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Gyedu Blay Ambolley Simigwa lp lp 2012/1975 new Ghanian forerunner of hiplife (highlife + hip hop + dancehall), which is just another way of saying that Ambolley is commonly known as the first guy in West Africa to flat out talk...	Academy/Voodoo Funk	$17.00 Add:
Hamza El Din Music of Nubia cd cd 1991/1964 new El Din took oud classes while in college in Cairo, & even got a grant to collect folk songs around Egypt, which he played on the oud even though the oud was more usually used for...	Vanguard	$11.50 Add:
Hassan Haffar The Aleppo Suites 3cd 3cd 2009/1999 new A muezzin at the great mosque in Aleppo, Syria (aka one of the guys who goes out on the balcony before sunup & wakes everyone up for morning prayers). Recorded on one of his...	Institute du Monde Arabe	$58.00 Add:
Hedzoleh lp lp 2010/1973 new Slow-simmering Ghanian vamp with lots of unique performances & instrumentation. Akan & Ewe traditional percussion (aka what's making those boingy jews harp sounds) matched with funk...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Henri Guedon Cosmozouk lp lp 2013/1974 new Martinique drummer, Picasso knockoff painter & former judo champion who brought salsa & boogaloo to France. Guedon was a big fan of Ray Barretto & put his conga drums in front of his...	Superfly	$29.00 Add:
Huun Huur Tu 60 Horses in My Herd cd cd 1993 new 1st album, which became one of the biggest successes of world music in the 90s and introduced Tuvan throat singing to the west. As a result, to this day, hep youths can occasionally be...	Shanachie	$16.50 Add:
Idrissa Diop/Cheikh Tidiane Tall Diamonoye Tiopite 2lp 2lp 2011/1969-76 new A before, during & after history of the serpentine afro-funk band Sahel, which began a wave of Cuban-inflected music that took over Dakar & was eventually called mbalax. Singer...	Teranga Beat	$25.50 Add:
Idrissa Diop/Cheikh Tidiane Tall Diamonoye Tiopite cd cd 2011/1969-76 new A before, during & after history of the serpentine afro-funk band Sahel, which began a wave of Cuban-inflected music that took over Dakar & was eventually called mbalax. Singer...	Teranga Beat	$17.00 Add:
Ilaiyaraaja Solla Solla cd cd 2011/1977-83 new Ilaiyaraaja (watch for a variety of alternate spellings) is the composer whose vocal acrobatics & silly synth cheese were nearly synonymous with the Tamil/Kollywood film industry...	Finders Keepers	$15.00 Add:
Ingosi Stars Langoni cd cd 2008 new Fairly stark, outdoor recordings of a squeaky single-string five-note fiddle (shiriri) & chanting by an elderly gent who, like many Luhya folks from western Kenya highlands over the last...	Daqui	$19.00 Add:
John Clarke Rootsy Reggae lp lp 2006/1979 new Clarke went to high school in Jamaica & came to the US after making a recording there in the early 70s, working with Lloyd Barnes. At the time of it's original release, Coxsone Dodd...	Wackies	$14.50 Add:
Jombo Pure Pleasure cd cd 2013/1982 new Completely neon-drenched Nigerian synthboogie with unbelivably cheap production, tons of popping bass & tiny drum pads. The opening tune also sports way off-pitch falsetto singing...	Tembo	$16.00 Add:
Joni Haastrup Wake Up Your Mind lp lp 2011/1978 new Nigerian singer who collaborated with Orlando Julius, Ginger Baker, Victor Olaiya, founded Monomono, etc. The opening track here was a highlight of Soundway's 'Nigeria Disco Funk...	Hot Casa	$23.00 Add:
Joseph Spence Bahaman Folk Guitar lp lp 2011/1958-64 new No man who ever lived had so many bucketfulls of moths in his voice. And few can make a steel guitar sound more like a crazy train game of pickup sticks instead of notes. Spence...	Doxy	$23.00 Add:
K Frimpong & his Cubano Fiestas cd cd 2013/1977 new Fantastic highlife that's clipped & funky but sticks to minor keys, and also adds wild 70s synth licks with surging & quavering envelope filters. 2nd album, released about a year...	Secret Stash	$13.50 Add:
K Frimpong & his Cubano Fiestas The Blue Album cd cd 2013/1976 new 1st & slightly easier to get album (it actually came out in the US as well as Ghana). Frimpong's backing band sometimes played by themselves as the Vis A Vis band, and were also...	Secret Stash	$13.50 Add:
K Frimpong and His Cubano Fiestas The Blue Album lp lp 2011/1976 new 1st & slightly easier to get album (it actually came out in the US as well as Ghana). Frimpong's backing band sometimes played by themselves as the Vis A Vis band, and were also...	Secret Stash	$17.00 Add:
Karantamba Ndigal 2lp 2lp 2012/1984 new There's lots more to Gambian 70s songs than just the Super Eagles. When the riverland's most famous musical export immediately went off on tour in the late 60s, the moneyman behind...	Teranga Beat	$25.50 Add:
Kecak Ganda Sari Kecak From Bali cd cd 1990/1987 new The chattery 'katajak katajak' call was one of the few things unsettling enough to end up in Fellini's nightmarish 'Satyricon'. David Lewiston is the musicologist behind the Nonesuch...	Bridge	$14.00 Add:
Kelenkye Band Moving World lp lp 2011/1974 new Accra band about which little is known, but they flutter through almost as many styles as there are tracks on the record. There's definitely some blistering fuzzed-out afrobeat, but...	Superfly	$29.00 Add:
Keletigui et ses Tambourinis The Syliphone Years 2cd 2cd 2009/1968-76 new Traditional instruments like balafon sit happily next to electric organ & covers of Cuban dance band songs. One of the national orchestras formed when Guinea claimed...	Stern's	$21.00 Add:
KG Band Disco Train 12 inch + 7 inch 12 inch + 7 inch 2012/1980 new Freebase-fueled disco 12 inch by Ghana's Kiki Gyan. No strings, and fairly hard edged for radio-ready disco. Nice falsetto vocals that don't take over, so it's a good...	Hot Casa	$17.50 Add:
Kiki Gyan 24 Hours in a Disco 2lp 2lp 2012/1978-82 new Kiki ran away from home to be a soul organist in Accra at age 14, and became Osibisa's 2nd keyboard player a year later. Suddenly immersed in a world of planes, hotels, studio...	Soundway	$23.00 Add:
Kiki Gyan 24 Hours in a Disco cd cd 2012/1978-82 new Kiki ran away from home to be a soul organist in Accra at age 14, and became Osibisa's 2nd keyboard player a year later. Suddenly immersed in a world of planes, hotels, studio...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Kilimani Muslim School Music From Tanzania and Zanzibar cd cd 2011/1996 new 8 frame drums, all tuned differently so that a melody can be played across them, clamor behind 2 choirs. All the singers are students, and the 2 choirs are split between girls and...	Caprice	$16.50 Add:
Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai Japanese Traditional Music cd cd 2011/1941 new Japan's Meiji era began in the 1860s around the country's first (forced) trade deals with the outside world. It went on to expand Japan's borders until the population had doubled by...	World Arbiter	$12.00 Add:
Kourosh Yaghmaei Back From the Brink 2cd 2cd 2011/1973-79 new Kourosh could supposedly play the santur upon first sight when he got one as a childhood gift. He started out in a teen garage band, and his two brothers were in his adult...	Now Again	$17.50 Add:
Kourosh Yaghmaei Back From the Brink 3lp 3lp 2011/1973-79 new Kourosh could supposedly play the santur upon first sight when he got one as a childhood gift. He started out in a teen garage band, and his two brothers were in his adult...	Now Again	$31.00 Add:
KS Chithra/Ilaiyaraaja cd cd 2012/1986-91 new Kollywood soundtracks that are just as elaborate, florid & ornate as the musical fender-benders from up north in Bombay, but clearly made on the cheap & with due speed. Digital &...	B Music	$15.00 Add:
L'Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti lp lp 2011/1977 new Mopti lies as the x point in the cross of Mali's geography and it's rivers. It's the venice of the Niger delta, not far from mud mosques & where the Dogon see stars without...	Kindred Spirits	$17.50 Add:
L'Orchestre National A de la Republic du Mali lp lp 2010/1970 new Formed the day after Mali's independence. Led by balafon/xylophone player Keletigui Diabate, except on guitar as the fashions/politics of the day dictated. There were A, B & C...	Mississippi	$10.00 Add:
Leny Andrade Grabado No Mexico lp lp 2010/1966 new Bossa's answer to Sarah Vaughan, with an exacting intonation, control over vocal color & intricate sense of rhythm. As a child she trained to be a classical pianist, but gave it up...	-	$14.50 Add:
Lewlewal de Podor Yiilo Jaam lp lp 2011 new Low-key, intricate & loping acoustic folk from the border between Senegal & Mauritania. They're the house band on a tourist riverboat that runs around the Senegal & Doue rivers. Recorded...	Sahel Sounds	$15.50 Add:
Lo Ka Ping Lost Sounds of the Tao cd cd 2002/1946-71 new Tapes of an elderly self taught Cantonese qin player who went otherwise unrecorded & only performed for an audience once, doing some traditional pieces & some he wrote. The tapes...	World Arbiter	$12.50 Add:
Los Corraleros de Majagual Aqui Estan cdr cdr 2011/196x new Columbian cumbia supergroup that was home to both Fruko and Anibal Velasquez (both of whom you'd remember from recent records on Analog Africa & Soundway). Band got started in 1962...	-	$5.00 Add:
Los Destellos Constelacion lp lp 2011/1971 new Lima's psychedelic cumbian masters. Enrique Delgado started playing guitar as a child & was already touring by the time he was 13. His parents disapproved & kicked him out of the...	Secret Stash	$16.50 Add:
Los Jharis de Nana Los Creadores lp + 7 inch lp + 7 inch 2012/1991-11 new Sparkling & echo-heavy Peruvian chica by guys who have their own nascar-style jumpsuits. Leader Teo Laura was clearly born to be a guitar god. Originally a cassette....	Masstropicas	$20.00 Add:
Los Mirlos El Poder Verde 2cdr 2cdr 2009/1977/1973-77 new Here's a slew of steamy flanged guitar rippers from my favorite Peruvian cumbia/chicha band. In the early 70s, the oil refining industry brought lots of kids out of rural...	BWIE	$8.00 Add:
Los Miticos del Ritmo cd cd 2012 new I don't care how stupid it sounds on paper, the cumbia version of Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust' on this record is a one hunnerd percent stone slayer. Contemporary band put together...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Los Nombres cd cd 2011/1977 new Fantastic & summery latin rock, sometimes veering into killer 'Spill the Wine'/Eric Burdon territory and other times leaning toward Fania-hard boogaloo. The band could even hit sweet...	Asterisk	$13.50 Add:
Los Orientales de Paramonga 7s & Comps cdr cdr 2011/197x new Some people call them the cholo (aka rural Peruvian Inidan) answer to Los Destellos. Los Orientales play their pulpy, wet chicha as though wah-ed out surf guitar is the savior of...	-	$5.00 Add:
Mahmoud Ahmed lp lp 2012/1975 new The prime output of Ahmed, who's a generation younger than Eshete & Astatke & eventually helped popularize Ethiopian music in the West. He began as a shoeshine boy from the south...	Mississippi	$14.50 Add:
Manuel Alvarez Y Sus Dangers cdr cdr 2013/1979 new Block party djs spun Colombian rumba, son & cumbia right alongside Carribean & afrobeat music, and the inevitable local response was called champeta. Manuel & his buddies recorded...	-	$5.00 Add:
Marijata lp lp 2011/1976 new Smokin' Ghanian afrobeat. Band began as the backing group of singer Pat Thomas, called the Sweet Beans, and changed their name when they pared down to a trio. Probably more of this...	Academy	$17.00 Add:
Marta Kubisova Ne cd cd 2010/1966-70 new The funky Czech answer to Shirley Bassey. Kubisova's version of 'Hey Jude' is the one you hear playing as the tanks roll in during 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'. During the...	Vampisoul	$21.00 Add:
Martin Lopez Y Sus Estrellas Concinando lp lp 2012/1969-71 new Gleaming Peruvian cumbia & descargas recorded at the Mag studios by Lopez, who worked during the day as a policeman and was keen to hide his time as an uncouth musician from the...	Light in the Attic	$18.50 Add:
Master Musicians of Jajouka The Primal Energy lp lp 2011/1974/1972 new Northern Morocco mountain sufi musicians with double reeds & hand drums. The group's 2nd album, recorded without Brian Jones' phasing (a la 'Pan Pipes of Jajouka'), and without...	Sol Re Sol	$17.50 Add:
Mehrpouya Soul Raga 2cd 2cd 2013/1968-76 new Pharaway Sounds' introduction to Iranian sitarist, the debonair Abbas Mehrpouya (1927-1993). Tehran's most exotic musician led a swank and cosmopolitan life, and his deep, low...	Pharaway Sounds	$23.00 Add:
Mehrpouya Soul Raga 3lp 3lp 2013/1968-76 new Pharaway Sounds' introduction to Iranian sitarist, the debonair Abbas Mehrpouya (1927-1993). Tehran's most exotic musician led a swank and cosmopolitan life, and his deep, low...	Pharaway Sounds	$37.00 Add:
Meridian Brothers Desesperanza cd cd 2012/2010-11 new One of the reasons that recent experiments in cumbia revival (like Ondatropica & Frente Cumbiero) have been so juicy & fascinating, as well as straight up good, is because of the...	Soundway	$15.00 Add: