WORLD TREASURES MUSIC

Digging records and outernational sounds

J.P. Bimeni releases first single with his trusty Black Belts band from his forthcoming second soul album of same name: 'Give Me Hope' on Lovemonk Records
'Suzie Super Groupie' from 1976 is one of Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison's masterpieces, an inspiration for DJs and hip hop producers - the much sampled father of funk is reissued by Be With Records
Joseph Malik's soulful and unflinching conclusion to his 'Diverse' trilogy of albums is one of the most important musical documents of recent times - check it out on Ramrock Records
'Tokyo Dreaming' is an essential selection of Japanese music from the Nippon Columbia/Better Days archive by the long-established taste-maker Nick Luscombe for Wewantsounds
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They dig real deep at We Are Busy Bodies - three highlights: Graham's General Store, Eboni Band and the Malombo music of Philip Tabane
Mexican brother-sister duo Sotomayor drop new album 'Orígenes' - a groovy house fusion of cumbia and Peruvian chicha
The 'Gypsy King of Flamenco' can be honoured again through Universal's reissues of Camarón de la Isla
Meet Bananagun with their psychedelic sound - influences of West Africa meet the Brazilian Tropicalia movement - the Aussies' highlife, surf-rocking Os Mutantes
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek shine on new single 'Haydar Haydar', ahead of modern classic album 'Dost 1' from the outernational combo - lead singer Derya sounds like a Turkish siren of psychedelia