World - 2015

Il Volo : Live from Pompeii

Onyeabor, William : Anything You Sow

Available for the first time as individual vinyl LP. William Onyeabor's records came one after another, almost every year: Crashes in Love 1977, Atomic Bomb 1978, Tomorrow 1979, Body and Soul 1980, Great Lover 1981, Hypertension 1982, Good Name 1983, Anything You Sow 1985. After Anything You Sow, his most successful album, he stopped making records. Anything You Sow, is pretty religious as it is but he felt that he wasn't direct enough in his proselytizing, (I am paraphrasing here what he has said) It is also his most electronic. And interestingly enough it sounds the most like the new album he is working on for us due out sometime... next year? Who knows.

Onyeabor, William : Crashes in Love (2nd Version)

Available for the first time as individual vinyl LP. This is the second version of Crashes in Love. The songs are similar enough that when we were mastering the compilation, we sent the stereo first version of Crashes out to be cleaned and we got back this mono version from someone who had both We couldn't figure out how cleaning an album turned a stereo record into a mono one. We didn't notice that the stereo album has five songs and this one has four, dropping off the instrumental "Jungle Gods". And though the songs on both albums sound similar, they are not the same. Uchenna, who originally licensed the tracks for us said that Onyeabor had mentioned that he lost the masters for the first album. So I wonder, did he rerecord the record from the record he originally made, shortened the tracks, and added some parts?

Onyeabor, William : Tomorrow

Available for the first time as individual vinyl LP. 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 albums. It is really something we have been impressed by as we have learned more and more about what he issued and the circumstances, such as we have been able to learn, about when he released these albums. Original release 1979.

Piaf, Edith : Bobino 1963 Piaf et Sarapo

The 100th Anniversary edition

V/A : Out of Addis

‘Out of Addis’ presents a selection of contemporary recordings from Ethiopia, made throughout the country and focusing on languages and cultures outside of the capital Addis Abeba. A diverse compilation made by the people of Sheba Sound with the krar, a cross between guitar and harp, as it’s focal point.

Dieuf-Dieul De Thies : Aw Sa Yone Vol. 2

The second volume of previously unreleased early-'80s recordings by Senegalese band Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès, containing the rest of the session featured on Vol. 1 plus three tracks from a lost 1981 recording. Includes photos and liner notes outlining the amazing story of the band and its members.

Pausini, Laura : Simili

Soundtrack : Don't think I've forgotten - Cambodia's lost rock and roll

Hazmat Modine : Extra deluxe supreme

V/A : Light & Sound of Mogadishu

Compilation of songs from Somali artists released on the small Light & Sound label imprint in the seventies. A unique blend of funky and trad grooves with unique voicing. Vinyl is limited to 1000 copies! Comes in deluxe packaging with inner sleeve and the full L&S story with pictures and background information on the artists. Remastered from mint original vintage 45 rpm vinyl singles.

V/A : The rough guide to psychedelic samba

V/A : The rough guide to Latin disco

Gordon, Leah : Iron in the soul: the Haiti documentary films of Leah Gordon

Mbongwana Star : From Kinshasa

Blick Bassy : Akö

V/A : Nu yorica! culture clash in New York city 1.1

Piaf, Edith : La p'tite lili

Ba, Ngoni / Kouyate, Bassekou : Ba Power

Massi, Souad : El mutakallimün

Buena Vista Social Club : Lost & Found

Collection of previously unreleased tracks

V/A : Highlife On The Move

This Soundway compilation traces the Highlife music from West Africa to London, adding elements of Jazz, Mambo and Calypso and paving the way for the Afro sounds of the 1970s. Includes the two first ever recordings by Fela Kuti with his band The Highlife Rakers!

Orchestra Baobab : Pirates choice

V/A : The rough guide to latin rare groove vol.2

Akkor, Kamuran : Kamuran Akkor

Bebe : Cambio De Piel

Buika : Vivir Sin Miedo

Dengue Fever : Deepest Lake

Dengue Fever is in the vanguard of an emerging global pop sensibility, making music that's both familiar, yet eerily unique. With five full-length releases - DENGUE FEVER, ESCAPE FROM DRAGON HOUSE, VENUS ON EARTH, CANNIBAL COURTSHIP and IN THE LEY LINES, the Los Angeles sextet blends the rhythms of '60's Cambodian Pop - heavily influenced by American surf, rock and early psychedelic garage bands - with their own eclectic mix of American and international styles

Toure, Ali Farka / Diabate, Toumani : In the Heart of the Moon

Includes download code.

Fadoul : Al Zman Saib

Reissue of very rare arabic funk music with a punk attitude. Eight tracks of raw Arabic funk music, none of these have ever been reissued before. Comes with liner notes, unseen live photos and lyrics translations.

Gilberto, Astrud : Shadow Of Your Smile

Audiophile painos

Il Volo : L'amore Si Muove

Justus, Domingo : Juju Music in Nigeria 1928, Vol. 1

Lô, Cheikh : Balbalou

Osibisa : Singles a's, b's & 12'

REMASTERED 4CD 69 TRACK SET

Patax / Perez, Jorge : From the Boiler Room

Songhoy Blues : Music In Exile

Once one of the most prominent and powerful of Mali’s many ethnic groups, the Songhoy, who hail from the banks of the Niger River between the ancient cities of Timbuktu and Gao, have suffered a long slow decline since their apogee in the 6th and 17th centuries. Now largely living on the margins of the West African nation whose political and cultural life is dominated by the Bambara people of the south, they nonetheless retain a fierce pride in their history, beliefs and music. Hailing from the heart of old Gao, Oumar Toure and Aliou Toure were, like most kids growing up in the ancient city, obsessed with hip-hop, R&B and bands like The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. By their early 20s, having met young guitarist Garba Toure (son of Oumar Toure, long term percussionist in Ali Farka Toure’s band), they began to make music while at university in Bamako. Their deep attachment to the home grown songs and dances of the Songhoy, both traditional styles and the modern guitar based sounds popularised by the likes of Baba Salah and above all Ali Farka Toure, was helping shape their nascent music which sought to blend the trad and the modern, the homegrown and the foreign, the youthful and the ancient. The growing unrest in the north of Mali saw Oumar, Aliou, Garba and many of their family take refuge down south in Bamako as hostilities worsened in early 2012 and Songhoy Blues were born from this adversity. “We met up (in Bamako),” remembers Garba, “and told ourselves we couldn’t just stay shipwrecked by a crisis like this. We had to form a band.” They roped in a young drummer called Nathanial ‘Nat’ Dembele from Bamako and baptised their band Songhoy Blues in celebration of their displaced people and culture. Soon a fixture on the Bamako club and bar live music treadmill, their break came in September 2013 when French music manager Marc-Antoine Moreau was in the city to scout for musical talent on behalf of Africa Express. Prompted by local studio owner Barou Diallo. Aliou Toure cold-called Marc- Antoine – an audition quickly followed and subsequently the band were invited to record a song with Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the track, Soubour, ended up as opening track on the Africa Express album, Maison des Jeunes. Invited to perform at the launch of the album in London in December 2013, the band later returned in the summer of 2014 to play shows in London, Glasgow and at the WOMAD festival, sign a deal with Transgressive Records and begin work on a full-length feature film about the banning of music in Mali. All those old ‘world music’ prejudices have no place here. Songhoy Blues are four talented, hungry, sharp and outward-looking young men from a part of the world that has had more than it’s share and pain and conflict in recent years. But it has given far more than its share of music and joy to the world in return over the past four decades. That place may seem strange, alien and ‘exotic’ to some but deep down, Songhoy Blues are a familiar proposition: four young men, guitar, drums, bass and vocals, driving rhythms, big hearts and a story to tell.

Soundtrack : Kasam Paida Karnewale Ki

Bappi Lahiri & Salma Agha