Folk 595 Items

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2014 | US | Original (Pharaway Sounds)

Edip Akbayram

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Edip Akbayram’s a frail guy who spent his childhood unable to walk, but once he grew up he was on Istanbul TV in a whitey-fro and knee length colored robes. Akbayram’s voice is big & open, and it took him all across Turkey at the height of Anatolian psychedelia. This 1st album collects precious singles from 1972-74, with dark melodies that descend in loose spirals, seemingly forever. Tunes taken from mystic Sufi poets who played the ba?lama, but retrofitted with hard plowing electric bass lines, funky drums, fuzz-wah guitars and keyboards. Remastered sound, insert / booklet with photos and liner notes by Angela Sawyer (Weirdo Records).

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Hillbillies In Hell: The Bards Of Prey Red Vinyl Edition

LP | US (Iron Mountain Analogue Research)

Release: US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Boots Swirl Colored Vinyl Edition

Nancy Sinatra

LP | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

Release: US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Country Funk Volume 3 1975-1982 Orange & Blue Vinyl Edition

2LP | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

Release: US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Start Walkin' 1965-1976 Tape Edition

Nancy Sinatra

Tape | 2020 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

10,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Start Walkin' 1965-1976 Yellow Vinyl Edition

Nancy Sinatra

2LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

32,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | CZ | Original (Dear Life)

Hour

Ease The Work

3LP | 2018 | EU | Original (One Little Independent)

Release: 2024 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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To record "Ease the Work", Hour traveled via ferry with an entire studio’s worth of equipment to an old off-Broadway theater on Peaks Island in Maine, months before the first tourists would show up. The week-long session started with an island-wide power outage that halted recording on the first day, and ended with twelve songs that walk steadily between longing and contentment, sentimentality and subtlety, the lift of harmony and the compulsion of a melody you wish would play forever.

Hour’s music cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel’s, Ease the Work shows us life on the boundary of composition and improvisation. It reaches for the sweeping gestures and inspired pacing of classic film scores, Frank Sinatra ballads, and Scott Walker’s pop orchestra. It also retains the arresting intimacy of the band’s early work. Strings swell and harmonize in counterpoint with electric guitar, clarinet, and piano, while drums, synth pads, and field recordings complete the aural world.

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Ruby Throat

Stone Dress

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In My Own Time Silver Vinyl Edition

Karen Dalton

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Les Disques Magnétiques)

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1971 acid folk masterpiece reissued on 180 g vinyl and remastered from the original tapes ... and limited to 1000 copies!

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Pekodjinn

Dharba

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Mountain Roads & City Streets Clear Vinyl Edition

Allan Wachs

LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Wewantsounds)

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cosmic American Music from the far flung reaches of rural Oregon. Issued in 1979 on Allan Wachs' own True Vine imprint, Mountain Roads and City Streets gathers a decade of songs written while hitchhiking up and down the west coast. Screeching pedal steel, lilting flute, and tingly dulcimer are peppered throughout Wachs' tales of brief affairs, invisible dogs, and getting lost in a changing America.

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Abdel Halim Hafez

Mawood

Bbc Paris Theatre London 1972

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born in Lower Egypt in 1929, Abdel Halim Hafez became, during a relatively short career that ended with his death in 1977 aged 48, one of the giants of Egyptian Music and his legend has never stopped growing since. Alongside Oum Kalthoum, Warda, Farid el Atrache and Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Hafez revolutionised Egyptian music and became a hugely popular star across the whole Arab world. Blessed with stricking good looks, Abdel Halim Hafez started his career in the early 50s and quickly attracted the attention of one of the Egyptian radio's A&Rs who took him under his wing and invited him to perform on the radio. His career went from strength to strength and from 1953, he was associated with the Egyptian revolution led by Nasser. His music mixing tradition and modernity made him one of the most loved singers of the 1950s as he developed a romantic edge that became his signature style (he was dubbed "the dark-skinned nightingale"). In the mid 50s, hot on the heels of his success in music, he launched his acting career in the thriving Egyptian film industry and also became a hugely popular actor. Hafez worked with the greatest composers of their time including Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Baligh Hamdy who composed ‘Mawood’ ("Promised.") Recorded live in 1971 (as it was the norm at the time. Singer would rarely record studio albums), 'Mawood' is one of the singer's most recognisable standards. The song stretches over the two sides of the album and consists of several sections alternating instrumental parts and sung ones. The song, written by Egyptian poet Mohamed Hamza, sees Hafez talking to his heart, apologizing for driving it from failure to failure and concluding that, to find solace, one must keep love at bay. He's backed by his full orchestra featuring traditional instrumentation and those powerful strings that influenced the likes of Jean-Claude Vannier, together with modern instrumentation including organ and electric guitar by Omar Khorshid adding his unmissable twang to the ensemble. 'Mawood' mixes tradition and modernity and develops into a hypnotic epic full of groove with a superb soulful performance by one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. An undisputed Arabic Music classic which Wewantsounds it delighted to reissue on vinyl for the first time since the 1970s.

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Judee Sill

LP | 2022 | EU (Chush)

19,99 €*

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (!K7)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A singer-songwriter who wrote for the Turtles, Sill - in her early 1970s heyday - was compared to Asylum label contemporaries like Joni Mitchell, though her music had stronger spiritual overtones. This nearly forgotten performance reveals a true talent that deserved so much more during her short lifetime. Judee Sill grew up in a very troubled home and came through it with some truly great music to tell so many stories that many of the more sentient listeners will appreciate.

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Wema

30,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (No Quarter)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Wema, collaboration is a state of mind. The five-piece collective - consisting of Tanzanian multi-instrumentalist Msafiri Zawose, producer Photay and Penya members Magnus P.I, Lilli Elina and Jimmy le Messurier - is an artistic pursuit founded on community; a space in which to harness the transformative power of connection. Translated from Swahili, 'wema' means kindness and benevolence - virtues that lie at the core of the project, and are reflected in the group's world-embracing approach to music. "Wema is a state of gratitude and belief, without sorrow or grief. It's about giving your entire heart," Msafiri declares. Wema's beginnings, however, have a more cosmic origin. As the world ground to a halt in March 2020, Photay and Magnus were both feeling the strain of creative burnout. Both artists had been keen to collaborate for a while, but the stars never quite aligned - until an off-hand conversation about the pressures of losing yourself to a project sparked an unlikely moment of inspiration. The pair began exchanging their backlog of beats, home-spun demos and unfinished ideas. Before they knew it, their songs began to take real shape - and it was some of the most invigorating music they'd ever written.

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Jana Horn

Optimism

LP | 1974 | Reissue (Wewantsounds)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Optimism is the debut album from Jana Horn of Austin, Texas. Originally self-released in a small vinyl edition, now widely available. Horn says the LP, "seemed to come about indirectly, almost in passing, a feeling of being in-between things. I was really mobile at that time, living wherever... I had just discovered, late, Raymond Carver Broadcast, Sybil Baier, Annette Peacock, Richard & Linda Thompson, a short story called "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" by Denis Johnson. I had "Heart Needs a Home" in mind, "The Great Valerio;" I was just really moving through the world, hanging in the shadows of the people I wanted to be. Hoping, looking out, this is Optimism. I was looking for anything."

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Omar Khorshid

Giant + Guitar

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Constellation)

Release: 1974 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cult Classic LP BY Legendary Egyptian Guitarist Omar Khorshid, First Released ON THE Label 'voice OF Lebanon' IN 1974 AND Reissued Here ON Vinyl FOR THE First Time With Original Artwork AND Remastered Audio Plus NEW Liner Notes BY DJ Ernesto Chahoud.

Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the reissue of Omar Khorshid's highly sought after instrumental album 'Giant + Guitar' originally released in 1974 in Lebanon and recorded at Polysound Studio by famed Lebanese engineer Nabil Moumtaz. The album features Khorshid's unique electric guitar sound mixed with arabic melodies over superb psych arrangements. The album has been newly remastered and comes with the original 'Voice of Lebanon' artwork and a 2 page insert featuring liner notes by DJ Ernesto Chahoud. Wewantsounds' series of Arabic music reissues are curated by Mario Choueiry from Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Omar Khorshid's life, if short (he died age 36 in a road accident), was extraordinary. Blessed with a great talent for music, the Egyptian musician and actor became one of the best guitarists of the Arab World accompanying the greatest stars of the 60s and 70s, including Oum Kalthoum, Abdel Halim Hafez and Farid El Atrache. To avoid the political troubles of the time in Egypt, and to fulfil his artistic ambitions, Khorshid moved to Beirut in Lebanon in 1973 and started recording a string of superb albums experimenting with Oriental music. ?He recorded for several labels including Voice of Lebanon, one of the key Lebanese labels of the time. He released his first album 'Giant + Guitar' for the label in 1974 and it was an instantly popular in the Arab world. The album, which has a great ample sound, was recorded at the Polysound studios overseen by engineer Nabil Moumtaz. The front cover sees Khorshid on his motorcycle in the busy street of Hamra, one of the most vibrant Beirut neighbourhoods where he was playing most nights in residence. (The album was also released internationally as 'Rhythms from the Orient' with a different artwork focusing on belly dance) The sound of the album is both bold and accessible displaying Khorshid's unique guitar sound, accompanied by a small band mixing traditional and modern fuzzed up arrangements. The mesmerizing opening track, 'Rakset El Fadaa', composed by Lebanese musician Nour Al Mallah, is a perfect example of Khorshid's artistry. Starting with a long, hypnotic guitar intro, it then speeds up with the backing of a groovy organ, Oriental percussion and the psych sound of an early synthesizer to great effect. The album continues on the same mode blending traditional Oriental music with inventive arrangements as showcased by the Mohamed Abdel Wahab standard 'Leilet Hob' popularised by Oum Kalthoum, which sees Khorshid and his musicians shifting pace several times over eight minutes. One of the peaks of the album in terms of sonic experiments is undoubtedly Korshid's own composition, 'Taqassim Sanat Alfein', with Khorshid's superb guitar in full bloom accompanied by a few touches of synth. A truly innovative album which pushed the boundaries of Oriental music at the time, 'Giant + Guitar' has gained in stature over the years and has become highly sought after by many DJs and collectors. A hugely important album which Wewantsounds is happy to reintroduce to the international audience for the first time since the 70s

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Jerusalem In My Heart

Qalaq

LP | 1973 | EU (Trading Places)

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Jerusalem In My Heart (Jimh) Is A Live Audio-Visual Performance Project, With Lebanese-Canadian Producer/Musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh And Montréal Based Filmmaker Erin Weisgerber At Its Core. Jimh Is An Immersive Sonic And Visual Live Experience And An Evolving Effort To Forge A Modern Experimental Arabic Music Wed To Hand-Made Visuals Using Analog 16mm Film At Site-Specific Screen Installations. One Of The Most Renowned And Uncompromising Entities Working In 21st Century Avant-Garde Arab-Levantine Art And Music, Jerusalem In My Heart Presents A New Album Of Vital And Haunting Electronics And Electroacoustics, Framed By Founder And Producer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh's Spoken And Sung Arabic, Buzuk-Playing And Sound Design. Qalaq Is The Most Distilled, Variegated And Finely Wrought Jerusalem In My Heart Album To Date - Featuring A Different Guest/Collaborator On Every Track, Yet As Cohesive, Emotionally Resonant, Sonically Adventurous And Narratively Powerful As Any Release In Jimh's Celebrated Discography. Guests Across The Album's 13 Tracks Include Moor Mother, Tim Hecker, Lucrecia Dalt, Greg Fox, Beirut, Alanis Obomsawin, Rabih Beaini And Many More. "Qalaq" Is An Arabic Word With Many Shades Of Meaning But Moumneh Particularly Intends It As "Deep Worry" - On Various Obvious Global Levels, But Also Specifically With Respect To Lebanon: Its Collapsing Domestic Politics, Economy And Infrastructure; The Tragedy And Aftermath Of The 2020 Beirut Port Explosion; The Intractable Geography And Geopolitics That Continue To Condemn The Country To Corruption, Disruption, Destabilization And Violence.

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Bridget St John

Thank You For...

16,99 €*

7" | 1974 | DE | Original (Asylum)

Release: 1973 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Canterbury-based progressive jazz-rock act Ben only released one obscure album, issued on Philips’ prog subsidiary Vertigo in 1971, but it’s a lovely collective of extended instrumental jams, worthy of discovery for those that missed it the first time around. Peter Davey’s saxophone and clarinet melodies push the material to high peaks, against an understated backing from future Nashville Teens bassist, Len Surtees and former Graham Bond drummer, David Sheen, keyboardist Alex Macleery and guitarist Gerry Reid adding flourishes at key moments. The songs “The Wooing Of The Child” and “The Wooing Of The Man” credit a certain K Jarrett as songwriter, making this rare beast all the more intriguing.

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Bob Dylan

On A Night Like This

5,99 €*

Release: 1974 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Tutl)

Eivor

Slor

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 1986 | AU | Original (Malanda Records)

Kim Durant

Have A Go

9,99 €*

7" | 1965 | DE | Original (CBS)

Release: 1986 / AU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

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Bob Dylan

Positively 4th Street

44,99 €*

With His Hot And Blue Guitar

Release: 1965 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Vinyl with many scuffs and hairlines

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Johnny Cash

LP | 1981 | UK | Reissue (Charly)

LP | 1987 | DE | Original (Edelton)

Release: 1981 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Cover close to VG+

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Enya

LP | 1983 | FR | Original (E.E.D. Productions)

Release: 1987 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop, Classical Music

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Cover with stickers, otherwise VG+

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Jean-Pierre Wandji

Veronica

12,99 €*

Release: 1983 / FR – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Lamination on cover is peeling off on the back, close to VG+

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As 12 Mais Sertanejas Vol. 2

LP | 1979 | BR | Original (Chantecler)

9,99 €*

Release: 1979 / BR – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Ruben Rodriguez And His Guadalajara Kings

Mariachi Rock

LP | DE | Original (Liberty)

5,99 €*

Release: DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Song Of Love (Lieder Zu Texten Aus Dem Hohen Lied Der Liebe)

Wilhelm Willms

LP | DE | Reissue (TVD)

9,99 €*

Release: DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

LP | 1979 | JP | Original (F-Label)

The ALFEE = The ALFEE

Time And Tide

6,99 €*

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing, comes with Obi and inserts.

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LP | 1975 | MX | Original (Cisne)

Folklore Musical Mexico

4,99 €*

7" | US | Original (Gold Spin Records)

Release: 1975 / MX – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: G+

Cover with completely open top and bottom spines

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Stan Davis

Common American Man

3,99 €*

Release: US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Discreet Music)

Eftergift

Vatten Över Vatten

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Vatten Över Vatten ('Water Over Water') is the debut album by the Gothenburg-based act Eftergift. Heavily influenced by the Nordic nature, this is beautiful organic tape music that utilizes a range of different instruments over the course of 8 songs. Sort of the musical equivalent to slowly walking on foggy Swedish fields in the summer dawn. While comparisons could be made with the early Korea Undok Group transmissions or someone like Mattias Gustafsson when it comes to working with the magnetic tape and letting it become an integral part of the soundscape, the rugged lo-fi brilliance and homebrewed ambient of Eftergift is firmly rooted in its own vision and weirdly musical in all it's fucked up 4-track glory.

Mastered by Lasse Marhaug and pressed in an edition of 300 copies.

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Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru Purple Vinyl Edition

LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Mississippi)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sony Music)

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Purple Vinyl.Celestial piano composition and performance by a classically-trained Ethiopian nun. Erik Satie, Debussy, liturgical music of the Coptic Church, the Ethiopian five-note scale, and a touch of the divine. It is some of the most moving piano music you will ever hear!

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The Highwaymen

Live At Nassau Coliseum

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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100% Sahara Guitar Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Etran De L'Air

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Sahel Sounds)

29,99 €*

Twice As Nice And Half The Price

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Transparent Blue Vinyl. Etran de L'Aïr the STARS OF THE AIR, the longest running wedding band inAGADEZ, capital of Tuareg guitar, return with a new album of sun-schlazeddesert sound! Their first album, No.1, brought their music to critics and fans.Their second album, Agadez, sent them into the international touring circuit.And now they're back with 100% SAHARA GUITAR, ready to take on theworld, with those swinging melodies, like a sandstorm blowing in fromacross the sea.Etran de L'Aïr are 100% SAHARA, and that goes same for the band, all sonsof AGADEZ, including brothers Moussa, Abdoulaye, and Abdourahamane,and their dear friend, the youngest of the group, Alghabid. All the brotherswrite and play guitar, swapping out instruments while Alghabid keeps theFOUR ON THE FLOOR.In 100% SAHARA GUITAR, Etran de L'Aïr are back to claim the throne, withtheir first studio album! And what a sound it is. Recorded in sunny studios onthe WEST COAST, the brothers take that old Agadez sound to new levels,adding even more guitars into the mix, weaving layers of reverb-ladenmelodies and shimmering harmonies into a tapestry of sound. How muchguitar can they fit into one record? The answer is 100%.

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Heron

2LP | 1971 | EU (Trading Places)

2LP | Original (Drag City)

Release: 1971 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Formed in suburban Maidenhead by singer Tony Pook, guitarist/pianist Roy Apps and guitarist Robert Collins, Heron solidified when Collins was replaced by uitarist/mandolin player GT Moore. After a debut album recorded at the Pook family farm, specially priced double LP Twice As Nice And Half The Price achieved a fuller sound with guitarist Mike Cooper, bassist Mike Finesilver, drummer Terry Gittins and guitarist Willie Boazman. The epic set sounds absolutely brilliant from start to finish, with strong vocal harmonies, intricate guitar interplay and excellent musical communication. Arguably Heron at their absolute best!

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Papa M

Whatever. Mortal

38,99 €*

Release: Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1990 | EU | Original (Wewantsounds)

Nagat

Eyoun El Alb

LP | 1971 | EU (Trading Places)

Release: 1990 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First-ever Vinyl Release OF Cult 1980 Cassette-only Album BY Egyptian Singer Nagat EL Saghira, Curated AND Annotated BY Disco Arabesquo. Includes Production BY Egyptian Funk Legend Hany Shenouda
Following the highly-acclaimed "Sharayet El Disco" compilation, Wewantsounds is delighted to team up with Disco Arabesquo for the reissue of Nagat El Seghira's cult 1980 album "Eyoun El Alb"
Originally released only on cassette on the Egyptian label Soutelphan, the album has since become a sought-after classic on the Arabic groove scene and this is the first time it is released on vinyl. Consisting of four tracks, the album features two tracks produced by Hany Shenouda whose group Al Massrieen is a reference on the Arabic disco funk scene.
Remastered for vinyl by Colorsound Studio in Paris, the album features the original cassette artwork plus a two page colour insert featuring liner notes by Disco Arabesquo.
When it comes to Arabic Divas, Oum Kalthoum, Fairuz and Warda usually take the lead in the poll list. But in her native Egypt, singer Nagat Al Saghira comes very close to this triumvirate. Born in Cairo in 1938, Nagat began singing when she was still a child gaining her stage name "El-Saghira" ("the young one") at this occasion as she started giving concerts at the age of seven, pushed by her father, the famed calligrapher Muhamad Hosny (Nagat's half-sister is the renowned actress Soad Hosny).
Nagat quickly rose to fame in the late forties and became an essential part of classic period of Arabic music, interpreting songs by such titans as Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Baligh Hamdy and Kamal Al Taweel. She also sang the works of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani whom she introduced to a mainstream audience. Nagat started singing shorter songs but then upgraded to longer ones, often performing/recording them live as it was the trend in the 60s and 70s.
One such song is "Eyoun El Alb" ("Eyes of the Heart") which makes up the whole of Side 1 of the original cassette. Written by Mohamed El Mougy and Abd al-Rahman al-Abdouni, Eyoun El Alb is a love song made up of several distinct sections enhancing Nagat's hypnotic singing, accompanied by a percussion-heavy, traditional Egyptian orchestra.
Side 2 is the "diggers" groovier side featuring two floaters,"Bahlam Ma'ak" ("I Dream with You") and "Ana Basha El Bahr" ("I Adore The Sea") produced by cult Egyptian musician and producer Hany Shenouda, whose albums with his group Al Massrieen are highly sought after on the Arabic funk and Disco scene. One Al Massrieen track features on the "Sharayet el Disco" set compiled by Disco Arabesquo who notes that "Hany Shenouda had made waves with his new musical style that weaved in western funk and disco sounds into Egyptian music"
Both tracks feature an infectious slow-burning groove and incorporate funk influences with fat bass and lines of synth and clavinet that adds a funky tone to Nagat's soft singing. The third track "Fakra" ("Do You Remember") brings the best of both world with a syncopated rhythm and arrangements that are slightly more traditional than the Shenouda-produced tracks.
Originally released in Egypt on Cassette in 1980 on the venerable Soutlephan label, the album is now making its vinyl debut on Wewantsounds annotated by Disco Arabesquo and remastered for vinyl by Colorsound Studio in Paris for the joy of Arabic funk and Global beats worldwide.

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Unicorn

Uphill All The Way

Tia Blake & Her Folk Group

Release: 1971 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Getting their start in the mid-1960s as a covers band, the Surrey-based group that began as The Late and who would be forced to take the name Unicorn mid-way through the recording of this excellent debut LP soon understood that originals made better sense, pointed in that direction by the success of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Given greater depth by Gerry Rafferty’s producer, Hugh Murphy, Uphill All The Way makes for superb listening, the musical craftsmanship yielding intricate textures beneath Ken Baker’s dreamy lyrics, the intelligent folk rock complete with country and western underpinnings. A must for UK folk rock fans!

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Folksongs & Ballads

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Ici Bientot)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Folksongs and Ballads by Tia Blake & Her Folk-Group, is more than just a “lost classic”. As clear and honest as can be, Folksongs and Ballads is a magnetic record, a refuge like only Nick Drake, Nico, and a few others have been able to create. A graceful, delicately minimalist approach to classic Appalachian and British folk songs.The perfect balance between melancholy and daydream. Originally released only in France in 1971, Ici Bientôt is very pleased to present the first ever reissue on vinyl. When she recorded her only album, Tia Blake was nineteen years old and had just arrived in Paris a year and a half beforehand. She spent most of her time at Disco’Thé, a record shop in the Latin Quarter, a free space, peaceful and inspiring, a hub for students as well as the local artistic community. There, Tia would occasionally sing—when she managed to overcome her shyness. Two young guitarists who were passionate fans of folk music and regulars at the shop began to accompany her, forming “Her Folk Group.” One year later, they cut 11 tracks at Pierre Barouh’s Studios Saravah. Folksongs and Ballads is composed of traditional tunes that have been covered many times, but they’re not the best known folk standards. A collection of stories ranging from the Middle Ages to the 1960s, bringing together sublimely doleful ballads, lamentations for a lost lover, and an unexpected, brilliant version of the road anthem “Plastic Jesus.” Tia Blake's haunting, unaffected voice captivates and comforts us, wrapping us in its cool embrace. Meanwhile, the tasteful, stripped-down, mellow acoustic arrangements provided by the guitarists, reminiscent of Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, occasionally supported by a kena flute, have created the space Tia Blake needed to reinvent these traditional songs. Folksongs and Ballads is a timeless record, deep and unique, a longtime companion for repeated listening, in the vein of works by Sibylle Baier, Bridget St. John and Vashti Bunyan.

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Majid Soula

Chant Amazigh

Still Stills: The Best Of Stephen Stills

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born in Kabylie, Algeria - a place that remains fundamental to his career - Majid Soula is a self-made musician, artist and producer. With no formal music education, Majid’s tenacity has led to a career that is still blossoming. His synths, driving drums, guitar & strong lyrics make a unique sound. A strong proponent for the rights of the Amazigh, he has a band that to this day plays shows, most linked to cultural events of the
Amazigh diaspora in France, as well as in Belgium, Russia the UK and Sweden. He was part of a new wave of widely popular and successful Kabyle artists in the 1980s, such as Ait Menguellet, Lounès Matoub, Takfarinas, Idir and many more.

Habibi Funk as a label is dedicated to re-releasing music from “The Arab World”, but this release shows how reductive this term can be, as the countries from North Africa and West Asia being summarized under this term include a vast number of languages and identities. Obviously, headlines sometimes come with limited space, and one can’t avoid using terms that paint a half-finished picture. That being the case, however, we are even more happy that Majid Soula liked our idea to work on a release of a selection of his music with us. The tracks here are incredible and need to be introduced to a new generation of listeners.

For Majid Soula music is more than just entertainment. He considers himself an activist through music, and foremost a “chanteur engagé”, as he says of himself: „I take my inspiration from the daily life of my people and I share all their aspirations, mainly the official recognition
of Tamazight as a language, culture and identity.”

He still works on new music in his small home studio in Belleville and occasionally plays concerts for the Amazigh community of the city.
We sincerely hope that for you reading this and listening to Majid’s album, his music will have the same revelatory feeling it had on us, and that this will be part of a momentum that will allow Majid to keep on working, playing, and sharing his message for many years to come.

As always both vinyl and CD come with an extensive booklet with an interview with Majid Soula plus unseen photos.

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Stephen Stills

LP | 1976 | US | Original (Atlantic)

7,99 €*

Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela

Release: 1976 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG

Cover has slight wear and writings on the back. Close to VG+!

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Rejoice Special Edition

2LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (World Circuit)

25,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Divine Reeds / Obscure Recordings From Special Music Recording Company (Athens 1966-1967)

Tassos Chalkias

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Radio Martiko)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Includes 12 page booklet. This ancient psychedelic folk with jazzy improvisations from the North West of Greece is unique and will touch your soul so deeply that epirotika aficionados always remember the place and the moment when they got to know this hypnotic and mes-merising music. In a similar way to the music of Alice Coltrane or Mulatu Astatke, it can take you out of the here and now - the pure beauty of the magical epirotika sound can make your mind drift off to otherworldly places.

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Ena Tefariki / Oriental Shake, Farfisa Madness & Rocking Bouzoukis From The Greek Laika Movement (1961-1973)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Radio Martiko)

LP | 1979 | EU | Original (CBS)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Includes 16 page booklet. Monster grooves, driven by a perfect symbiosis of fiery oriental rhythms and the deep, relaxed heartbeat of the bass line, with virtuosic, intoxicating solos on bouzoukis, Farfisa organs, clarinets and violins. This is the sound of laika, Greek-oriental pop music from the 60s and early 70s that sets every dance floor on fire!

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Leonard Cohen

Recent Songs

11,99 €*

Mouasalat Ila Jacad El Ard

Release: 1979 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Original inner sleeve.

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Issam Hajali

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Issam Hajali is most known as the singer and composer of the Lebanese band Ferkat Al Ard. While they recorded 3 albums only their classic „Oghneya“ saw a vinyl release and is highly sought after in the Lebanese record collector scene (A copy changed hands in Beirut this year for 5000 USD). Before the band came together, he recorded this debut album in Paris in 1977 . This rare album fuses jazz and folk with Arabic and Iranian influences into unique beauty. It was only released in a limited run of 75 cassette tapes and is now officially licensed and reissued by Berlin based Habibi Funk Records.

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Johnny Cash

The Best Of

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | CH | Reissue (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Alain Peters

Rest' La Maloya

LP | 2014 | UK | Reissue (Rhino)

Release: CH – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Repress with different artwork! Alain Péters is one of the best-kept secrets in the music scene of the Indian Ocean and beyond. His music is a unique blend of Creole blues, maloya and international folk. Péters travelled through the '70s and the '80s like a shooting star, alone or with a band, with his Sahelian lute, his reel-to-reel tape recorder, firewater and ill-fated genius. He died in 1995, aged 43. Poet, musician, singer and melody-maker, he left behind a handful of sublime songs which are gathered here for the first time on vinyl.

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Joni Mitchell

Hejira

30,99 €*

Nancy Dupree & The Ghetto Reality Youngsters

Release: 2014 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Released in 1976 Hejira is the 8th studio album from legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. The title word hejira is a transliteration of the Arabic word ‘hijra’ meaning journey which was a big inspiration for the album, as Mitchell said “the whole 'Hejira' album was really inspired... I wrote the album while traveling cross-country by myself and there is this restless feeling throughout it... The sweet loneliness of solitary travel."
Although the album was not as commercially successful as its predecessors it has been widely critically acclaimed and recognized as one of the high water marks of Mitchell’s illustrious career, with special mention to the support of Jaco Pastorious’s distinctive fretless bass.

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Ghetto Reality

LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Moi J'Connais)

18,99 €*

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1977 | IT | Original (RCA)

Stefano Rosso

Una Storia Disonesta

18,99 €*

Release: 1977 / IT – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1973 | IT | Original (Joker)

Marina Pagano

Jesce Sole

3,99 €*

Antologia Napoletana Volume 2

Release: 1973 / IT – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: G+, Cover: VG

warped

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Bruno Venturini

LP | 1973 | IT | Original (Joker)

6,99 €*

Release: 1973 / IT – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Classical Music

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

12" | 2005 | US | Reissue (Domino)

Animal Collective

Prospect Hummer

LP | 1978 | DE | Original (Arcade)

Release: 2005 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Green/Yellow vinyl has some paper scuffs. Original inner sleeve. Record Store Day edition 2021 reissue. Limited edition. tiny wear

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Harry Belafonte

Seine 20 Grössten Hits

3,99 €*

Release: 1978 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

LP | 1972 | DE | Original (MAM)

Gilbert O'Sullivan

Back To Front

4,99 €*

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Big Loud Llc)

Release: 1972 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Close to VG+. With insert

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Lauren Watkins

Heartbroken Record

44,99 €*

LP | 2024 | AU | Original (Mistletone)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lauren Watkins - "The Heartbroken Record" / Drenched in authenticity and rife with barstool charm, with an addictive, Tennessee limestone gravel in her voice, Nashville-born and bred songbird Lauren Watkins writes, breathes and lives country music. The 24-year-old original grew up on the outskirts of Guitar Town, mesmerized by a jukebox rotation of country music, from outlaws like Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow to chart-toppers Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton. Moving back after four years at Ole Miss, Watkins' unyielding, turn-on-a-dime lyricism quickly caught the attention of GRAMMY-nominated multi-hyphenate Nicolle Galyon, who signed her to publishing and recording contracts with Songs & Daughters/Big Loud Records. Honing in on a sound that's both reverent of the genre's roots and in lockstep with where it's headed next, she presents her highly anticipated full-length debut, The Heartbroken Record.

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Orbweavers

New Moon / Silver Moon

61,99 €*

Release: 2024 / AU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | AU | Original (Ada Global)

Henry Wagons

Four Seasons

58,99 €*

Release: 2024 / AU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Feeding Tube)

Tomoyuki Trio

Shitsuren

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Watusi)

William Tyler

Future Myths

Coastal Plain Signed (Maroon Vinyl Editoin

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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William Tyler is a Nashville guitarist and composer. He spent years woodshedding and touring with Nashville groups like Lambchop and Silver Jews before breaking away to focus on his own version of instrumental guitar music. In the summer of 2022 he was fortunate to have an artist residency at Epicenter in Green River, Utah, a tiny high desert town three hours from anything, One of the other non-profit friends of Epicenter was The Tank is Rangely, Colorado. The Tank itself is a giant and tall disused water tower from the high days of train travel and used to store water to cool train engines and such. Empty for decades, it is now an internationally recognized destination for sound art and almost unparalleled echo/acoustics. William Tyler decided to book recording time there and chose to re-interpret all of the songs of hie 2019 album "Goes West" in a sparse yet cavernous solo acoustic setting: "Something about the frailty and space I wanted the songs to imply was lost in the over-production of the studio record, This felt like a reclamation of the songs and also a symbolic tribute to the stunning, haunted and vast possibilities of the American West, especially at the twilight of American Empire.’

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Muscadine Bloodline

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Stancaster Music)

37,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Sme Nashville)

Corey Kent

Black Bandana

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Consequences Of The Crown Gold Vinyl Edition

Shelby Lynne

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Monument)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (FPE)

Accra Quartet

Gbefabi

29,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Signature Sounds)

AJ Lee & Blue Summit

City Of Glass

LP | 1974 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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AJ Lee & Blue Summit are an award-winning, energetic, and technically jaw-dropping bluegrass band quickly rising on the national roots music scene. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the group met as teenagers, picking together as kids at local bluegrass festivals until one day, they decided they would be a band. Their Signature Sounds debut, City of Glass is a spellbinding collection of original songs and covers that’s just as much country soul and gritty, bluesy Americana as it is rock club and festival-ready string band fare, all framed through a California folk lens. City of Glass not only focuses on AJ Lee’s songwriting and once in a generation voice, but also features the Bakersfield sound of guitarist and second lead vocalist Scott Gates on three tracks along with the guitar wizardry and indie rock influence of Sullivan Tuttle, the younger brother of Bluegrass superstar Molly Tuttle.

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Mulatu Astatke

Ethio Jazz

LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1974 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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"Ethio Jazz" is an album released by the Ethiopian master musician Mulatu Astatke in 1974 on his homeland Ethiopia's Amha Records. It stands as a milestone not only in his career but also in the history of contemporary Ethiopian music, continuing to shine brightly. With melancholic melodies played by wind instruments, a polyrhythmic rhythm section creating robust waves, sultry vibes from the vibraphone, and smoky organ tones, the album is enveloped in the sounds of jazz inherited from the States. This work, where various musical elements are miraculously fused in perfect balance, undoubtedly reigns at the pinnacle of Ethio Jazz, showcasing Mulatu's ambitious creativity in seeking out new sounds.

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Merle Haggard

I Am What I Am

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Nanci Griffith

Working In Corners

118,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sapporo Kyoikubunkakaikan 1980

Morita Douji

2LP | 2024 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

50,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Far Out)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The only officially released live recordings of Doji Morita have been "Tokyo Cathedral Saint Mary Live" and "FM Tokyo Pioneer Sound Approach Live Recording", both recorded in 1978. This album contains live recordings in 1980, and this is the first time ever that recordings from this period have been released.

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Fabiano Do Nascimento

Mundo Solo

25,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Far Out Recordings proudly presents the new album from Brazilian guitarist and composer Fabiano do Nascimento: Mundo Solo. Recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles (2020) the album is fundamentally the sound of a man alone with his instruments.

Utilizing a variety of guitars, including 6, 7 and 10 strings, Oktav guitar and electric baritone guitar, alongside a host of pedals and synthesizers, Fabiano tracked imagined landscapes with expressive, expansive improvisations, which tend toward the more ambient and atmospheric reaches of his recent output.

Adopting Hermeto Pascoal’s concept of Universal Music, a rejection of nationalistic tendencies in order to express all of one’s musical influences all at once, Fabiano avoided leaning too heavily on any particular musical language, without denying his own musical roots.

After studying classical piano as a child, the Rio de Janeiro native discovered the guitar aged 10. Studying under his late uncle, Lucio Nascimento, he eventually left Brazil for LA, where he soon became an in-demand player for his distinct and authentic sound. He has since released seven albums under his own name and collaborated with renowned Brazilian artists including Arthur Verocai and Airto Moreira, as well as experimental US saxophonist Sam Gendel.

Mundo Solo (Do Nascimento’s eighth), was recorded in one take per track, with occasional overdubs and a few appearances from collaborators and friends Julien Canthelm (drums on Etude 1), Ajurinã Zwarg, (percussion on CPMV) and Gabe Noel (Bass on Curumim).

Fabiano Do Nascimento’s consummate mastery of his instrument has afforded him a freedom of expression few can claim. Blending the emotional with the elemental, Mundo Solo is a stunning snapshot of solitude and the beauty which can blossom within it.

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Club Coco Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bongo Joe presents "Club Coco", a summary outernational latin and afro rooted music compilation curated by Coco María.

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Gombloh

Sekar Mayhang

25,99 €*

Os Rouixinois / Wal Santana

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gombloh’s forgotten masterpiece

What if you have Brian Wilson and Bruce Springsteen rolled into one? And what if he came of age as an poor buskers in in Surabaya, Indonesia, but then summoned enough strength to record six albums that flew in the face of everyone in the country’s rock scene back in the early 1980s?

Genius, be they Brian Wilson or Soedjarwoto “Soemarsono” Gombloh, don’t conform to rules written for us mere mortals. They have their own way of doing things and in the case of Gombloh, writing music, conducting recording session and spending cash from his music, must be conducted on his own terms and his terms only. Studio time was expensive back in the early 1980s, yet Gombloh could be three-hour late for his session, and while engineers, session musicians and producers were jittery about the prospect of another botched session, Gombloh took his time for a nap before the recording begun.

Yet, some of his greatest works came into being in the wake of this napping session. Recording session for Sekar Mayang is no exception, despite the fact there’s foreboding sense of doom with Gombloh being unsure about the possibility of selling enough units to help his label break even. This is, after all, this is his last record with his band Lemon Tree’s. No one knew that Gombloh was operating with all his cylinders running and what came out of this Indra Record session, in the waning days of 1980, were some of the best compositions ever committed to magnetic tapes (to wax, if now you’re holding this on vinyl).

This is Gombloh at the peak of his creative genius. You can argue that his debut album Nadia & Atmospheer (what’s with the spelling mistake?) is the most sprawling and complex album (both sonically and thematically), but Sekar Mayang certainly had the best songs and I can make the argument that this album’s 10 songs are strong contenders for biggest hits in blues, country, psychedelic rock charts. “Prahoro & Prahoro” is one of those impossible song which appears to have sprung from a bottomless well of inspiration, encompassing King Crimson’s sprawling epic, Deep Purple’s deepest blues and Genesis’ most progressive tendencies. Or “Sekaring Jagat”, which begins as Lennon-McCartney lullaby before launching a thousand ships traveling to the end of the rainbow with children choir singing heavenly melodies backed by droning harpsichord and synclavier, while a buzzing Hammond B3 tightly locks with Gombloh’s guitar strumming.

For many of his fans, Gombloh is known as generous man of the people. A Robin Hood type if you please. He spent his royalty checks to buy foods for beggars and buskers and dish out some more to buy undergarments for Surabaya’s prostitutes. In Sekar Mayang, Gombloh went full Springsteen mode in “Mitra Becakan,” a social commentary that cut so deep you can end up with tears in your eyes and lump in your throat (even if you don’t understand any of its Javanese language lyrics). This is one the most devastating social commentary ever recorded for a pop song, and even if you discount the greatness of its musical composition, you chalk this up as a great social-realism poetry. His years of hanging out with pedicab drivers, street vendors and street-bound prostitutes certainly gave him enough insight into their (in)human condition.

Yet, a record this stellar was largely forgotten. First, this record was a flop upon its release in 1981. Indra Records reportedly only did one pressing on cassette tape and be done with it. For those who were lucky enough to have come across one of songs from this album on the radio were likely growing up in East Java, where Gombloh had a massive cult following early in the 1980s. Nothing was heard from this record again.

There were only a handful of cassette tapes from the first pressing found on second-hand market and I recently stumbled upon one online with a price tag of Rp 50 million (US$3,500). It’s no longer available now.

In Sekar Mayang, Gombloh harbours an obsession for a long-lost utopia, Java’s distant past, where farmers have their barn full of rice and corn, where blacksmith working around the clock making tools and children singing and dancing in their seminaries. Or the fact that he opens the song with stanza from Serat Weddhatama, arguably the most monumental poem in neo-classic Javanese literature, could be his pledge of allegiance. The question for him is should a modern-day Indonesia, rife with poverty, corruption and environmental degradation not be an anathema to that utopia?

In the end, you don’t need to be someone fluent in Javanese to enjoy this majestic record. And if this record turns out to be the last in Elevation Records catalogue and we shut down this label tomorrow, we will be very happy. Mission accomplished!

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Um Blanco Pra Voce / O Viajant

7" (Mr Bongo)

11,99 €*

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Transito Livre / Por Favor

Guto / Tony Nunes

7" (Mr Bongo)

11,99 €*

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Norio Maeda And Tin Pan Alley

Soul Samba

LP | 1977 | JP | Reissue (Lawson)

57,99 €*

Live At Kyoto Yamaichi Hall 1976

Release: 1977 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* Originally released in 1977 * Featuring covers of 'The Girl from Ipanema' and 'The Look of Love' * Pressed on Black Vinyl A masterpiece of samba released in 1977, featuring Norio Maeda, a major pianist and arranger in the jazz world, and Tin Pan Alley by Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, and Tatsuo Hayashi. This album features several of the greatest Bossa Nova numbers such as 'Wave', 'One Note Samba', 'The Girl from Ipanema', 'Summer Samba', and famous songs such as 'The Look of Love' by Burt Bacharach. This is an album full of highlights.

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Yoshiko Sai

2LP | 2023 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

47,99 €*

LP | 2023 | Original (Royal Potato)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This is a live recording from 1976 of Japan's legendary female singer, Yoshiko Sai. Sai made her debut with the album "Mangekyo" in 1975. In July 1976, she released her second album "Mikko," which is still highly regarded as a classic worldwide. This recording captures a long live performance just before the album's release. In 2008, a live recording collection titled "live 1976/79" which was released on CD from P-vine, featuring seven tracks from this day's recording. However, this release features the complete performance of all 17 songs for the first time, including all the songs from the album "Mikkou," as well as unreleased tracks and cover songs!

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Upstate

You Only Get A Few

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kelasea / Colored Vinyl Edition

Kelsea Ballerini

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Black River)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (Wewantsounds)

Fairuz

Kifak Inta

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (East West)

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue Fairuz"s classic album "Kifak Inta" produced by her son Ziad Rahbani in the late 80"s and only released on cassette and CD in 1991. Composed and arranged by Rahbani, who had already produced "Wahdon" (1979) and "Maarifti Feek" (1987), "Kifak Inta" features his usual blend of Jazz, funk and Arabic music, spiced up with Brazilian influences serving Fairuz"s beautiful voice. The album successfully pursue the path that made "Wahdon" and "Maarifti Feek" such in-demand albums, modernising the sound of the Lebanese Diva with contemporary arrangements. It is the first time "Kifak Inta" is released on vinyl, retaining the original cassette artwork. The album - curated by Mario Choueiry from Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), who also wrote the liner notes (Fr/En) - has been newly remastered by Colorsound Studio in Paris.

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Lloyd Miller

The Middle East

39,99 €*

Instrumental Modal Pop Of 1970's Egypt

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The second and last chapter of Dr Miller's journey between cultures and its uses, which began with "The Far East", dissected and looked into the root of the sound of distant Asia, continues with this new chapter dedicated instead to the countries bathed by the Mediterranean and contiguous to Central European history. From Spain to Arabic sounds, a new compendium that takes us back to other places and times, Dr Miller is once again able to dissect and encapsulate sounds and spices from distant places and spaces in a time machine. Thanks to these historical documents, we have the opportunity to discover feelings that are impossible to find 50 years later, sucked up and watered down by globalization and social capitalism.)

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Baligh Hamdi

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Sublime Frequencies)

18,99 €*

The Miracles Of The Seven Dances

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Sublime Frequencies finally unleashes it’s Essential compilation from 1970’s Egypt. Modal instrumental tracks from Baligh Hamdi - one of the most important Arabic composers of the 20th Century (writing for legends Umm Kalthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Sabah, Warda, and many others). Features his legendary group the “Diamond Orchestra” with Omar Khorshid on guitar, Magdi al-Husseini on organ, Samir Sourour on saxophone, and Faruq Salama on accordion. All of these musicians were discovered and recruited by Hamdi to interpret his vision of a modernized, hybrid Arabic music. Under Hamdi’s direction, this orchestra charted a new melodic direction and created a new musical language. This compilation is culled from a specific era of Hamdi’s long career, a decade where he fully realized an international music which incorporated beat driven Eastern tinged jazz, theremin draped orchestral noir, tracks that feature searing guitar solos from none other than Omar Khorshid, and a selection of buzzing, sitar driven, Indo-Arabic tracks establishing a meeting of mid-east and eastern psychedelic exotica, and a vision that created some of the hippest music coming out of the Middle East from the late 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s.

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Hany Mehanna

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Radio Martiko)

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Worried Songs)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Reissue of the belly dance holy grail from the organ king of Cairo, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. Hany Mehanna, beloved musician and composer of the greatest artists from the Arab world such as Oum Kalthoum and Abdel Halim Hafez, shows himself from a more experimental side on his solo albums. Originally released in 1973, ‘The Miracles of the Seven Dances’ is a pure work of genius: hypnotic organ grooves, psychedelic guitars, mystic strings and haunting percussion. Belly dance as good as it gets! High quality pressing. Artwork and label design by Pieter Heytens.

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Bob Martin

Seabrook

LP | 1975 | CA | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 years. This album began when James Endeacott of 1965 Records sent Jerry David DeCicca to Charlottesville, Virginia to meet Martin, hoping to reissue Martin’s 1972 debut on RCA Records, Midwest Farm Disaster. DeCicca, who had co-produced the final recordings of folk-funk, Heartworn Highways’ songwriter, Larry Jon Wilson, for 1965 Records (and later reissued by Drag City Records) had played the LP for Endeacott several months earlier. Midwest Farm Disaster is that rare album that feels joyful and yet full of sorrow; Martin’s Lowell, Massachusetts voice yearning with a backbeat from Nashville session musicians, Norman Putnam and Kenny Buttrey, the later fresh from his “Heart of Gold” session. The reissue never happened, as Martin was already in the process of rescuing his forgotten masterpiece for his own self-release. But Bob and Jerry’s breakfast led to Martin’s daughter, Tami, hiring DeCicca and engineer, Jake Housh, who also worked on the Wilson album, to capture her father in a similar manner. After Midwest Farm Disaster, a second album for RCA was under contract, but when a record executive there wanted Martin to put his girlfriend’s poetry to music, Bob bailed on the deal. Martin continued to tour around with a pickup band until advice from his father resonated, and he left the road to raise a family. Bob worked as an educator, teaching math and computers, and even founded a school in West Virginia that taught traditional art forms in Appalachia like fiddle playing and weaving. Bob returned to the studio in 1982 to record Last Chance Rider for the June Appal, a label that focused on music from Appalachia and had released albums by Nimrod Workman, Si Kahn, and Betty Smith. In the late-90’s, Bob returned with two self-released CDs, The River Turns The Wheel and Next to Nothin’ that continued capturing stories of people and places that exhale their own mythologies. He wrote novels, cared for his family, and taught, and played only the occasional gig. But it’s this album, Seabrook, that finds Bob at his most wise and wistful; the histories of Lowell and his own life hanging longest in his voice. New songs about the West Virginia coal mines (“Three Miles Beneath This Mountain”) and living in an extended stay motel (“Midway Motel”) sit beside new and more urgent interpretations of late period classics, like “My Father Painted Houses,” and, for the first time, one of his oldest songs he didn’t record for Midwest Farm Disaster called “Give Me Light”, along with “Stay Awhile Sunshine,” which he had been singing to his family for decades and features Gary Mallaber (“Tupelo Honey”) on vibraphone. After DeCicca and Housh returned from the beach with Bob, they all agreed to flesh out the songs with other instrumentation to present as a draft for what the new record could be with a little more money and time. This was the time when the epilogue of musicians’ work was still of interest to labels. Everyone with a guitar over 65 was still in the shadow of Rubin’s Cash, and recent records by Loretta Lynn, Charlie Louvin, Soloman Burke, and Candi Staton were both fashionable and profitable. But Martin wasn’t as well known and his classic debut was only licensed for a limited physical release, proving him a difficult sell. Labels passed or made unreasonable requests, and Bob eventually lost interest; instead, choosing to record a solo acoustic live album, Live at the Bull Run, and tour Europe for the first time. There were hiccups of hope, like a feature in No Depression and a song in the TV show, Justified, but the new recordings quickly began collecting dusk. In the meantime, DeCicca continued producing records for other older artists, like Ed Askew’s For the World (Tin Angel), two Chris Gantry releases (Drag City), Will Beeley’s Highways and Heart Attacks (Tompkins Square), and reissue projects for the Numero Group (Elyse Weinberg, Rob Galbraith). Then, in 2021, DeCicca received a call from Bob’s daughter, Tami, giving him permission to finish the album as Bob’s health was failing. Upon revisiting the tracks with Housh, the album needed very little tidying up and the songs were completed with DeCicca’s former bandmates, The Black Swans, who had previously played on the original mock up back in 2008. With new technology and a new perspective, the album was completed, but not before Martin’s health had deteriorated more. Bob Martin passed away September 21, 2022 at 80 years of age. Sadly, he never heard his final album.

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Lothar Jahn

Dreams Of '75

30,99 €*

2LP | 1979 | EU | Original (CBS)

Release: 1975 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lothar Jahn’s Dreams Of 75 is a wild fusion of psychedelic folk, and Krautrock. Fantastic from beginning to end “Dreams of ’75,” will take listeners on a stereoscopic journey

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan At Budokan

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Melody As Truth)

Release: 1979 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: G+

Slightly damaged cover with hype sticker. Sunburst label stickers.

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Suzanne Kraft

About You

Cuttin' Grass Volume 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions Black Vinyl Ediiton

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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About You is a set of hazy-haloed pop songs crackling with the flutters of fresh love amidst a mind full of memory flashes. Written in the whirlwind of a hopeful affair, instantly transformed into long distance romance, it’s a head rush of affection with the universe bending blurrily around it — an archive of yearning from a year that rifted warm bodies adrift; an outline of the in-betweens, the familiar and foreign, hopeful promise and heartbreak. Suzanne Kraft has shaved silver linings from cloud formations and ignited them into crackling flames. It’s a full circle journey that floats on shimmering guitar tones, fluid vocals, and gently persuasive drum tracks chugging towards their destiny while revelling in the unknown. About You is a folding of time and space in album form and stands aloft as Suzanne Kraft’s next big step in fully becoming himself.

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Sturgill Simpson

LP | 2021 | US | Original (High Top Mountain)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (DevilDuck Records)

The Dead South

Served Live

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Third Man)

North Americans

Roped In

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Nozzle)

Robert Cray Band

That's What I Heard

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

Dolly Parton

Jolene

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"(after)" : Singing And Guitar At Jacobikerk, Utrecht, Netherlands, Nov. 10th, 2017 At Le Guess Who? Festival

Mount Eerie

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (P.W. Elverum & Sun)