Luaka Bop

“Leenalchi has changed the way I think about music, dancing and Korea. I have never heard anything quite like this.” - Brian Eno

Today, we bring you LEENALCHI.

There’s so much to tell you about this amazing Korean band—but what will get you to liste

Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four-year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death. By 1

This is the 10th Anniversary Remastered Edition of Floating Points' Elaenia — which paved the way for his record with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises. This new version comes with the bonus track, Precursor. When we first releas

You won’t hear Vijaya Anand sing on this record. Nor will you hear him play any of the instruments. He is the invisible presence behind each of these songs. He's the Musical Director, here to dream up sequences and carefully produce sophisticated South In

This is the limited 10th anniversary color edition of William Onyeabor’s ATOMIC BOMB. 10 years later, the music still EXPLODES. Now comes in a special color version, in Fission Red.

One of the best records of 2021 is back. Now updated with a sturdy, hearty, robust, diecutless cover. The die cut on the original cover was causing problems in the manufacturing process. Treasure the ones you have.

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After ten years of wrangling, Luaka Bop is set to release 'Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia' a fifteen track survey of Maia's 1970s recordings, completely remastered, commemorating what would have been the Brazilian musical legend

The mutants are back! Now in Crystal Blue Persuasion. “The late 60s in Brasil produced an explosion of creativity that is still reverberating throughout the world... and Os Mutantes (The Mutants) were the most outrageous band of that period. Their creativ

When Los Amigos Invisibles first released “The New Sound,” it was the ultimate party album. Time has passed, but the party has kept on—and this party music, full of non-stop funked out grooves, traveling through house, funk, acid jazz, and bossa nova, to

With Pharoah Sanders’ blessing, this limited edition 2 LP box set presents the definitive, remastered version of PHAROAH, his seminal record from 1977, along with two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece “Harvest Time." PHAROAH will

“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 lyrics. Lyrics which are incredible but which are, in some cases, nonsense syllables,

On the heels of his already critically acclaimed (yes, already!) retrospective, WORLD SPIRITUALITY CLASSICS 3: THE MUSLIM HIGHLIFE OF ALHAJI WAZIRI OSHOMAH, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai Music, the Etsako Super Star, Mr.

Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — known to his fans in southern Nigeria as the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai Music, the Etsako Super Star — is the originator of a form of Muslim highlife that fuses local folk styles with pan-Nigerian highlife and Western pop.

Little is known about William Onyeabor, and that’s the way he likes it.

Sure, you might hear something about him if you go to Enugu, a rural and isolated town in Eastern Nigeria, where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods. As a crowned High Chief o