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William DeVaughnBe Thankful For What You GotDemon Records
MuseThe Wow!Warner Records
Labi Siffre1970-1971Edsel
Joe HisaishiA Big Bold Beautiful JourneyMutant
Dragon Ball Hit Song CollectionVarious ArtistsNippon Columbia
Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution in TrinidadVarious ArtistsSoundway Records
Brown Spirits#1Soul Jazz Records
Brown Spirits#2Soul Jazz Records
Brown Spirits#3Soul Jazz Records
Amyl and The SniffersGiddy Up / Big Attraction (10 Year Anniversary)Amyl and The Sniffers
Muddy WatersThe Real Folk BluesChess
Howlin' WolfThe Real Folk BluesVerve
YungbludIdols (Complete)Island
Rebel Island SoulUnder the Influence: Reggae, Funk & Soul in Jamaica in the 1970sSoul Jazz Records
Kenny DorhamWhistle StopBlue Note
Marcos ValleO Compositor E O CantorVampisoul
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANGPOMPEII // UTILITY10k & Tan Cressida & Surf Gang Records
Roy Ayers UbiquityRed, Black & GreenVampisoul
Marcos ValleSamba '68Verve
T.P. Orchestre Poly-RythmoWest African Beat: Rare 7s and EPs from Benin and NigerAcid Jazz
McCoy TynerAsante [Expanded Edition]Blue Note
Glenn UndergroundAtmosfear (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Buena Vista Social ClubLost and FoundBMG
Glenn UndergroundThe Jerusalem EP’s (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Terry CallierAt The Earl Of Old TownTime Traveler
Paul JohnsonBump Talkin’ (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Darrow Fletcher Presents Jacklyn & Genna RecordsVarious ArtistsKent
Caetano Veloso & Gal CostaDomingoVerve
Elis ReginaElisVerve
Paul JohnsonFeel The Music (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
KNEECAPFENIANHeavenly Recordings
Roy Ayers UbiquityLive At The Montreaux Jazz FestivalUniversal Music Japan
Aesop Rock & Homeboy SandmanMiami Lice: Season FourRhymesayers Entertainment
CAVSSojournp(doom)
Spring OriginalsVarious ArtistsSpring
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Great pics and bio!
Stevie WonderThe Secret Life of Plants (1979)Motown
Strange twisted experimental music from genius Stevie. Check out the sort of cosmic electro 'Race Babbling'.
- – race babbling
- 10. – race babbling
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Stevie WonderThe Jazz Soul Of Little Stevie (1962/1981)Motown
Amazing 60s album - Stevie plays drums, bongos, piano, organ and harmonica, and it was recorded when he was just 11 years old ! Absolutely incredible....
- – Fingertips
- 1. – Fingertips
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- New LP ERMIT18710£18.00In stockAdd to Bag
Stevie WonderSongs In The Key Of LifeUniversal
One of his best ever albums. Essential. From "Black Man" and "Pastime Paradise" to "I Wish" and "As" this album is with good reason regarded as one of...
- – Contusion
- – I Wish
- – Black Man
- – As
- 4. – Contusion
- 6. – I Wish
- 13. – Black Man
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Stevie WonderTalking Book (1972)Motown
Essential album, the first from Stevie's early 70's trilogy, the others being "Innervisions" and "Fulfillingness". Includes "Superstition" and "Maybe Your...
- – Tuesday Heartbreak
- – Superstition
- – Big Brother
- 4. – Tuesday Heartbreak
- 6. – Superstition
- 7. – Big Brother
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Stevie WonderFulfillingness' First Finale (1974)Motown
Grammy winning album of the year, following on from "Innervisions", and the third and final chapter in his early 70s trilogy. Deep, reflective and absorbing,...
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Stevie WonderInnervisions (1973)Tamla
Perhaps the best album from Stevie Wonder!
Classic Margouleff and Cecil production. Every track's a winner!
Superb mid-70s space age psychedelic soul!
You...
- – Too High
- – Higher Ground
- – Don't You Worry Bout A Thing
- 1. – Too High
- 5. – Higher Ground
- 8. – Don't You Worry Bout A Thing
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Stevie WonderHotter Than July (1980)Motown
Possibly his last, truly great album. Includes the classics "Master Blaster" and "All I Do"
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Stevie WonderOriginal Musiquarium 1Motown
This 16-song set presents the hits Wonder scored after he negotiated artistic control for himself in the 1970s. A classic '70s hits collection includes...
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Stevie WonderMusic Of My Mind (1972)Motown
Essential album featuring so many must have tracks. 'Superwoman', 'I Love Every Little Thing About You', 'Keep On Running', 'Evil' and more!
- – Superwoman
- – Evil
- 2. – Superwoman
- 9. – Evil
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Stevie WonderI Was Made To Love HerTamla
Teenage Stevie from 1967 with the huge title hit
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Wayne Jarrett And The Bull Wackie AllstarsAfrican Woman
DKR say..Six track 12" collecting all the cuts of Wayne's first recording for Wackie's, from 1976. A classic of raw underground vibes from the Sounds Unlimited...
- Wayne Jarrett – African Woman
- Wayne Jarrett – African Woman (LP Mix)
- 1. Wayne Jarrett – African Woman
- 4. Wayne Jarrett – African Woman (LP Mix)
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William S. BurroughsThe Finger
'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.'A deliberately severed...
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Andy WarholA
Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy...
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Straighten Up! BOOK Boss Reggae From PamaForeword by Harry Palmer
We got some more!
BOMB REGGAE BOOK!!
Originally formed in 1967 by the Palmer brothers - Harry, Jeff and Carl – Pama Records was a pioneer in bringing...
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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern AmericaBy Donald L. Miller
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Awopbopaloobop AlopbamboomBy Nik Cohn
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The West Indian Experience in British SchoolsBy Raymond Giles
- Original Book (350g)£15.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print Paperback Book in good conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Rebel SoundsMusic as Resistance
'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle...
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Nikki GiovanniPoems: 1968-2020
Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than sixty years. When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s,...
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Jamie Lidell & Luke SchneiderA Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams
Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider have created a kind of sonic tool to navigate a liminal state of mind. Their new collaborative LP, A Companion For The...
- New LP (Coloured Vinyl) 0309272740004£26.00In stockAdd to Bag
I Hear Music In The StreetsNew York 1969-89
Capturing the energy of New York City's music subcultures—across hip-hop, punk and rap—through an array of snapshots by photographers including...
- Book (1.4kg) 9788410024687£48.00In stockAdd to Bag
Rock Against Racism 1976-1981By Syd Shelton
Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For...
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Greensleeves BOOKThe First 100 Covers
WICKED NEW HARDBACK BOOK!
Charts the story of Greensleeves Records —from its beginnings as a mid-1970s West London record shop to its rise as a...
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The Other Side : A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century...
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Soul Jazz Records hoodie (navy)
Brand new Soul Jazz Records Functional Outer Wear Product #1
Exclusive to Sounds of the Universe
Limited edition navy hoodie (large) with design.
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Susan SontagNotes on Camp
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary...
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The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)by Simone de Beauvoir
Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather...
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Beneath the UnderdogBy Chalrles Mingus
Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated,...
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The Art of DancehallPosters and Flyers of Soundsystem Culture
Wicked book!
Combining the energy and vibrancy of vernacular Jamaican art with the cultural insight that only original ephemera can bring, the flyers...
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Revolutionary Letters
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...
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Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy presents 'Balearic Breakfast' Volume 4
“There are curators, and then there's Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy.” - Resident Advisor
The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something...
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Talking to Women
In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty...
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11
Latin compilation
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12
Latin compilation
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The Blood of OthersSimone de Beauvoir
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These...
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Salsa Y Ache
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Alice Coltrane - Monument Eternal (DELUXE HARDBACK)By Ann Philbin, Franya J. Berkman
Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazz. This volume unpacks the cultural legacy...
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My Grandmother's Hands : Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodiesby Resmaa Menakem
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty,...
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This Woman's Work : Essays on Music
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel...
- Book (600g) 9781474621472£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the MusicEdited by Leonard L. BrownOxford University Press
Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration...
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Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jonesby Courtney RossWarner Books
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Eric MercuryEric Mercury (1975)Mercury
Boogie funk 75
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The Story Of Stevie Wonder (1976)by James Haskins Panther
- Original Book (200g)£10.00Out of print secondhand p/b UK copySold out Notify me when in stock
Small Axe Bookzine 6U RoyMuzik Tree
Great 50 page Bookzine with features on the original DJ Daddy U Roy. With photos, reviews and text
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Miriam MakebaMy StoryBloomsbury
- Original Book (700g) 9780747501466£10.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print Paperback,Sold out Notify me when in stock
Love And KissesHow Much, How Much I Love You (1978)Casablanca
Disco epic-ness produced by Alec Costandinos
- Original LP£10.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original USA LP Vinyl in original shrink
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CholombianosBy Amanda WatkinsTrilce Ediciones
WICKED LARGE FORMAT USA PHOTO BOOK OVER 50% OFF PRICE!!!!!More than 150 photos on the urban subculture born out of the rich 'sonidero' tradition in Monterrey:...
- Book (1.3kg) 9786077663645£22.95 £10.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
PrinceInside the Music and the MasksSt Martin's Griffin
Prince is the first book to give full treatment to his thirty-five-year career. Acclaimed music journalist Ronin Ro traces Prince's rise from anonymity...
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Theory of African MusicVolume 1
Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard...
- Book (800g) 9780226456911£24.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Mighty Clouds Of JoyTruth Is The Power (1977)ABC Records
Uplifting gospel soul.
Original USA Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG
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The Rastafariansby Bob DixBreda Centre
- Original Book (1.1kg)£25.00Original s/hand hard to find small pamphlet in ok condition - has some damage to cover, sticker removal mark, sticker on backSold out Notify me when in stock
Brazilian JiveFrom Samba to Bossa and RapReaktion Books
£7.50 OFF!!! That's 50% OFF!!! UK PAPERBACKIn Brazilian Jive, David Treece uncovers the genius of Brazilian song, both as a sophisticated, articulate...
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Theory of African MusicVolume 2
Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard...
- Book (800g) 9780226456942£24.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Lou RawlsCarryin' On (1966)Capitol
From Lou's classic period on Capitol produced by David Axelrod, and as the sleevenotes say: Lou - easy and natural; sidemen - loose and groovy!
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Happy MondaysExcess All AreasAurum Press
£12 OFF!! That's 60% OFF HARDBACK BOOK - You're squeezing my melons man.
A riotous mix of pills, thrills and joyous chart hits, this is the untold story...
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The Roots Of The Bluesby Samuel ChartersDa Capo Paperback
- Original Book (300g)£10.00Secondhand out-of-print edition paperback exlibrary w/stampsSold out Notify me when in stock
Musical Gumbo: The Music Of New Orleansby Grace Lichtenstein & Laura DanknerW. W. Norton
Out-of-print book about New Orleans music. Loads of stuff about 50s and 60s r'n'b. KILLER!
- Original Book (600g)£40.00Rare Out of print USA hardback - original copy in very good conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
The Bermuda StrollersBermuda Strollers '73 (1973)Edmar
funky Caribbean gears
Original USA Vinyl LP VG/Sleeve VG+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+100% Guarantee on this and all Original...
- Original LP ELPS-1122£10.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
The Move #6The Move
Sixth edition of the excellent London based Move Magazine! This edition features Jazzman, Jitwam, JD Twitch and and more!
- Magazine (300g) ISSUE 006£6.50Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Jazz StylesHistory And AnalysisPrentice Hall
America’s most widely used introduction to jazz, it teaches the chronology of jazz by showing students how to listen and what to notice in each style.
Secondhand...
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A Good Looking CorpseThe World of Drum - Jazz and Gangsters, Hope and Defiance in the Townships of South Africa (1995)Minerva
This book recounts the 1950s in South Africa - a decade of optimism and hope that ended, tragically, with the massacre at Sharpeville - as seen through...
- Original Book (800g)£15.00Out of print pre-owned original hardback book in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Pete CondéEste Negro Si Es Sabroso (1976)Fania Records
Rare salsa on Fania.
- Original LP SLP 00489£30.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VGOrig Venezuelan vinyl, spines split/tapedSold out Notify me when in stock
As Serious As Your lifeJohn Coltrane And Beyond By Valerie WilmerSerpent's Tail
Truly seminal work, first published in 1977 by writer and photographer Valerie Wilmer, that details the incredible energy and characters behind the African-American...
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Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of "Run-D.M.C." and Jam Master Jayby Ronin RoAmistad
Hip-hop fans of all ages will delight in this gripping tale of sex, drugs and rock n'rap. Secondhand USA paperback book ex library w/stamps.
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