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7 inch 2013 new My single favorite record from last year was by these guys, and their latest single is just as delightful. Bleeping & sped-up keyboards careen & bounce over ankle-wrenching Colombian... |
Soundway |
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2lp 2011/1967-77 new Lightning fast descargas by the motorcycle-riding bandleader whose cover of Louie Ramirez' 'Rush Hour in Hong Kong' lit up Soundway's 1st Colombian collection. Truly jaw dropping... |
Soundway |
$22.50
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cd 2011/1967-77 new Lightning fast descargas by the motorcycle-riding bandleader whose cover of Louie Ramirez' 'Rush Hour in Hong Kong' lit up Soundway's 1st Colombian collection. Truly jaw dropping... |
Soundway |
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2cd 2012/1962-74 new Sparrow will forever be one of calypso's giants soley on the laurels of the huge hit he wrote 'Jean and Dinah'- a song about how the despondent local hookers were all dropping... |
Strut |
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2lp 2010/1972 new Nascimento's mother died when he was an infant, and he was adopted by her employers, a couple for whom she was a maid. At age 21, he moved to the nearest big city and lived in a... |
Four Men With Beards |
$24.00
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cd 2004/1973-80 new Smokey jazz beats and firey Latin funk from the king bongocero and conguero. Mongo learned percussion attending Santeria ceremonies as a child & is best known for his 60s work... |
Vampisoul |
$16.00
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2lp 2011/1971-72 new Nigerian funky afrobeat led by Joni Haastrup, who sang for Orlando Julius & played keys on a Ginger Baker tour right before this album was recorded. He plays about half the... |
Soundway |
$23.00
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lp 2009/1972 new Vibraphone heavy Ethiopian jazz mixed with Afro-Cuban funk, and it's all brought to you courtesy of Ethiopian Airlines. No plane I ever sat on gave me a record like this. Beats... |
Worthy |
$13.50
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cd 2005/1982 new Traditional & rather sober Iraqi oud player who was forced to spend most of his life away from Baghdad because of politics. He was already a star when he left for Beirut in the mid... |
Le Chant Du Monde |
$15.00
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lp 2012/1975 new Witch & Crissy Zebby Tembo's fuzzbomb African rock have put Zambia on lots of Western record nerd's musical maps, but Rikki Ililonga made some of the earliest multitrack recordings... |
Now Again |
$21.00
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cd 2011/1982 new First release from this highly esteemed blog. Early recording by a very popular Wassoulou singer who grew up in southern Mali near the border of the Ivory Coast. She won a government... |
Awesome Tapes From Africa |
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lp 2011/1982 new First release from this highly esteemed blog. Early recording by a very popular Wassoulou singer who grew up in southern Mali near the border of the Ivory Coast. She won a government... |
Awesome Tapes From Africa |
$16.00
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cd 2013/1973 new Really cooking little record. A mess ensued between the Nigeria Sound Makers, their leader Osita Osadebe & their collective booker, because a London tour didn't make as much money as... |
Secret Stash |
$14.50
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lp 2013/1973 new Really cooking little record. A mess ensued between the Nigeria Sound Makers, their leader Osita Osadebe & their collective booker, because their London tour didn't make as much... |
Secret Stash |
$18.00
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2lp 2012/2009 new Wyatt set out to visit a music festival & when it turned out to be cancelled, took a trip through the country to record performances instead. Some of her wanderings checked in at... |
Sublime Frequencies |
$25.50
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cd + dvd 2011/2009 new Wyatt set out to visit a music festival & when it turned out to be cancelled, took a trip through the country to record performances instead. Some of her wanderings checked in... |
Sublime Frequencies |
$26.50
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dvd 2013 new Two different, intensely drunken parades that celebrate two different Hatian voodoo deities. Deeply wasted people without shoes walk on mud trails for days on end. Cows are sacrificed,... |
Sublime Frequencies |
$18.50
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cd 2009/1999-09 new Get blasted by the rat-a-tat of synth beat machine gun fire. Let the devastating, serpentine & neon-electric bouzouki lines whip your spine into shape. Omar, his brother Hamid &... |
Sublime Frequencies |
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cd 2011/2009-2011 new Live from shows over the past two years, mostly in Europe, but with one cut in Philly. Swank sound from the board, with very little audible audience. Keyboard player Rizan Sa'id... |
Sublime Frequencies |
$15.00
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cd 2006/1994-06 new Feral Syrian electric gallop with whirling saz & reeds, cheap phased keyboards, & cigarette-fed Dabke-n-sword dancing straight from the cassette stands of Damascus. If I looked as... |
Sublime Frequencies |
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cd 2010/1995-09 new Get ravished all over again by cheap electric keyboards playing low-class wedding dance music from rural northeastern Syria. Incendiary speeds & apoplectic keyboard effects so... |
Sublime Frequencies |
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2lp 2011/1998 new Greatly expanded 30 minute version of the most famous song by everyone's favorite Syrian wedding singer. Kinda the 12" disco single version, although with all that phased-out... |
Sham Palace |
$24.00
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2cd 2012 new Recorded in the Discos Fuentes studios, Will Holland & the guy from Frente Cumbiero invite the cream of Colombian music history to join them making fun of Black Sabbath & checking out... |
Soundway |
$23.00
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lp 2013/1968 new Nouakchott is one of the strangest places on earth. A sleepy fishing village chosen to be the capital of Mauritania upon it's independence from France in 1960, it was... |
Mississippi |
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cd 2009/1969-79 new Hypnotic polyrythm just like it proclaims. Organ driven afro-beat mixed with funk, psychedelia, latin, and when there's a guitar solo or a horn riff, watch out sizzlers! First... |
Analog Africa |
$21.00
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2lp 2009/1969-79 new Hypnotic polyrythm just like it proclaims. Organ driven afro-beat mixed with funk, psychedelia, latin, and when there's a guitar solo or a horn riff, watch out sizzlers! First... |
Analog Africa |
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cd 2011/1973 new Fast percussion & saxophone interplay that seems to float & shimmy back and forth between a couple of minor organ chords forever, just like the tightest James Brown cookers. There... |
Analog Africa |
$16.00
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cd 2008/1972-75 In the turbulent years of Marxist government, Cotonou was home to a bustling melting pot of Ghanian highlife, French cabaret, American funk, Congolese rhumba, & the ritual rhythms of... |
Analog Africa |
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2lp 2008/1972-75 new In the turbulent years of Marxist government, Cotonou was home to a bustling melting pot of Ghanian highlife, French cabaret, American funk, Congolese rhumba, & the ritual... |
Analog Africa |
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2lp 2012/1970-76 new Parakou is a small town on the east side of Benin, in the north away from the coast. It's basically just a big railroad station with a market, a few hotels, & one nightclub.... |
Analog Africa |
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cd 2012/1970-76 new Parakou is a small town on the east side of Benin, in the north away from the coast. It's basically just a big railroad station with a market, a few hotels, & one nightclub. Small... |
Analog Africa |
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cd 2003/1969-72 new Highlife, belting 60s R&B from the USA, Yoruba portable piano, Charlie Parker, deep funk, & nightclub dance all get mixed up together a full four years before Fela took Lagos by... |
Soundway |
$11.00
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cd 2011/1973 new Previously unknown lp, found by Frank Gossner, whose digging empire is roughly equal to the reach of the French colonies. Recorded at Ginger Baker's studio in Lagos on a 24 track,... |
Voodoo Funk |
$15.50
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lp 2011/1973 new Previously unknown lp, found by Frank Gossner, whose digging empire is roughly equal to the reach of the French colonies. Recorded at Ginger Baker's studio in Lagos on a 24 track,... |
Voodoo Funk |
$19.50
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3lp 2007/1966-72 new Highlife, belting 60s R&B from the USA, Yoruba portable piano, Charlie Parker, deep funk, & nightclub dance all get mixed up together a full four years before Fela took Lagos by... |
Tedium House |
$36.50
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cd 2012/1976 new Low slung Zambian hard rock that's simply furry with blown out riffs & inappropriate bass-mixing. Paul was the guitarist for the Ngozi Family (for whom Chrissy Zebby Tembo was the... |
QDK |
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cd 2012/1978 new Reggae from southern Nigeria. Pazy (real name Edire Etinagbedia) went on to be a producer in the 80s & his son is a local musician today. About half of the first side is major key... |
Secret Stash |
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lp 2012/1978 new Reggae from southern Nigeria. Pazy (real name Edire Etinagbedia) went on to be a producer in the 80s & his son is a local musician today. About half of the first side is major key... |
Secret Stash |
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cdr 2011/1963-72 new Founder of Los Golden Boys along with his brother Guillerno, Jairo mostly played piano/keys in the band. But it's said that he could play anything from sax to strings, wrote all... |
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cassette 2013/197x new You might remember Laza as the upright bass player who appears on the cover of Soundway's 'Colombia' compilation. He founded his band in 1945 out of a nothern town named San... |
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cd 2007 new Duo of local popular musicians from western Mali who play electric ngonis (aka diddley bows with their bottoms stuck in gourd bowls). The local aunts & uncles come around & contribute to... |
Yaala Yaala |
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cd 2013/1979 new Lagos saxophone player who went off to London a few times, sometimes playing in bands that backed up the Temptations or Boney M while they were on tour. Whenever back in Nigeria, he... |
Secret Stash |
$14.50
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lp 2013/1979 new Lagos saxophone player who went off to London a few times, sometimes playing in bands that backed up the Temptations or Boney M while they were on tour. Whenever back in Nigeria, he... |
Secret Stash |
$17.00
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cdr 2011/196x new Payong Mukda's sumptuous modernized Thai guitar songs borrow equally from the Shadows, 'Louie Louie', and Thai folk melodies. Flashy electric organ & surf guitar instros that never... |
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cd 2010/1969-71 new They only recorded 3 singles, but the Aliens were one of the biggest acts in Accra. They toured Nigeria, Togo & Benin, played at Fela's club for a night, & partied all night at... |
Academy/Voodoo Funk |
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cd 2011/1974 new Truly idiosyncratic afro-psych that has surprisingly little Fela/afrosoul influence. Instead, these guys have their badly tuned guitars & verbed out car battery amps aimed at some... |
QDK |
$15.00
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cassette 2012/196x new Indonesian Elvis clone who later became an actor & director. Rachmat's parents were both actors. After his mother's death (in 1945, when Rachmat was 7), his father moved from... |
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3 inch cdr 2012/196x new Indonesian Elvis clone who later became an actor & director. Rachmat's parents were both actors. After his mother's death (in 1945, when Rachmat was 7), his father moved from... |
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2cd 2007/1970-83 new When Tidiani Kone first tried to find people for the band he was forming, he was short of a singer. He hired a homeless albino guy (who of course, began by refusing the job, and... |
Stern's |
$17.50
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2cd 2009/1970-83 new Polyrhythmic dance music dominated by lilting tremolo guitar, smokin' minor key horns, & voices that ripple like a blade of grass. In the interest of fomenting nationalism, lots... |
Stern's |
$17.00
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