Killer, killer, killer 60s hard bossa! There are tough versions of 'Carcara' (check out the audio), Edu Lobo's 'Cheganca', 'Opiniao' and other protest songs. This really is the business!!! As good as any Tamba Trio, Zimbo Trio stuff! Recommended.
Charles "Cha Cha" Shaw released his first solo album on Folkways in 1976 after having performed and recorded trumpet for pop and jazz icons like Curtis...
Maroon communities in Jamaica are directly descended from escaped slaves brought over to Jamaica by the slave trade. Fiercely independent, these communities...
BGP returns to its jazz roots with a compilation that looks at the funky, Afro-centric and distinctly spiritual grooves coming out of North America in...
Covering a broad spectrum, this collection includes vodou ritual drumming (using tanbou, a type of drums used for this religious practice of African origin);...
This recording gives listeners more calypsos from one of the most famous calypsonians of all time, Lord Melody. The Cyril Diaz Calypso Combo and the March...
a killer rocksteady collection from the uniques featuring the great slim smith. all tunes produced by bunny lee in the late 60s.the uniques were one of...
Ska, rocksteady, funky reggae, roots, dub mixes, disco mixes, they're all here from the queens of the Jamaican music scene - Studio One Women features...
** Now available on vinyl **
Super rare funk album released on smithsonian folkways in the early 1970s. "The music of the Montgomery Express is a buried...
Tough, tough, tough proto-female rap featuring raw percussion and super-funky accompaniment. This is like Gil Scott Heron's '125th and Lennox' album meets...
How the music of USA, the Caribbean and Western Africa is connected by the slave trade with comparisons between the various musics and instruments in the...
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...
Super-tough funky, funky, funky female proto-rap poetry from Sarah Webster Fabio. Killer!
Armed with an incredible rhythm section this album is a classic...
Amazing deep, deep jazz as featured on our "New Thing!" compilation! Includes heavyweight African/Eastern styles and the out-there 13 minute version of...
Well it's the one so many of us have been waiting for, the missing, much anticipated 'Originals 3' compiled by disco and boogie maestro Sean P and without...