We Are Busy Bodies

In 2019, Vancouver artist Kristen Roos came across a floppy disk for sale on eBay containing the Commodore Amiga version of Laurie Spiegel's 'Music Mouse'. This was one of the first intelligent instruments for personal computers, created by Spiegel in 198

Vijana Wa Kazi is a Kenyan benga rarity by one of the country's leading 70's groups that compiles several of their singles into a standalone album.Led by the late John Otonde, the group issued nearly two dozen 7” singles between 1976 and the early 1980s.T

Reissue of Hideo Shiraki Quintet's 'Play Horace Silver' album. Led by Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, Hideo Shiraki, known for his hard bop and jazz albums in the 1950s and 1960s. Horace usually had a quintet on albums, whereas Hideo's group is a se

We Are Busy Bodies is proud to reissue two albums by Ian Carr's Nucleus, starting with 1975's Alleycat. Originally released on Vertigo as the group's final release for the label, the album has been remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Recording. Th

We Are Busy Bodies is proud to announce the first official reissue of ‘Playtime’ by popular and prolific Italian composer, Piero Umiliani. Incorporating styles like jazz, easy listening/lounge, rock, funk, and bossa nova to a genre largely dominated by or