This book examines the demographic and economic history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil, from its settlement...
Knitting Factory Records release the next installment of long-awaited vinyl reissues from the Fela Kuti catalog. Box Set #5 was co-curated by Fela’s...
A man, a microphone, and a dream...
When he opened his tiny recording studio in New York in 1940, Moses Asch had a larger-than-life dream: to document...
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Written by Claus Schreiner, this is an excellent book covering all aspects of Brazilian music...
The fascinating biography of Fred Gaisberg: persuasive salesman, founding father of commercial recording, and the pioneer A&R man behind EMI records...
Utterly illuminating autobiography by Caetano Veloso. If you want a better understanding of Tropicalia, Bossa Nova and Brazilian music in general then...
Sun Ra, Brian Eno, Lee Perry, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Wilson are interviewed in this extraordinary work of sonic history...
3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by hip hop trio De La
Soul and was released on March 3, 1989
It marked the first of three full- length...
Yes its the album where the eyeball on the cover is actually a marble in a bottom! - and that's just the cover! Radical, innovative, wicked music from...