Gary Bartz was in the artistic eye of the hurricane that was the Black Power movement at the turn of the 70s and these two albums tell it in no uncertain terms.
In 1979, Spring Records released the first hip-hop style rap record ‘King Tim III (Personality Jock)’ by The Fatback Band. The label, initially relegated...
Seminal jazz and funk album from 1975 with SIX EXTRA PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED TRACKS! Arguably one of The Mizell Brothers finest productions and one of SOTU's...
Cross section of the great recordings that Leon Thomas made for Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman. It covers the relatively straight-ahead pieces from his...
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...
Fantastic new compilation of super-rare latin music from the ever-brilliant Soundway label! Panama connects North and South America and its music reflects...
Totally essential deep astro jazz with the full twenty minute version of the title track! One-of-a-kind, out-of-this-world, wonky space anthem! This...
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...
Great album from Basic Channel/Rhythm and Sound's Maurizio AKA Mauritz Von Oswald, alongside Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer!
Excellent expansive...
Quartet line-up with John Hicks, Walter Booker and Idris Muhammad. Includes an excellent version of the jazz dance classic "You've Got to Have Freedom"!
Another unquestionably ESSENTIAL late-sixties standard-setting soul album from the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin!
This is truly amazing music...
Free-wheeling, jazz improvisers Ill Considered open a new chapter with this album 'Liminal' Space, featuring Tamar Osborn, Sarathy Korwar, Theon Cross...
At times a homage to the earlier roots of Jazz and R'n'B but with a surreal sense of humour throughout, no more so than on "Strange Lullaby" and "Big...
**Repress of the 2014 hip hop classic!** Blasphemy, the collaborative album from esteemed Mello Music Group producer Apollo Brown and Ras Kass, is a thought-provoking...