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Comet Records presents the Tony Allen & Africa 70 reissue series with the classic late seventies first four solo albums of Tony Allen remastered and restored: Jealousy, Progress, No Accomodation for Lagos & No Discrimination, all coming in an heavy Deluxe Tip-On Jacket.Recorded with Afrika 70 at...
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Grammy Nominated!Over the years, different members have traded production and composition duties from album to album. On the new album--"Fu Chronicles"--Amayo leads us through a thrilling sonic journey of kung fu meets Afrobeat, weaving together the strands of Edo and Yoruba cultural memory from...
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Born in a Brooklyn warehouse in 1997, 12-piece ensemble Antibalas is credited with introducing Afrobeat to a wider global audience, influencing countless musicians and developing a live show that is the stuff of legend.
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Composed by the prolific keyboardist/producer Victor Axelrod aka Ticklah, "Tattletale" has been a sinister, funky flute-driven live staple for Antibalas for many years, drawing from musical inspirations of Ethiopian funk and jazz masters Mulatu Astatqe, Wallias Band and Mahmoud Ahmed of the the...
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Originally released as a 12", out-of-print for a decade, ANTIBALAS' "Che Che Colé" has an impressive number of stamps on its passport. The song's origins are in Ghana, where "Kye Kye Kule" is a children's song that has since migrated all over the world--a version called "J.J. Koolaid" was...
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A great mix of Zouk, Afro-Funk and Boogie from the Ivory Coast, 1983. Cool synths, electric guitar, afro-caribbean rhythms...Four long tracks, including the massive afro-disco-boogie "Africa Mawa" plus two cool afro/Zouk tracks and a deep ballad with psych guitar. Featuring Congolese musician...
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A great mix of Zouk, Afro-Funk and Boogie from the Ivory Coast, 1983. Cool synths, electric guitar, afro-caribbean rhythms...Four long tracks, including the massive afro-disco-boogie "Africa Mawa" plus two cool afro/Zouk tracks and a deep ballad with psych guitar. Featuring Congolese musician...
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In 1997, a quiet, unassuming man of 59 years old named Victor Tavares (better know as Bitori) walks into a studio for the very first time to record a masterpiece which many Cabo Verdean consider to be the best Funaná album ever made. Bitori's musical adventure had begun long before this point. It...
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The Venomous follow up to The Budos' eponymous debut, this LP is equal parts groove and doom.
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The Budos Band III, unleashing The Budos Band's brazen sound and inspiring fervor among music lovers throughout the world. Produced by Bosco Mann and Thomas "TNT" Brenneck at Daptone Records' "House of Soul Studios" in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the band's third full-length studio effort was conceived...
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Celebrating 15 years from the release of their debut album, Daptone's Royal Court from Staten Island delivers a truly epic collection of new material that finds the group further bridging the gap between the farfisa-fueled Ethio-Funk stylings of their early recordings, with the psychedelic,...
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Ever wonder what it would have sounded like if Black Sabbath took holiday in Ethiopia... and jammed with magicians? FEAR NOT! The time is nigh for the darker corners of the Daptone Universe to bring forth a waxen treasure of said fortitude and doom. We called upon the Budos Band, whose history,...
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Magus Mountain opens with the chords of an acid-soaked troubadour, the guitars wavering harmony summoning the band into position. Thunder strikes in the form of hammering drums and the journey to Magus Mountain begins! The song rollicks along and its clarion horn lines are the fanfare for this wild...
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A - MAELSTROMMuch like the infamous weather phenomenon the song is named after, MAELSTROM swirls and surges; drenching the listener in psych feedback while pulling downward, ever downward, into a sonic abyss. The bass provides the current, a pulse that pushes through the waves of feedback before...
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"Sabura Djâ Nfrontam" by one of the biggest names in the triumph of the electrification of Funaná, the great José Casimiro. The album was recorded in 1981, celebrates music made in Portuguese-speaking Africa, finally reissued for the first time. Tracklist:Side A: A1. Sabura Djâ Nfront - A2....
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The Chakachas were a Belgian based group of Latin soul studio musicians. Also known as Les Chakachas or Los Chakachas. They started out in the late 50s, recording a playful mixture of Latin music, jazz, and European-style exotica. This same titled album is a much sought after album amongst the...
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LES CHAKACHAS 'Disco Sudamericana' has been released by CBS Sugar in 1974 and when originally came out did not receive the attention it deserved. At least not the same of the previous album, a club classic with dancefloor bangers as 'STORIES' and 'THE PARTY'. But if we take a deeper look at the...
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The ultra-rare holy grail masterpiece by Elcados originally released by EMI-Nigeria in 1973 and recorded by Kayode Salami. It's their debut album, a real gem played in an extraordinary inspired moment. A top shelf heavyweight Afro-Psych Funk-Rock. Leader of the band the great guitarist Frank...
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We are delighted to announce the release of "The Good Samaritans", the 20th compilation in our Analog Africa Limited Dance Edition serie. This project focusses on the band The Good Samaritans from Benin City, Nigeria, highlighting the gray eminence of Edo Funk, Mr Philosopher Okundaye. Originally...
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HARD-CARDBOARD SLEEVE + OBI180g VINYLULTRA RARE album reissue for the first time Worldwide. Fantastic Proto-Zouk from Georges and Pierre-Edouard DecimusNSI (New sound From the Islands) is a concept launched by the Decimus family, and the album was released at the end of 1981, at the same time as...
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"It's dark and still in the chief's village protected by mountains of the great southern regions of Africa..." so begins the seventeen minute epic 'African Day' that kicks off the greatest Afro-psychedelic concept album ever made -- first released on Parlophone in 1971. Hawk's music on this epochal...
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Official AFRODELIC reissue of the ultra-rare Tunde Mabadu's debut album. Originally released in 1978 on Blackspot label (DECCA's West Africa division), Bisu, which includes the supergroovy 'Red Jeans', differs from the later 1980 'Viva Disco' album by a much more pure African style. A beautiful and...
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Brothers Gerard Mendes (also known as Boy Ge Mendes) and Jean-Claude Mendes display the intriguing combination of Creole Portuguese-African polyrhythms, American boogie, and Brazilian samba; the duo became massive stars among the Cabo Verde diaspora. This LP includes the killer boogie anthem...
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Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin's music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin's recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7" singles and...
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