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The Mankunku Quartet's 1968 album 'Yakhal' Inkomo’ clocks in at just over 30 minutes of jazz perfection. This compact, and to-the-point, album would sit comfortably in amongst some of the best works in the catalogues of any of the quintessential jazz labels such as Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse. 'Yakhal'...
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Selections from an HMV run of more than four hundred 78s, recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid-1930s till the mid-1950s...
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Gatefold sleeve; includes 24-page booklet. Wewantsounds reissue Akiko Yano's cult classic Ai Ga Nakucha Ne, recorded in 1982 and co-produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Ai Ga Nakucha Ne ("there must be love" in Japanese) is Akiko Yano's sixth studio album and follows Tadaima in 1981. It continues exploring the electro-pop sound...
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Le Tres Jazz Club present a reissue of George Otsuka Quintet's Sea Breeze, originally released in 1971. George Otsuka, sadly passed away in March 2020, was one of Japan's most renowned jazz drummers. After three records with the George Otsuka Trio in the late part of the '60s, Sea Breeze...
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Composer, multi-instrumentalist and mixed-media artist, Takehisa Kosugi has stood on the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde for over six decades. In the 1960s, he was part of Japan’s first improvisational music collective, Group Ongaku, and contributed to Fluxus in New York. In 1969, he founded the influential, experimental ensemble The...
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Colombian sisters Elia and Elizabeth Fleta recorded a handful of songs between 1972 and 1973, accompanied by Jimmy Salcedo and his group La Onda Tres, mixing soft-pop with a touch of tropical-pastoral funk, singer-songwriter sweetened by the subtle perfume of Caribbean music and psychedelia. These elements blended graciously, brimming with...
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2021 repress. LP version. Edip Akbayram's a frail guy who spent his childhood unable to walk, but once he grew up he was on Istanbul TV in a whitey-fro and knee-length colored robes. Akbayram's voice is big & open, and it took him all across Turkey at the height of...
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Comet Records presents from Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen, NEPA Reissue LP Vinyl remastered and coming in an heavy Deluxe Tip-On Jacket. In 1979, Tony Allen decided to leave Fela & Africa 70 and moved to London in 1982. Originally Released in 1984 on Earthworks Records, this reissue holds an extra...
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Mastered by Tohru Kotetsu and pressed at RTI, this 45rpm LP will live up to and surpass your most demanding judgments. Midnight Sugar is one of the most sough-after titles from the acclaimed Three Blind Mice catalog. On Midnight Sugar the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio plays two of Tsuyoshis own blues...
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At the same time, two popular titles of Tohyama “PENNY” Hitomi, Japanese goods which received plenty of attention in the ‘80s, are reissued simultaneously! The 5th release “SEXY ROBOT” released in 1983 that quickly adopted the tide of the Beacon Sound that will come later. A gem that incorporates 80’s...
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Music producer/arranger Masataka Matsutoya reprinted the only solo album “Night Traveler” released in 1977 as an LP by cutting from a valuable original analog master. The label, obi, jacket, and lyrics card are faithfully reproduced based on the original. Tin Pan Array fully participated in the performance. Yumi Matsutoya is...
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Two popular titles of Toyama “PENNY” Hitomi, who are attracting a lot of attention in 80’s Japanese products, will be re-pressed! The 4th “NEXT DOOR” released in 1983 was strongly influenced by American pop in the early ’80s. A city pop album that pierces the...
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The arrangements by Tommy Newsom for strings, brass, and woodwinds may be a bit sweet and the 12 performances may be overly concise (often under three minutes), but the resulting music is strangely pleasing. Acoustic guitarist Charlie Byrd always had a strong affinity for Brazilian jazz, and he sticks exclusively...
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This compilation of songs is not meant as a historic reflection of popular music of the “Arab world.” It is a very personal selection of songs we grew to like at Habibi Funk. It is music that historically never existed as a unified musical genre. We think it’s important to...
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Buena Vista Social Club is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana’s 1950s vintage EGREM studios. It was clear from the atmosphere of the recording sessions that something very special was taking place. However, no...
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Welcome to our second celebration of the sounds of Bombay Disco, which digs deeper into the recordwallah shops in the bazaars of India. As fans of our first collection will recall, disco arrived in India in 1979, shortly after its mainstream popularity had peaked in the West. Disco songs remained...
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"The re-discovered third album by India's best known psychedelic-rock ensemble, presented in its entirety. The companion piece our Atomic Forest anthology Obsession. Covers of Deodato, Stevie Wonder and 'Spectrum,' the heaviest Indian psych-funk jam unearthed to date. Over the course of four years, culminating in 2011, we at Now-Again Records...
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We've got a bit of an obsession with Hozan Yamamoto here at Mr Bongo! A legend of Japanese jazz, he is rightly regarded as a true master and was recognised as a "living national treasure" by the Japanese government in 2002. Over five decades he pushed the genre into new...
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"I still remember the first time I heard Ahmed Malek. It was 2012. Back then I didn’t know much about Arabic music, but I was about to leave Berlin for a couple of weeks to go to Tunisia. I was working as a project manager for a music recoding session...
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It feels like, every week something special is recorded in our Linear Labs recording studio, here in Los Angeles. But this right here? This right here is special. Over the last year Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have been making music with the masters. Composing and producing brand new...
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WOW! 'Confusion' is an exceptional record in one of the most outstanding oeuvres in 20th century music. One long, 20+ minute piece split over two sides, it's possibly at once the most abstract and urgent missive we've heard from the man and his legendary band. You'd be forgiven for questioning...
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Highly anticipated sophomore release from saxophonist and composer Sisonke Xonti, winner of South Africa's 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz. At the centre of the album, Xonti's four-part "Migration Suite" is his boldest work to date, exploring rural and urban identity and the perilous spiritual journey from homeland...
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Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer. An avid record collector and an expert of the Wamono style, Yoshizawa published the Wamono A to Z records guide book in 2015 which instantly sold-out. The book...
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Originally released in 1976, My Ancestors is one of the greatest releases from Zambia’s Zamrock scene. The album travels the darker undercurrents of 70s rock and roll, warping and heightening the influences of Jimi, the Stones, the Beatles, Black Sabbath, and James Brown. 27 year old Chrissy “Zebby” Tembo provided...
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Analog Africa No.6 - ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU Volume 2 'Echos Hypnotiques' - From the Vaults of Albarika Store 1969-1979 'The riches of Vodoun rhythms are of such magnitude that one would never get to the bottom of it - we've tried.' Vincent Ahehehinnou - lead vocalist of Orchestre of...
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...FROM THE BELTER & DISCOPHON ARCHIVES, 1970-1976'- A 14-track compilation featuring rare and overlooked tracks from the heyday of Spain's gipsy-funk-era, 1970-1976. This is the real gipsy-funk sound, full of funk drums, electric guitars with wah-wah, organ, electric bass, exotic percussion, soulful horns, bits of Latin and even oriental touches....
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This famous psychedelic (folk-)rock album from Japan, 'Vacant World' by The Jacks, was originally released in 1968. Now it's back on the LP-format....
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African, Funk, Garage Rock, Psych, Rock, Soul & Funk, World
Yaoundé, in the 1970´s, was a buzzing place. Every neighbourhood of Cameroon´s capital, no matter how dodgy, was filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. The country suffered from a serious lack of proper recording facilities, and the process of committing your...
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Funk, Jazz, Latin, Soul & Funk, World
This 2LP collection presents exclusive instrumental versions of songs originally released on the Jazz Is Dead albums: Roy Ayers JID002, Marcos Valle JID003, Gary Bartz JID006 and João Donato JID007. "Instrumentals JID009"...
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At a distance of more than forty years, the radicalism and significance of African Spaces can be seen more clearly. Ambitious, uncompromising, and resolutely progressive, it represents a unique high-water mark in South Africa’s long musical engagement with the newest developments in American jazz – a response to...
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Back to the roots of one of the most influential South American songwriter and composer, Joao Gilberto. A pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s, Joao was often called "father of bossa", while in his native Brazil he was referred to as "O Mito" (The...
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Although he is still completely unknown to Western audiences, for Ethiopians, Tlahoun Gèssèssè (pronounced Guèssèssè) is THE VOICE. The first-ever pan-Ethiopian star, he has embodied such nonstop unanimity since the end of the 1950s that is a role-model and a point of reference.
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Finally the first ever repress of the legendary Disco Hamam serie is now available! The flagship release of the disco hamam series, including some of the edits that made Baris K’s Eurasia mix trilogy series compulsive listening. The EP revives rare and hidden 70s Turkish disco, folk and...
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Finally, Music From Memory carry us back over the Atlantic to survey Brazilian flirtations with electronic and contemporary music c. 1984-1996, covering a spectrum of new wave pop, ambient balm, and experimental grooves. Killer set!!! It’s maybe fair to say that, during the golden era for ambient and electronic dance...
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An amazing compilation by John Gómez, exploring new age, ambient and spiritual experimental Brazilian music. Including a big Mr Bongo favourite 'Cântico Brasileiro No. 3 (Kamaiurá)' by Maria Rita. Packaged beautifully by the ever excellent Music From Memory label....
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Around the year 1970, almost everything appeared to have been said about the style of music over the past two decades, which was a mix of samba and cool jazz. Adventurous musicians such as Luis Bonfa, Baden Powell, Charly Byrd, João and Astrud Gilberto, and the saxophonist Stan Getz lent...
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The genesis of Yaral Sa Doom took place in 2018, when Swedish musician Karl-Jonas Winqvist traveled to Toubab Dialaw in Senegal, a small fishing village with a vibrant bohemian art scene. Connecting with local artists, Winqvist led recording sessions alongside studio engineer Arouna Kane that encouraged freewheeling ideas and improvisation....
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It is a valuable work that you can listen to the famous battle with Lee Ritenour, and many big LA musicians such as Harvey Mason, Chuck Rainey, and Ritenour.
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Akira Ishikawa, a drummer who led new jazz bands from the late 1960s to the 1970s. This work, which he released under the name of “Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffaloes”, incorporates various elements such as rock, funk, and afro brings experimental elements to jazz, and also serves as a backing...
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A great compilation can open the gate to another world. Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog Africa released the first African Scream Contest in 2008, the proof was there for...
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Debut album by dutch act Altin Gün, offering an exciting mix of Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. Altin Gün was founded by Dutch bass player Jasper Verhulst (a.o. Jacco Gardner's band), who is fascinated by Turkish '70s artists such as Selda, Baris Manço and Erkin Koray. Together...
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Tropicalia Psychodelic Masterpieces 1967-1976 Gatefold Sleeve, Comes with a 24 pages, full color booklet with long liner notes to every song and pictures of the original 7" singles. Liner Notes in English and Portuguese. Following the success of Psych Funk 101, Egon presents Joel Stones’ Brazilian Guitar, Fuzz Bananas. If...
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