Really nice packaging with a digipack CD case, a HUGE booklet (MUCH too thick to fit in a jewel box) both housed in a nice slipcase. Fun 70s African sounds; I love this stuff...

"This third volume in a series compiled by Laurent Jeanneau from his continual journeys into the more remote tribal areas of Southeast Asia features field recordings of the Giay, Lu, Red Zao, and Black Hmong peoples from North Vietnam. The five...

There are a lot of Miles Davis tribute albums and ensembles out there and, perhaps surprisingly, a lot of them are very good. As is this one, which additionally gives the music a surprising and an unusual sort of a 'Shakti slant'!...

"The second volume of Wooden Hill's ongoing series of lost nuggets from the soft white underbelly of the late '60s British psychedelic scene, Psychedelic Schlemiels 2 assembles no less than 20 previously-unheard acetate and private tape recordings from...

" ...White Lace & Strange Vol. 2. The Psychic Circle label presents a follow-up to the White Lace & Strange: Heavy Psych and Power Fuzz from the U.S.A. 68-72 compilation, further delving into the less-frequented areas of late '60s and early '70s heavy...

"Soul Jazz Records are releasing separately on CD the soundtrack to this film (with bonus tracks). Featured groups include Theoretical Girls, UT, A Band, Rhys Chatham, Chinese Puzzle, The Static, Morales, Youth in Asia, Steven Piccolo and Jill Kroesen."

The great Cuneiform Records drillout/blowout sale. After 25 years, you wont be surprised to read that weve simply got too many of some titles. To make some room for the future, for a limited time, you can buy this title as "marked overstock"

The German label No Man's Land has always made it its prerogative to release music that fits in no known category including avant-garde. Each album offers a very personal sound universe that often allies experimentation with potentially crowd-pleasing...

A reprint of an early lp dedicated to the electronic and electro-acoustic modern composers of TODAY! An early classic of the genre and still excellent listening TODAY!...

"A 2CD collection of Congolese music from the '60s and '70s. In the late 1940s, the combined influences of jazz and European and Cuban music resonated on both sides of the Congo River. Brazzaville and Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, vibrated with...

One of the most significant musical events in my life was when C.W. Vrtacek played me a Fela Kuti album in 1981 or 1982. I had never heard anything like it and I really liked it, thereby opening a big door in my tastes to African pop of the 1970s, an...

"Organ-driven Afro-beat, cosmic Afro-funk and raw, psychedelic boogie -- just some of the flavors to be found on this highly danceable compilation by Samy Ben Redjeb, founder of Analog Africa. No effort has been spared! To document these irresistible...

A lower-priced sampler which includes tracks from many different Ambiances Magnetiques releases. A good way to sample what A.M. do.

"American Clave has been a label at the forefront of the explosion previously known as worldbeat and currently as world music. They issued progressive salsa from Kip Hanrahan, ambitious free music by Don Pullen, the lush, sensual tango of Astor...

"The nascent Angolan music scene was set on fire by a small group of intrepid singers, backed by an array of super-tight bands and led by extraordinary guitarists who revolutionized the musical and the political panorama of the '60s and '70s...

"The two-volume Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music was originally released in the late 1970s on limited edition vinyl by the Donemus Composers' Voice label. Compiled by electronica pioneer Dick Raaijmakers, the series offered an authoritative...

''A journey to discover the musical geography of Italy, where live side by side - from the deep North to the deep South - very different cultural areas, each one expressing a musical style and a secular tradition on its own, each one showing peculiar ...

A unique & truly fabulous disc of world music featuring various Indonesian artists & composers from the Batak area in North Sumatra. Performed on rebabs, flutes, oboes, shawms, gongs, & many drums. [New Albion]

"Blow Your Cool presents 20 previously uncomped prog/psych assaults from the UK & Europe, 1969-1974. So here we are again one and all; scoop neck Mr. Freedom T's freshly laundered, split-knee loons fashionably fading, with another 20 swift excursions...

Previously unreleased R&B from Muddy Waters (1958) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (1958), Louis Jordan (1962) and more recorded live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in England.

"This second volume of rare and previously unissued live...

So, here is the deal. For about 3 years, Bob Dylan had a XM radio show called Theme Time Radio Hour. It focused on Americana and each radio program lasted an hour and had a different theme each week. On the radio program each track is introduced by...

Fantastic heaping helping of Texas blues and R'n'B from 1947-1954. This is over four hours of music and 103 tracks! Great vocals, guitar and horn-section work over the boogie beat!

One of my very favorite compilations these days is this circa 1946-1951 collection of be-boppers, proto r'n'b rave-ups, big hornmen and jump swing. This is a fine, fine collection that highlights the great music that Central Avenue in Los Angeles...

Historically and sociologically fascinating and the large book tells the whole story, as best it can be reconstructed. Conditionally recommended...