Aretha Franklin Soul '69 (1969)

Essential first Tribe album featuring all the hits. 'I Left My Wallet In El Segundo', 'Bonita Applebum', 'Can I Kick It', 'Description Of a Fool' and more!

Another killer compilation of 60's and 70's Biguine, Afro & Latin sounds from the French Caribbean on the brilliant Soundway label!

You may be familiar with Soundway's previous amazing Nigerian-focused compilations showcasing homegrown disco, rock and boogie sounds of the mid to late 1970s Lagos nightclub scene as well as their explosive latin compilations 'Panama' and 'Colombia'! Soundway live up to their brilliant reputation with Tumbele and do not disappoint, turning their attention to the overlooked and forgotten music from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, French departments in the Caribbean and centres of creole culture!

The album focuses on the rich musical period 1963-1974, on both islands, a time when Haitan compas, Congolese rumba and cuban guaguanco combined with the local biguine style to create the sound of tumbele, a uniquely French antillean style that is partly a product of the colonial past of the islands, in their position in the multi-cultural, multi-lingual "sixth continent' of the Carribbean.

This is a fantastic upbeat album where swaying biguines, meet heavy gwo ka drums and creole rhythms collide with the sounds of carnival. Haitan, Congolese and Puerto Rican influences are added to the pot in a percussive celebration of Afro-antillean spirit!

ACE!

Fantastic new compilation of super-rare latin music from the ever-brilliant Soundway label! Panama connects North and South America and its music reflects both cultures, and so the tracks on this compilation span funk, descargas and calypsos. Comes with a great booklet full of notes and photos. Don't miss this superb compilation! Recommended!

'Music Is The Key'. The Glorious soul two-step anthem 'I Love You' featuring Don Blackman. Weldon Irvine's deep funky soulful jazz albums are truly incredible. You need to own them all!

Great rare funk compilation from Kenny Dope and Keb Darge. Recommended!

Currently out of print!

This is the first ever collection of bossa nova record cover artwork, featuring stunning modernist and revolutionary designs that reflect the radical and exciting idealism of Brazil at the start of the 1960s.

Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) bring you this amazing new deluxe hardback 12" x 12" book, 200 pages, 100s of stunning absolutely killer Bossa Nova sleeves from Brazil plus loads of historical, cultural and social text as well as biographies on loads of the artists!

 As Brazil developed into an urban society, with ‘apartment living’ and consumer goods, bossa nova projected an image that was modern, sophisticated and cool.

Bossa Nova music arrived in Brazil at the end of the 1950s with an optimism and modernism that parralleled the arrival of the new Brazilian president, Juscelino Kubitschek, who promised 'fifty years of progress in five' in his election campaign and announced the building of a new capital city, Brasilia, deep in the heartland of Brazil. The city was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, a man who had just designed a new musical theatre production in Rio of a play written by Vinicius de Moraes and with music written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. These two, along with the singer João Gilberto were about to make Bossa Nova, the first modernist Brazilian art form, the most succesful Brazilian export since coffee.

This book is a unique collection of the cover art of Brazilian bossa nova music, containing hundreds of record covers complete with a history of bossa nova, biographies and essays on many of the artists involved in the movement.

The book follows on from our previous cover art book on Jazz called Freedom, Rhythm and Sound, also edited by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker.

To coincide with the book, there is also a separate double-CD album, 'Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s' also released on Soul Jazz Records.

Gilles Peterson is a respected BBC radio broadcaster and worldwide club DJ who has probably done more to promote Brazilian music in all its forms than anyone else over the last 20 years. Stuart Baker is founder of Soul Jazz Records, London.

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Seu Jorge and Almaz – drummer Pupillo and guitarist Lucio Maia from the stalwart Nação Zumbi, with bassist and composer Antonio Pinto – came together naturally to record a song for a Walter Salles film. They enjoyed the experience so much that they recorded an entire album, free of convention, of music that inspired them: they covered songs famous within the Brazilian diaspora and added a psychedelic samba to some classic American and European soul tunes such as Roy Ayers 'Everybody Love The Sunshine' and Michael Jackson's 'Rock With You'.

They enlisted producer and fellow Brasileiro Mario C. (Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson) to put the finishing touches on the project. Seu Jorge and Almaz have created an album both warm and dark, psychedelic yet grounded, uplifting but at times somber! Recommended!!!

This is a killer funky soul fusion album on Kudu featuring Phillips' great version of the Gil Scott-Heron classic "Home Is Where The Hatred Is". Line-up includes Airto, Pretty Purdie, Pee Wee Ellis, Hank Crawford and more.

Wow! An absolutely 110% essential compilation from the ever-brilliant BBE camp compiled by New York Disco legend John Morales!!!!

John Morales alongside remix partner Sergio Munzibai have remixed numerous cult and groudbreaking records from the 80's including Class Action' s 'Weekend' , Julia & Company, 'Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba)' and Ronnie Dyson's 'All Of Your Face' to name just a few. They fashioned certified pop smashes for Debarge ("Rhythm Of The Night") , Temptations ("Treat Her Like A Lady") and of course one of Jocelyn Brown's biggest tunes and girly anthem 'Somebody Else's Guy'!!! Need we say more?!

The M&M mixes are highly revered by the superstar DJ’s such as Dimitri from Paris, Louis Vega, Danny Krivit etc. The liner notes include interviews with Jocelyn Brown (Inner Life/Nuyorican Soul), Legendary producer Patrick Adams (Salsoul – R Kelly, Sister Sledge and many more).

Another OUTSTANDING compilation from BBE and if you like this one you will love their latest DJ Spinna 'Boogie Back' complation of 80's boogie disco gems!

Vinyl tracklisting is as follows:

A1. Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough Part 1 &2 (JM extended 4AM Mix)

B1 Julia and Company - Breakin' down (Sugar Samba) (JM Extended After-session M&M mix)

B2. Universal Robot Band - Barely Breakin Even (Demo Version)

C1. Tony Adderly - I Ain't Mad At You (JM Extended after-session M&M mix)

D1. La-Rita Gaskin - Never Can Say Goodbye (Demo Version)

D2. Margie Joseph - Move To The Groove (JM After-session M&M mix)

E1. Class Action ft. Chris Wiltshire - Weekend (JM After-session M&M mix)

E2. Universal Robot Band - Wanna Be Your Lover (Demo Version)

F1. Logg - You Got (That Something) (Jm Extended After-session M&M mix)

Bargain price hard-back book!

Biography of the great female salsa legend from growing up in Cuba to her success throughout the world.

Absolutely essential C-L-A-S-S-I-C late-sixties soul album from the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin!

Aretha Franklin's late-sixties string of albums are simpy brilliant - they are shining exemplars of good soul music and no music fan should be without their joy!

Original USA Vinyl VG- ONLY/Sleeve POOR large tear on front and back

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Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musical LEGEND! Since he started performing in 1994 he has released at least 500 live and studio cassette albums (im pretty sure that starting collecting these will be hard, but oh well! you can start here!). This record is Omar's Western debut release in which he culls different songs from when he performed in 1994 to 2006. Omar uses a Mawal-style Arabic singing along with that uses inspirational brakes taken from Iraqi Choubi Choubi styles (not the Choubi Choubi comp on Sublime Frequencies), Turkish and his traditional Syrian sounds of Dabke which in a way is a very intense and bass inspired form of sound in similar lines to Choubi Choubi. This record contains Souleyman's first Syrian hit "Jani" which he released back in 1996 and in turn helped him gain status in the countries such as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Dubai to name a few.

This is the 2 LP edition and comes in a gorgeous full color gatefold sleeve with photos and text by Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies collaborator).

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!