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Pharaway Sounds present a reissue of the first album by Selda Bagcan, originally released in 1976 A collection of well-known poems and folk-songs, recorded in cooperation with the most progressive Turkish musicians/arrangers of the '70s: Mogollar, Dadaslar, Zafer Dilek, and Arif Sag Combining traditional instrumentation from... -
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Produced by Masatoshi Nishimura of FENCE OF DEFENSE, this is an innovative album that contains elements of new wave and rock, as well as mellow songs and experimental sounds In recent years, due to the popularity of city pop, mellow songs such as “I’m In Love” and “Midnight Pretenders” and the cosmic-sounding... -
A repress of Ruriko Ohgami’s “Typhoon Lady”, a masterpiece of Japanese lady soul! This album has been talked about not only as a boost to the popularity of Japanese music, but also as a result of the Japanese creator’s sampling of “SEXY WOMAN”, and the price of the original release never ceases to soar In... -
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Takeshi Inomata, a master drummer who has always been exploring new horizons, released another masterpiece from the golden age of jazz-rock The music is funky and groovy as if to provoke the listener He leads Sound Limited, a great group that played a role in the development of Japanese jazz-rock, in pushing the limits of the... -
Hiro Yanagida, Jiro Inagaki, Takeshi Inomata, Akira Ishikawa, Kimio Mizutani… A compilation album by pioneering Japanese jazz/new rock artists (’71) This is a masterpiece of the early 1970s when Japanese jazz/rock was at its most innovative and groundbreaking as if the radical atmosphere of the time was condensed at once The... -
In the early 1980s, Akira Inoue’s genius as a composer and arranger permeated Japanese pop music and culture His breakout arrangements for Reflections, actor Akira Terao’s nighttime city-pop smash, helped make it the best-selling album of the decade This success led to his debut fusion synth-pop album, Prophetic Dream, packed... -
Reissue of Lure of the Desert, originally released in 1985 In the 1920s, Tau Moe (pronounced mo-ay), a Hawaiian musician, arrived in India and introduced Hawaiian music to the sub-continent After settling in Calcutta in the early 1940s, Moe and his family performed, taught and introduced Hawaiian music by building and selling... -
Reissue of Brij Bhushan Kabra's Scaling New Horizons With Guitar, originally released in 1976 In the 1920s, Tau Moe (pronounced mo-ay), a Hawaiian musician, arrived in India and introduced Hawaiian music to the sub-continent After settling in Calcutta in the early 1940s, Moe and his family performed, taught and introduced Hawaiian... -
Reissue of Brij Bhushan Kabra and Zakir Hussain's The Magic of Music - Guitar and Tabla, originally released in 1982 In the 1920s, Tau Moe (pronounced mo-ay), a Hawaiian musician, arrived in India and introduced Hawaiian music to the sub-continent After settling in Calcutta in the early 1940s, Moe and his family performed, taught... -
Wewantsounds present the first vinyl reissue Omar Khorshid's cult instrumental album from 1978 originally released in Lebanon The album features Khorshid's trademark twangy electric guitar sound over Arabic melodies enhanced by fascinating fuzzed-up arrangements and early synthesizer sounds Wewantsounds' series of Arabic music... -
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Giant Step’s ‘Giant On The Move’ was released independently on both LP and cassette in 1976 Original vinyl copies were limited to just 4 songs, resulting in more than half the album being omitted from the LP edition A progressive rock offering, Giant Step’s second album demonstrated the true potential of the group and... -
In 1981, Piper grooved onto the City Pop scene with their album debut I’m Not In Love, cementing their smooth blend of soft rock and soulful funk that became a staple of the albums that followed and instantly acquiring a devoted fanbase that still exists today The blueprint for what was to come is evident here in the aural... -
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“Disco Se Aagay”— literally “Beyond Disco”— is an unexpectedly perfect storm of two unlikely sources: the visionary sound of the British new wave seamlessly interwoven with the Pakistani musical heritage of its teenage dreamers, Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh Recorded over the course of a summer school holiday in... -
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Music From Memory are excited to announce a special compilation that they’ve been working on for some time now; MFM053 – VA – Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996) Compiled by long-time friends of the label, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, Heisei No Oto delves into a world of music released... -
BBE Music presents J Jazz volume 3, the latest in its definitive compilation series exploring the finest modern jazz from Japan Since the first volume in February 2018, the J Jazz compilation series has showcased some of the most creative, inspired, and sought-after jazz recorded in Japan during a golden period spanning the... -
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Following the highly acclaimed Volume I, dig further into the Wamono sound – the cream of the Japanese jazz, funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the years since the end of the sixties in Japan! Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned... -
During the years in which the duo produced four albums and performed on an endless number of stages around the globe, Pread started working on anambitious expansive project: an orchestra that could transpose this study of rural and popular culture into an immense, iconic work In 2018, supported by the Sharjah Art Foundation, Pread... -
Twenty-one fully restored tracks from Kourosh's original master tapes Subtitled: Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock From Iran: 1973-1979 "The only legitimately licensed collection of the godfather of Iranian psychedelic rock, Kourosh Yaghmaei Known within the Iranian diaspora simply by his first name, Kourosh's recordings were... -
Deluxe 3LP version: packaged in a six-panel triple gatefold jacket with a 16-page full-color booklet " The untold story of Indonesia's various underground 70s musical scenes; extensive liner notes, photographs and ephemera; fully restored and remastered audio; officially licensed The progressive music scenes in 1970s Indonesia... -
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Love Hurts / Beautiful Doll is the 5th and most prominent record by the He6, the frontrunner band of the 1970s golden age of ‘group sound’ bands in Korea It features the band’s notable funk/psychedelia track ‘Beautiful Doll (Get Ready)’ which was sampled by DJ Shadow in ‘the Number Song’ Also includes ‘You... -
After 20+ years with psych legends Yura Yura Teikoku, Shintaro Sakamoto’s third solo album is a bonafide masterpiece of warped steel guitar, ambient disco and AOR soul Orginally released in Japan , 2016“Like a language of Sakamoto’s own…made with a ship-in-the-bottle-like focus” Pitchfork “Love If Possible is the... -
The second album of mysterious Japanese singer Nadja haunts immediately and marks one of the most exquisite reissues in the ever-growing catalog of Studio Mule Originally released in 1989 as promo-only CD on the Japanese label Polystar, the album features some of the finest '80s pop funk fusion arrangements of the era A deeply... -
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Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980–1988 hovers vibe–wise between two distinct poles within Light In The Attic’s acclaimed Japan Archival Series—Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980–1990 and Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR &... -
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Reissue of a rare funky disco belter from ‘70s Tunisia “Carthago was one of those bands where the internet largely failed to provide any infos despite the fact that Carthago created some incredible music in the form of an highly infectious Tunisian take on disco music Luckily most of the members of the 1970s musical scene... -
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Barely disco and hardly jazz, Rupa Biswas’ 1982 LP is the halfway point between Bollywood and Balearic Tracked in Calgary’s Living Room Studios with a crack team of Indian and Canadian studio rats alike, Disco Jazz is a perfect fusion of East and West Sarod and synthesizer intricately weaving around one another for 37... -
Available on vinyl for the first time since 1984, Ship to Shore and Light in the Attic are proud to present Akiko Nakamura’s Hit Album Born in Chiba, Japan in 1948, Akiko Nakamura gained notoriety as a singer and actress during the 1960s and 1970s Starting as a beauty pageant contestant, she soon ventured into music,... -
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Rüstəm Quliyev was born in 1969 in the village of Kosalar, Nagorno Karabakh At the age of seven, he had already mastered the tar before moving on to play the saz He first encountered the guitar whilst doing his military service for the USSR in Russia and quickly made a name for himself as a guitarist after returning to... -
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Pharaway Sounds presents a compilation dedicated to Erkin Koray, the father of Anatolian rock/Turkish psych Halimem includes rare single and cassette-only tracks (mostly from 1970-72, plus three killer ones from 1987) Expect a fabulous mix of Turkish melodies/grooves with hard-rock and psych Artwork by Sara... -
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MARIAH used to be a Japanese outfit in the field of art pop, long way back in the very late 70s and early 80s with 6 albums up their score from 1979 to 1983 The album at hand is the sixth and for the time being last album in this row, released as a double vinyl back in 1983 Prices for original copies, that are at least in very... -
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Double LP version Tokyo Dreaming is a superb selection picked from the highly collectible Nippon Columbia label and its Better Days sub-label Wewantsounds have teamed up with journalist and Japanese music expert Nick Luscombe The selection mixes electro, synth-pop, funk, and ambient and includes many sought-after rarities and... -
Demented, brain-damaging Turkish electro-saz and synth drums galore by the mighty Derdiyoklar duo, originally released in 1984! Anadolu pop doesn't get any weirder than this! These two Turkish musicians, armed with electro-saz, guitar, drums and synthesizers, confused the Turkish population in Germany, playing their traditional... -
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"Discovering the wealth of Cambodian recordings was like falling into a parallel universe, complete with its own Elvises, Patsys and Jimis You can recognize some of the anonymous outstanding instrumentalists as they appear on record after record and marvel at their uncanny blend of Western and Far East, a pure synergy Western... -
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A remastered vinyl reissue of a classic title from Japan's '70s underground The brainchild of famous producer Ikuzo Orita, Speed, Glue & Shinki was a Japanese psychedelic rock power trio formed in 1970, centered around the figure of guitar player Shinki Chen, who was considered the Japanese Jimi Hendrix at the time 'Eve' is... -
A remastered vinyl reissue (in a gatefold sleeve) of a classic title from Japan's '70s underground The second album by the Japanese heavy-psych power trio, originally released in 1972 when the band had just disintegrated This set was mostly the work of singer-drummer Joey "Pepe" Smith, who included some unreleased tracks from the... -
Originally released on cassette and as a tiny LP run for radio stations, this sensational 1984 release from Thailand's Isan region is now available to the world This successful molam group was formed by, and named after, Suthep Daoduangmai, a man with musical dreams and ambitions, but who wasn't a musician himself The group... -
The best of Khwanta Fasawang, the heart and soulful Sister No 1 of 1980s Lam Phaen, queen of the cassette era! She was chosen, from over a thousand demo tapes, by legendary producer and songwriter Doi Inthanon, who wanted to create a new form of streetwise dance music The Lam Phaen genre was the result, and Khwanta Fasawang was... -
Makam madness gives way to instrumental prog on Mogollar's burned-out last album, released in 1976 by Turkey's Anadolu Pop heroes and now reissued Mogollar was the band that never kept a singer for long, and yet even more than Baris or Erkin, the musicians consciously highlighted what was different about the new sounds of the era... -
From her early days raised as a youth in Bombay, Asha Puthli initially trained in Indian classical music and opera, but over time gravitated towards contemporary western pop, upon discovering talents like Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dusty Springfield After making a name for herself in her native country, she found her... -
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The Rare Groove collection is an exploration of the meeting of the funk and the world music thanks to a vintage collection of 70's and 80's tracks The African Rare Groove and the Oriental Rare Groove album welcome you to the music world of groovy from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Libya, Lebanon or... -
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Directly from the Cosmic Discotheque galaxy, here is a brand-new satellite called Arabian Disco This fine disc will get you through a bizarre sub-world of '70s disco This was mostly a European-disco sub-genre clearly inspired by Arabian atmospheres Now after the so-called classic disco, Afro disco, and space disco you should be... -
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'A WIDE SELECTION OF TURKISH JAZZ AND FUNK 68-78' - The TWIMO Records project is the result of 6 years of traveling and record collecting in the meeting points between different music cultures; North Africa, the Bosporus and the far eastern parts of Europe These two first two releases explores what happened when Western music... -
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During the '60s and early '70s, Singapore had one of most vibrant and interesting music scenes in Asia and even the world, and this compilation presents undeniable proof of it Focusing exclusively on the female presence on the scene (be it as solo singers, backed by other bands or as band leaders) 'Singapore Nuggets The Ladies'... -
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Released in ‘82 This is Mamiya Takako’s only album and a masterpiece of Japanese CITY POP and... -
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A long-awaited LP vinyl reissue that is very popular as a Japanese AOR masterpiece Makoto Matsushita is a well-known guitarist who participated in the fusion funk group AB’s with Tomaru Yoshino The album is full of AOR taste, originally released in 1981 The original version is recreated and the photo jacket by Kaoru Ijima is... -
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Reissue of Mai Yamane’s debut album in which Makoto Matsushita arranged all songs! Released in 1980, this work is Makoto Matsushita’s first produced work This is a city pop masterpiece of Mai Yamane, a talented female singer who later played a role in recording and live performances by Masaharu Fukuyama and Yosui Inoue!... -
A fine selection of collectable late 70's / early 80's Japanese electronic, jazz, fusion and funk / soul mellow steppers, you didn't know had been missing from your life Very limited availability so don't sleep on these First analog reissue of two popular titles backed by Mariah In addition to their reputation in the... -
Yumi Murata’s second album with Mariah It’s a beautiful, stateless ambient record with its halting vocals, which reflect the sonic experiments of Shimizu Yasuaki Mariah, at a time when she was leaning towards hard rock; she used this song as a starting point to steer her into the new...
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