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  • Gibraltar Drakus – Hommage A Zanzibar
    Gibraltar Drakus – Hommage A Zanzibar
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    No shortage of colorful characters emerged from Cameroon’s bikutsi scene in the 1980’s and early 90’s. Gibraltar Drakus is one of the most enduring and enigmatic of the artists [...]

  • S.E. Rogie – The Further Sounds Of…
    S.E. Rogie – The Further Sounds Of…
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    “10 brilliant tracks from 1960’s Sierra Leone by the wildly popular S.E. Rogie! S.E. Rogie went from running a tailor shop in Sierra Leone to being one of West Africa’s most […]

  • Roger Bekono – S/T
    Roger Bekono – S/T
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    Roger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the four-on-the-floor, ribald intensity of bikutsi. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style that forms an [...]

  • William Onyeabor – Tomorrow
    William Onyeabor – Tomorrow
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    I think what you will find as we go through the whole William Onyeabor catalog, is how great it is. How many artists can release eight great or pretty great […]

  • V/A – Afro-Beat Airways: West African Shock Waves Ghana & Togo 1972-1978
    V/A – Afro-Beat Airways: West African Shock Waves Ghana & Togo 1972-1978
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    Organ-driven Afro-beat, cosmic Afro-funk and raw, psychedelic boogie … just some of the flavours to be found on this highly danceable compilation by Samy Ben Redjeb, founder of Analog Africa.No [...]

  • V/A – Nigeria Soul Power 70 – Afro-Funk, Afro-Rock, Afro-Disco
    V/A – Nigeria Soul Power 70 – Afro-Funk, Afro-Rock, Afro-Disco
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    Soul Jazz Records’ Nigeria Soul Power 70 album showcases the influence of funk, rock and disco on Nigerian music during the 1970s. Originally released as a now-long-out-of-print collectors’ 7” [...]

  • V/A – YORUBA! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria
    V/A – YORUBA! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    Soul Jazz Records latest album Yoruba! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria is newly recorded in Lagos, Nigeria. The album is co-produced by Soul Jazz Records label […]

  • Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
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    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

  • Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
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    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

  • Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
    Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
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    Lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara. This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that […]

  • Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986
    Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986
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    Analog Africa’s forthcoming compilation Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa No.36) is highlighting a unique style of music : Amazonian [...]

  • Mdou Moctar – Niger EP Vol. 2
    Mdou Moctar – Niger EP Vol. 2
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    In 2021, we started the Mdou Moctar mixtape series. These releases compiled field recordings, cell phone voice memos, interview clips, conversations captured in the tour van, and blown-out board [...]

  • V/A – 90° Degrees Of Shade (Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean) (Volume Two)
    V/A – 90° Degrees Of Shade (Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean) (Volume Two)
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    Soul Jazz Records – SJR LP290-VOL.2 Media Condition –  VG+, few marks on records. Nice copy Sleeve Condition – VG+, very light wear.

  • V/A – London Is the Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London
    V/A – London Is the Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London
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    Originally released in 2005. Another installment of amazing music from the first wave of modern black settlement in England. The focus remains on the ’50s, with classic calypsos running [...]

  • Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
    Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
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    Baad John Cross’s New Revolution is a Afro-electro-funk-boogie-disco banger that could only come from 1980s Nigeria. Bright, optimistic, with an unrelenting eye on the dance floor, it is regarded [...]

  • Felix Lebarty – Girls For Sale (sealed)
    Felix Lebarty – Girls For Sale (sealed)
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    PMG – PMG061LP Austrian Reissue SEALED

  • Fela Ransome—Kuti And The Africa ’70 With Ginger Baker ‎– Live!
    Fela Ransome—Kuti And The Africa ’70 With Ginger Baker ‎– Live!
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    What our staff has to say: “Top notch Afrobeat perfection with the best drummers to have ever lived. Energy off the charts. An essential, classic record that’s also a great […]

  • V/A – Ebirac All-Stars (Boricua Blue Vinyl)
    V/A – Ebirac All-Stars (Boricua Blue Vinyl)
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    Holed up in the bustling Puerto Rican community centers of Chicago’s west side, the salseros featured on Ebiriac All-Stars make up the best of Carlos Ruiz’ Ebirac label, which ran […]

  • Andre & Josi – Amandla
    Andre & Josi – Amandla
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    Having shown talent for playing guitar at a young age, Josi Ndlovu (Zimbabwe) started his first rock band “The Movers” (who were very popular within the local scene) in 1968. […]

  • Black Children Sledge Funk Group – Love Is Fair (RSD Italy)
    Black Children Sledge Funk Group – Love Is Fair (RSD Italy)
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    INDIE EXCLUSIVE, RSD ITALY APRIL RELEASE. Nigerian classic, Black Children Sledge Funk Group’s 1976 debut album is full of positive vibrations and feel-good grooves. A sunny blend of Reggae [...]

  • V/A – Jazz in Jamaica: The Coolest Cats From The Alpha Boys School
    V/A – Jazz in Jamaica: The Coolest Cats From The Alpha Boys School
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    Repressed. Talking about the foundation of Jamaican music, the Alpha Boys School in Kingston can be considered as one of the places where it all began. Back in the day, […]

  • Penny Penny – Yogo Yogo
    Penny Penny – Yogo Yogo
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    The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny’s life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable […]

  • V/A – Nouakchott Wedding Songs
    V/A – Nouakchott Wedding Songs
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    Raucous and electrified wedding songs from the desert kingdom of Mauritania. Luxurious overload of microtonal scales, phaser pedals, and unpredictable polyrhythms. Documentation of a little known [...]

  • Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom
    Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom
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    Avant-garde cosmic sounds from Senegal, Wau Wau Collectif’s “Yaral Sa Doom” is a groundbreaking album spanning borders and musical scenes. Inspired from West African tradition, [...]

  • Omar Souleyman – To Syria With Love (Orange Vinyl)
    Omar Souleyman – To Syria With Love (Orange Vinyl)
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    Omar Souleyman returns with a new album, To Syria, With Love. The album is a “personal ode” to Souleyman’s native country that eschews politics entirely. The record features keys by […]

  • Etran De L’Aïr – Agadez
    Etran De L’Aïr – Agadez
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    Etran de L’Aïr (or “stars of the Aïr region”) welcomes you to Agadez, the capital city of Saharan rock. Playing for over 25 years, Etran has emerged as stars of […]

  • Vis-A-Vis ‎– The Best Of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style
    Vis-A-Vis ‎– The Best Of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style
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    A remastered reissue of The Best of Vis- A-Vis in Congo Style – the album finds the the young band in great form, with six new songs. The album was […]

  • The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion
    The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion
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    Anadolu Psych tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to a sudden end by a repressive right-wing coup in 1980, largely forgotten and only recently being rediscovered […]

  • Ofege ‎– How Do You Feel
    Ofege ‎– How Do You Feel
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    Ofege was formed in the early 1970s by a bunch of teenagers at the St. Gregory’s College in Lagos Nigeria. They were largely influenced by the guitar solos of Carlos […]

  • Mutantes – Ao Vivo
    Mutantes – Ao Vivo
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    Vinilisssimo present a reissue of Mutantes’ Ao Vivo, originally released in 1976. Those who fell in love with Os Mutantes after listening to their Tropicália work in the late ’60s, [...]

  • The Master Musicians of Joujouka – Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka
    The Master Musicians of Joujouka – Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka
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    Recordings of the Rites Of Pan Festival, performed by The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Berber Sufi trance musicians from northern Morocco. Rolling Stones Records – COC49100 1971 US Media [...]

  • Les Filles de Illighadad – At Pioneer Works
    Les Filles de Illighadad – At Pioneer Works
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    What our staff has to say: “Totally mesmerizing folk with desert guitar from Niger. FFO of the guitar work by artists like Ali Farka Touré and Tinariwen, although here with […]

  • João De Bruçó, R.H. Jackson – Caracol
    João De Bruçó, R.H. Jackson – Caracol
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    First time reissue of Caracol. Brazilian underground music in the 1980s produced fascinating and mysterious records, where organic and regional percussion finally gained electronic and synthetic [...]

  • Cinema – S/T
    Cinema – S/T
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    First time vinyl reissue. 1985 was one of the most important years in Brazil’s recent history, when the country was freed from more than 20 years of military dictatorship. The […]

  • Savila – Mayahuel
    Savila – Mayahuel
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    Sávila is a medicinal plant that grows wild in tropical climates all over the world as well as the name of cumbia/latin/world/r&b inspired music and visual art project by guitarist […]

  • VA – Ethiopian Wedding Songs
    VA – Ethiopian Wedding Songs
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    With a mix of modern and traditional instruments these fourteen songs go through the progression of an Ethiopian Amhara wedding sung in Amharic. With the trio of singers, Lemma G. […]

  • Mamman Sani – La Musique Electronique Du Niger
    Mamman Sani – La Musique Electronique Du Niger
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    Mamman Sani Abdoulaye, a legendary name amongst Niger’s avant garde, presents a singularly unique recording of minimalist organ music from the Sahara. Dreamy and hypnotic, the sound is unlike [...]

  • Nahawa Doumbia – Kanawa
    Nahawa Doumbia – Kanawa
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from [...]

  • Soul Jazz Records Presents Coxsone’s Music Vol 2
    Soul Jazz Records Presents Coxsone’s Music Vol 2
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    Coxsone’s Music is a stunning new 3-CD/two separate double LP (+ free download) collection featuring over two and half hours of early Jamaican proto-ska, rhythm and blues, jazz, Rastafari and [...]

  • Hama – Houmeissa
    Hama – Houmeissa
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    Nigerién composer Hama presents a groundbreaking album of traditional electronic desert folk songs, hovering somewhere between early 90s techno and synthwave. Nomadic herding ballads, ancient [...]

  • Luka Productions – Falaw
    Luka Productions – Falaw
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    Luka Productions presents Falaw, an innovative take on West African Hip Hop and sample-based folktronica. A follow up from the acclaimed Malian “new age” inspired Fasokan (2017), Luka [...]

  • DJ Katapila – Trotro
    DJ Katapila – Trotro
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    DJ Katapila makes Ga traditional music using electronic sounds instead of live percussion to create his own kind of what he calls house music. In the context of Ghana’s pop […]

  • Troupe Ecole Tudu – Oyiwane
    Troupe Ecole Tudu – Oyiwane
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    Sweet and sublime school recordings from elementary school group in Northern Niger from the 1980s. All-girl group accompanied by their instructor on the guitar, recalling Guinean folk and early [...]

  • El Wali – Tiris
    El Wali – Tiris
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    An amazing and rare studio recording of 1990s Polisario music! The album is a standout example of the Sahrawi political folk style that mixes traditional modes with Western scales and […]

  • Sankayi, Konono Nº1, Orchestre Bambala, Orchestre Bana Luya ‎– Kinshasa 1978 (Originals and Reconstructions)
    Sankayi, Konono Nº1, Orchestre Bambala, Orchestre Bana Luya ‎– Kinshasa 1978 (Originals and Reconstructions)
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    “Back in 1978, Bernard Treton recorded four ‘tradi-modern’ bands in Kinshasa. These sessions spawned the “Zaïre: Musiques Urbaines à Kinshasa” album (released in [...]

  • Dayme Arocena – Sonocardiogram
    Dayme Arocena – Sonocardiogram
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    “The new album from Daymé Arocena is a vivid return to her Havana roots. Backed once again by a killer band of fellow Cuban musicians, the visionary singer, composer and […]