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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

Nyami Nyami Azumah: Long Time Ago LP

Reissue of this 1989 South-African release. Azumah was the coming together of a group of talented young dancer-musicians from Soweto (South Africa) with musician and instrument-maker Smiles Mandla Makama of eSwatini (formerly Swaziland). Long Time Ago is

Azumah: Long Time Ago LP

C$39.99

Tidal Wave Music Apostles: Black Is Beautiful LP

The Apostles were a renowned Nigerian funk/soul group from the city of Aba (an epicenter for music during the 70s & 80s) and disciples of the heavy psychedelic soul/rock fusion style…for over forty years, they have stood as the jewel in the crown of the A

Apostles: Black Is Beautiful LP

C$34.99

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 Ngozi Family: 45,000 Volts LP

"Hold on! Ngozi Family! We are a Zambian band, with a heavy sound! Archival reissue of Paul Ngozi's hard-edged, proto-punk, mid-1970s Zamrock masterwork. Featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo. First official reissue."

Ngozi Family: 45,000 Volts LP

C$41.99

Strawberry Rain Sithole, Hector & on Paper: Love, Love LP

Hector Sithole recorded a series of singles during the peak of the Zamrock era with the band On Paper. These singles did fairly well locally but over the years have been overlooked and missed by fans and collectors. Featuring rock, afrobeat and soul eleme

Sithole, Hector & on Paper: Love, Love LP

C$44.99

Analog Africa Various: Cameroon Garage Funk LP

A few trips to the land of Makossa and many more hours of interviews were necessary to get enough insight to assemble the puzzle-pieces of Yaoundé's buzzing 1970s music scene. We learned that despite the myriad difficulties involved in the simple process

Various: Cameroon Garage Funk LP

C$42.99

Mississippi Various: Wallahi Le Zein! LP

Originally released as a double CD in 2010, Wallahi Le Zein! has persisted as a cult classic, a collection of a rarely heard and utterly unique underground music scene, raw and unfiltered.

The LP, cassette & digital version we now present is intended

Various: Wallahi Le Zein! LP

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Jet Sea Lions: Free the People LP

The year is 1978 and one hot thing from the musical underground is Reggae music from Jamaica, the USA or the UK, where most of the acts had musicians of Caribbean descent. Reggae had the groove, the rebel spirit, and the relaxed attitude all in one, to en

Sea Lions: Free the People LP

C$39.99

Luaka Bop Various: Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories to the Sea LP

The folks who brought you Brazil, the Portuguese, were the Renaissance envelope pushers — extreme explorer / traders like the Polynesians and Phoenicians of earlier times. They were also hard-nosed colonists who didn’t limit themselves to South American

Various: Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories to the Sea LP

C$25.99

Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Sorrow, Tears & Blood LP

Sorrow, Tears and Blood (1977): A response to the Soweto Uprising of 1976 where thousands of South African students protested the forced teaching of Afrikaans. The song calls out killings that have gone on in the name of authority and totalitarian rule as

Kuti, Fela: Sorrow, Tears & Blood LP

C$30.99

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

Kuti, Fela: Yellow Fever LP

C$30.99

Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Fear Not For Man LP

“Fear Not For Man” sounds like a work in progress interrupted by the February 1977 attack, to which Fela’s two vocal choruses may or may not have been added after the event. After citing Kwame Nkrumah’s motto “the secret of life is to have no fear,” Fela

Kuti, Fela: Fear Not For Man LP

C$30.99

Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Expensive Shit LP

Nigerian police, seeking to put down this independent-minded rascal, tried to plant a joint on Kuti during a gathering at his home. Wise to their plan, he quickly swallowed the joint, but the police then threw him in jail to produce the evidence from his

Kuti, Fela: Expensive Shit LP

C$30.99

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

Knitting Factory Kuti, Fela: Afrodisiac LP

The best known song on Afrodisiac is "Jeun K’oku," a satire about gluttony (an indulgence only available to prosperous Africans). Originally recorded as a single in 1970, it had given Fela his first major hit. In Broken English, the title translates as "c

Kuti, Fela: Afrodisiac LP

C$30.99

Comet Allen, Tony & Afrika 70: Progress 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

Allen, Tony & Afrika 70: Progress LP

C$34.99

Daptone Innov Gnawa: Lila LP

Hailing from Morocco, but based in NYC, Innov Gnawa have been making waves locally and abroad with their hypnotic live shows - which is why Producer, Bosco Mann invited the group to come record at the Legendary Daptone House of Soul. Gnawa is music and s

Innov Gnawa: Lila LP

C$26.99

Now Again Witch: Lazy Bones LP

"Pressed on opaque orange vinyl. This landmark recording from Now-Again's comprehensive overview of Zambia's premier garage-, psych-, prog-, funk-, Afro-rock ensemble WITCH, We Intend To Cause Havoc! is now available in a never before seen color variant.

Witch: Lazy Bones LP

C$39.99

Now Again Witch: In The Past LP

"Pressed on opaque green vinyl. 'Electrified by a diet of James Brown, the Stones and Deep Purple, !Witch were the stadium-filling kings of 70s Zamrock.' --MOJO This landmark recording from Now-Again's comprehensive overview of Zambia's premier garage-, p

Witch: In The Past LP

C$39.99

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 Mesfin, Ayalew: Wegene (My Countrymen) LP

"Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin's music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin's recording career,

Mesfin, Ayalew: Wegene (My Countrymen) LP

C$44.99

Analog Africa Hallelujah Chicken Run Band: Take One – Hallelujah LP

PRE-ORDER
Out Dec 11/2020
The band came into being when a young trumpet player named Daram Karanga offered to assemble a group to entertain the workers at a copper mine in the Zimbabwean town of Mhangura. During the next five years, the band would reloc

Hallelujah Chicken Run Band: Take One – Hallelujah LP

C$42.99

Bongo Joe Lima, Pedro: Maguidala LP

Pedro Lima was certainly the most iconic singer from Sao Tomé. Born in 1944, his career began at teenage, with his faithful band Os Leonenses, who were mostly members of his family and shared most of his musical life; and lasted until his death last year

Lima, Pedro: Maguidala LP

C$39.99

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