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  • V/A – Nigeria 70
    V/A – Nigeria 70
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    Strut repress one of the all-time classic compilations of Afro-funk and Afrobeat for 2016, the first volume of the mighty Nigeria 70 series. Originally released in 2001, the album followed […]

  • Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
    Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    2023 repress. Originally released in 1970 this was the third album from Os Mutantes, the geniuses of wacked out Brazilian psychedelic rock. They may have been trying to pay homage […]

  • Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret – Beauties
    Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret – Beauties
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    A lost classic of the Ethiopian Golden Age, reissued in full for the first time! On this 1976 gem of a record, Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebret’s voices intertwine in […]

  • Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen
    Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen
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    A revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on […]

  • V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
    V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
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    Four essential cuts from Ghana & Cape Verde, compiled by Arp Frique… Music is a great connector, bringing people together in many ways. On his journey in music so far, […]

  • V/A – Afro Exotique 2: Further Adventures In The Leftfield Africa 1975-87
    V/A – Afro Exotique 2: Further Adventures In The Leftfield Africa 1975-87
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    After “Afro Exotique – Adventures In The Leftfield, Africa 1972-88” was enthusiastically embraced by heads, collectors and core Africa Seven enthusiasts alike, we dived back [...]

  • 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
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    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 […]

  • John Ondolo – Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo
    John Ondolo – Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo
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    John Ondolo spent his life traveling between Tanzania, where he was born, and Kenya, where he recorded a string of singles for independent labels in the late 1950s and early […]

  • 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

  • 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)
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    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, […]

  • 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 [...]

  • 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 […]

  • Mutantes – Ao Vivo
    Mutantes – Ao Vivo
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    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, [...]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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 [...]

  • 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
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    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
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    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 [...]

  • 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)
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    “Back in 1978, Bernard Treton recorded four ‘tradi-modern’ bands in Kinshasa. These sessions spawned the “Zaïre: Musiques Urbaines à Kinshasa” album (released in [...]