3. One Boy Playing Three Sets of Bongo Drums with His Hand and One Drum Stick
4. Rhythm Ensemble with Voices
5. Zum, Zum
6. Ole
7. Bo Diddlie
8. Gugamuga
9. Riding Hood Boogy Man
10. Sister Suki
11. Why Can't I Get It Too
12. Cha Cha Cha
13. The Fox
14. Gang Fight
15. Shoe Shine
16. Shoe Shine Shakedown
17. Dumb Boy
18. Money Honey
19. I Want Some Food
Street percussion, drumming, songs and chants recorded in New York in 1959 by a group of street kids. Kind of like a prototype Haryou Percussion Group ('Welcome to the Party'). Wicked!
Amazing deep, deep jazz as featured on our "New Thing!" compilation! Includes heavyweight African/Eastern styles and the out-there 13 minute version of...
Heavy, heavy, heavy drum rhythms recorded in Haiti. Voodoo plus some Rara. This is like Soul Jazz Records' own "Voodoo Drums", only recorded in 1950! Produced...
Excellent recordings of Haitian voodoo music in all its many forms and variations. Comes with superb booklet.
Cuts from live Vodou ceremonies are juxtaposed...
Much talked-about Japanese only new release of holy grail of deep jazz records - Roy Brooks deeper than deep, rarer than rare 1973 album.
The album features...
Katanga is a very key jazz record yet at the same time unknown by mainstream audiences. This session is the sixth and last one recorded by Curtis Amy in...
How the music of USA, the Caribbean and Western Africa is connected by the slave trade with comparisons between the various musics and instruments in the...
During his nearly 40-year tenure with Folkways Records, Moe Asch, the company's founder, amassed a catalogue of almost 2,200 recordings that had expanded...
Tough, tough, tough proto-female rap featuring raw percussion and super-funky accompaniment. This is like Gil Scott Heron's '125th and Lennox' album meets...
Composed by Malcolm Goldstein, and originally released in 1983, the music consists of a magnetic tape collage of sounds recorded in Vermont during each...
** Now available on vinyl **
Super rare funk album released on smithsonian folkways in the early 1970s. "The music of the Montgomery Express is a buried...
The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music,...