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Abbass Mehrpouya Sitar Featuring African Jumbo cd cd 2009/197 new Kheli bahali, baby. Iranian 70s pop baritone singer (along the lines of recent collector darlings Googoosh or Kourosh Yaghmaie) who specialized in playing the sitar. His hippest...	Persianna	$22.00 Add:
Afro Funk Body Music lp lp 2012/1975 new Ghana expats in the quickly growing community of African musicians in London, probably with a few Londoners in tow. Loose & twisting funk vamps, but it's the squeaky synthesizer on...	Secret Stash	$17.00 Add:
Ahmad Zahir Hip 70s Afghan Beats cd cd 2011/1973-78 new It's said that there was a popular 1970s fabric nicknamed 'Ahmad Zahir's hair', and his organ player & wah-riding guitarist are just as rippling. The late 60s and early 70s...	Guerssen	$16.00 Add:
Ahmad Zahir Hip 70s Afghan Beats lp lp 2011/1973-78 new It's said that there was a popular 1970s fabric nicknamed 'Ahmad Zahir's hair', and his organ player & wah-riding guitarist are just as rippling. The late 60s and early 70s...	Guerssen	$25.00 Add:
Ahmad Zahir Vol 2 & 3 2cd 2cd 2012/1973-78 new Sweeping ballads by Afghanistan's answer to Neil Diamond, & it's the latest two lp collections on a double cd. By the mid 1970s, Zahir was everywhere on magazine covers, selling...	Pharaway Sounds	$23.00 Add:
Ahmad Zahir Vol. 3 2lp 2lp 2012/1973-78 new By the mid 1970s, Zahir was everywhere on magazine covers, selling out concerts, and his recordings were crossing borders into Iran & beyond. His lyrics began to advance...	Pharaway Sounds	$32.00 Add:
Ahmad Zahir Volume 2 2lp 2lp 2012/1973-78 new A second collection of sweeping ballads by Afghanistan's answer to Neil Diamond. Slightly better selection that's quite fluid & unhurried, & also shows off a little more Indian...	Guerssen	$32.00 Add:
AK Sardar Raggas in Gazals cd cd 2012/2001 new Lots of Pakistani influence makes this one reminiscent of Bollywood ballads. Makes sense, as Sardar references Ghlam Ali (a Pakistani ghazal singer whose hits show up in Bollywood...	Doron	$17.00 Add:
Aka Hard Beat cd cd 2011/1971-77 new Over the top wailing hard rock band from East Java that played lots of covers live, doing all originals here and nipping constantly from Zep, Sab, ACDC, Purple, Mountain, you name...	Strawberry Rain	$15.00 Add:
Alemayehu Eshete lp lp 2012/1972-74 new Eshete's silken, easily soaring voice is perfectly contrasted by the chunky spirals of soul horns behind him. In 1948 the government banned the making of local pop records, and...	Mississippi	$14.50 Add:
Alfonso Lovo La Gigantona cd cd 2012/1976 new Son of a Nicaraguan politician who split his time between Managua, New Orleans, & Atlanta and played with Santana's timbales guy, Jose Chepito Areas. Acoustic flamenco, salsa horns,...	Numero	$13.50 Add:
Alfredito Linares Salsa a Todo Sabor cd cd 2012/1972 new Alfredo Linares grew up playing piano in Lima & issued tons of jazz-tinged latin music on the Mag label. His piano lines turn as sharply as ladies' heels underneath burning boogaloo...	Repsychled/Lion	$15.00 Add:
Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister Iwa lp lp 2010/1982 new Fuji is a Nigerian style made up by Barrister & named after a tourist poster he saw at an airport. It improvises on Muslim Ramadan prayer songs, mixing in other Yoruba traditions...	Klimt	$25.00 Add:
Ali Ag Amoumine Takamba lp + 7 inch lp + 7 inch 2011/2009 new Sand-swallowed tin can distortion on a rippling little ngoni in Timbuktu, Mali, plus dry clicks of percussion made by a guy's rings slapping against a calabash gourd. The...	Sahel Sounds	$14.00 Add:
Ali Birra Ammalele lp lp 2012/1976 new Ethiopian singer who spent a couple of years in the Imperial Body Guard Band (which gave the world both Mahmoud Ahmed & Tlahoun Gessesse). Being Oromo rather than Amharic, Birra is...	Mississippi	$14.00 Add:
Amanaz Africa cd cd 2008/1975 new Lots of African psych doesn't blend influences so much as it stacks up strikingly different ones next to each other, but this one's a fascinating missing link. Cream-type rhythm...	QDK	$14.50 Add:
Amnesty Free Your Mind cd cd 2007/1973 new Large, horn heavy funk ensemble from Indiana that was born when two earlier bands merged. Starts off in an Earth Wind & Fire mode (and that trumpet is wayyyy too high in the mix,...	Now Again	$14.00 Add:
Anibal Velasquez Y Su Conjunto Mambo Loco cd cd 2010/196x new The drum sounds like paper because the drummer liked to put a sheet of x-ray film on top of his head, & the singing sometimes sounds like dog yelps because everybody's having a...	Analog Africa	$17.50 Add:
Anibal Velasquez y Su Conjunto Mambo Loco lp lp 2010/196x new The drum sounds like paper because the drummer liked to put a sheet of x-ray film on top of his head, & the singing sometimes sounds like dog yelps because everybody's having a...	Analog Africa	$18.50 Add:
Antonio Gonzalez Tiritando cd cd 2011/196x new Flamenco/rumba guitarist Gonzalez is something like a cross between Sonny Bono, Dean Martin & Phil Spector in Barcelona. Husband & accompanist to the much more famous & incessantly...	Vampisoul	$16.00 Add:
Antonio Gonzalez Tiritando lp lp 2011/196x new Flamenco/rumba guitarist Gonzalez is something like a cross between Sonny Bono, Dean Martin & Phil Spector in Barcelona. Husband & accompanist to the much more famous & incessantly...	Vampisoul	$18.00 Add:
Apostles 7 inch 7 inch 2012/1974-5 new Aba in southeast Nigeria was home to several intense afrobeat bands, the Funkees being the most famous, but also Sweet Breeze, Wings, & these guys. Their 2nd single, with...	Voodoo Funk	$8.50 Add:
Atahualpa Yupanqui Buenas Noches Compatriotas cd cd 2013/1982 new Argentine folk guitarist & early ethnomusicologist who does for South America what Segovia does for Spain. Jailed several times in the 40s for his political affiliations, he finally...	Fremeaux & Associes	$19.50 Add:
Baile con Heber Macias cassette cassette 2013/196x new Colombian cumbia doesn't get any rawer. Guarachas with superfast & wheezy accordion sawing away in the background, & it seems all the guitars were made out of fence parts. You...	-	$5.00 Add:
Baudouin de Jaer Gayageum Sanjo cd cd 2012 new Belgian violinist who did an interpretation of Adolf Wolfli scores a couple of years ago has now composed pieces for a traditional Korean zither. Solo performances, but by a pair of...	Sub Rosa	$15.00 Add:
Benny Soebardja The Lizard Years 2cd 2cd 2012/1975-78 new Guitarist from the Indonesian heavy prog band Shark Move, whose lone record of flute wank has been reissued & compiled here & there. When his main collaborator left for a rival...		$17.00 Add:
Bharat Karki & Party International Music cd cd 2010/197x new Super sick electric funk that could've been straight out of some Bollywood nightclub scene with Helen shaking her hips faster than your eyes can follow them. Not many vocals, except...	EM	$16.00 Add:
Bharat Karki & Party International Music lp lp 2010/197x new Super sick electric funk that could've been straight out of some Bollywood nightclub scene with Helen shaking her hips faster than your eyes can follow them. Not many vocals, except...	EM	$19.00 Add:
Birigwa cd cd 2008/1972 new Do not pass this one up. Ugandan college student who was attending the New England Conservatory in 1972. Soft singing with nonsense scat/Leon Thomas interpolations (one cut also...	Porter	$11.00 Add:
Blind Blake Calypsos Bahamian Songs cd cd 2009/1951-52 new Goombay percussion, calypso, Bahamas folk songs & pre-war jazz all get mixed up in the swiss cheese mind & smooth moovin lips of Blake (not to be confused with the Paramount blues...	Megaphone	$16.00 Add:
Blo Phase 2 lp lp 2012/1974 new Sweltering Nigerian funk & they're one of the most psych oriented bands of the entire Lagos scene. The band started out as the Clusters & played on the same stages with Gerald Pino &...	Strawberry Rain	$23.00 Add:
Blo Step Three cd cd 2012/1975 new Step one on any journey through Nigerian afrobeat, and here's yet another reason why. BLO members began in bands with Joni Haastrup & Geraldo Pino before the Nigerian civil war in...	Hot Casa	$16.00 Add:
BLO Step Three lp lp 2012/1975 new Step one on any journey through Nigerian afrobeat, and here's yet another reason why. BLO members began in bands with Joni Haastrup & Geraldo Pino before the Nigerian civil war in...	Hot Casa	$23.00 Add:
Bokar Rimpoche Sacred Chants and Tibetan Rituals cd cd 2007/2002-04 new Unaccompanied singing, tibetan bowls, & field recordings from mountainsides & rivers high in the Himalayas. Bokar Rinpoche was the chief Kalacakra lineage holder & a senior tutor...	Sub Rosa	$14.00 Add:
Bola Vol. 7 cd cd 2012/2009 new All about the funk. Contemporary northern Ghana guy who plays a 2-string diddley bow that you usually pick with a chunk of an orange drink bottle. Utterly mesmerizing, loping rhythm...	Awesome Tapes From Africa	$13.50 Add:
Bola Vol. 7 lp lp 2012/2009 new All about the funk. Contemporary northern Ghana guy who plays a 2-string diddley bow that you usually pick with a chunk of an orange drink bottle. Utterly mesmerizing, loping rhythm...	Awesome Tapes From Africa	$19.50 Add:
Buari lp lp 2012/1975 new Sidiku Buari was a silver medal Olympic runner in the mid-1960s. He moved from Accra to Chicago at the end of his athletic career & ended up in music school there. This record was...	RCA	$20.00 Add:
Cachao Y Su Ritmo Caliente Descargas cd cd 2012/1957-61 new There are suppsoedly 40 bass players in Cachao's family, and he started playing an upright that must've been twice his size along with silent movies at the age of 9. He played...	Vampisoul	$11.50 Add:
Calixto Ochoa y su Conjunto El Dentista cdr cdr 2012/1962 new Accordion-heavy, folky Colombian cumbia with tightly twitching rhythms. Ochoa was set up in a squeeze-box face-off against Anibal Velasquez by the owner of Discos Fuentes in the...	-	$5.00 Add:
Caravan Man & Buffalo cd cd 2012/1975 new Folky, slow songs clearly inspired by Joan Baez & friends, but woven into a distinctly Thai sensibility with flute, acoustic guitar. And the band's interest in the West's protest...	Strawberry Rain	$16.00 Add:
Chief Brigadier Olu Oni Juju Marathon System lp lp 2009/197x new Really obscure juju band that makes King Sunny Ade seem awful slick. Traditional Yoruba percussion, a few coolly mushed choral refrains, and criss-crossing guitar runs that lean &...	Klimt	$24.50 Add:
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family My Ancestors cd cd 2013/1970 new Wonderfully naive shit-Hendrix ripoffs mixed with dirty Zambian funk & somewhat inept lyrics in English. The first of the various Ngozi-related records to get the deluxe reish...	QDK	$15.00 Add:
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family My Ancestors lp lp 2012/1970 new Wonderfully naive shit-Hendrix ripoffs mixed with dirty Zambian funk & somewhat inept lyrics in English. The first of the various Ngozi-related records to get the deluxe reish...	Shadoks	$40.00 Add:
Conga de Los Hoyos Carnival Music of Eastern Cuba cd cd 2009 new Santiago hosts the most important carnival in Cuba, every July. And one of the oldest groups (roughly 100 years) that comes out to parade their sounds is from the Los Hoyos neighborhood....	Soul Jazz	$16.00 Add:
CS Crew Funky Pack cd cd 2013/1976 new Cultures of Soul signifigantly steps up their game with this reissue of a mighty bizarre late 70s Nigerian funk bomb. As goofy as anything ever waxed by Parliament or the Village...	Cultures of Soul	$16.00 Add:
CS Crew Funky Pack lp lp 2013/1976 new Cultures of Soul signifigantly steps up their game with this reissue of a mighty bizarre late 70s Nigerian funk bomb. As goofy as anything ever waxed by Parliament or the Village...	Cultures of Soul	$19.50 Add:
Daouda Dembele cd cd 2007 new Wandering poet from sothern Botswana who plays a two foot long stick with a couple of pieces of fishing line tacked on it, & backed up by somebody beating on a gourd. Simple & timeless...	Yaala Yaala	$12.50 Add:
Debo Band Adderech Arada 7 inch 7 inch 2010/2008-09 new Large but crackshot ensemble of Bostonians who've been in local hardcore & underground bands for years. They all got together a while back to play 70s Ethiopian music &...	Electric Cowbell	$13.00 Add:
Derdiyoklar Ikilisi Disko Folk cd cd 2012/1979 new Awesome cheesy Turkish electric saz/manic disco synth duo that compared to Baris Manco or Erkin Koray, sounds something like a 'toilet bong hit' (as one of my customers so colorfully...	Guerssen	$15.00 Add:
Dick Khoza Chapita lp lp 2010/1976 new Jazzfunk by Johannesburg drummer who started playing with Johnny Dyani in the 1950s. Khoza was the mother hen in the house band at the Pelican Club in Soweto, and the title track to...	Matsuli	$28.00 Add: