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KOKOROKO - Could We Be More (CD)

£12.98

The long awaited debut LP from Kokoroko - Could We Be More 5th August 2022. Following the huge success of 2018’s Kokoroko EP’ and the sensational Abusey Junction (100M streams and counting), ‘Could We Be More’ is an expansive and ambitious debut album that speaks to the force of Kokoroko. Learn More

VARIOUS - Mr Bongo Record Club Vol. 5 (CD)

£10.99

It's hard to believe we are now up to Volume 5 of our renowned Record Club series. Curating these compilations, where we share our latest musical discoveries and old favourites from the global stage, is always a labour of love. This selection is less dancefloor driven than our previous volumes, as fewer opportunities for live events drove us to explore other paths and styles in the musical spectrum. Learn More

Gil SCOTT HERON & HIS AMNESIA EXPRESS - Legend In His Own Mind (Reissue)

£28.99

Critics in the early 1970s called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr and described him as a black Bob Dylan. "His poetry is with much muscle, with stiletto humor, with street talk, much of it justifiably angry and accurate," the New York Times wrote in 1975, marveling at the angry man from the Bronx. No wonder that decades later Scott- Heron was celebrated as the "Godfather of Rap". Born in Chicago, the musician, poet and pugnacious activist for human rights himself lived for years in the Bronx. Learn More

HIATT DB - Palimpsest

£11.99

From the backwaters of New Orleans, Hiatt dB bursts forth with ‘Palimpsest’, a remarkable debut on Rhythm Section International, marking the label’s first recruit from the US of A. Having grown up in San Antonio feeling the absence of ‘club culture’, instead finding dive bars and live music venues in its place, Hiatt sourced creative inspiration elsewhere and evolved a love for the region that was born out of its vivid history. “I’m proud and grateful to be making music in the American Gulf South - a part of the world that has brought so many people, ideas, and sounds together by way of both tragedy and triumph alike.” Learn More

LEON KEITA - Leon Keita LP

£29.99

Midway through the Mandingue groove inferno that is “Dakan Sate, Korotoumi” I knew I had found a gem. Hypnotic guitar solos, heavy bass riffs, psychedelic organ lines, and funky horns … what more could you want? That was in 2006. Learn More

VARIOUS - Studio One Roots: The Original (20th Anniversary) (2x LP)

£27.49

This album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining crack-session men groups of Jamaican reggae history - The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. Learn More

NYSSA MUSIQUE - Comme Au Moulin (LP)

£23.99

Their sole self-release is a breathtaking and staggeringly wide-referencing avant-jazz masterpiece, smelting down varied strains contemporary minimalism, spiritual jazz, Indian classical, traditional gamelan and traditional Central African folk whilst retaining an unbelievable sense of cohesion and not confining themselves to a specific genre tag. Learn More

SURKUL - Shush EP

£21.98

The Highly anticipated Shush EP is the debut vinyl release for Surkul, San Francisco based DJ Producer rooted in left-field leaning breakbeat hardcore, jungle and drum & bass. Learn More

JAY DEE aka J DILLA - B.B.E. (Big Booty Express Remixes) EP

£18.98

Taken from Dilla’s 2001 BBE Music debut solo album Welcome 2 Detroit, ‘Big Booty Express’ gets the remix treatment from German duo Âme, Parisian Pépé Bradock and London’s Coda Deep. Alongside the OG version these new productions add up to a six track exploration of Dilla’s tribute to Detroit’s melding of the Motor City’s Black music heritage with Kraftwerk’s experimental Euroelectro. Contributing two mixes to the EP, Parisian producer Pépé Bradock AKA Julien Learn More

NICOLA CONTE - Umoja LP

£30.49

Renowned Italian spiritual jazz master, DJ, producer, guitarist, and bandleader Nicola Conte proudly presents his new album Umoja via London based label Far Out Recordings. Learn More

YORUBA SINGERS - Ojinga's Own (reissue)

£19.99

The 1974 debut album Ojinga’s Own and single Basa Bongo/Black Pepper by Guyanese Afro-Folk band The Yoruba Singers has been remastered for vinyl and digital. The Yoruba Singers formed in Georgetown, Guyana in 1971. Despite their name they were not from Nigeria, but identified strongly with the area from which so many of the African diaspora in Guyana and neighbouring regions were originally descended. Learn More

VARIOUS - HJP097 (2 x LP)

£23.48

Four dazzling, extended engagements with mbalax master-drumming. The contribution from Holy Tongue is chase-the-devil steppers — thumping, clangorous, reverberating — super-charged with energy and atmosphere. From the off, drummer Valentina Magaletti detonates a hard rain of small bombs, rounds of fire, ticking fuses. Musical co-ordinates are somewhere between classic On-U Sound crew like African Head Charge, The Mothmen, and Creation Rebel, and the experimental funk of the Pop Group and 23 Skidoo, at their funkiest. Thrillingly, the two dubs are increasingly deranged. Adjusting the same wavelengths as her Learn More

SAI GALAXY - Okere Soundway EP

£18.49

The star-studded Sai Galaxy project returns, bringing together West African legends Steve Monite and Rob with multi-instrumentalist Simon Durrington, guitar maestro Alfred Bannerman and Egypt 80 trumpet player Bade for a second EP of vital Afro Disco and Soul. Learn More

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