Soundway

Title-	Label	Price
Edzayawa Projection One cd cd 2012/1973 new Ghana band that traveled to Nigeria to beg their way into a club gig in exchange for lodging, & they ended up opening for Monomono & Fela. Their only album was released in Lagos...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Funkees Dancing Time 2lp 2lp 2012/1973-77 new They might well be the most psychedelic afrobeat band of them all. The much-beloved Funkees finally get a deluxe album treatment from the Soundway folks (who've featured them on...	Soundway	$23.00 Add:
Funkees Dancing Time cd cd 2012/1973-77 new They might well be the most psychedelic afrobeat band of them all. The much-beloved Funkees finally get a deluxe album treatment from the Soundway folks (who've featured them on...	Soundway	$15.00 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:
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:
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 Miticos del Ritmo lp lp 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	$23.00 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:
Meridian Brothers Niebla Morada 7 inch 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	$12.00 Add:
Michi Sarmiento Aqui Los Bravos 2lp 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 Add:
Michi Sarmiento Aqui Los Bravos cd 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	$14.50 Add:
Monomono Give the Beggar a Chance 2lp 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 Add:
Ondatropica 2cd 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 Add:
Orlando Julius & his Afro Sounders Orlando's Afro Ideas cd 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 Add:
Rob Make It Fast Make It Slow cd cd 2012/1978 new Sweet jumpin' jehosaphat. Been loving last year's reish of the 1st Rob Raindorf record ('Funky Rob Way'), & now here's his other one. Backed by the horn-laden, slinky-as-shit army...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Sweet Talks The Kusum Beat cd cd 2010/1974 new 2nd album. They were a house band at a club just outside Accra, & tracks have shown up on Soundway's 'Ghana Soundz Vol. 2'. Great brass throughout, but probably best on...	Soundway	$14.00 Add:
Various Afro Baby cd cd 2006/1970-79 new 70s Nigerian funk, soul, afro-jazz, and highlife. Go beyond Fela and hear the straight shit from Lagos before the military went haywire. Tracklisting: Sahara All Stars-Alikali...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Various Cartagena cd cd 2011/1962-72 new The Soundway label goes back to Columbia for an irrestistable, flamboyant, infectious crop of singles on the big Discos Fuentes label. You can hear the elegance of 40s swing...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Various Colombia Golden Age of Discos Fuentes 2lp 2lp 2007/1960-76 new Hard & funky Salsa, Cumbia, & Descarga from Bogota's great Fuentes label. Reverse the Mercator projection and give the fandango it's due with afrosound musicians that can outplay...	Soundway	$23.00 Add:
Various Colombia: The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes cd cd 2007/1960-76 new Hard & funky Salsa, Cumbia, & Descarga from Bogota's great Fuentes label. Reverse the Mercator projection and give the fandango it's due with afrosound musicians that can outplay...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Various Ghana Soundz Vol. 2 cd cd 2004/1970-78 new Deep afrosoul explosion & funky hotfoot dances are just the starting point here, & Miles Cleret dug through the trash left sitting at old pressing plants to turn up forgotten...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Various Ghana Special 2cd cd 2009/1968-81 new Having spent 10 years researching the musicians of Ghana, Miles Cleret decided that his two volumes of 'Ghana Soundz' weren't enough to give a true overview of the country's...	Soundway	$22.00 Add:
Various Kenya Special 2cd 2cd 2013/197x new Kenyan musicians are well known for the post-WWII fingerstyle guitar that spread throughout Africa. All through the 60s & 70s this style melded with the imported fashions of...	Soundway	$18.50 Add:
Various Kenya Special 3lp + 45 3lp + 45 2013/197x new Kenyan musicians are well known for the post-WWII fingerstyle guitar that spread throughout Africa. All through the 60s & 70s this style melded with the imported fashions of...	Soundway	$33.00 Add:
Various Nigeria Afrobeat Special cd cd 2010/1971-78 new Miles Cleret might just have the best ear of any record digger alive. Here he is with another drop dead set of Nigerian singles & lp tracks, all of them serious obscurities which...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Various Nigeria Disco Funk Special cd cd 2008/1974-79 new Just what would it sound like if Pete Cosey had electrocuted Miles during an onstage blackout & then (cause who needs a murder rap) ran away to join the JBs? Guys from Fela's band...	Soundway	$16.00 Add:
Various Nigeria Rock Special cd cd 2008/197x new Miles Cleret is a fine gent from the UK whose Nigerian afrobeat & highlife collection is unrivalled (I also hear he's quite an excellent host to travellers passing through, & will...	Soundway	$16.00 Add:
Various Nigeria Special 2cd 2cd 2008/1970-76 new Guitar based highlife and psychedelic funk/afropop co-existed among different generations in Lagos during the early 70s. Buoyant & intertwined picked guitars & polyrhythms,...	Soundway	$22.00 Add:
Various Palenque Palenque 3lp 3lp 2010/1975-91 new 'Champeta' is the name of a knife, a social class and a musical style, all surrounding Palenque, a town founded in the 1600s by escaped slaves outside Cartagena Colombia....	Soundway	$28.00 Add:
Various Palenque Palenque cd cd 2010/1975-91 new 'Champeta' is the name of a knife, a social class and a musical style, all surrounding Palenque, a town founded in the 1600s by escaped slaves outside Cartagena Colombia....	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Various Panama 3 cd cd 2009/1960-75 new Like a poor cousin to Havana, Colon was a free-for-all city with a swinging nightlife that intermingled every stripe of ethnic background. Any song, phrase, or lick could be laid...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Various The Original Sound of Cumbia 2cd 2cd 2011/1948-79 new Did you know that in Colombia the slang for the accordion was once 'the chest synthesizer'? Trace the infectious scratching of the guacharaca as it traveled inward from the...	Soundway	$22.00 Add:
Various The Original Sound of Cumbia Part 1 3lp 3lp 2011/1948-79 new Cumbia's move inland from the coast was also a move from rural to urban, undercutting any ideas that folk musicians were just hick farmers. Instead, cumbia presented itself...	Soundway	$30.00 Add:
Various The Original Sound of Cumbia Part 2 3lp 3lp 2011/1948-79 new Did you know that in Colombia the slang for the accordion was once 'the chest synthesizer'? Trace the infectious scratching of the guacharaca as it traveled inward from the...	Soundway	$30.00 Add:
Various The Sound of Siam cd cd 2010/1964-75 new Once again, Soundway shows everybody how it's done. Wonderful junket through several related subgenres of Thai 60s/70s music (Luk Thung, Luk Krung, Molam & more). Urban pop,...	Soundway	$15.00 Add:
Various The World Ends 2cd 2cd 2010/197x new Explosive, mean & lean fuzz-funk that expressed a combination of urbanity, political bitterness, social disenfranchisement, and also the (always) fragile hope of beautiful sound....	Soundway	$21.50 Add:
Various The World Ends Part 1 3lp 3lp 2010/197x new Highlife slowly fragments into Igbo vs. Yoruba vs. Hausa styles, and on top of that younger people are getting stoked on James Brown & platform shoes while older folks still...	Soundway	$28.00 Add: