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.
Fitting with the space jazz icon's mystique, Uncharted Passages was a puzzle for archivists to figure out. Originally believed to be a 1979 performance,...
Available for the very first time, the intergalactic icon Sun Ra and his Arkestra’s Lights On A Satellite: Live at the Left Bank was recorded on July...
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...
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...
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...
Soul Jazz Records’ new one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition coloured vinyl pressing + download code exclusively for Black Friday 2024...
Friendly Children is a brilliant bassy house track with an infectious la la la vocal and the deepest of deep drop-outs, while Timeislaffinacharunninout...
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...
Studio One Showcase brings together a new fine selection of classic tracks from Horace Andy, Freddy McGregor, Johnny Osbourne, Lone Ranger, Sugar Minott,...
Their first single was released on Kieran Hebden (FOURTET)’s own label and Rocketnumbernine have been touring and performing alongside FOURTET since...
Featuring: Eric Dolphy (as, b-cl), Woody Shaw (tp), Clifford Jordan (ss), Huey Sonny Simmons (as), Prince Lasha (fl), Bobby Hutcherson (vb), Eddie Khan,...
Cosmic diggers Keyboard Masher return with a fifth instalment from their KM Editions series! Psychemagik and Claremont56 fans will love this! A dramatic...
One of the best original dub albums from 70s Jamaica, produced & mixed by Lee Perry with King Tubby. Killer hardcore roots rhythms from The Black Ark...
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...