Honest Jon's
278 Portobello Road
London
W10 5TE
England

Monday-Saturday 10 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

Honest Jon's
Unit 115
Lower Stable Street
Coal Drops Yard
London
N1C 4DR

Monday-Saturday 11 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

+44(0)208 969 9822 mail@honestjons.live

Established 1974.

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Hans-Joachim Roedelius

Durch Die Wuste

Bureau B

Hans-Joachim Roedelius

Wenn Der Sudwind Weht

Bureau B

Ivor Cutler

A Wet Handle

Hoorgi House

Keith Poppin

Someday Girl

Chanan-Jah

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Jesse Davis

Hang On In There Girl

Kent

Lilly Fields

Changes

Kent

The Stovall Sisters

Hang On In There

Reprise

Classic gospel soul from 1971, with the scorcher Hang On In There.
The Sisters were former Ikettes, who sang back-up for Norman Greenbaum on Spirit In The Sky, versioned here.

Shangaan Electro

New Wave Dance Music From South Africa

Honest Jon's Records

An astounding compilation of the breakneck Shangaan dance output of the Nozinja studio in Soweto, recorded between 2006 and 2009.

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The Chantells

Blood River

Phase One

Lloyd Forest, Tommy Thomas and Samuel Bramwell at Joe Gibbs.

The Chantells

Natty Supper

Phase One

The Chantells

Man In Love

Sagittarius

  • 1-OFF 12" SOLD

The Chantells

Children Of Jah

Phase One

  • 1-OFF 7" SOLD

Afro-Beat Airways

2: Return Flight To Ghana, 1974-1983

Analog Africa

Ghanaian highlife bombs: giants like K. Frimpong, African Brother Nana Ampedu, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley (with The Complex Sounds); unfamiliar names like Los Issufu and his Moslems, Waza Afrika, Funky Afrosibi.

Nathan Skyers

Dem A Fight I

Mandingo

Nathan Skyers

Hotter Fire

Jah All Mighty / Digikiller

Love

Forever Changes

Elektra

The Shangri-Las

Remember

Red Bird

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The Shangri-Las

Shout

Red Bird

Bob Dylan

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Columbia

Bob Dylan

Rough And Rowdy Ways

Columbia

Mighty Threes

Africa Shall Stretch Forth Her Hand

Jah Fingers

Jackie DeShannon

Come And Get Me

Ace

‘The Complete Liberty And Imperial Singles, Volume 2.’

Jackie DeShannon

You Won't Forget Me

Ace

Joana Amendoeira

Setimo Fado

Le Chant Du Monde

Company

Epiphanies I-VI

Honest Jon's Records

Derek Bailey’s guests for Company Week at London’s ICA in July 1982 were contemporary classical pianist Ursula Oppens, folk/jazz singer-turned-improviser Julie Tippetts and her partner pianist Keith Tippett, violinist/electronics wizard Philipp Wachsmann, guitarist Fred Frith, trombonist George Lewis, harpist Anne LeBaron, and from Japan free jazz bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa and sound artist Akio Suzuki.

Altogether they performed the stunning extended improvisation Epiphany.
In different, more intimate lineups they detonated numerous Epiphanies.

Here, to start, Yoshizawa and Oppens (both on the keyboard and inside her piano) bounce ideas off each other like ping-pong balls.
Then Tippetts, Wachsmann and Bailey do extraterrestrial cubist flamenco; and Lewis and Frith rumble at everyone magnificently.
Tippett and Oppens kaleidoscope the entire history of the piano into just over fifteen minutes (Fourth and Fifth) with added seasoning from LeBaron and Wachsmann.
To close, Akio Suzuki — despite once describing himself as “pursuing listening as a practice” — makes one hell of a racket with his self-made instruments: a flute, a spring gong and his analapos (two single-lidded cylinders attached by a long steel coil, which he can manipulate and strike, besides vocalising into the tube). Yoshizawa and Bailey give him a real run for his money, and it all builds to an ecstatic, swirling, grinding climax, with Suzuki whooping and hollering wildly.

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