Akuphone Folk 18 Items

Gongs Of The Bahnar: A Buffalo Sacrifice Ceremony

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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"Mulid El-Magnoun” addresses the term ‘moulid’ and its various manifestations it takes on in Egyptian folk music. Here, the word ‘moulid’ does not exclusively refer to Sufi moulids: rather also the intertwined artistic spaces that lie between the moulid in its Sufi sense and what it carries in distinctive rhythmic patterns, musical instruments, and artistic forms, and the moulid as a musical genre originating from folk weddings that enjoy special aesthetics and unique styles.

Through this project, Yunis tries to explore the spaces where those two concepts collide through producing an original musical composition which reflects his own vision and understanding of ‘moulids’ as well as the manifestations the word carries within him.

About Yunis:

Yunis (b. 1994 - Kafr El-Dauwar) is an Egyptian musician and music Producer. He has produced two albums until now; «The Blue Djinn Dance» which was his first solo album, and «Ya Khal» which was a collaborative work with Ibrahim X. He is also a co-founder of Kafr El-Dauwar Records, an independent digital record label interested in contemporary and experimental music, founded by a group of young artists with the aim of creating a musical movement in the city, by supporting a group of artists to start their music from Kafr El-Dauwar with the potential of going with the music to the farthest point it could arrive.

In his music, Yunis seeks inspiration from the popular Egyptian folkloric heritage, which boasts many instruments, tools, and musical styles. He then reads and analyzes the musical legacy and presents it with the forms of his contemporary time.

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Vincenzo Della Ratta

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

25,99 €*

Seito: In The Beginning, Woman Was The Sun

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Buffalo sacrifice is a significant ritual among the Bahnar people, an ethnic group residing in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It symbolizes a connection to ancestral spirits and the natural world. Prior to the sacrifice, the community gathers to prepare offerings and adorn the buffalo with symbolic decorations. The ceremony typically involves prayers, chants, and dances led by village elders. The sacrifice is performed with reverence and gratitude, honoring the buffalo's sacrifice for the well-being of the community. It's believed to ensure fertility, protection, and prosperity for the village. The ritual underscores the Bahnar people's deep-rooted spiritual beliefs and their harmonious relationship with nature. After the sacrifice, the buffalo's meat is shared among the villagers in a communal feast, fostering unity and solidarity within the community. This tradition serves as a cultural cornerstone, preserving the Bahnar's heritage and spiritual practices for generations. Recorded in the village of Plei Hven (Vietnam) in 2019 by Vincenzo Della Ratta, this unique album offers a deep immersion in this ancestral ceremony.

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V.A.

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

31,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

V.A.

Music Of Southern Laos

Malam Minggu: A Saturday Night In Sunda

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded in the provinces of Champasak, Attapeu, Sekong and Saravan by Laurent Jeanneau (Kink Gong). Limited to 1000 copies.

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V.A.

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Tamayuge

Baba Yaga

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Sothy

Chansons Laotiennes

16,99 €*

Archeophony Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rare cosmic Lao synth pop recorded in Paris 1980. This 12" includes the original remaster and edited versions by Parisian producer Shelter. Everything comes with a reason: the record was edited in 1981 under the title Sothy Productions yet produced in France by the Parisian label Oxygène (famously known for its unforgettable first French punk compilation '125 grammes de 33 1/3 tours'). 'Chansons Laotiennes' still remains hard to classify. And then who's Sothy? Along with the unverifiable identity of the seemingly Laotian singers, skepticism gains ground concerning the man behind the pseudonym. Is he an escaped musician from one of the first Cambodian rock bands of the 1960s? A surviving producer from the 1980s Paris? Or a composer in transit in one of the many places of the Laotian diaspora? Sothy eludes any researches and disappears behind his numerous homonyms.

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Raed Yassin

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

79,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Praed

Kaf Afrit

19,99 €*

LP | 2019 | FR | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover as new with slightly dented corners.
Record is close to VG+.

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Praed

Doomsday Survival Kit

17,49 €* 24,99 € -30%

Release: 2019 / FR – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

My Jazzy Child

Inneisme

19,54 €* 22,99 € -15%

12" | 2018 | EU (Akuphone)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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« Innéisme » : The title alone sums up perfectly the 8th album of French artist My Jazzy Child. Inspired by Noam Chosmky's "universal grammar", it refers to man's innate ability to develop language. It is that English, Occitan, French patois, Hindi, Pygmy or French cohabit on this record, juxtaposing on rhythms and beats that appear as a fantasized primordial tradition.

If My Jazzy Child aka Damien Mingus, questions languages about Innéisme, he also questions musical languages, mixing Asian rites and free jazz, electronic wanderings and traditional percussions. A virtuoso and experimental collage that nevertheless knows how to remain melodic and, in the end, strangely pop.

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Mushapata

Saba-Saba Fighting

13,99 €*

7" | 2016 | EU (Akuphone)

Release: 2018 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Fantastic mixture of Brakka, Reggae & Afrobeat Recorded between 1980 and 1984 from the underground Afropean boxerMushapata

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Mol Kamach & Bck

Je Te Quitterai

12,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2016 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1st guitar band in Cambodia

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Mikado Koko

Maza Gusu

22,99 €*

LP | 2017 | EU (Akuphone)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On Maza Gusu, Mikado Koko transforms into Mother Goose, hissing Perrault's fairy tales from her native tongue in your ears. Her unsettling, regressive voice is backed up by a subtle and chilling electronic soundscape sprinkled with traditional Japanese instruments, creating a realm of sound that feels both weirdly familiar and deeply unknown. Mother Koko hurls you deep down the rabbit hole, back to your darkest childhood anguishes, before gently leading you by the hand to a joyful catharsis. As you slowly get used to its disturbing familiarity, Koko’s music feels like waking up in the pale morning light, shaky but relieved after a feverish dream.

In summer 2017 Mikado Koko started her solo career as a club music producer with the elements of Japanese traditional music. After many releases, remixes and compilations such as Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (aku1016), she now focuses on avant-garde poetry reading related to feminism and gender equality.

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Kink Gong

Tibetan Buddhism Trip

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2017 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Puzzling collage of Tibetan Buddhist rites

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Fuji-Yuki

One Butoh

27,99 €*

Evan Crankshaw & The Dead Mauriacs

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Classical Music

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Akuphone is proud to present Fuji-Yuki’s last masterpiece, One Butoh. A musical immersion into the most exciting avant-garde dance style of the past century. Created in Japan in the 1960s by Tatsumi Hijikata, butō is the "dance of the obscure body". It broke with the traditions of classical Noh and Kabuki Theater, which, at the time, seemed outdated in the national context. Nourished by a European artistic avant-garde, butō stands out as a mirror of the socio-political turmoil of a post-World War II Japan. One Butoh resonates as a perfect acoustic introduction to this subversive art and propels the listener deep into his own soul.

Fuji-Yuki is a Japanese vocalist who uses her voice like an instrument. With special vocal techniques, glossolalia and electronic pedals, she creates a wide variety of sounds. Inspired by the spirits of Buddhism and Shintoism, she creatively transforms her vocals into an ambient drone or prayers resonating in a church-like space. Her live performances are always different, depending on the place and space they take place in. She is also known as the vocalist of the experimental band Sarry.

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Expedition

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

13,99 €* 19,99 € -30%

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Expedition is a collaboration between sound artist The Dead Mauriacs (aka Olivier Prieur) and collage artist Evan Crankshaw, based on their mutual interest in treating exotica as both a subject and a material. Evan Crankshaw's 2015 collage book, also entitled Expedition, is assembled and collaged by hand from a vast archive of popular exoticist printed materials, and explores recurring motifs in expedition narratives, simultaneously evoking and alienating the exoticist fantasy.

In 2018, the book was interpreted for a live performance at Festival BBMix (Boulognes-Billancourt, France) in collaboration with The Dead Mauriacs, who created a complete exotica-concrète score accompanying projected images of the book & live narration. That collaboration can be heard on this album, an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of an imagined actual elsewhere, stitched from pieces of narcotizing fabulisms, disturbing actualities, and incomprehensibilities – an interior excursion into the exotic immensity.

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Badiaa Bouhriz

Kahrumusiqa

25,99 €*