From the makers of the Academy Award winning ‘Searching For Sugarman’. Two warriors for peace, a vat of chemicals and an LSD cookbook. What could possibly go wrong? Original score by The Heliocentrics.
Seminal sounds from the golden age of Ghanaian music. Highlife, rock, and soul collide and merge with tradition and culture. New styles meet old styles....
Alhaji K Frimpong’s 1977 Highlife masterpiece, melding traditional Ghanaian musical forms with experimental instrumentation and innovative arrangements....
Aotearoa (New Zealand)’s interstellar jazz collective The Circling Sun return with their radiant second album Orbits, landing July 11th. A deeper, more...
Soundway Records presents a collection of nineteen tracks chronicling a time when drum machines, synthesisers, imported pop, reggae, disco and soul collided...
Highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques....
Recorded between Lagos and New York in 1988, the tracks sit at the fault line of the Trinidad-Yoruba connection, blending calypso heritage with the Afrobeat...
Soundway Records presents Ayo Manuel '1983-1990', a collection of selected works by one of Nigeria's DIY pioneers.
This mini compilation selects the stand...
The particular Thaba sound reflects a sonic duality drawing on a double pop heritage of Mbaqanga and Bubblegum artists like The Soul Brothers, Paul Ndlovu...
Soundway dig deep again and present a selection of 18 rare 1980s cuts that highlight the period that nestles in between the ‘70s (where American-influenced...
British quintet Me and My Friends release their captivating and mesmerising second album, Hide Your Way, on Soundway. A unique and singular blend, it's...
Soundway release a compilation of twenty rare, and mostly unavailable, tracks from the world of Nigerian pop and club culture from the early 80's! A stunning...
Soundway return with another instalment in their acclaimed african "special" series - this time focussing on 70's and 80's Kenya!Having delved deep into...
An extremely rare and in-demand record from the disco-funk group has been unearthed and restored. The Movers enjoyed huge success in the 1970s, releasing...
Floating Points summons his ensemble again for an album of sweeping, panoramic jazz and electronic passages entitled, 'Reflections - Mojave Desert';...
Repressed! UK duo, Swing Ting lay a breezy, rhodes-piano phrase under Alexx A-Game's poignant, soulful roots / dancehall vocal making this contender for...
The first time the singles have been presented together and shows the breadth of their influential career, from well loved tracks like 'Halleluwah', 'Vitamin...
Susso, aka bassist / producer Huw Bennett, creates music inspired by, and directly sampling, the magnificent sounds of the Mandinka people, recorded...
Psychemagik are back after a brief hiatus with two solid disco floor burners, the first track ‘Gotta Hold On Me’ a 12 mins plus hypnotic, soulful disco...
Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music - Mulatu Astatke’s ‘Mulatu Of Ethiopia’ from 1972. Recorded...
Eccentric, electro-fueled vocoder funk and boogie from Japanese musician, Minoru 'Hoodoo' Fushimi. 'In Praise Of Mitochondria' collects together the...
The debut album from the legendary Japanese rockers, fronted by Yuya Uchida. Although an album consisting mainly of cover versions, Anywhere still exhibited...
By the 1970s Studio One and Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had already proved himself to be the defining force in Reggae for almost two decades. From running...
Brand new edition of this Soul Jazz Records long out-of-print classic album available now as a new limited-edition one-off pressing triple yellow vinyl...
Pye Corner Audio return to Death Waltz Originals with a stunning 10 inch featuring 6 brand new and exclusive tracks featuring his trademark sci-fi electronica.
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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