‘Candomblé-inspired psychedelic party music, taking the Afro-Brazilian sound into some wild territory. It’s a heady mix of tropicalismo, chimed guitar, conversational chatter, studio fuckery, and heavy percussion with a female chorus. The songs blend together so that each side of the record runs as a continual piece.’

Lip-smacking distillation of their four legendary LPs, from 1977-82.
Real-deal Afro Manding: a Senegalese crossing of traditional and regional rhythms like boogaraboo and sawrouba with soul, funk and rock.

Heady, grooving, moog-driven, next-level mbalax from Gambia. Recordings of the legendary twelve-piece live in a Senegalese nightclub in 1982, out here for the first time.

A masterpiece from the same few months in 1963 as The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady, adding a couple more players to its killer lineup of Booker Ervin, Jaki Byard, Charlie Mariano and co. A kind of testimonial match by the eleven-piece, doing over some of Mingus’ best tunes so far: he didn’t take a group back into the studio till 1970.
‘Essential Vinyl Series.’

Miraculously restored from the few remaining original copies, Khmer music from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Chapey, Romvong, Lakon Basak, Pleng Khmer, Ayai, and Ayai Reung, as well as classical, court-derived traditions such as Pinpeat and Mahori, and popular styles including Lamleav and Pleng Ka. With a sixteen-page booklet of detailed notes and vintage photographs.

Raw, unfiltered ceremonial gong ensemble music recorded in northeastern Cambodia, bordering Laos and Vietnam. Music to accompany animist rituals, and drinking the fermented rice alcohol called Tavei. Nipple and flat gongs, bamboo tubes, male and female vocals, drums. Very limited.