Mississippi

Title-	Label	Price
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:
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:
Dead Moon Stranded in the Mystery Zone lp lp 2012/1991 new Fred Cole's voice, with it's adenoidal/ACDC treble thing wailing out of the Oregon woods, can carry amazing lyrics that few bands can pull off anywhere this side of AM radio. Just...	Mississippi	$13.00 Add:
Dead Moon Unknown Passage lp lp 2011/1989 new Here's their 2nd lp of primitive howling garage with zero effects pedals. Mono lathe masters and beer are the only ingredients you need for pure rock'n'roll overload. Clackamas,...	Mississippi	$13.50 Add:
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru Spielt Eigene Kompositionen lp lp 2012/1963 new Aka half of 'Ethiopiques Vol. 21'. Solo piano played in long, sweeping arpeggios that tinkle & waft up & up, basically turning the instrument into a giant harp. Gebru is a nun who...	Mississippi	$14.50 Add:
G.I. Gurdjieff Improvisations lp lp 2012/1949 new Gurdjieff was a pre-WWII mystic philosopher & all around cult guy who lived in Russia & France. He's known for writing some cool looking 20s style ballets with Thomas de Hartmann,...	Mississippi	$13.50 Add:
Georgia Sea Island Singers Join the Band lp lp 2011/1959-60 new Alan Lomax was about 20 when he first went to the coast of Georgia & South Carolina, and he apparently showed up in blackface in order to try not to freak out the local populace....	Mississippi	$15.00 Add:
Kleenex/Liliput 4lp 4lp 1978-83 new Early rough trade femmes get the DIY jump up and down jitters, plus some wonderful shrieking & squealing of the type that only young girls are capable. Following roughly in the...	Mississippi	$50.00 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:
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:
Orchestre Regional de Mopti Best of the First Biennale lp lp 2010/1970 new Oh cripes, that hypnotic guitar is so bewitching! The rest of the record is good, but the phantasmal clipped riff & liquefying horns on "Recital" brings you one of the finest moments...	Mississippi	$13.50 Add:
Sid Hemphill The Devil's Dream lp lp 2013/1942 new Fife & quill recordings (wood flutes & pan pipes basically, but played by civil war vets) barely existed outside of Henry Thomas' 20s recordings until Alan Lomax went to a shack in...	Mississippi	$13.00 Add:
Various A Short Life of Trouble lp lp 2013/1927-43 new Adding electricity to the recording process round about 1925 allowed softer instruments that people had in their houses, like dulcimers, little guitars, or autoharps, to be picked...	Mississippi	$13.00 Add:
Various Assiyo Bellema lp lp 2013/1971-75 new A selection from Ethiopiques vols 24 & 25. Slithering organ & sax orchestras that seem to have no end of drowsy minor-key soul breaks to lay on your ears. Mostly taken from the...	Mississippi	$14.50 Add:
Various Fanafody lp lp 2011/2002 new Second set recorded by Canadian guitar player Charles Brooks at a wide variety of spots in rural Madagascar. Diddley bows, zithers plucked with both hands, guitars, shakers, & even...	Mississippi	$11.50 Add:
Various Five Minutes to Midnight 10 inch 10 inch 2012/196x new Late 60s & early 70s gospel-soul. In the mood to grieve over your impending death? Missionary Mamie Sample's song gave it's title to Mike McGonigal's 'This May Be My Last Time...	Mississippi	$13.00 Add:
Various Hasabe lp lp 2012/1969-75 new Some of the most molten & infectious melodies on earth, twining around each other with tons of brass & loping rhythms. If you listen real careful (try it on Eshete's 'Ayalqem...	Mississippi	$14.50 Add:
Various Laila Je T'Aime lp lp 2012/2009-11 new West African acoustic guitar field recordings by Chris Kirkley ('Music from Saharan Cellphones'). Some folks who've had albums on his label lately, including Alkibar Gignor &...	Mississippi	$14.50 Add:
Various Last Time Around lp lp 2011/1948-98 new To my mind, some of the most interesting compilations on Mississippi are it's raw gospel series, & this is the 3rd (First two were 'Life Is A Problem' & 'Oh Graveyard You Can't...	Mississippi	$13.50 Add:
Various Time Will Make a Change lp + 7 inch lp + 7 inch 2012/196x-8x new 4th & last in Mississip's gospel series('Life Is A Problem', 'Oh Graveyard You Can't Hold Me Always' & 'Last Time Around' were the other 3). One side's for rockers & the...	Mississippi	$15.50 Add:
Various United Sacred Harp Convention lp lp 2013/1959 new Sacred harp refers to a type of acapella note-reading more than a musical vibe, so some congregations are slow swayers, while the ones recorded here are more like a white people's...	Mississippi	$12.50 Add: