Woven around soul searching, cautionary tales and parables for modern life, 'Freedom Fables' is the most accomplished album by the UK collective, effortlessly fusing different soul, jazz and global styles with deft musicianship and lyrical delivery.
Strut Records proudly presents the official reissue of Hidden Fire Volumes 1 & 2, the final album released by Sun Ra on his El Saturn label in 1988.
Captured...
An electrified meeting of minds, Candy Girl is a lost 1975 session by jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in Paris with core members of the mighty Lafayette...
Strut presents Mulatu Plays Mulatu, the first major studio album in over 10 years from the father of Ethio-jazz, Mulatu Astatke.
Featuring masterful new...
Berlin-based Colombian DJ, producer, and curator Edna Martinez presents a sonic journey into the electrifying world of Picó - the vibrant and dynamic...
Matthew Herbert and drummer/vocalist Momoko Gill announce the release of new album Clay, via Strut records in collaboration with Accidental.
A soulful,...
A cosmic fusion of deep funk, interstellar jazz, and avant-garde soundscapes, On Jupiter stands as one of Sun Ra’s most iconic releases. Recorded in...
In February 2024 Ackamoor’s performing arts company, Cultural Odyssey, partnered with The Lab, a prominent San Francisco venue, to co-present ""Underground...
Originally released on Sun Ra’s Saturn label, this mysterious harmony group 45 captures a unique moment in music history. Alongside his renowned jazz...
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids are back with their first major new studio album in over 3 years, an epic, sprawling new work exploring the future, the...
Formed in Mamelodi township near Pretoria, the group started out as Malombo Jazz Men with Julian Bahula on malombo drums, Abbey Cindi on flute and Philip...
Strut revives a lost recording from the archives in January with a 2002 collaboration between acclaimed South African folk singer Vusi Mahlasela, singer...
Strut present the first ever reissue of an essential lost classic from the Black Fire catalogue, Wayne Davis’ powerful self-titled gospel-soul album...
Exclusive collaboration between two jazz greats, Bennie Maupin and Adam Rudolph, on ‘Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef’, originally commissioned...
Deluxe, definitive issue of the greatest Sun Ra album, recorded in NYC, 1978!
Super-deep, funky odd-ball jazz with spooky whispered vocals! Cult classic...
Strut present the definitive reissue of one of the all-time classic Caribbean soul and funk albums, the self-titled album by The Beginning Of The End,...
Wow! A brilliant follow-up to Strut's essential Nigeria 70 compilation from a few years back!
This is a brilliant compilation that will certainly appeal...
Essential double disc compilation of brilliant afro beat and afro funk from 1970s Nigeria!
This first volume of Nigeria 70 was one of the last releases...
Heavy conscious funk from mid-70's Washington D.C outfitSeminal recording blending soul, jazz, and funk-rock, laying the foundation for Washington D.C.'s...
Surprise collaboration between Floating Points and the legendary, American, spritual jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders with The London Symphony Orchestra....
Second Impluse! records release for cult UK jazz psychonauts, Sons Of Kemet! Frenetic, spiritual, cosmic jazz energy from Shabaka Hutchings, Theon Cross...
Another breathtakingly original transmission from UK group, Sault! Hot-on-the-heels of their essential 'UNTITLED (Black Is)' of earlier in 2020, 'Untitled...
BBE's J-Jazz compilation series continues and focuses on some of the most creative, inspired and sought-after jazz recorded in Japan during a golden period...
From out of nowhere, UK group Sault drop their album debut on Forever Living Originals (home to Little Simz and Kid Sister), channeling post-punk, primal...
Brownswood release a new compilation of South African jazz-influenced sounds, called 'Indaba Is'. The compilation aims to capture the eclectic musical...
**A SOTU EXCLUSIVE 200 COPIES ONLY - Eastern mysticism re-imagined by Jaubi and Tenderlonious **
Tenderlonious and Lahore, Pakistan based Jaubi explore...
Awesome Tapes From Africa releases one of the best examples of 'amapiano' music from South Africa.The past five years have seen this rapidly expanding...
To mark the 10th anniversary of the release of 'I’m New Here', the 13th, and last, studio album from the legendary US musician, poet and author Gil Scott-Heron,...
The story of two outsiders and obsessives whose collision prompted an evangelistic alliance on the furthest frontiers of underground music.Steve Davis...
**Vinyl format finally in stock!**An explosive, frenetic, spiritual jazz performance from Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood, captured, recorded and released...
Features the essential version of War's 'Slipping Into Darkness' and a moody 'People Make The World Go Round"! Ramsey Lewis, Cleveland Eaton and Maurice...
Previously unreleased AOR/yacht rock album from Pennsylvania group Penn Central! The band recorded the album for a talent contest in 1980 where it remained...
This album coincides with the massive new exhibition Soul of A Nation - Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern, London.
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Heavenly Sweetness release 'The Rich are Only Defeated When Running for their Lives' from "one of the UK's most exciting and innovative voices, poet, novelist,...
Olindo Records launch their sister label Musica Infinita with a reissue from an overlooked cornerstone of Venezuelan jazz - 'The Message' by Gerry Weil....
Surprise and hugely welcomed release via german techno stalwart, Tresor! Detroit's minimal pioneer, Terrence Dixon scores this album ace with the great...
Spiritual jazz drummer Nick Woodmansey aka Emanative and singer Liz Elensky find the point where jazz and soul cross electronic music on this stunning,...