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Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM
Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM
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$23.00
The title track, ‘Gentleman’, has often been hailed as Fela’s masterpiece. The politically scathing song opposes Westernization and those who imitate Western ways. Fela had many Ghanaian friends (and Ghanaian wives and Ghanaian girlfriends) and ‘Fefe Naa Efe’ is sung as a tribute to Ghana. ‘Igbe’ again shows Fela breaking cultural taboos by singing literally and figuratively about ‘sh*t’. He sings the word in a several Nigerian languages so there is no misunderstanding.
After multiple lauded album-length cassettes, ‘Adaptive Emotional Use’ is the first true album from Toronto-based Death Kneel. Several years in development, ‘Adaptive Emotional Use’ is a [...]
“A winsome and dizzying spin on disco pop, recorded in westernized Iran during the last moments before the 1979 revolution. All but criminalized in the wake of Ayatollah Khomeini’s [...]
“The Brainbombs use a horn, scraping guitars and the mindset of a mentally-impaired killer to bring some dark damage to the putrid remains of the corpse of rock music. When the band [...]
“Nineteen Eighty-Two, Brussels: Living on busking wages and next door to Tuxedomoon, Antena manage to make a contemporary bossanova record that provides the missing link between Antonio [...]
Pennsylvania’s dark shadow figure, Lunacy, has been releasing music in small batches since 2016. After 4 EP’s and a compilation LP, the time for a debut album has come, the “Age Of Truth” [...]
“Darla Records is proud to offer a new record from Dusty Reske’s Rocketship, California’s most venerable indiepop prodigy. Psychedelic, sugary, blissed-out, orgasmic, pop [...]
Seoul based DJ Duo Ping and Pong (Dydsu + DJ yesyes), started annual B2B recording from 2016. always very tripping experience through the all the music around the world (from noise to asian [...]
2014 repress. One of King Tubby’s finest works, originally released in 1974. Recorded at Tubby’s famous 18 Drummly Ave. studio in Kingston during dub’s early development period.
2020 restock. Zehra present a reissue of Apocalypse Across The Sky by The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar, originally released in 1992. Available on vinyl for the very first [...]
Experimentation in early electronic music in the Sahara from the singular Mamman Sani. Dreamy organs and droning melodies reinterpret ancient folk tradition into sublime fantastical soundscape. [...]
Finally the re-issue of the classic from 1981 as LP-vinyl, the album which have been out of print for over five years now and got a new lacquer cut by Kevin Metcalfe at Soundmasters. Produced by [...]
“Na Hawa Doumbia’s La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3 is the first release for Awesome Tapes From Africa, a blog and DJ project known worldwide for shedding light on obscure and [...]