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‘Naz’ is debut album of Iranian singer and film star Liraz and Israeli producer Rejoicer, fresh from his Stones Throw release
Liraz is influenced by Iran’s female musical icons of the 1970s – like Googoosh and Ramesh – and her debut album Naz is as fiery and defiant. She sings in Farsi, on an album dominated lyrically by the role of women in society and musically by the bounce of hip-hop and electronica. It is produced…
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20 year quest complete: Jazzman announce first official reissue of iconic Don Rendell and Ian Carr Quintet sessions at Lansdowne
The complete Ian Carr and Don Rendell Lansdowne recording sessions have a full and unprecedented boxset reissue from Jazzman Records on November 16th. They have been remastered from the original analogue master tapes at Abbey Road Studios and will come with replica artwork, design and paper stock. This project has been 20 years in the…
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Luaka Bop’s latest reissue is ‘Universal Philosophy’ by Preacherman – playing T.J. Hustler’s greatest hits
Preacherman aka Tim Jones aka Midi Man aka Ironing Board Band is the latest artist to be unearthed by Luaka Bop. Following highlighting of other psychedelic luminaries – Shuggie Otis, Tim Maia, William Onyeabor and Doug Hream Blunt – this release nestles nicely between them and is out now. A typewriter repairman for IBM by…
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LISTEN: World Treasures Music Radio w/ Judy Pollak (tracklist and link below)
Listen again to the latest World Treasures Music Radio show, featuring an exclusive first listen to the extremely rare In Togetherness album by Judy Pollak and 33 1/3. Click here to read an exclusive interview with Judy. Listen to the show: Tracklist Aretha Franklin – One Step Ahead Kalima – Where Is The Sunshine Sue Barker…
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Judy Pollak exclusive interview – hear her modern soul gems on World Treasures Music Radio tonight at 8pm
WTM is absolutely delighted to bring you the voice and music of a legendary modern soul singer, activist and charity leader. The very rare LP, In Togetherness, is Judy’s modern soul masterpiece featuring 33 1/3. It is being reissued soon and some of the highlights will be played on tonight’s World Treasures Music radio show, on…
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A mysterious psychedelic masterpiece: the Middle Eastern music of Moontribe is restored from tapes by Fortuna
Moontribe and their collection of deeply rich and heady music is a fantastic treasure that has been thankfully reissued by Fortuna Records. The Tel Aviv based collective will drop this essential artefact on September 28th. The music is a brew of tribal percussion, hypnotising organs and long echo ripples. African drums, hints of cumbia…
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Debut solo album from Thabang Tabane will continue his father’s legacy of the South African malombo sound
Thabang has been touring the world, playing with his father’s band and other South African luminaries – such as Thandiswa Mazwai, Madala Kunene and Mabi Thobejane – since he was 8-years-old.. The Matjale LP drops digitally, on CD and on vinyl on the 14th of September. Here’s a WTM jazz mix featuring Malombo, Jabula and a…
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Kawuku Sound unites the UK’s Cervo and Contours with Uganda’s underground music scene
The Banana Hill collective will release a scintillating body of music in October after a tour of Uganda – it follows UK producers, Cervo and Contours, securing Arts Council funding last year to undertake a recording project in the capital Kampala. Banana Hill began as a party in Sheffield, before becoming a label and expanding to…
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Aura’s African boogie funk: the ‘Spiritual Connection’ grail LP is finally reissued by Afrodesia
Ignore this reissue at your peril – as Aura are on fire on their album Spiritual Connection, originally recorded for Afrodesia in Nigeria. The relatively short lived ‘Aura’ project was spiritually guided by Zee-Tei Debekeme in 1976. The band consisted of the keys of Issac Moore, Omega Garbal on guitar, Casco Mayor on percussion, Afrodisia…
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Left Ear’s selection of Antipodean Anomalies brings us special music from an “isolating” place
The wait is finally over and Left Ear’s compilation of music from Australia and New Zealand – made in a “unique” time and space in the 1970s and 1980s – is finally here…and these Antipodean Anomalies sound like nothing else. Compiled by Left Ear Record’s own Chris Bonato and Umut Turkeri, tracks such as Rainbow Generator’s City…
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