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Kou Said, Rizan: Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi LP
"Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi" is the new album on Kou Records by Rizan Said, the legendary Kurdish-Syrian keyboard virtuoso from Ras Al Ain in the Jazeera region of northeastern Syria, and the primary musical architect behind Omar Souleyman. Said is a musical amba
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Said, Rizan: Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi LP
C$44.99
Glitterbeat Seymali, Noura Mint: Yenbett LP
Noura Mint Seymali's 3rd album Yenbett (her first since 2016) is a stunning explosion of contemporary Mauritanian griot music, and once again confirms her status as one of the world's most potent voices.

Co-produced by Matthew Tinari (Noura's drummer)
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Seymali, Noura Mint: Yenbett LP
C$44.99
Habibi Funk Various: Habibi Funk 035: Beirut City Pop LP
Beirut City Pop brings together ten tracks from Lebanon's private press cassette scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, when short-lived bands and studio projects moved freely between disco, pop, soul, jazz, bossa, rock and AOR. Many of the musicians belonged
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Various: Habibi Funk 035: Beirut City Pop LP
C$41.99
Real World Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali & Michael Brook: Night Song (30th anniversary-rose leaf green vinyl) LP
In Friday.... Celebrating the 30th anniversary of its original release, "Night Song" returns in a special edition on rose leaf green coloured vinyl. A Grammy Award nominee, the album captures the extraordinary meeting of legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan an
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Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali & Michael Brook: Night Song (30th anniversary-rose leaf green vinyl) LP
C$56.99
WeWantSound Rahbani, Ziad: Ana Moush Kafer LP
Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Ziad Rahbani reissue program with "Ana Moush Kafer", a classic album by the Lebanese legend, recorded at his By-Pass Studio in Beirut during the height of the Lebanese Civil War in 1985. Showcasing Rahbani's sign
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Rahbani, Ziad: Ana Moush Kafer LP
C$54.99
Batov Ouzo Bazooka: Kapaim LP
Ouzo Bazooka enchant on Kapaim, drawing listeners through a maze of hypnotic, head snapping grooves, cosmic string bending, and swirling guitar explorations. As trailblazers of the new Middle Eastern psychedelia movement, the band fuse traditional folk so
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Ouzo Bazooka: Kapaim LP
C$44.99
WeWantSound Khoury, Assa’d: Electronic Touches Belly Dance (1978) LP
Wewantsounds continues its Middle East reissue series with Assa'd Khoury's 1978 rarity, Electronic Touches Belly Dance. Reissued for the first time in nearly 50 years in partnership with Byblos Records founder Mozart Chahine, the album features Oriental c
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Khoury, Assa’d: Electronic Touches Belly Dance (1978) LP
C$54.99
WeWantSound Fairuz: Kifak Inta LP
Wewantsounds present a first-time vinyl reissue Fairuz's classic album Kifak Inta produced by her son Ziad Rahbani in the late '80s and only released on cassette and CD in 1991. Composed and arranged by Rahbani, who had already produced Wahdon (1979) and
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Fairuz: Kifak Inta LP
C$54.99
Radio Martiko Mehanna, Hany: The Miracles Of The Seven Dances LP
The belly dance holy grail from the organ king of Cairo, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. Hany Mehanna, beloved musician and composer of the greatest artists from the Arab world such as Oum Kalthoum and Abdel Halim Hafez, shows
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Mehanna, Hany: The Miracles Of The Seven Dances LP
C$49.99
Radio Martiko Various: Zamaan Ya Sukkar LP
Zamaan Ya Sukkar is a rich musical portrait from the time when Cairo was the vibrant cultural heart of the Middle East and the grandeur of the leading orchestras was incomparable. Un-earthed Latin and jazz-tinged tracks will let your mind drift off to the
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Various: Zamaan Ya Sukkar LP
C$54.99
Real World Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali & Party: Love And Devotion LP
The qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has always be something of a totem figure both to Real World Records and its sister organisation WOMAD, gracing their respective recording studios and stages on many occasions. Appreciation of that mesmerising, und
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Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali & Party: Love And Devotion LP
C$64.99
Sublime Frequencies Handover, The: New Old Medicine LP
Hot on the heels of their spectacular self-titled debut album, The Handover is back with their second long form composition, New Old Medicine. Aly Eissa (oud), Ayman Asfour (violin), and Jonas Cambien (vintage organ/synth) have been cutting their teeth on
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Handover, The: New Old Medicine LP
C$44.99
WeWantSound Fairuz: Wahdon LP
Wewantsounds continues to pursue its exploration of great Lebanese music with the reissue of Wahdon, released in 1978 by legendary Middle Eastern diva Fairuz and recorded during the Abu Ali sessions (WWSLP 021LP). The album includes the Lebanese dancefloo
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Fairuz: Wahdon LP
C$49.99
Various: Tehrangeles Vice (Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993) LP
Discotchari is delighted to release a first-of-its-kind various artists compilation: Tehrangeles Vice (Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983–1993), fully licensed from Taraneh Enterprises. The album is a groundbreaking exposé of the vibrant subcultural hub of Tehrang
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Various: Tehrangeles Vice (Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993) LP
C$64.99
Mebreku, Wesenyeleh: Resonance Of Time LP
Electronic lullabies and folk songs from Ethiopia! A landmark recording from Ethiopia’s vibrant cassette era of the 1980s, Resonance of Time features pioneering composer Wesenyeleh Mebreku reimagining Ethiopian folk melodies through the humble circuitry o
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Mebreku, Wesenyeleh: Resonance Of Time LP
C$44.99
Born Bad Omari, Abdou El: Lost Tape 1980 LP
Abdou El Omari was born in 1945 in Tafraout, south of Agadir — a village suspended between the pink granite peaks of the Anti-Atlas and the waves of the Atlantic. A landscape already musical in itself. He grew up in the dry mountain light, surrounded by t
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Omari, Abdou El: Lost Tape 1980 LP
C$39.99
EM Skandrani, Mustapha: Istikhbars and Improvisations LP
Mustapha Skandrani. Besides having an excellent name, this man, a luminary of Algerian music, possessed a unique musical sense, able to transcend the borders of musical cultures to create a distinctive fusion of Arabo-Andalusian and European styles. "Isti
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Skandrani, Mustapha: Istikhbars and Improvisations LP
C$39.99
World Circuit Tzur, Shye Ben & Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express: Ranjha LP
Ranjha is the collaboration between award-winning composer and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, celebrated composer/musician Shye Ben-Tzur, and the Indian ensemble, the Rajasthan Express. The album is a follow-up to their acclaimed 2015 debut, Junun.
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Tzur, Shye Ben & Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express: Ranjha LP
C$44.99
Habibi Funk Megarbane, Charif & Ali: Tirakat LP
Tirakat brings together Jakarta-based trio Ali and Lebanese composer and multi-instrumentalist Charif Megarbane in a collaboration shaped by long-standing cultural exchange between Indonesia and the Arab world. Ali’s blend of 1970s Indonesian psychedelic
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Megarbane, Charif & Ali: Tirakat LP
C$44.99
WeWantSound Various: Ayam El Disco LP
Wewantsounds presents Ayam El Disco, a new selection of Egyptian 1980s disco and boogie cassette tracks curated by Egyptian DJ Disco Arabesquo, following his highly acclaimed Sharayet El Disco. Most tracks make their vinyl debut in this set. A journey thr
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Various: Ayam El Disco LP
C$54.99
Habibi Funk Fakhr, Roger: Fine Anyway LP
"Beautiful mélange of folk, jazz and sound from Lebanon. Recorded in late 1970s Beirut by Rogér Fakhr who at the time also played guitar for Ziad Rahbani and Fairouz. Rogér Fakhr is a musician from Lebanon. He recorded these songs in the late 1970s in Be
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Fakhr, Roger: Fine Anyway LP
C$49.99
Habibi Funk Malek, Ahmed: Musique originale de Films LP
I still remember the first time I heard Ahmed Malek. It was 2012. Back then I didn’t know much about Arabic music, but I was about to leave Berlin for a couple of weeks to go to Tunisia. I was working as a project manager for a music recoding session whic
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Malek, Ahmed: Musique originale de Films LP
C$45.99
Habibi Funk El Shaeri, Hamid: The SLAM! Years (1983-1988) LP
"Full album dedicated to Hamid El Shaeri's work on the Egyptian SLAM! label. Hamid El Shaeri is the artist behind Habibi Funk's most popular song to date, 'Ayonha', originally re-released in 2017 on the first Habibi Funk Compilation. If you were to ask fo
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El Shaeri, Hamid: The SLAM! Years (1983-1988) LP
C$47.99
Habibi Funk Malek, Ahmed: Musique Original De Films, Volume Deux LP
We are more than thrilled to share a second collection of deep grooves and unreleased songs from Algeria's Ahmed Malek sound track works with you. Ahmed Malek who has often been compared to Ennio Morricone recorded the majority of these songs in the 1970s
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Malek, Ahmed: Musique Original De Films, Volume Deux LP
C$44.99