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SAULTActs Of FaithForever Living Originals
Jacob CollierDjesse Vol. 4 (Deluxe Edition)Decca
A Love From Outer SpaceVarious ArtistsMaterial Music
The AltonsHeartache in Room 14Daptone Records
MadvillainMadvillainyStones Throw
MadvillainMadvillainy DemosStones Throw
Bonnie “Prince” BillyThe Purple BirdDomino
FKA TwigsEUSEXUAYoung
Art PepperGettin’ Together!Craft Recordings
MogwaiThe Bad FireRock Action
Prince Lasha QuintetThe Cry!Craft Recordings
Don Cherry BOOKEternal RhythmBy Graeme Ewens
Franz FerdinandThe Human FearDomino
Soul Supreme & Jay Mumford9th Wonder / Crown OnesSoul Supreme Records
Los Pambelé / Los Darlings de HuanucoCannabis / MarihuanaDiscos Fuentes
Nara LeaoDez Anos DepoisMusic On Vinyl
Havana NegraHavana NegraZanja Records
Jalen NgondaIllusions / RaptureDaptone Records
Ronald SnijdersPentaNight Dreamer
Louis HeelSail (inc. Richard Sen & MLZ remixes)Bokhari
GutsStraight From The Decks (Vol. 4)Pura Vida Sounds
Gerald CleaverThe ProcessPositive Elevation
Johnny OsbourneTruths & Rights DELUXE EDITIONStudio One
DaRand LandWander BeingScissor and Thread
Sister JamA Man Like YouOnlyroots
Steve ReichCollected WorksNonesuch
Dennis BrownDennis Brown Meets Harry HippyOne Drop Store
Q LazzarusGoodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music from the Motion Picture)Sacred Bones
Prince AllaHeaven Is My RoofLantern Rec.
Sun RaLights On A Satellite: Live At The Left BankResonance Records
Five Green MoonsMoon 1Pamela Records
Augustus PabloPablo's Theme SongOnlyroots
KelelaRAVE:N, The RemixesWarp Records
Lyrical Benjie & DawehdreadRender Your HeartCopacetic Frequency Productions
The 107th Street Stickball TeamSaboreando - Pot Full Of SoulDorado Records
- Book (650g) 9781560983705£12.99 £6.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
During his nearly 40-year tenure with Folkways Records, Moe Asch, the company's founder, amassed a catalogue of almost 2,200 recordings that had expanded the definition of American folk music and introduced listeners to sounds from every corner of the world. This biography provides a complete look at this iconoclastic figure.
Street and Gangland RhythmsBeats And Improvisations By Six Boys In Trouble (1959)Smithsonian Folkways
Street percussion, drumming, songs and chants recorded in New York in 1959 by a group of street kids. Kind of like a prototype Haryou Percussion Group...
- – Ole
- 6. – Ole
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- CD FD5589£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
HellraisersA Complete Visual History of Heavy Metal MayhemRace Point Publishing
HARD AND HEAVY USA IMPORT HARDBACK. £13 OFF - that's more than 50% OFF RETAIL PRICETake a journey through the history of metal music from its earliest...
- Book (1.5kg) 1631064304£24.99 £12.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Rhythms of RaptureSacred Musics of Haitian Vodou (1995)Smithsonian Folkways
Excellent recordings of Haitian voodoo music in all its many forms and variations. Comes with superb booklet.
Cuts from live Vodou ceremonies are juxtaposed...
- Port-Au-Prince Zepol – Vye Gran O (Song for Ezili)
- 6. Port-Au-Prince Zepol – Vye Gran O (Song for Ezili)
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- CD SFCD40464£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Musical Instruments of Africa; Their Nature, Use, and Place in the Life of a Deeply Musical Peopleby Elisabeth Hoffmann DietzThe John Day Company
Excellent secondhand large hardback book about African musical instruments co-written by Babatunde Olatunji.
- Original Book (700g)£20.00First edition 1965 ex-library, no record, plastic cover on dustjacketSold out Notify me when in stock
Sarah Webster FabioBoss Soul: 12 Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio (1972)Smithsonian Folkways
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...
- – Work it out
- – Glimpses
- 1. – Work it out
- 4. – Glimpses
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- CD FL9710£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Gotta Go Gotta FlowLife, Love, and Lust on Chicago's South Side From the SeventiesCity Files Press
£20 OFF !!!! DELUXE IMPORT USA HARDBACK BOOK. MORE THAN 60% OFF. A GREAT BOOK!!!
AWESOME BACK - wicked photos Chicago black club life in the 1970s. Accompanied...
- Book (1.3kg) 0991541820£35.00 £15.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
East New York Ensemble de MusicAt The Helm (1974)Smithsonian Folkways
Amazing deep, deep jazz as featured on our "New Thing!" compilation! Includes heavyweight African/Eastern styles and the out-there 13 minute version of...
- – Sun Flower
- 3. – Sun Flower
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- CD FTS33867£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- New LP FW33867£13.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Black Power 50Edited by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
£10 OFF!!!! That's 50% OFF! WICKED USA large format paperback - nice pix, loads of text. Cheaper than Amazon!
Black Power burst onto the world scene...
- Book (650g) 1620971488£20.00 £10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Mary Lou WilliamsBlack Christ of the Andes (1964)Smithsonian Folkways
Super-rare and highly sought-after classic modal jazz album finally reissued!HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
- – It Ain't Necessarily So
- – Miss D.D.
- – Koolbonga
- 2. – It Ain't Necessarily So
- 4. – Miss D.D.
- 10. – Koolbonga
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- CD SFW40816£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Kingdom of ZydecoBy Michael Tisserand
There’s a musical kingdom in the American South that’s not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas,...
- Book (650g) 162872692X£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Montgomery MovementThe Montgomery Express (1974) (Reissue)Smithsonian Folkways / Numero Group
** 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...
- – Montgomery Movement
- – Who
- – Steal away
- – Precious wing
- – Party fever
- – I'm standing by
- – Gotta make a comeback
- – Left me with a memory
- 1. – Montgomery Movement
- 2. – Who
- 3. – Steal away
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- CD STS33868£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- New LP JR025£17.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Soul Sacrifice : The Santana Storyby Simon LongFire Fly
- Original Book (400g)£10.00Secondhand out of print paperback book in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Mary Lou WilliamsMary Lou's MassSmithsonian Folkways
The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music,...
- – Willis
- – O.W
- – Credo
- 1. – Willis
- 2. – O.W
- 12. – Credo
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- CD SFW40815£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
In the Fascist Bathroom: writings on Punk 1977-1992by Greil MarcusViking
- Original Book (650g)£8.00secondhand hardback book in good condSold out Notify me when in stock
Gypsy Music in European CultureFrom The Late 18th to the Early 29th Centuries
USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK £10 off
Translated from the Polish, Anna G. Piotrowska's 'Gypsy Music in European Culture' details the profound impact that...
- Book (500g) 9781555538378£25.00 £15.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorised Story Of Public EnemyBy Russell Myrie Cannongate
Russell Myrie has had unprecedented access to the group, conducting extensive interviews with Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff, the...
- Original Book (300g) 9781847671264£7.00Secondhand paperbackSold out Notify me when in stock
Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip Hop's First Decadeby Jim Fricke and Charlie AhearnThe Perseus Press
- Original Book (1kg) 9781903985571£25.00Pre-Owned Out of Print USA paperback in good conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash: A MemoirBy Grandmaster Flash with David RitzBroadway
- Original Book (600g)£15.00Original out of print secondhand USA hardback w/dustjacket in good conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Bomb The SuburbsBy William Upski WimsattSubway & Elevated
- Original Book (250g)£8.00Original out of print secondhand book ex-library with stamps
100% guarantee on this and all original books at Sounds of the Universe.Sold out Notify me when in stock
Edwidge DanticatAfter the Dance - A Walk Through carnival in Jacmel, HaitiCrown
If you've seen Soul Jazz Records' Kanaval book - here is an eye-witness look at the carinival in Haiti
- Original Book (300g)£10.00S/hand hardback US first edition bookSold out Notify me when in stock
Language, Rhythm & Sound: Black Popular Culture into the 21 Century By Joseph K. Adjaye Uni of Pittsburgh (1997)
Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States and the Caribbean, this collection of 15 multidisciplinary essays...
- Original Book (500g)£12.00secondhand ex-library paperbackSold out Notify me when in stock
Drum and Candleby David St. ClairDoubleday & Company
Out-of-print book club edition secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket small tear
- Original Book (400g)£15.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Roots Of Black Music In AmericaSome Correspondences Between The Music Of The Slave Areas Of West Africa, USA and CaribbeanSmithsonian Folkways
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...
- Waje Ward – Virginia Banjo Instrumental
- 26. Waje Ward – Virginia Banjo Instrumental
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- 2×CD FA2694£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Brothers Neville - An AutobiographyArt Neville, Aaron Neville, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville and David RitzLibrary of Congress
All you need to know about new Orleans finest funk brothers.
Secondhand paperback original book
- Original Book (1kg)£9.00In stockAdd to Bag