewale - awa ni superstars
• 02 dr victor olaiya - omelebele
• 03 etubom rex williams - uwa idem mi
• 04 kollington ayinla - alhaja sikira adunni

Mark Ernestus Presents Djery Djery and Mbene Diatta Seck

Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh

A stunning new production by the Rhythm & Sound ace, drawn from his recording sessions with some of Senegal's greatest musicians — a griot clan of Sab... more...

• 1 mbeugel dafa nekh
• 2 dub dafa nekh

Various Artists

What Remains Of Eden: Anatolian & Levantine Music 1928-1952

Recommended by: Clone

Beautiful classical solo improvisations, folk songs & ensemble rockers -- all never reissued before on LP. Compiled by Ian Nagoski. Extensive liner no... more...

• 01 ahmet gurses - instanbul yolunda
• 02 rizell sadik - sarkisi
• 03 shemon asian - abdomun mezari
• 04 kemany memdouh bey - cefti telli taxim

Ebo Taylor

Appia Kwa Bridge

Appia Kwa Bridge is a strident return from the Ghanaian highlife guitar legend. Featuring six new compositions, his sound is more dense and tightly lo... more...

• 1 ayesama
• 2 abonsam
• 3 nsu na kwah
• 4 yaa amponsah

Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck:

Xale

A sophomore three-tracker: singer Mbene Diatta Seck in sombre consideration of street-kids and parental neglect, buoyed by propulsive drumming and tre... more...

• 1 xale
• 2 xale rhythm
• 3 daguagne

Jacarande Muse

September Sun

Although it naturally incorporates the elements of their national culture, like the mbira (the Shona thumb piano), it is impossible to reduce the musi... more...

• 01 let you go
• 02 september sun
• 03 thirty five
• 04 emergency exit

Mr. Raoul K

Mande

Mr Raoul K is well known for his productions that mix original African instruments with techno and deep house “Made in Germany”. For “Mande”, Still... more...

• 01 somaissai
• 02 bardot
• 03 sierra leone (deetron mixdown)
• 04 rainforest (coratouchmix)

Le Orchestre National A De La Republique Du Mali

Le Orchestre National A De La Republique Du Mali

Recommended by: Clone

The National 'A' Orchestra was founded by the new government at Mali's independence. They later divided into A and B formations. The A Orchestra was l... more...

• 1 malamini
• 2 taara
• 3 janfa
• 4 son taw la

Terry Callier

What Color Is Love

The legendary 1972 album including 'Dancing Girl'! more...

• 1 Dancing Girl
• 2 What Color Is Love
• 3 You Goin Miss you Candyman
• 4 Just As Long As We're In Love

L Pierre

The Island Come True

Recommended by: Clone | Rivet

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• 01 kab 1340
• 02 harmonic avenger
• 03 drums
• 04 sad laugh

Marcos Valle

Vento Sul

Recommended by: Clone | Gerd

Originally released in 1972, Vento Sul not only channelled the Buzios beach bum vibe, but also manifested a floating dream like psychedelic sound. Con... more...

• 01 revolucao organica
• 02 malena
• 03 pista 02
• 04 voo cego

Tecumsay Roberts / Commy Bassey

The Triassic Tusk EP

Two monster funk fuelled afro disco monsters released in conjunction with the Triassic Tusk label from Scotland and their 2018 compilation Screamers B... more...

• 1 Tecumsay Roberts - It Makes Me Dance
• 2 Commy Bassey - We Want Togetherness

Ravi Shankar

Improvisations And Theme From Pather Panchali

Recommended by: Clone | Clone | Clone

Originally recorded in 1962 for World Pacific and featuring jazz musicians Gary Peacock on bass and Bud Shank on flute, the album opens with improvisa... more...

• 1 Improvisation On The Theme Music From Pather Panchali
• 2 Fire Night
• 3 Karnataki
• 5 Part 2 (Jor)

Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri

Gawlo

The talking drums rolling, featuring guests Baaba Maal and Doudou Ndiaye Rose

• 1 Gawlo (with Baaba Maal)
• 2 Gawlo (version)
• 3 Lignou Mome
• 4 Ndeye Gueye (with Doudou Ndiaye Rose)

John Wizards

John Wizards

One of the favorite albums of Kettel... and if he says so we trust him blindly thats its something worth listening! John Wizards are a band from Cape... more...

• 01 Tek Lef Schrempf
• 02 Lusaka By Night
• 03 Limpop
• 04 Muizenberg

Bea Benjamin with Dollar Brand

African Songbird

Recommended by: Rio Padice

The opener is a first-round knockout: moody and hurting, soaring and visionary, with him-indoors Dollar Brand threading electric keys through the free... more...

• 1 Africa
• 2 Music
• 3 African Songbird

Plaza Francia

A New Tango Song Book

Catherine Ringer (from Rita Mitsouko) sings Müller & Makaroff (from Gotan Project) This is the story of two worlds sizing each other up! more...

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• 02
• 03
• 04

Ravi Shankar

Three Ragas

Three Ragas, Ravi Shankar’s Western debut (recorded in London in 1956), remains one of his finest albums ever recorded. Although Shankar was already a... more...

• 1 raga jog
• 2 Raga Ahir Bhairav
• 3 Raga Simhendra Madhyamam

Francis Bebey

Psychedelic Sanza 1982-1984

Recommended by: Luca Lozano | Marsman

Special & very strong compilation from the Parisian re-issue kings Born Bad of the late Cameroonian master musician Francis Bebey. more...

• 01 Sanza nocturne
• 02 Bissau
• 03 Sanza Tristesse
• 04 Africa Sanza

B+

Sertao Madrugada - Music From Brasil, Colombia, Sierra Leone & Eritrea

CD contains music from the South American and African continent… funky, melodic, percussive world music. The tracks are mixed.

Jesse

Music For Emotions

Disco-formatted and world-fusioned four tracker with hints of Finnish-Prog-Rock, Jazz and New Age by Helsinki's Jesse. Last track being the burner on... more...

• 1 Easy Steppin'
• 2 Emotion #1
• 3 Very Much (Performancer)
• 4 Keke Rullaa

Tom Ze

Estudando O Samba

180 gram reissue of original pressing from 1976. more...

• 01 Ma
• 02 A Felicidade
• 03 Toc
• 04 To

Joao Donato

Lugar Comum

180 gram reissue of original pressing from 1975. Limited edition more...

• 01 Lugar Comum
• 02 Tudo Tem
• 03 A Bruxa De Mentira
• 04 E Menina

Kasa Tessema

Ethiopiques Vol. 29 (Mastawesha)

Kassa belongs to the long tradition of melancholy raconteurs with a decided gift of gab. And the unique embrace of his deep voice heightens the emotio... more...

• 01 Tizita
• 02 Nagedamu
• 03 Bati
• 04 Fano

Various Artists

Soul Safari presents Township Jive & Kwela Jazz Volume 3

Soul Safari started as a blog to showcase the music of Africa with a strong emphasis on South Africa. Now in its 6th year, Soul Safari is proud to pre... more...

• 01 Telegram Specials - Ngibosen Twist
• 02 The Young Stars - Izwe Liyasha
• 03 The Young Stars - Ulowa
• 04 The Lower Buttons - Intogeymy

Hailu Mergia & The Walias

Tche Belew

The acclaimed and highly sought-after LP by Hailu Mergia and the Walias, Tche Belew, an album of instrumentals released in 1977, is perhaps the most s... more...

• 01 Tche Belew
• 02 Yemiasleks Fikir
• 03 Yikirta Lemminalehu
• 04 Musicawi Silt

Super Mama Djombo

S/T

Recommended by: Philou Louzolo

Super Mama Djombo is one of West Africa's greatest roots orchestras and especially for the people of Guiné-Bissau. The band marked a new national iden... more...

• 1 Pansau Na Isna
• 2 Marietu Djeme
• 3 Manobra Da Pequena
• 4 Wai Nene

Admas

Kalatashew Waga (Andras Fox Remix)

Recommended by: D-Ribeiro | Jex Opolis

Ethiopian funk mob Admas’s accidental houser ‘Kalatashew Waga’ from 1984 gets a reissue (and a remix from long-time fan Andras Fox). Restored and mast... more...

• 1 Kalatashew Waga
• 2 Kalatashew Waga (Andras Fox Remix)

Derek Gripper

One Night On Earth: Music From The Strings Of Mali

180g heavyweight vinyl edition of Derek Gripper's mesmerising kora interpretations. Featuring original Toumani Diabate compositions and the classic tr... more...

• 1 Jarabi
• 2 Kaira
• 3 Kaounding Cissoko

Ndikho Xaba And The Natives

Ndikho Xaba

Ndikho Xaba was born in 1934 in Pietermaritzburg, KZN, South Africa. For thirty-four years — 1964 –1998 — he lived in exile in the US, Canada and Tan... more...

• 1 Shwabada
• 2 Freedom
• 3 Flight
• 4 Nomusa

Tala A.M.

African Funk Experimentals (1975 to 1978)

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff

At Africa Seven (and in this case) they are headed for destination funk. The musical topic inevitably leads us to the 70's and we borrow our super sli... more...

• 01 Intro
• 02 Hot Koki
• 03 Black Gold
• 04 Sugar Lump

Wukir Suryadi

Woven Sounds

Half of Indonesia's Senyawa (the band's sole instrumentalist, Wukir Suryadi) with a solo release for Morphine. Engineered by Rabih Beaini.

• 1 Tenun
• 2 Comb Sisir & Topi Toraja

Rully Shabara

Huruf Hidup

One half (the vocal force) of Indonesia's Senyawa with a solo release for Morphine. Engineered by Rabih Beaini.

• 1 Ta Awwudz
• 4 Lahuwahlahu
• 5 Faring

Woo

Awaawaa

Palto Flats and New General Catalogue are partnering to release Awaawaa, a new record by Woo, the longstanding project of British brothers Mark and C... more...

• 01 Odd Spiral
• 02 Green Blob
• 03 Mobile Phone
• 04 The Goodies

AMM

Ammmusic

Black Truffle is honoured to present the first vinyl reissue of the classic debut album from AMM, AMMMusic. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of it... more...

• 1 Later During A Flaming Riviera Sunset
• 2 After Rapidly Circling The Plaza

Levitros

Kara Kaslar

Another lush Israeli reissue through Fortuna!

• 1 Kara Kaslar
• 2 Of Of
• 3 Miskalizis Tingardiemo

Khwanta Fasawang

Lam phaen motorsai tham saep: the best of lam phaen sister no. 1

Combining earlier musical trajectories with electronic elements and lyrics dealing with drinking and love, money and motorcycles, Khwanta led the cass... more...

• 1 Lam Phaen Bak Song Sao Pha Saeo
• 2 Lam Phaen Motorsai Tham Saeb
• 3 Lam Phaen Pen Taa O O
• 4 Lam Phaen Nai Khon Bo Mi Ongsa

Carl Gari & Abdulah Miniawy

Darraje

Peculiar bits with Arabian influences to top it off.

• 1 Nayroz
• 2 Ya Wayni
• 3 Darraje
• 4 Al Weshaya

Shy Layers

Shy Layers

Whether you’re floating free to antipodean ambience or toasting the sunset with a Baltic beauty, you can always count on Growing Bin to take you somep... more...

• 01 Black & White
• 04 Stabilized Waves
• 05 Too Far Out
• 07 Playing The Game

Tony Allen

Homecooking

Originally released in 2002, here reissued as a remastered version. more...

• 01 Woman To Man (feat Ty)
• 02 Kindness
• 03 Every Season (feat Damon Albarn & Ty)
• 04 Don't Fight

Aura

Aloha Got Soul

Superb late-seventies soul from Hawaii. Sleekly bumptious, with brilliant musicianship and classy arrangements, dosed with jazz and funk more...

• 1 I Will Remember You
• 2 Let Go, It Is Over
• 3 Magic Lover
• 4 Yesterdays Love

Sonthaya Kalasin

Grade A Guy

Sonthaya Kalasin was the male lead singer in in the molam section of legendary producer/ impresario Surin Paksiri's beloved musical troupe Thidso Lam... more...

• 1 We Are Harmony
• 10 Lam Phloen Khanmak
• 11 Lam Doen I Am Here
• 2 Lam Phu Tai of Sorrow

Various Artists

The Essential Doi Inthanon Classic Isan Pops from the 70s-80s

Recommended by: Clone

A revered figure in his native Isan region, and indeed throughout Thailand, Doi Inthanon is a legendary composer, producer, visionary and talent-spott... more...

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• 10
• 11
• 12

Diggory Kenrick

Oppression

A rocking take on Yabby’s ‘Jah Jah Way’ rhythm, which was re-worked by Yabby and Scientist as ‘Stop Upression Now’ dub. This uptempo stepper gets re-w... more...

• 1 Oppression

King Ayisoba

Wicked Leaders

His first recordings with a full band — a new, high-energy, powerful sound, with only traditional acoustic instruments. The guluku drums, the sinyaka... more...

• 10 Sunsua
• 8 Bayeti Boy
• 9 Wicked Leaders

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...

• 1 April
• 2 April Dub
• 3 April Parts

Various Artists

Loving Mighty Fire Nippon Funk Soul and Disco 1973-1983

Compilation of Japanese funk, soul and disco for Ace Records offshoot BGP International. From mavericks like Haruomi Hosono of the Yellow Magic Orches... more...

• 1 Lily - Bye Bye Session Band
• 10 Miyako Chaki - Maboroshi No Hito
• 11 Kay Ishiguro - Banana
• 12 Masaaki Hirao - Funky Miyo-chan

Various Artists

Ethiopiques Box

Reissue of 6 Ethiopian 7 inches with original artwork with all the great Ethiopian artists like : Mulatu Astatke?, Girma Be?ye?ne?, Mahmoud Hamed, Get... more...

Apolos

Apolos & Sucesso

Quite scarce and demanded record from Os Apolos recorded in The Netherlands. Featured an off the hook Afro Beat song ''Time of War''. Limited Warehous... more...

• 1 Apolos E Sucesso
• 2 Pourquoi tu fais sa
• 3 I Promise you good way
• 4 A'Gua Caliente