A stripped back Arkestra, freshly arrived in New York City, produced this 1961 album -- often considered their most accessible. Ra sticks to piano, with conga provided by Leah Ananda -- and the results are endearing.
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 Sun Ra 1980 solo set at Haverford College has been kicking around the internet and in the digital libraries of Ra collectors for years, though it...
One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, RTTR originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal...
Mystical magical mid-sixties album from cult Saturnian jazz hero Sun Ra!
Featuring a classic cast of Arkestra muscians including Marshall Allen, John...
LP - £28.99Record Store Day 2016 Release. Receiving its first ever vinyl release for Record Store Day 2016, 'Spaceways' features live performances by...
Released on Saturn in 1965, but recorded four or five years earlier, this is often considered the first of Ra's 'outside' recordings, with a definitive...
Super-deep, rare 1957 Sun Ra outing that includes Phil Cohran in the line-up, along with the usual suspects. Includes killer tracks like 'Plutonian Nights',...
New addition to Theo Parrish's indellible imprint is this new one from Detroit-based, producer on the rise, Jay Daniel, taking cues from the likes of his...
Joe Higgs follow up to the classic Life of Contradiction album, Unity is Power is a mellower set of tracks. The song writing is as clear and as lucid as...
Gurgling, discombobulating BFG-styled house concoctions from Tuff Sherm's (Dro Carey) second helping for The Trilogy Tapes. Whizzing synths, thundering...
This is an essential compilation of the best and classic tracks taken from the extensive Joe Gibbs back catalogue! Includes reggae party classics such...
Friendly Children is a brilliant bassy house track with an infectious la la la vocal and the deepest of deep drop-outs, while Timeislaffinacharunninout...
Early 60's Afro-jazz with middle-eastern and latin flavours from the legendary bass and oud musician Abdul-Malik. One of the first musicians to bring such...
Very highly recommended! Almaz, the legendary Ethiopian singer's first LP, heavy and hypnotic, accompanied by the Ibex Band in 1973, on the eve of the...
Brilliant second album from Actress sounding like a futuristic mash up of Prince, Jimmy Jam & Jerry Lewis, Moodymann and Anthony Shake Shakir!
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Ethio-jazz hero Mulatu Astake and His Ethiopian Quintet "Afro-Latin Soul" album from 1966! As the title suggest this is more leaning towards the Latin-soul...
Top notch, house / techno showcase from this sumptuous line-up. Vital club-friendly dynamics with the artists, between them, melting synth-wave into spatial,...
Jeb Loy Nichols finally comes home to On-U Sound, the label he first befriended in 1981. Backed by members of Dub Syndicate and The Roots, and with Adrian...