Jazz, Funk & Blues

One of the greatest, heaviest, and most sought-after guitar records from 1970s West Africa, available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade!...

Sound madness from the shores of the mighty Congo River (Kinshasa / Brazzaville 1969-1982) The making of Congo Funk!, our long-awaited journey to t...

Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard–led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexine...

Why Black Man Dey Suffer, recorded in 1971, was originally deemed too controversial for release by EMI, his label at the time. Having recently been...

The Nigerian establishment labelled Kalakuta Republic inhabitants as — ‘hooligans’, ‘hemp smokers’, etc. Noise For Vendor Mouth is Fela’s indiffere...

The Kalakuta Show album release was Fela’s undaunted manner of extracting revenge on the military regime that attacked and brutalized him in 1974. ...

Excuse O is about natural human reactions to situations we confront in our daily endeavors. If you walk into a bar, ask and pay for a drink and you...

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, the mysterious steel pan outfi­t hailing from Hamburg, Germany have amassed a cult following around the globe. With ...

Fela Kuti lives on! This is the 10th Anniversary reissue of the classic tribute album pressed on opaque banana yellow and opaque red vinyl benefit...

The Circling Sun channel spiritual/modal jazz and Latin rhythms, simultaneously reference the greats such as Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Colt...

Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band,albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That i...

The roots of JuJu started in San Francisco after Plunky had met his musical mentor, Zulu musician Ndikho Xaba, helping to form his band Ndikho and ...

Ali Farka Toure is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard ...

Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music fr...

The long awaited debut LP from Kokoroko - Could We Be More “Drawing influence from West African highlife and jazz, wellmarinated in enough polyrhyt...