WORLD TREASURES MUSIC

Digging records and outernational sounds

Album of the month: Crimi combine raw grooves and hard funk on 'Luci E Guai' - Algerian raï meets Afrobeat and Sicilian folk on this supremely crafted debut for the Airfono label
Gabrielle Roth's ecstatic dance was at the fore of the Human Potential and New Age movements - now reframed by the Time Capsule label on 'Endless Wave Volume One' - it's a movement meditative masterpiece
Orchestre Les Mangelepa's 'Nyako Konya' reissued by Secousse - essential revival of peerless Congolese rumba cut in Nairobi in '78
Turkey's Islandman are international psychedelic specialists, with latest album 'Kaybola' chugging across the globe for Music For Dreams
Omar Khorshid kicks off 2021 for Wewantsounds - this reissue of collector's classic 'We Want Love' is an instrumental masterpiece, by one of the greatest guitarists ever
New treasure from International Anthem - Carlos Niño and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson summon peerless composition from forthcoming album 'Chicago Waves'
Jo Bisso is celebrated by Africa Seven on their 'African Disco Experimentals (1974 to 1978)' comp' - the Cameroonian was immersed in NYC disco and made epic tracks of lavish dancefloor funk
LABEL FEATURE and INTERVIEW: Hive Mind Records and creative director Marc Teare (listen: World Treasures' tribute mix - link in post)
'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
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