Previously unreleased live recordings of Penny Goodwin, who left only one album in the 1970s, were unearthed in 2004. At the time, it was only released...
Drawn upon a mutual love of house music, dub and weirdo dance music by the likes of African Head Charge, Larry Heard and Sun Ra. We also added sprinkles...
We have been waiting for this full length to drop ever since we were tased by the lead single a month or so ago. There was already no doubting James Alexander...
Modern soul / disco royalty, written by the talented Mark Beiner and co-writer Ben Iverson about Marks x girlfriend. It is up there with the best modern...
Leonard Grandsons'The Sands of Zanziibar' is a classy, extremely rare soulful floater from ’77which has remained extremely elusive despite having a sound...
AOTN proudly present a new solo outing from long time friend & contributor to Athens of the North, Other Lands aka Gavin L.Sutherland.
Channelling his...
Arthur Ponder, a life long Macon, Georgia resident, started his singing career in the 60s replacing Otis Redding in Johnny Jenkins & The Pinetoppersafter...
Unreleased soul music from William Stuckey - pure class - backed with an alternate 7" mix of 'Hold Me Close' from his mega-rare 1979 album of the same...
Athens Of The North reissue Judy Pollak's extremely rare, soul / funk / folk masterpiece 'In Togetherness'. Originals of this beauty exchange for big sums...
One of the releases we're really hyped about! This was Eunice Collins ONLY release EVER! Released on the tiny Mod-Art label from Chicago in 1974, the hynotically...
One of the plus points of being in the re-issue business, is that some records are easier to license then to try and find a copy! Sky's The Limit's incredible...
Following on from the incredible success of 2020's "Teasin' You Again", we're proud to follow that up with one of Willie Tee's greatest double-siders and...
One of the most rewarding things about this business is when we get the chance to re-release some true works of art which were previously hindered by their...
Perhaps one of the most enigmatic of artists on the Rare Soul scene must be Flame N' King aka Oscar Wayne Richardson Jr, who ran his various labels independently...
One of the more idiosyncratic U.S. independent labels must be the 'Hep Me' imprint from New Orleans run by veteran Soulman Senator Jones. Very few of Hep'...
Essential 14 track collection of “WaJazz” music selected and compiled by renowned Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa, owner of the Universounds record...
**REPRESSED - one of 2022's highlights!**
Absolute monster! East Coast Love Affair cut Roy Ayer's classic CHICAGO tune in a wicked acid house style -...
Tough Brazilian meets Jazz fusion from Airto Moreira, produced by Creed Taylor in 1972 for CTI! Line-up includes Flora Purim, Ron Carter, Chick Corea,...
For the second AOTN 12" this month we got another smasher,when we landed the united Spirtual Singers over lockdown we were lucky enough to get multitracks...
Classic, radical mid-70's album from Gil and The Midnight Band featuring "The Liberation Song", "Ain't No Such Thing As Superman" and the live spoken word/poem...
**Repressed!**
Originally released as an acetate, with two copies in existence, this is not only spiritual jazz-funk as good as it gets but certainly...
Hard to find on vinyl. Classic CTI stuff from 74. Heavyweight fusion with Airto Moreira, Ron Carter and George Benson in the line-up plus full orchestral...
Finally! For the first time on 7” vinyl comes a definitive rare groove from Thelma Houston. Played on the modern soul and two step scenes for years,...
Two insanely funky cuts from the cult 1973 Italian sex comedy soundtrack 'Sessomatto'. The title track was later picked up by fledgling NYC disco label...