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Reissue LPsA carefully selected variety of New and Reissue soul, jazz & funk LPs from around the world - ALL with PICS and SOUNDCLIPS! Listen and order online! We look long and hard to find the best new music and the best reissues available on LP. This isn't the largest selection you've ever seen - but then again there's no shite here so you won't have to waste your time looking through rubbish!
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Legendary 1970s Nigerian electronic Afro-funk album produced by William Onyeabour. Four tracks of the highest quality afro-beat with an electronic twist… All different tempos, moods and grooves covered. This seminal rare LP has now been remastered and is available on a limited pressing.
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Belgium, not the first place you'd think of when it comes to Latin or Afro funk. Yet one of the greatest records to blend both styles came from the small northern European country, masterminded by Nico Gomez and his Afro Percussion Inc.
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Selected from several singles and one LP issued between 1968-76. The lachrymose flute and organ dirges of his early work, shading into his signature, sophisticated, sumptuous, in-thing Iranian sitar-funk.
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Excellent, straight-up jazz — Trane's Syeeda's Song Flute is here, a couple of Ellingtons — in fine analogue recordings, presented with obvious, heart-warming love and commitment.
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The Ra trumpeter and the Hypnotics' dad tearing it up live in 1968. The composition is inspired by a reading of the revolutionary, cosmic musical legacy of the Moors. Grooving, fiery stuff.
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A rare and beautiful treasure from Chicago's Phil Cohran and his legendary Artistic Heritage Ensemble – material recorded at the end of the 60s, but only issued here for the first time ever! The sound on the record is amazing – much deeper, and more forceful than anything else we've ever heard from Cohran – almost in Sun Ra Arkestra territory at times, given the group's out-there playing, and bold collective action! Includes download code.
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A jazz-piano split release: Matthew Bourne with Vosloo and Giles, interspersing Ra and Duke with improv; Kit Downes with cellist Lucy Railton and sound sculptor Alex Killpartrick, more minimal and meditative.
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An overview of Edward Nelson early to mid seventies output ! Contains a 16-page booklet with full annotation, extensive liner notes and never-before-published photos, this 2-LP set comes sleeved in a reproduced version of the cover photo.
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Coming hot on the heels of his first full length, the self-proclaimed “most sampled artist of all time,” released the ground-breaking black concept LP 'Is It Because I’m Black' (a full 13 months before Marvin Gaye’s 'What’s Going On'). Throwing away the notion of a sophomore jinx, Syl delivered this politically charged document. Issued on 150gram vinyl and housed in a tip-on jacket.
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Released in the summer of 1969, Syl Johnson’s first full length outing compiles the fruits of his late 60s Twinight sides. Included are the seminal, and often sampled, hits “Come On Sock It To Me” and “Different Strokes”. Issued on 150gram vinyl and housed in a tip-on jacket, "Dresses Too Short" is the perfect entry point to explore this soul titan’s most productive years.
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Now-Again licensed this essential album from Zambia's 70s "Zamrock" scene from the Witch's last living member, vocalist Emmanuel Jagari Chanda. Introduction is the first album by the Witch ensemble, and it ranges from garage rock to heavy psych; it moves from rambling folk to bopping funk
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Witch's musical arc is contained to a five year span and, in retrospect, is a logical one. The bands first two, self-produced albums - released in unison with the birth of the commercial Zambian recording industry – are exuberant experiments in garage rock, and are as influenced by the Rolling Stones as they are James Brown. In The Past, their second album, is the perfect follow-up for anyone exposed to the Witch band through their landmark Introduction.
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Originally released in 1977, Ebo Taylor's self-titled album is a rarity that truly exposes the genius of the Ghanaian producer and arranger. Having spent most of the 1970s involved in Ghana's afro-funk output, working with different bands and musicians alike, Taylor put forward his own unique blend of Ghanaian highlife and afro-beat with this self-titled release.
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The five tracks that make up Conflict are a perfect example of Taylor's trademark approach that saw him inject a heavy dose of funk into Ghana's traditional highlife grooves in an attempt to move away from what he saw as the music's more traditional qualities. The LP features artwork restored from the original and comes on limited edition heavyweight vinyl.
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The official release of the 1976 recording 'The Tribe'. Previously only a handful of ultra-rare test pressing copies were floating around of this beauty. Finally after more than 35 years, this essential Spiritual Jazz recording will be made available on 180 gram vinyl and a heavy tip-on sleeve. Highly recommended!
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Reissue of an essential LP!
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Long-awaited Superfly reissue of the ultra collectible legendary Nigerian Funk LP, includes the massive club favourite 'solo mon an doan' and the killer psychadelic tune 'everybody get down' but the whole LP is a treat - as usual, beautiful quality repress with paste on covers made in Japan and 180grs vinyl, limited to 1000 copies, don't sleep!
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Lee Fields released his very fi rst full-length LP in 1979 entitled, "Let's Talk It Over". It featured his most successful song of the era, "She's a Lovemaker", which was at one time licensed and promoted by London Records. Mint copies of "Let's Talk it Over", which was self released by Mr. Fields and mostly sold at shows and out the back of his car, can fetch four digit numbers on eBay. Even the bootleg version from the early nineties sells for up to four hundred dollars. The deluxe edition of this Lee Fields "holy grail" album features songs from his singles catalogue including "Funky Screw", "We Fought For Survival", "Bewildered", "Meet Me Tonight", "The Bull Is Coming", "Everybody's Gonna Give Their Thing Away", and many more. The double LP is also repackaged with a new cover and never-before-seen photos of Lee Fields. Recommended!
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This is a deluxe double-gatefold vinyl LP that is limited to 500 copies and has been properly mastered for the best listening pleasure possible!Recommended!
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Newban were the mid 70’s powerhouse Funky and jazzy Soul band from which Atlantic Starr evolved. Their two excellent albums have their own feel and contain great tracks like the Brassy Funky Instrumental ‘Father Time’, the flute backed mid tempo groover ‘Greenburgh’, jazzier ‘Free Your Mind’, two stepper ‘Hungry Grin’ and their all-time classic ‘Why Did You Desert Me’. Sharon Bryant leads on excellent ‘Central Park’ and ‘Mellow Days Easy Nights’. This is a must have reissue folks!
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8 rare tracks highlighting the career of this Charlotte, NC keyboardist and producer who recorded under the aliases; Cyril, Mile High Pie, & The Project. Cyril is best known for his work with soul vocalist Marcel Evans on his album “Going Places” and the band Juicy.
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This is a deluxe double-gatefold vinyl LP that is limited to 500 copies and has been properly mastered for the best listening pleasure possible! Recommended!
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WOW BACK IN STOCK!!! Amazing LP, I cannot recommend highly enough! Supreme modal/spiritual jazz with an edge that only comes from highly creative and individual artists like this. Gore himself is Jamaican, yet his 4 private press LPs were recorded in Europe and hopelessly rare - I have only one myself, and have never even seen the others. This album is a 'best of' done with the blessing of Gore and his family, and is unlikely to be around for long. | |||
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Reissue of the ultra collectible Spiritual Jazz LP by the Source Of Life Arkestral Revelation, includes the great title track but the whole LP is a bliss - beautiful quality repress with paste on covers made in Japan and 180grs vinyl, limited to 1000 copies, big tip!
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Mulatu Astake is the undisputed visionary behind the Ethiopian sound of the 70s and his mastery underpins the bulk of this collection of works by the most cherished vocalist of that era. Dubbed 'the Ethiopian James Brown' in some quarters - a quick listen below should show why.
The Amharic language and vocal traditions are present as is the distinctive fusion of Eastern scales and Western rhythmic arrangement, creating the sound that so many music lovers and collectors have been going crazy for over the past few years. Truly one of the most unique, exotic and alluring sounds in the universe, this 2nd volume of Eshete's music is essential for any fan.
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This album was the debut Baden Powell release on the super cool Elenco Records, an independent label in Rio de Janeiro set by Aloysio de Oliveira, that was at the forefront of the Bossa Nova scene throughout the early 1960s.It has the iconic, stark and stunning artwork of the designer Cesar G Villesa, whose classic minimal black, white and red designs helped define the style of Bossa Nova throughout the world and comes as a collectable limited edition (1000 worldwide), exact-repro vinyl edition with a hardback American-pressed heavy card sleeve and also a heavyweight 180 gm vinyl pressing.
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Lots and lots and lots of zany radio & tv ads from between 1959 and 1965. Products range from the new space-age Hoover Keymatic, for which Gray provided an electronic score, to hooky jingles for new banana cereals. There is a sense of innocence, urgency, madness and fun across the whole album. Among the vocal talents on show are the Mike Sammes Singers, Eric Sykes and even Barry Gray shows off his vocal chords every now and again.
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Moody, dark and rain-soaked jazz... the perfect accompaniment to the coffee shops, clip joints and sleazy streets of '60s Soho. Trunk does it again, excavating more lost musical jewels honed by the late and very, very great Basil Kirchin.
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The second album from those who gave us 'Funky Nassau'. One of the rarest funky records of all time which for some reason never really got the distribution it deserved. But for you lucky people it's been re-issued.
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This is Betty's first release from back in 1976 which unfortunately for her didn't set many people's ears alight - until today that is. Released by those fellas at Luv N Haight it now comes in two versions, an original vocal with funky mid-tempo grooves backed with an extended instrumental version. Arthur Foy's 'Get Up And Dance' on the flip is apparently even rarer, fetching up to $400+ by heads in the know.
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From upstate New York comes this small town soul production that has never seen the light of day until now. Restored from some battered old reel to reels, here's some REAL soul music that's been lost for decades. There's a charming homemade feel to these songs, something which we like at Jazzman.
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Sweet post-punk, with a heartfelt reggae/funk influence, analog dub effects and lovely femme-vox. A unique slice of late-70s/early-80s goodness starring Brenda Ray.
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"Who's this guy?" I hear you asking. Fair comment, I'd never heard of him either, but when I tell you he was in part responsible for the formation of Stax records, Booker T and the MGs and the Mar-Keys as well as a string of Memphis hits, then you might take a bit more notice. Dead at 33, his is a story worth telling, and LITA do a good job with this gatefold LP that includes stories, pics, inserts, download card and not forgetting some fine Memphis music by the likes of The Martinis, The Pak-Keys, Stacy Lane and LH & the Memphis Sounds.
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Funky organ jazz with the amazing street funk of 'Right On'.
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Brilliant LP. See comments for the Sahib Shihab records and the Clarke-Boland 6tet 'Music for the Small Hours'. This is a collection of the finest moments of one of the finest jazz bands ever to grace this planet (in my humble opinion). Play this over and over again, it's wonderful.
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The Cults Percussion Ensemble must have one of the best group names of all time. To many it will immediately come across as something sinister, a touch spooky and possibly a bit dramatic too. They are certainly two of those but the use of the word “Cults” here is easily misinterpreted. Cults, in this case, is the suburb of Aberdeen. This is the only album by the group. Assembled by percussion teacher Ron Forbes in 1976, the average age of the students was just 14.
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The good folk at Lotusland in Milwaukee have done themselves proud to get this previously unreleased monster of a project on the go. Order now, this is a limited run of 500! The amazing modern soul music of Darwin Jones, as recorded in 1978 at Sly Stone's home fortress studio. This LP includes 8 of the heaviest tunes from the full 17 we managed to unearth from tape.
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Sister-album to the Axe man’s gorgeous 1968 release, ‘Songs of Innocence’, here is a further instalment of aural musings inspired by William Blake’s work of the same name. Apt really, given that this truly is poetic stuff – a brooding, deeply intense mix of classical overtures and prog-jazz grooves. Sumptuous, foreboding, and the darker of the two releases, this is achingly bittersweet stuff. Lush string arrangements soar and descend with rushing intensity, pretty melodies interlace with dense, menacing horns, and deep, throbbing bass sounds entwine with lonely, haunting piano lines. Moody, mercurial and suffused with Dionysian abandon, this is a truly beautiful record, bursting with rapturous emotion that will linger on well into the silence...
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Previously unissued and a limited edition of 500 copies – vinyl only!
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Reissue of an amazing Latin percussion LP by pivotal Argentinian musician Domingo Cura. The music ranges from DJ-friendly percussion workouts to piano-dappled rhythmic fantasias, Afro-Latin sax grooves to pieces with a more typically "South American" feel, featuring guitars and flutes. But it all coheres, driven along by Cura's percussive vision, magnificently displayed on the opening track "Percusion," a groundbreaking multi-track groove monster.
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In the old days if you won a 'Battle of the Bands' contest you'd be rewarded with the opportunity to record a 45 or an LP. Sounds great - and it was - but they don't tell you that they only press a miniscule amount of said 45 or LP, and put sod all effort into distribution and sales. So when these things are eventually discovered years later, like the East of Underground LP, they're usually hideously rare. This band won such a contest, along with a rock band called Soap, and the resulting double LP was funded by the US army. Being better at invading, bombing and pulverising other countries than promoting sweet music, the US army did a great job of recording the album for the winners, but a right hash of promoting it. Hence rarity. This welcome reissue doesn't include the side recorded by Soap, but who cares about rock music anyway. It's EofU's funky soul that grabs us here, and yes with every track being good it certainly lives up to the hype it has, which is 1,000,000x more than the multi-billion-dollar-budget US army could give.
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An amazing, unique and highly successful mix of bossa nova, MPB, swinging funky orchestral grooves and more as Elis Regina hits the London studio scene, with UK musical direction by Peter Knight (arranger for Scott Walker). ‘Elis in London’ is a stunning and unique album mixing Brazilian and late 1960s British music sensibilities, from the queen of Brazilian music.
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Having emerged out of the Bossa Nova wave of the early 1960s, Elis Regina's stunning theatrical mixture of boss nova, samba, jazz and other music styles placed her at the top of her profession and her unique style effectively launched MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira), the new post-bossa nova modern musical movement in Brazil that would reign supreme for the next 20 years. Samba, Eu Canto Assim is one of Elis Regina's definitive albums recorded at the height of her career and long regarded as a classic release in Brazil.
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Proto-funk from Pennsylvania. Shows how the blues got mixed with soul got mixed with R&B and somehow funkiness came about. Has the exellent 'My Baby Likes to Boogaloo'! Listen:  Listen:
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This is an excellent retrospective album from one of the unsung heroes of West Coast music. Blacknell is probably known to most of us for his rare funk 45s though this album follows his career over 30 years and includes rare RNB sides from the early '60s to heavy funk from later in that decade to more danceable grooves of the '70s. Double LP complete with unseen photos and unreleased tracks, what more could you ask for?!
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Debut LP from NY-based funk band from '73 incl 'Nija Walk', 'Soul March', 'Fat Backin' etc and loads more wacka wacka funk cuts!
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Like the title says, more of the same from the premier NY street funk band!
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The Peoples Potential label unearth some more killer 80's synth funk all the way from Oklahoma City! First time on vinyl, mastered from the original cassette and actually sounding surprisingly brilliant.
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Assembled by Latin artist Eddie Palmieri as a means of fusing latin and funk into a cohesive whole, Harlem River Drive are a racially mixed band whose gritty sound is taken straight outta the very place their name references. The title song is a bit of a set-text for Nu-Yorikan and rare-groove collectors, and rightfully so – its a swaggerin’, struttin’ anthem to the deprived streets of its genesis. Big soul vocals undercut with heavenly backing harmonies (a-la Rotary Connection), lashings of wah-wah-laced licks, funky vamps, and horns so deliciously smooth they’ll melt you like butter are order of the day here. Recommended!
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Limited high-quality reissue of cult West Indian Latin Fusion LP "Cosmozouk Percussions" by master Martinique percussionist Henri Guedon, great all the way through, check the descarga 'Vulcano' or the Jazzy Guaguanco 'negro lucumi' , wicked sound! Highly-recommended new Superfly release, strictly limited to 1000 copies! 180 g vinyl, authentic paste-on covers made in Japan.
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John Baker was at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in London from the beginning and was one of the core three composers who conceived the sounds we came to know and love. Baker's work on Doctor Who is probably best known, but this forty-nine track disc of previously unreleased material delves deep into his career and has been painstakingly put together by people that truly love his work. Essential purchase!
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The album "Let Love Take A Holiday" was recorded and produced on the Reynolds Records label out of San Francisco. While copies of the 7” single “A Dream Without You” are not too difficult to find, the album barely exists with less than 200 copies pressed. By 1983 when Let Love Take A Holiday was recorded; politics, drugs, and peoples’ perception of love had changed a lot. ‘Free Love’ was no longer accepted. And so the lyrics reflect a more realistic attitude. While shying away from the typical love songs that characterize soul music, "Let Love Take A Holiday" is a gem of modern soul that still retains an innocence and is just as relevant today as it was 25 years ago. | |||
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Super rare Detroit soul released from the vaults of legendary producer Dave Hamilton. Get this - VINYL ONLY release AND limited edition! Take note that this album of rare classics and unreleased material will NOT appear on CD, never has done never will do! Amazing '60s soul from an album that will not disappoint, deffo recommended!
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A spin-off from the incredible Ethiopiques series, here is some more ace Ethiopean music for you to get your teeth into.
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Funk n soul on this blaxplo' soundtrack LP from '72.
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Originally recorded in New York City, 1956. Reissue of the very rare original Moondog label version of one of the earliest Moondog LPs. Same unique amazing rhythmic music as the commonly available Prestige edition. | |||
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Startlingly restored and remastered at Abbey Road, and sleeved in Richard Dumas’ amazing phographic portraits, this is Moondog at his most modern, direct, original, fresh, playful and let-it-be-said unpretentious — featuring the Honking Geese, Tony Schwartz’s brilliant outdoors recordings (particularly improved in Honest Jon’s new version), with interventions from a ship’s foghorn, a tapdancer and a cocker spaniel, and signature rhythms for trimba, oo, tuji, yukh, and ostrich feathers.
Andy Warhol’s mother got it straight, on the 1957 Prestige cover of Story — ‘Moondog is a poet who versifies in sound, a diarist overcome by love, curiosity and amusement by everything that reaches his ears, all of which he transposes into a symphony of himself. It may be the roar from the streets; it may be the casual chatter in a room or, best of all, it will be that secret music that seeps through imagination and memory. These experiences, so dull to the dull but so alive to him, he orchestrates into a record of those enchanting conversations everyone can hold with himself would he only listen for a bemused moment. They make up the script of that unique tragi-comedy, the story of anyone’s life. Pricking up our ears would be so easy, yet it is seldom done. But when Moondog compels us to do it, we are entranced and delivered willingly into new worlds of meaning.’
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Most websites that sell records just copy the blurb from the press release. Not me. When I write these little notes I have the music playing in the background, and I write what I want. Actually I had to stop typing when this record came on, as it took up my attention completely. A blind musical genius who dressed like a Viking and preferred to sleep on the streets, Moondog made and played all his own instruments. He was an artist as charasmatic and innovative as Sun Ra, but unlike the mighty Ra his music remains of this world, yet this is music the likes of which you've never heard before. Top marks for this double LP reissue which features his incredible music, with excellent liners, from the '40s to the '70s.PS there's even an elusive Mr Scruff sample in there too, get the record, see if you can find it! Listen Listen Listen
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This is a reissue of a very rare 10" LP released on Epic in the '50s. You gotta take your hat off to anyone releasing this adorable oddity, especially to a major US record label during the height of post-war apple-pie conservative America.To me any record entitled 'And his Friends' conjures up images of a kiddie party record where little Tommy the Elephant can enjoy nursery rhymes with his pals. It's a quaint way of saying 'Here is my humble offering of music that I make with my mates - not musicians, fellow band-members or orchestra - but mates. Having said that, I am surprised Moondog would have any mates given the music on offer here, or rather mates outside the loony bin that is. That's not to say it's no good - far from it - but it's just that it's a little odd. But who said that's a bad thing, and who says the freaks shouldn't have any mates? Listen
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You know that US Mulatu LP on Worthy that sold for almost $1000 on ebay not so long ago? Well this is the sister album that only came out in Ethiopia. Musically it is intriguing, inspirational and intense; spooky reeds and and ethnic vibe - but with JAZZ and FUNK and SOUL all right there, in the mix! This is a reissue of course, done by those super Ethiopiques guys in France. Now don't even THINK about finding an OG, cos even if you did chances are it would be thrashed! Excellent excellent music, even if you don't know it that well, give it a try and I bet you'll be playing it for years to come.Listen
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Reissued for the first time, the legendary Malian Rail Band's classic 1970 debut LP. Based out of the Buffet Bar of the Station Hotel in Bamako, the band was sponsored by the Ministry of Information. Expect swirling afro-latin guitars & horns and modernized Malian folk songs played by some of the country's finest musicians including Tidani Kone & Salif Keita.
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Legendary funk and soul label Daptone delve into reissue territory with this super rare LP of heavy afrobeat!
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If you're into Cohran's other work then YOU WILL LOVE THIS!!! This is the most recently recorded album from the visionary BROTHER KELAN PHILIP COHRAN and his band LEGACY. This record was influenced and realized in 1993, shortly after the passing of Brother Phil’s friend, mentor and band mate, HERMAN BLOUNT (better known as SUN RA). It was heard publicly for the first and only time at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois that same year. By channeling the energy of Sun Ra, Brother Phil brings us closer to enlightenment, closer to the cosmos with melodies that are as ancient as time itself. Sun Ra believed that music is the voice of the spirit, the energy we want to live within. In the aftermath of his death, Brother Phil drew upon his mentor’s cosmic perspective to produce an elegiac album that is utopian in spirit: a vessel brim-full of primordial vibes and a memo from some higher astral plane. In the words of its maker, African Skies is a “nourishing and inspirational” document—a nuanced portrait of one of the most visionary musicians of our time in his prime. African Skies, available commercially for the first time ever, is the first record to be released since the stellar Malcolm X Memorial record in 1969.
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Excellent funky jazz LP with the sax of Preston 'Cissy Popcorn' Love.
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Previously unreleased Sabu recorded at the time of the legendary 'Afro Temple'. An absolutely incredible find from vaults of the Swedish radio, and released here for the first time. Music is straight from the 'Afro Temple' vein ie super heavy percussive funky jazz with all energy and excitement Sabu and his disciples could muster - and that's a LOT. Highly recommended, and like the Ethiopiques series, will keep on selling for years to come. | |||
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OK now where do I start with this one... how about this: Of all the 1000s of jazz LPs I have listened to in my 25 year affair with the music I love, I have no hesitation in putting this album right up there in my Top 10 favourite jazz LPs of all time. OK forget that - try Top 5 favourite jazz LPs of all time! Recorded by Gigi Campi in Cologne in 1963, the album was leased to Argo in the US where it failed to have an impact. Why the US market couldn't hear it is anybody's guess cos this one's got the lot. Spine-tingling modal melodies and impeccable musicianship from a tight-knit group of ex-pat US and European jazzmen, each of whom are cult figures in their own right. Furthermore, every track's a good un! What more can you want? Cannot recommend highly enough :)
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Dom Salvador worked in a series of bossa jazz combos and professionally backed top-name artists such as Elis Regina, Jorge Ben and Edu Lobo. This album is not pure jazz however, but instrumental bossa. It features fully reproduced original photographs and artwork, comes on heavyweight 180g vinyl and old-style packaging.
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| Has the classic funk cut 'I Got So Much Trouble in my Mind'
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Obscure and super rare, this forgotten LP of disco, boogie and proto-rap is really high standard - these boys really knew how to play, and the production quality is more befitting of a much larger scale release.
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Limited edition reissue of the beyond rare Carosello release. A delightful and cinematic groovy crime-jazz-funk album filled with breaks & beats, deep bass, electric piano, flutes, horn stabs, Wah-Wah guitars & exquisite string arrangements reminiscent of Nino Nardini/ Roger Roger’s Stringtonic’s mindbenders but also Janko Nilovic at his best. Definitely one of the holy grails of library music.
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"There are other worlds you know", so said Brian Jazz Doctor to me one day several years ago in a way that only he can. Those that know him know that apart from a wheeler dealer in unknowns and obscurities, he is also a proper Ra head, with a stupendous record collection that includes loads of those original Saturn LPs with paste-on homemade covers that the Arkestra would make to pass the time while on their tour bus. Or should I say their space rocket. Indeed, several times their rocket landed on planet earth in a place known to Earthlings as 'France', and here the Sun Ra and his astro-galactic beings from outer space performed their cosmic music for the benefit of us all. The good people at Art Yard were able to rescue the tapes from one such happening and present them here so they may be enjoyed into infinity, which is what Ra would have wanted. This stuff is truly fab, and is there to enlighten and enjoy.
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Following on from their earlier release ‘Avanco’ comes Tempo – an album blending bossa nova and jazz with an unparalleled experimentalism. Originally released in Brazil in 1964, The Tamba Trio’s third album Tempo is a deep bossa jazz masterpiece.
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The Black Seeds were an Army band stationed in Germany and were winners of the 1972 Special Services Entertainment Showband Contest. As their prize, they got their live performances that were recorded on the Armed Forces Network put onto vinyl. Included are their versions of 'Ain’t No Sunshine', 'Black Magic Woman', 'Do Your Thing' and 'Backstabbers' to name a few.
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He was a pusher that became a preacher. A gangster pimp serving soup from the trunk of his Coup Deville. A mutant cross between Robin Hood and Friar Tuck. Everyman, our man on the street, Brotherman. Continuing a tradition that began with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, and culminated with Shaft and Superfly, Brotherman was a blaxploitation film set to hit screens in 1975 - but was never released.Prior to the script being finished, the producers commissioned an original soundtrack to be performed by The Final Solution, a fledgling vocal group from Chicago's west side. The ten-song album draws deeply from Curtis Mayfield's well, certainly, but the proof in the pudding is Carl Wolfolk's unique guitar style "a combination of flamenco and funk" that stabs around the four part harmonies. | |||
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What a super LP, more amazing music from Ethiopea featuring Mulatu et al, how much more is there to come? All proper music lovers need this LP.
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In mid 2009 Secret Stash released a collection of supposed Porno soundtrack material from the Fantasy Productions vault. After digging deeper they reckon they discovered hours of incredible unreleased music. The first thing to stand out was this soundtrack to a fantasy blaxploitation film entitled “Mad Dog’s Hustle.” The film was apparently only shown for less than 3 weeks in 6 theaters nationwide before disappearing into a baron wasteland of low-budget, poorly marketed cinema. Within a year Fantasy say they forfeited the rights to the film in a legal dispute with members of the cast and crew.Fortunately, the funky soundtrack recorded last week by The Upstroke (the same band responsible for all of the Porno Groove material) has been salvaged. While staying true to the genre, the overall feel of the album is freer than most with lots of extended jams and improvisation. It features a mix of vocal and instrumental tracks. Also included are short musical cues and long narrations atop deep-funk grooves. This vinyl only release will be available for the first time ever only on white vinyl. | |||
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In the summer of 2006, Daptone Records placed a small ad in local papers and on the radio in Como, deep in the heart of Panola County, Mississippi, inviting singers to come down to Mt. Mariah Church to record their songs. The result is COMO NOW, a stirring collection of traditional and original a cappella gospel from the voices of Panola County’s own families.
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An excellent curation of the YODI label out of St Louis, where YODI was a programme set up in the late '60s to get kids off the streets and into making music. YODI is an abbreviation of YOung DIsciples, and several groups and names collaborated under the umbrella organisation learning the tricks of the trade in the music biz, making records and organising performances etc. Anyway all the info is in the accompanying booklet, and there are plenty of pics too. All in all a super quality release and over 20 songs ranging from sweet soul ballads to ballsy funk!
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