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Field recordings of the Mijikenda tribes, made in different spots in and around Mukunguni village, coastal Kenya, throughout September 2011: mostly healing music (especially for mental problems), but also love-songs, and spiritual contributions to weddings and burials; mostly in the Sengenya style which evolved in the early...
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The Basic Channel don meets the folk musicians of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan for a beguiling exchange and fusion of traditions crossing paths between haunting acapella vocals, virtuosic instrumentation and sublime, dub-wise 4th world panoramas Locating MVO diversifying his bonds along outernational vectors, just like his BC bandmate...
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Out of stockFollowing the almost unanimous praise for their previous studio masterpiece, Moritz Von Oswald (Maurizio/Rhythm & Sound), Max Loderbauer (Nsi/Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay) present 'Horizontal Structures', the jazz-suave and rolling x-axis to the kosmische y of 'Vertical Ascent' The curve of their...
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Out of stockThe opener cuts deep into jazz, its darting trumpet melodies sinking the impulsive and questing approach of On-The-Corner Miles into the nocturnal longing of Lift To The Scaffold Dark is a monolithic steppers’ in slo-mo, dense and dread Set to the soft throb of a four-to-the-floor kickdrum, third track Club is the album’s...
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Out of stockMoritz Von Oswald conducts a cabinet reshuffle, exchanging Vladislav Delay for legendary Afrobeat percussionist Tony Allen on his superb fourth Trio album and follow-up to 'Borderland' with Juan Atkins Alongside original member Max Loderbauer, the trio embark on a new and deeply charming chapter of elemental rhythm and sound...
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Fourteen Years is the first of three 10" comprising Charlotte Courbe's third album It marks her return to Honest Jon's after two decades Recently, Charlotte joined Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, singing and playing scissors Her recording "Born To Lie" featured prominently in the TV series Killing Eve After a cancer diagnosis...
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The third of three volumes surveying surely the mightiest Gospel label of them all Seventeen gems of fierce funk, rapturous soul and transcendent disco and boogie, super-charged with celebration and affirmativeness, loaded with roaring choirs, rocking horns and popping bass guitars, from the years leading up to Savoy's acquisition...
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The first of three volumes surveying surely the mightiest Gospel label of them all Stomping, rollicking gospel music, intermingling with raw soul, searing blues, hard-rocking doo-wop and jazz, and storming R&B Infused and incandescent with the hurting, surging indignation of the Civil Rights movement, here are twenty-four...
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The second of three volumes surveying surely the mightiest Gospel label of them all Sublime crossings of gospel with the soul, funk and jazz of the Black Power era Twenty rapturous cuts dot dazzlingly between Muscle Shoals soul, screwed breakbeat, Mizells-style fusion, disco and proto-house Triumphant re-workings of Sly Stone,...