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2020 repress. "Our comprehensive overview of Zambia's premier garage-, psych-, prog-, funk-,Afro-rock ensemble Witch, We Intend To Cause Havoc!, is now sold out in its 6LP box set form. So we are making the first four Witch albums available in archival reissue form. As with our box set, the audio...
$36.99
'Funk & Sato From Benin's Obscure Labels 1973-1975' - Following the compilation 'African Scream Contest - Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo 70s' - which featured several tracks by Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, including the ground-breaking 'Gbeti Madjro' - this collection now focuses entirely on Orchestre Poly-Rythmo....
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Libyan artist Ahmed Ben Ali makes what he terms Libyan-style reggae. The description certainly holds for ‘Sibhana’s title-track, a rocksteady strut that is full of digi-dub tricks. However, while the other tune here, ‘Damek Majeb’, has some dancehall-indebted dembow about its beat, the overall effect of this slow dancefloor lope...
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2020 restock; triple LP version. Comes with a bonus 7" and free MP3 download. Soundway Records present Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & '80s -- a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over two CDs and one triple LP set, Kenya...
$32.99
"Archival reissue of the private-press, first issue of the album that launched Zamrock movement in 1972. Completely different recordings of the songs from the better-known Zambia Music Parlour album. Originally pressed in a run of just a few hundred copies and sold by the band at their live shows,...
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"Archival reissue of a dark, moody, introspective album by the mysterious Ricky Banda, a compatriot and bandmate of Rikki Ililonga and Dr. Footswitch. A welcome addition to the Zamrock canon, and a wonderful discovery for fans of WITCH and Amanaz."...
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Volume 3 in the Heavenly Sweetness (Parisian label founded by Franck Descollonges and Antoine Rajon) Èthiopiques curated series Ethiopian Urban Modern Music that started in 2007 and now arrives down on sparkling black vinyl for the heads in 2015. Regular fixture Samuel Belay and –his tremulous vocal- star on the...
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As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982. Led by vocalist Isaac “Superstar” Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson “Shaolin Kung-Fu” Papra on drums, Vis-A-Vis helped propel K. Frimpong to fame as one...
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Acid Jazz Records is proud to announce an exclusive licensing agreement with Albarika Store, the legendary record label that defined the sound of Benin and influenced the entire region of West Africa and beyond. This is the first exhaustive look at the archive and will see the label presented in...
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Wewantsounds present the first vinyl reissue of Ammar El Sherei's superb instrumental album Oriental Music from 1976. Here, the iconic Egyptian musician and composer revisits six classic compositions by another Egyptian legend, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, in his own hypnotic way. Curated by Lebanese-born Arabic music expert Mario Choueiry from Institut...
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In 1972, the country of Rhodesia – as Zimbabwe was then known – was in the middle of a long-simmering struggle for independence from British colonial rule. In the hotels and nightclubs of the capital, bands could make a living playing a mix of Afro-Rock, Cha-Cha-Cha and Congolese Rumba. But...
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Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin’s recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7” singles and numerous reel-to-reel...
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Now-Again drops a real treat, 5 different LPs collecting the complete Works of Ethiopian legend Ayalew Mesfin.
Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the funkiest...
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Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin’s recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7” singles and numerous reel-to-reel...
$36.99
Sharhabil was born in 1935 and he is the founding father of the Sudanese Jazz scene. His aim was to modernize Sudanese music by bringing it together with western influences and instrumentation like he summarized it himself in a 2004 interview for “Al Ahram Weekly”: “[...]Haqiba music, you know, was...
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'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 own original music form - Ethio Jazz. Strut are proud to present, for the first time anywhere, the definitive...
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In 1972, Orchestre Abass released two incredible singles on Polydor. These records -featuring 'Shamarin Banza', 'Haka Dunia' and other Afro-funk masterpieces- were powerful enough to knock any music head out, but it wasn't until the discovery of some unreleased material by the band that the seeds for this project were...
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Sahel Sounds is proud to announce that legendary Nigerien avant-garde organist Mamman Sani's Unreleased Tapes 1981 - 1984 is back in print on LP. One of the most sought-after releases in the Sahel Sounds catalog, Unreleased Tapes 1981 - 1984 gives listeners a fuller picture of Mamman...
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