WORLD TREASURES MUSIC

Digging records and outernational sounds

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Brazil
'The Golden Voice Of Africa' Salif Keita returns for farewell album of innovation and tradition
Ryuichi Sakamoto's classic album 'Hidari Ude No Yume' ('Left Handed Dream') gets luxury treatment by Wewantsounds - featuring new takes and instrumental mixes on remastered double vinyl Japanese edition
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
Amazing compilation celebrates Angolan guitarist Mário Rui Silva - Time Capsule revive this master of psychedelic folk and scholar of a country uprooted by colonialism
Much hyped Istanbul band Lalalar - who fuse funky electronics, psych-rock and samples from heavyweight Turkish records - drop double sided 7" for Bongo Joe next month
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
Don Melody Club takes a break from The Mauskovic Dance Band for a solo cosmic, no-wave album for the ever fresh Bongo Joe - the Amsterdam-based artist nods to a range of Dutch legends
'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
Zamrock top ten compiled by Egon at Now-Again Records