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  • Its' musicians were anti-colonial freedom fighters, it envelops Zambian folk music traditions, and it rocks - hard.
    Label
    Now Again
    Released
    18 Feb 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Pockets of young Africans, turned on by Hendrix, the Doors, Santana and more, started to add heavy guitar riffs to rumbling, ever present funk...
    Label
    Africa Seven
    Released
    12 Aug 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • On Sale!
    Invokes the desert city of Agadez, Etran De L'Air play hypnotic guitar fireworks
    Label
    Sahel Sounds
    Released
    18 Feb 2022
    Staff Pick

  • Ali Farka Touré trekked the world, bringing his beloved Malian music to themasses. Dubbed ‘the African John Lee Hooker’, one could hear strongconnecti [...]

    Label
    Dead Oceans
    Released
    23 Sep 2022
    Staff Pick
  • Tinariwen’s breakthrough album originally released in 2004, now remastered and repackaged with a bonus unreleased track.
    Label
    Wedge
    Released
    25 Mar 2022
  • THE NEW ERA BEGINS “This is the era of authenticity; the mother above it all” — Sampa the Great
    Label
    Loma Vista
    Released
    20 Jan 2023
    Russell's Pick
  • On Sale!
    We brought back to life African movie soundtrack "Ceddo" - composed by one of our favourite African artists, Manu Dibango. 6 tracks full of Funk.
    Label
    Africa Seven
    Released
    25 Jul 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Firm staff favourite here. Sublime piano playing from a place of faith and compassion, Mariam Guebru plays liturgical music of the coptic church.
    Label
    Mississippi
    Released
    7 Jul 2023
    Staff Pick
  • Seminal compilation of instrumental tracks, originally released in Ethiopia in 1972. Features tracks from Tèsfa-Maryam Kidané, Bahta Gèbrè-Heywèt and
    Label
    Heavenly Sweetness
    Released
    10 Jan 2022
    Michael's Pick
  • GABO is a cocktail of musicians of all different backgrounds, bringing together the distinct flavours of the world through the joy of orchestral music
    Released
    4 Feb 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Urgh, hypnotic, groovy love songs circa 1981. Sebsibe's voice is a lilting, cool breeze over these melting, beautiful tracks.
    Label
    Little Axe
    Released
    28 Apr 2023
    Staff Pick
  • World Circuit Records has made its reputation by producing some of the finest albums of the past three decades.
    Label
    World Circuit
    Released
    10 Mar 2023
    Staff Pick
  • Second album from the undoubtedly groundbreaking South African jazz trio.
    Label
    Strut
    Released
    26 May 2023
  • All-time Arabic music classic recorded in 1971 by Egyptian music titan Abdel Halim Hafez, composed by Baligh Hamdi and featuring Omar Khorshid...
    Label
    We Want Sounds
    Released
    2 Dec 2022
    Russell's Pick

  • Seven years in the making, the official retrospective of one of Somalia’s most famous and beloved private bands, Iftin. Digitized from cassettes [...]

    Label
    Ostinato
    Released
    16 Dec 2022
    Staff Pick
  • After four successful volumes packed with heaters from all over the globe, and as a reaction to a far less club-centric environment at the time...
    Label
    Mr Bongo
    Released
    3 Jun 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • FIRST-EVER VINYL RELEASE OF CULT 1980 CASSETTE-ONLY ALBUM BY EGYPTIAN SINGER NAGAT EL SAGHIRA...
    Label
    We Want Sounds
    Released
    6 Oct 2023
    Russell's Pick
  • Early Mdou recordings were contained on cassettes, though the humble tape was soon replaced by the quick and easy facility of cellphone technology.
    Label
    Matador
    Released
    10 Mar 2023
    Staff Pick
  • Early Mdou recordings were contained on cassettes, though the humble tape was soon replaced by the quick and easy facility of cellphone technology.
    Label
    Matador
    Released
    10 Mar 2023
    Staff Pick
  • GORGEOUS, DEEP AND EXISTENTIAL 70s NIGERIAN HIGHLIFE
    Label
    Mississippi Records
    Released
    16 Aug 2022
    Dep's Pick
  • Completely unknown album by Salah Ragab's Cairo Jazz Band vocalist Maha, recorded in Cairo in 1979.
    Label
    Habibi Funk
    Released
    21 Oct 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Wewantsounds is delighted to release 'Sharayet el Disco' a selection of Egyptian '80s disco and boogie tracks...
    Label
    We Want Sounds
    Released
    3 Jun 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • The first ever compilation of Jako Maron's plugged-in updates of the traditional, politicized form of folk music from Réunion...
    Label
    Nyegi Nyegi
    Released
    10 Feb 2023
    Staff Pick

  • John Ondolo spent his life traveling between Tanzania, where he was born, and Kenya, where he recorded a string of singles for independent labels in t [...]

    Label
    Mississippi Records
    Released
    3 Oct 2022
    Dep's Pick
  • Truly beautiful songs from the 1960s ranging from sweet acoustic solo numbers to blazing full band electric music
    Label
    Mississippi
    Released
    9 Mar 2022
    Dep's Pick
  • Sublime, guitar-led music from 60s and 70s South Africa.
    Label
    Analog Africa
    Released
    12 Aug 2022
    Stephen's Pick

  • WITCH were the first band in Zambia to release a commercial album – 1973’s ‘Introduction’. Blending the rock and roll sounds of the late 60s and [...]

    Label
    Desert Daze Sound
    Released
    27 Jan 2023
    Russell's Pick
  • After her surprise debut "Mam Pe'ela Su'ure", Ghana's Frafra gospel queen Florence Adooni is back with her second single on Philophon.
    Label
    Philophon
    Released
    21 Oct 2022
    Russell's Pick