The opener Sweet Juju was a hard-sought West London two-step weapon, back in the day; Nomalizo is tropical funk, somewhere between Maze’s Twilight and Ramsey Lewis’ Brazilica, beloved by the neo-Dingwalls massive.

‘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.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

A masterwork of Senegalese montuno, better known as Mouhamadou Bamba, from 1981, the same year as Si Bou Odja.

Their classic blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms, Wolof griot traditions, mbalax, Congolese rumba and jazz; led by saxophonist Issa Sissokho and guitarist Barthélémy Attiso. Future icon of Senegalese salsa, the young singer Médoune Diallo tears up the irresistible, driving Autorail, about the new railway line linking Dakar and Niamey.