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Matador Moctar, Mdou: Afrique Victime LP
On Mdou Moctar's long awaited new Matador Records album Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky - boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and "rock music" by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noi
Moctar, Mdou: Afrique Victime LP
C$29.99
Now Again Witch: Introduction (Private Press Version) LP
Limited 2021 repress. "Archival reissue of the private-press, first issue of the album that launched Zamrock movement in 1972. Completely different recordings of the songs from the better-known Zambia Music Parlour album. Originally pressed in a run of ju
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Witch: Introduction (Private Press Version) LP
C$39.99
Luaka Bop Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor LP
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
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Onyeabor, William: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor LP
C$44.99
P-Vine Astatke, Mulatu: Ethio Jazz LP
The work of the founder Mulatu Astatke, who studied jazz and other music in both the United Kingdom and the United States and created a completely new sound “Ethiopian Jazz” by fusing with the music of his homeland Ethiopia, is reprinted in the 20s!

If
Astatke, Mulatu: Ethio Jazz LP
C$69.99
Analog Africa Various: Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 / Ghana Music Power House LP
After opening West Africa’s first record pressing plant in 1967, Essilfie-Bondzie’s Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous - for most of the 1970s - with the best in modern highlife, and his roster was a who’s-who of highlife legends. C.K. Mann, Gyedu B
Various: Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 / Ghana Music Power House LP
C$46.99
Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Zombie LP
The fury stirred up among the Nigerian police and military by Fela’s confrontational Alagbon Close (1974) and Kalakuta Show (1976), and the beatings and harassments Fela and Africa 70 suffered as a consequence, were as nothing compared to the reprisals fo
Kuti, Fela: Zombie LP
C$30.99
Analog Africa Various: La Locura de Machuca LP
One night in 1975, a successful tax lawyer named Rafael Machuca had his mind blown in Barranquilla’s ‘Plaza de los Musicos’. Overnight he went from a high ranking position in the Columbian revenue authority to visionary production guru of the newly formed
Various: La Locura de Machuca LP
C$46.99
Now Again Amanaz: Africa LP
"Issued in 1975, this is the articulation of Zambia's Zamrock ethos. While other albums -- Rikki Ililonga's Zambia, Witch's Lazy Bones!! -- are competitors, it's hard to best this album as it covers each major quadrant of the Zamrock whole: it came from
Amanaz: Africa LP
C$44.99
Strut Buari, Sidiku: Revolution (Live Disco Show In New York City) LP
Rare live album from Ghanaian Disco legend Sidiku Buari, never before reissued and originally released in 1979. In-demand from collectors across the world - THE heavyweight Afro-Disco album!
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Buari, Sidiku: Revolution (Live Disco Show In New York City) LP
C$37.99
Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Box Set 5 (curated by Chris Martin and Femi Kuti) LP
Knitting Factory Records is proud to release the next installment of long-awaited vinyl reissues from the Fela Kuti catalog. Vinyl Box #5 was co-curated by Fela's son, world-renowned multi-instrumentalist and Afrobeat ambassador, Femi Kuti, and Chris Mart
Kuti, Fela: Box Set 5 (curated by Chris Martin and Femi Kuti) LP
C$199.99
Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense LP
TDTMN' sees Fela explaining the role of the teacher in any society with the concept that everything we consider as problems, and everything we accept as good in life, begin with what we are taught. With production help coming from the extremely talented a
Kuti, Fela: Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense LP
C$30.99
Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Open & Close LP
Another long-thought-lost gem from the Fela Anikulapo Kuti archives, Open & Close was originally released in 1971 and is a total groove-fest loaded to the gills with raucous horn blowing, ferocious percussion (once again, Tony Allen take a bow), and song
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Kuti, Fela: Open & Close LP
C$30.99
Strawberry Rain Blackfoot: The Foot Steps LP
The Foot Steps was the brainchild of legendary producer Billie Nyati, and the second and final album from Blackfoot. An essential Zamrock document and among the genre’s finest achievements. Plenty of incredible songs on here, including ‘Lonely Highway", “
Blackfoot: The Foot Steps LP
C$44.99
Now Again Various: Wake Up You! Vol. 1: The Rise And Fall Of Nigerian Rock (1972-1977) LP
"The Western world was in the throes of peace, love and flower power as Nigeria descended into Civil War in 1967. The rock scene that developed during the following three years of bloodshed and destruction would come to heal the country, propagate the wor
Various: Wake Up You! Vol. 1: The Rise And Fall Of Nigerian Rock (1972-1977) LP
C$39.99
Analog Africa Various: MOGADISCO - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972 - 1991) LP
After being blown away by a few tunes, Samy Ben Redjeb travelled to the infamous capital city of Somalia in November of 2016, making Analog Africa the first music label to set foot in Mogadishu. Mogadisco was not Analog Africa’s easiest project. Tracking
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Various: MOGADISCO - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972 - 1991) LP
C$46.99
Sahel Sounds Moctar, Mdou: Ilana: The Creator LP
Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar and have pushed him to the forefront of a crowded scene. Back home, he's celebrated for his origina
Moctar, Mdou: Ilana: The Creator LP
C$23.99
Analog Africa Various: African Scream Contest 2 LP
Double LP version. 140 gram vinyl; Gatefold sleeve; Includes 24-page, LP-size booklet. Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog Africa released the fir
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Various: African Scream Contest 2 LP
C$46.99
Comet Allen with Afrika 70, Tony: No Accommodation for Lagos LP
Comet Records presents the Tony Allen & Afrika 70 reissue series with the classic late seventies first four solo albums of Tony Allen remastered and restored: Jealousy, Progress, No Accommodation for Lagos & No Discrimination, all coming in an heavy Delux
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Allen with Afrika 70, Tony: No Accommodation for Lagos LP
C$34.99
Comet Allen with the Afro Messengers, Tony: No Discrimination LP
Comet Records presents the Tony Allen & Afrika 70 reissue series with the classic late seventies first four solo albums of Tony Allen remastered and restored: Jealousy, Progress, No Accomodation for Lagos & No Discrimination, all coming in an heavy Deluxe
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Allen with the Afro Messengers, Tony: No Discrimination LP
C$34.99
Comet Allen & Afrobeat 2000, Tony: N.E.P.A. LP
Comet Records presents from Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen, N.E.P.A Reissue LP Vinyl remastered and coming in an heavy Deluxe Tip-On Jacket. In 1979, Tony Allen decided to leave Fela Kuti & Africa 70 and moved to London in 1982. Originally Released in 1984 o
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Allen & Afrobeat 2000, Tony: N.E.P.A. LP
C$34.99
Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Confusion LP
This epic Afrobeat album contains just one eponymous track clocking in at just over 25 minutes in length, and beginning with a mysterious and psychedelic musical interplay between Fela on organ and Tony Allen on drums. As the song takes on a righteously f
Kuti, Fela: Confusion LP
C$30.99
Nyege Nyege Tapes Various: Sounds Of Pamoja (red) LP
Sounds of Pamoja is Nyege Nyege Tapes' latest foray into the world of Tanzanian Singeli, the breakneck dance strain that's quickly moved from Dar es Salaam throughout the world. Following Sounds of Sisso, a compilation that focused mostly on the Tanzanian
Various: Sounds Of Pamoja (red) LP
C$31.99
Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Na Poi LP
'Na Poi’ was judged pornographic by Nigerian state radio, which banned its presenters from playing it, the title track describes in frank, and some might say frankly tedious, detail the mechanics of how a man should have sex with a woman. Shock value asid
Kuti, Fela: Na Poi LP
C$34.99
Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Yellow Fever LP
Yellow Fever' features original album artwork designed by Lemi Ghariokwu, who created the cover art for around half of Fela’s albums. 'Yellow Fever’ was originally released in 1976, during Fela’s extraordinarily prolific 1975-77 purple period, when he rel
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Kuti, Fela: Yellow Fever LP
C$30.99