Folk 1224 Items

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Chapter Two)

Zoufris Maracas

Blue De Lune

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Last Roundup)

Zephaniah Ohora

Listening To The Music

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (The Bunker New York)

Zemi17

Gamelatron Bidadari

22,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (La Sape)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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The Gamelatron is many things; one could call it a sculpture, a multimodal installation, an instrument, a robot, a feat of engineering, a vision—and it is all of these things. More importantly, though, it is a concept sustained by Aaron Taylor Kuffner, aka Zemi17, whose Gamelatrons are “sound producing kinetic sculptures” designed to create an immersive, visceral experience for the listener. Not a small feat, and yet the ambitions of Zemi17 are absolutely realized in this long-standing project, culminating now in his third release for The Bunker NY: Gamelatron Bidadari.

The Gamelatron Bidadari is not just a name—it is one of seventy-plus musical sculptures that Zemi17 has conceptualized, designed, and fabricated. Therefore, it would be inaccurate to think of this release as simply a series of arrangements composed in a finite period of time. Rather, it’s a window into a project and a process that is much larger than any single album can encapsulate. Gamelatron Bidardi is the culmination of more than a decade of work, and is central to Zemi17’s evolution, not only as a musician but as an artist.

Having studied gamelan for many years in Indonesian villages and at the Institut Seni Indonesia in Yogyakarta, Kuffner is a musician, an artist, technologist, and craftsman. The gongs in his sculptures are co-created with master Indonesian artisans. Each Gamelatron composition is site-responsive, meaning its sounds are composed for the acoustics and intentions of the space it inhabits, whether it’s an art gallery, a wooded landscape, or the inner temple of Burning Man. The Gamelatron does not stand alone: it is in constant co-creation with its physical environment, and in dialogue with gamelan’s long-standing history.

Originally exhibited at the Smithsonian Renwick as part of a show entitled, No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, the Gamelatron Bidadari produces sounds that are delicate yet strong, and deeply hypnotic. Textured chiming creates intricate polyrhythmic patterns that are both complex and simple, or in a word, elegant. On Gamelan Bidadari, Zemi17 refrains from adhering to the strict musical structures; his approach to composition is free flowing.

He says, “I want to evoke what the music tells me it has to offer. It is like following water to its conclusion (or non-conclusion).” The arrangements on this album, written by Zemi17 and performed by the robotic arms of the Gamelatron, leaves the listener feeling enchanted, nourished and enriched.

A sense of the mystical comes through in the tonal quality of the instrument, and is conceptually felt in the sculpture’s name: the Bidadari, which loosely translates to “forest nymph.” The music conjures up natural wonder, and the four sculptures that make up the Gamelatron Bidadari, in fact, resemble trees. They are four independent yet connected entities, each with a large gong situated at their structural base—the sonic “roots” of the sculpture—while smaller gongs branch off of a golden, trunk-like spine. The Gamelatron Bidadari is as physically stunning as it is mesmerizing to the ear. A kind of divinity is invoked through its sound, or a sacred cohesion between past and present, tradition and new form. Meant to be viscerally experienced, the sounds of the Gamelatron call for sublime togetherness. Gamelatron Bidadari is not just an album but the crystallization of Kuffner’s work; it is a condensed yet spacious glimpse into the sonic power of Zemi17’s Gamelatrons, which have already been heard and experienced live by over a million people.

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Zeitgeist & Tucceri

Jin Mu

19,99 €* 24,99 € -20%

LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

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

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Having worked together for several years on the project 'Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange' Zeitgeist and Tucceri come together here in a very intimate and vulnerable setting. This recording offers a place of reflection and healing amongst an ever imposing and disposable pop culture. In a time where we fight for each others attention in 10 second social media grabs. The duo offer something of the opposite. An opportunity to tap out of the technological bombardment and allow the listener the place to reflect, to ponder, to imagine.

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Zaz

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Strange Ways / Inside Jungle

Zann

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Isle Of Jura)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Universal)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ltd to 500 copies, no repress.

The sought after LP from Zann ‘Strange Ways / Inside Jungle’ originally released as a private press in 1990 finally receives a full reissue.

Zann started life as a 7-member live band in 1982. Founder member Udo Winkler had been a part of New Wave & Post Punk band Konec touring extensively and releasing one LP on Polydor titled ‘Schrille Blitze’. Zann was an outlet for more experimental works heavily influenced by Brian Eno's collaborations with David Byrne and Jon Hassell, German bands like Embryo and Dissidenten, David Sylvian and middle & far eastern music.

In 1988 Udo and Hjalmer Karthaus built a small basement studio with a 4 track tape machine and musical experiments began in earnest. After the limitations of playing live it was an acoustic wonderland and they gave themselves no musical boundaries. The unlimited studio time meant they could pick up ideas and develop pieces gradually, friends would come to the studio to play and songs evolved from extensive jamming sessions. The resulting LP has Middle Eastern instrumentation at its core, particularly wind & string instruments such as the Tabla and Gong, and is a melting pot of influences incorporating elements of Ambient, Jazz and Folk with strong synth programming on a number of tracks. The band pressed up a handful of copies and sold them exclusively at record fairs in Germany and in the intervening years the LP has become highly sought after with copies changing hands for 150 Euros.

The LP has been fully remastered from the original DAT tapes with new full sleeve artwork from Bradley Pinkerton and is pressed on 180 Gram Vinyl.

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Zalagasper

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Sound Pollution)

Zachary Lucky

Ballad Of Losing You

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Diggers Factory / Ina)

Yves Montand

Du Soleil Plein La Tete

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Same But By Different Means

Yves Jarvis

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Anti)

14,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Yunis

Mulid El-Magnoun

The Road Home White Vinyl Edition

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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Yoon Ji-Young

LP | 2021 | JP | Reissue (Beat Ball Music)

17,99 €* 23,99 € -25%

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Concord)

Release: 2021 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This is the vinyl reissue of the second album by folk singer and original composer of 'If I Had Wings on my Song', Yoon Ji-Young. After having released his debut effort, Yoon turned to Oasis Records for his second album. This work was undertaken with the wholehearted backing of musical partner and legendary Korean folk singer/songwriter Kim Min-ki. This album is unique in that it features an unlikely pairing of the socially critical metaphors of Kim's earlier works against the lush instrumentation of the Oasis studio session musicians. The album, with its arrangements incorporating chamber pop vibes as well as folk-rock elements, has a well-crafted quality to it that sets it apart from most gayo albums of its time. Perhaps due to Kim's outspoken lyrics, only small promotional batches of this album were produced at the time of its release. It soon faded into obscurity, going on to become a 'holy grail' rarity among collectors.

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Yola

Stand For Myself

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We Will Never Die Orange Vinyl Edition

Yat-Kha

LP | 2021 | DE | Original (Lollipoppe Shoppe)

Release: 2021 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Afro7)

Yaseen & Party

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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A collection of 12 fantastic taarab songs from Yaseen Mohammed (Mac & Party) rich in exotic tone colour, full of swing and groove, compiled from the elusive Mzuri catalogue, Mombasa, Kenya 1960’s. Comes with with a large 4 page fold-out insert with extensive background story and never-before-seen pictures.

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Yann Tiersen

Avant La Chute

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Woody Guthrie

American Folk Legend

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I've Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be

Witch Camp

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Six Degrees)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Bismeaux)

Willie And The Wheel

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sony Legacy)

That's Life

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sony)

That's Life

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live At Budokan Black Friday Record Store Day 2022 Edition

2LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Legacy)

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Black Friday Record Store Day 2022 Edition. Color: unknown. Limitation: 9100 copies. This performance finds Willie and Family at a monumental point of their powers and includes a 27-song, hit-filled set across two LPs.

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And Then I Wrote 180g Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

75,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ready The Astronaut Clear Vinyl Edition

William Fitzsimmons

LP+CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Grönland)

22,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | DE | Original (Grönland)

William Fitzsimmons

Gold In The Shadow

Release: 2011 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Will Hoge)

Will Hoge

Wings On My Shoes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Soundly Music)

Will Hoge

Tiny Little Movies

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2016 | Original (Holz)

Wildes Holz

Astrein

Release: 2016 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (New West)

Wild Feathers

Medium Rarities

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Whole Love (Expanded) Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

Wilco

3LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

62,89 €* 73,99 € -15%

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Stroom)

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Quantity: 4500
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release

Wilco’s legendary 2011 album now on three LP’s. Expanded to include all related single, EP and bonus tracks - plus A selection from The Loft's archive of live in-studio performances and previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos. Includes Wilco classics "Art of Almost", "Dawned on Me”, "Sunloathe” . 3LP Box

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White Light / Jo Bogaert

Whale

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wiggy Thump)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Strange lovesongs from the Belgian Dender area in the early 80's

"The other night when I was talking to my friend I said: believe me, I wasn’t far from death when I lived in the hotel the only thing that he could do was take me in his arms and love me and kiss me and show me the difference between friendship and love but there is none"

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Whiskey Myers

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wiggy Thump)

Whiskey Myers

Tornillo

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wiggy Thump)

Whiskey Myers

Tornillo

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Nie X Nine)

Whelligan

In The Mean Mean Time

21,24 €* 24,99 € -15%

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Pepper Hill)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Songwriter and singer Jamie Whelligan is a pop troubadour in the classic late 1960s mode. A busker on the London Underground, an actor in arthouse film. One of those ever present characters who seems weirdly displaced in the modern world. • Whelligan’s songs mine that vein of melodic, psychedelic guitar pop that a certain type of English band are famous for. With songs spinning effortlessly from one genre to another, fans of XTC, Syd Barrett, and even The Rutles won’t be disappointed. • Recent years have seen Whelligan focus on a project called ‘Annexe The Moon’. A modern-psyche collaboration with award winning BBC Sound Designer/Producer Phil Channell (#1 podcast Death In Ice Valley). Their single ‘Full Stop’ was a firm favourite on Bbc6 Music, with notable plays from Guy Garvey, Radcliffe and Maconie, Vic Galloway, Marc Riley and Steve Lamaqc. • 2021 saw the first of a new crop of Whelligan tunes, and his forthcoming album ‘In The Mean Meantime’ is lined up for release in April ‘22. Co-produced by long term collaborator Nick Frater (Big Stir Records/Great Sheiks) whose trademark sonic fairy-dust brings the magic of Whelligan’s tunes to your ears. • Sweet vocals harmonise over warm and wiry guitars, while inventive lyrics are matched with floating melodies. The album promises an enjoyable trip down a psyche-pop rabbit hole

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Wheeler Walker Jr

Redneck Shit

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fuck You Bitch: All-Time Greatest Hits

Wheeler Walker Jr.

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Pepper Hill)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sex, Drugs & Country Music

Wheeler Jr. Walker

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Pepper Hill)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Vampisoul)

Wganda Kenya

Africa 5000

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Universal)

Wesley Schultz

Vignettes

18,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Midwest Book Of The Dead

Wes Tirey

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mapache)

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Half A Million)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wes Tirey’s The Midwest Book Of The Dead, is an intimate study of the Midwestern condition. A double album, it tells of silos like chapels, spiders in the cane, of drunkards and saints and fugitives; it speaks of wild geese, and the good life, rhinestone suits, Coca Colas, and dishes drying on the rack. Sincerity, sensuality, and humor all reside in the candor and weight of these songs — its playing and arrangements, rich but unfettered, and Tirey’s voice grown several feet deeper and more sonorous. It is a sublime expansion of a trademark style he has come to call “rustic minimalism”.

The Midwest Book of the Dead finds Tirey both solo for acoustic laments and backed by close collaborators for barroom ballads, with Ryan Gustafson (Hiss Golden Messenger, Phil Cook, Charlie Parr) taking the helm as producer.

This assemblage of strangers and stories and snapshots of lives that make up The Midwest Book of the Dead, Tirey likens to “the book of photographs that you find at a Goodwill” — perhaps in Dayton, or Fayetteville, or in any of the stops on the highways that separate them. And while there are clues laid out across these lyrics, he believes there is an open-endedness to these songs. Still, the clues carry us on, into this land of high corn and pool halls, of farmboys, rusty Fords, and fathers like Elvis. Blue herons, hearts of steel, vinegar and piss; a land where people might rise “with everything to show, strong and comely as a colt.” They are songs told straight and sincere, but that are nonetheless beguiling; the work of a master songwriter, a craftsman, an artist; a man who will always be part of the Midwest.

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Wes Buckley

The Towering Ground

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

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wes has been working in and around the Berkshires for some time, performing solo, duo, or with full band. His music stretches out quite a bit, sometimes offering a more homespun, traditional mountain bus folky type feel, other times extending outward toward Dead spaces or even Arkestra-esque freakouts. He’s released records with Michael Hurley, self released CDs, and been collected on CD by the wonderful Mystra label. His record with us, The Towering Ground, will be his first LP and we’re very excited about it. The songs collected here maintain a bit of his folky character, but they offer something more in the way of a hazy, If I Could Only Remember My Name / Fred Neil’s 'The Dolphins' languor. The songwriting chops Wes displays are strong, and while he’s a New Englander, there’s a California sunset melancholy running through these tunes, recalling a bit of FJ McMahon’s mournfulness or John Wonderling’s knack for somehow still chilled-out grandiosity..."—Half A Million Records

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Wema

30,99 €*

Green Roses Volume 1 Green Vinyl Edition

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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Weeed

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Halfshell)

How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This session is the first of two recorded during the early summer of 2021 in the pristine and remote town of Hansville, WA. Under mutual spells of sunlight and grief, these songs were often written, rehearsed, and recorded in the same day, using both new and familiar instruments, tunings, and feelings. In this way they like everything else, transitory.

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Weather Station

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Fat Possum)

27,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Hometown Caravan)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One year after the release of Ignorance, The Weather Station returns with How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars. The album is intended to be heard as a companion piece to Ignorance; songs written at the same time that connect thematically and emotionally, songs that reveal the vulnerability at the heart of the body of work. Recorded live in just three days, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars is achingly intimate; full of breath, silence, and detail.

How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars was written in the same fruitful winter of songwriting that gave rise to Ignorance, but were songs that Lindeman felt were too internal, too soft to fit on the album she had envisioned.

Not long after completing Ignorance, Lindeman decided to make this album on her own terms, fronting the money herself and not notifying the labels. She assembled a new band, and communicated a new ethos; the music should feel ungrounded, with space, silence, and sensitivity above all else.

On this record, there are no drums, no percussion; in the absence of rhythm, time stretches and becomes elastic. Lyrically, many of the songs return to what has often been a hallmark of Lindeman’s writing; a description of a single moment and all the meaning it might encompass. And this dilation of the moment occurs musically too; as the band moves through music so ephemeral it often incorporates stretches of near silence, and breaths, single notes, and brief solos take on greater importance in the absence of other sound. Whereas the recordings on Ignorance leaned towards ambition and grandeur, here the band reaches towards a different goal; grace perhaps.

How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars was recorded from March 10 - 12, 2020. When the band entered the studio, Covid-19 was a news item, not front of mind, but by the time they left, just three days later, everything had changed. Somehow, the music captures that instability; it is ungrounded and diaphanous, it floats and drifts. It is an album of immense sensitivity, a recording of a band and a person daring to reach towards softness without apology.

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Wayne Graham

One Percent Juice

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Sahel Sounds)

Wau Wau Collectif

Mariage

Watkins Family Hour Volume 2

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wau Wau Collectif's second album, Mariage, is instilled with a newfound sense of purpose. Expanding upon the inspirational themes of their acclaimed 2021 debut, Yaral Sa Doom (Educate The Young), this long distance collaboration from musicians in Senegal and Sweden's Karl Jonas Winqvist is an even more stylistically expansive affair Joyful children's songs collide with fuzzy guitar solos and thumping hip-hop beats. Shimmering synths lift off from the plunky percussion of the balafon and versatile sounds of the 22-string kora. Familiar voices from the first album return with more explicitly political lyrics, while the music feels both rhythmically dense and sonically weightless, flowing from one spellbinding moment to the next. For Mariage, band members from each country were inspired to include a wider array of instrumental flourishes unique to their cross-continental collaboration. "Yay Balma" revolves around the cycling riffs of Jango Diabaté's xalam guitar, as this song's fuzzy tones and soaring sax solos open side two with a bang. "Pitchi Goubidi" provides a stark contrast, with the kora played like a harp and Gilbert Badji's gravelly lyrics about "the bird of the night" disappearing into dubbed-out chamber pop. Winqvist's omnichord hovers back into focus on "Yonou Natangue," a free-floating jam that maintains the messages of Wau Wau Collectif's debut, promoting youth education to address the social issues facing contemporary Senegal: "Peace is the better wealth / The way to wander."

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Watkins Family Hour

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Family Hour)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We Fucked A Flame Into Being

Warhaus

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Pias)

22,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Columbia Local)

Wardruna

Kvitravn

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Spine River: The Guitar Music Of Wall Matthews, 1967-1981

Wall Matthews

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Animal Music)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Guitarist Wall Matthews is the surviving member of experimental '70s collective, Entourage. Sampled by Four Tet, their name whispered in reverence through the decades, Entourage forged bold musical ideas on their two rare ’70s Folkways LPs. Tompkins Square released Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions and Outtakes, 1972-1977, in 2017 to wide acclaim. Spine River: The Guitar Music of Wall Matthews, 1967-1981 is a collection of unreleased or obscure music by the master guitarist. This volume will be released as a limited edition LP, along with four other digital volumes of Wall's music, chronologically mapping his career.

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Vladimir Misik

Nocni Obraz

29,99 €* 39,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno

LP | 2021 | Original (Free Dirt)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (La Honda)

Vincent Neil Emerson

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vidar Busk & Daniel Eriksen & Stig

Hustle & Flow

LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Blue Mood)

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Inner Roads And Outer Paths Green Vinyl Edition

Vic Mars

LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (Clay Pipe Music)

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (Bloodshot)

Vandoliers

Forever

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Valentina Cenni & Stefano Bollani

Via Dei Matti N 0

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Columbia)

34,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Valentina Cenni & Stefano Bollani

Via Dei Matti N 0

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Columbia)

34,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Zar: Songs For The Spirits

2LP | 2021 | EG | Original (Juju Sounds)

Release: 2021 / EG – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Zar: Songs For The Spirits

CD | 2021 | EG | Original (Juju Sounds)

18,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EG – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why The Mountains Are Black - Primeval Greek Village Music: 1907-1960

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Third Man)

37,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings Dark Green Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Prophecy Productions)

42,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wewantsounds Presents Pierre Barouh And The Saravah Sound

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wewantsounds)

35,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wewantsounds is delighted to present the first retrospective on vinyl of Saravah Records, one of the most influential French labels founded in Paris by singer, songwriter and producer Pierre Barouh in 1966. Featuring Brigitte Fontaine, Jacques Higelin, Alfred Panou, and many rare tracks reissued on vinyl for the first time, the set gives a glimpse of the free-form, groovy sound of the label between 1965 and 1976. Supervised by Pierre Barouh's son and Saravah historian, Benjamin Barouh, The 2-lp Gatefold set comes with a 4p insert featuring liner notes (Eng/Fr) by Benjamin plus an exclusive interview of Barouh's partner Fernand Boruso by Jacques Denis telling fascinating anecdotes around the label.

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CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Uzelli)

Uzelli Elektro Saz

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Uzelli Kaset was established in 1971 by Muammer and Yavuz Uzelli in Frankfurt, Germany. Their music resonated not only with the longing that Gastarbeiter (guest workers) felt for the homelands and families they had left behind and the melancholy brought by their difficult living and working conditions in Germany, but also with the joy that welled up at village weddings on their days off, and the long car or train journeys home. Reaching the remotest corners of Germany as well as Turkey, Uzelli Kaset was soon more than just a music company; it became a companion to Turkish workers living far from home. Not counting the handful of 8-track tapes and 14 LPs released in the early days, the catalog consisted entirely of cassettes.
When they opened their Istanbul office in 1977, Uzelli moved beyond production and became successful in the areas of reproduction, distribution and marketing. Taking the catalogs of other production companies under its umbrella, it continued its rapid growth.
The 90s became the CD decade, and because Uzelli Kaset had not released its catalog in CD format, hundreds of albums remained unavailable to an entire new generation. Because the albums had not been released in LP form either, musical explorers ran into the same problem. Remaining active and serving in various areas of the music industry, Uzelli carefully preserved its visual, audio and document archives, ensuring their survival to the present day.
After an immense amount of work, this catalog, which had long awaited discovery by new generations, was finally released in digital format. For record collectors seeking the spirit of those times, we also began offering this special selection of compilation albums in vinyl format. As we created this series, our goal was to guide listeners toward new discoveries, and open new pages for music lovers to explore. Leaving our rich, multifaceted catalog to genuine musicians, curators and artists, our desire became to approach the recordings of that period from a different perspective.
We are overjoyed to know that our continuing meticulous work will bear fruits whose taste and aroma have been long forgotten.
Uzelli

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Turk Pop Muzik Tarihi 1960-70 Lp2

LP | 2021 | TR | Original (Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayincilikq)

Release: 2021 / TR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Turk Pop Muzik Tarihi 1960-70 Lp1

LP | 2021 | TR | Original (Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayincilikq)

Release: 2021 / TR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (30m)

This Is Tehran

27,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This Is Cairo Not The Screamers

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nashazphone)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7 intense Egyptian shaabi remixes by Cairo's finest: Zuli, 1127, 3Phaz, Abadir, Nadah El-Shazly, Kzlk & Youssef Abouzeid.

The adrenalised, electrification of Egyptian Shaabi music in recent years has produced absolutely scorching tracks, and Nashazphone’s This is Cairo Not The Screamers can certainly be added to those ranks. Shaabi translates directly as ‘of the people’. Here, it serves as a vehicle for the incendiary and propulsive. Raw power, Cairo-style, distorted variations on a theme.

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The Time For Peace Is Now

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Luaka Bop)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Time For Peace Is Now compiles fourteen songs that, while recorded over four decades ago, speak now more than ever. These are undeniably soulful, passionate, and urgent songs from obscure 45s, dug up from a long dormancy in attics, sheds and rated across the American south. Compiled by Gospel guru Greg Belson. The second volume in Luaka Bop's World Spiritual Classics Series.

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The Secret Museum Of Mankind - Guitars Vol. 1: Prologue To Modern Styles

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jalopy)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Rough Guide To Country Music

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

13,49 €* 17,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Rough Guide To African Beats

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Monsters Burn In Hell

LP+CD | 2016 | EU | Original (Voodoo Rhythm)

16,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A variety of Voodoo Rhythm artists pay tribute to The
Monsters! Featured acts include Urban Junior, King Automatic,
The Devils, Roy And The Devils Motorcycle, Delaney Davidson,
The Seniles, Rolando Bruno, Sudden Infant and others.

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The Many Faces Of Bob Dylan Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Music Brokers)

13,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Cool-Aid Benefit Album

2LP | 2012 | US | Original (Light In The Attic / Lion Productions)

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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At the end of the 1960’s, there was a house in Vancouver that was a home solely for Hippies and homeless youth; it was known to locals as "the Cool Aid House." When the Canadian government withdrew funding in 1970, the house was in danger of closing. All of the top bands in the Vancouver area offered to record songs for a benefit album—and since the local music scene produced some of the best bands in Canada, the album that resulted was stunning; it has long been a much sought-after collector's item. What no one knew until recently was that the original “Cool Aid Benefit Album” was intended as a two-record set: contractual problems with Capitol Records forced Cool Aid House founder John Walsch to drop tracks by Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck—tracks that are now restored to this package. Other cuts include the strange proto-electronic burbles of Mock Duck (quite unlike almost everything else they ever recorded) on ‘As the Bullet Enters Anton’ and ‘Pointillistic Scherzo’; the vicious snarl of Black Snake’s ‘Carousel,’ and the strange Spalding Grey-ish acoustic song/poem ‘The Planet Man.’ Hydro Electric Street Car have left little behind them, but their lovely ‘High Memory’ sounds like a lost Grateful Dead track from their early, dreamy period. A terrific discovery!

The end result of the joint efforts of Light in the Attic and Lion Productions is this deluxe 2xLP package, jam-packed with stand-out music by Vancouver’s top bands of the day: Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Papa Bear's Medicine Show, Mock Duck, Hydro Electric Streetcar, Route Nine, Blacksnake Blues Band, Nancy, Spring, and Greydon Moore and Leo Jung. Obscure cuts available nowhere else, in a wide variety of styles: weird electronic sounds, heavy garage fuzz guitar freakouts, stoner rock, and acoustic folk.

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Strut My Stuff Green Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Modern Harmonic)

37,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wagram)

So Frenchy!

15,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Efficient Space)

Sky Girl

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2024 restock. Sky Girl is a mysteriously unshakeable companion, a deeply melancholic and sentimental journey through folk-pop, new wave and art music micro presses that span 1961-1991. It's a DIY collection of different genres, from different countries across different decades, that are all bound by the same longing sentiment. A concept compilation! A seemingly disparate suite of selections of forgotten fables by more or less never-knowns, Sky Girl forms a beautifully coherent and utterly sublime whole deftly compiled by French collectors DJ Sundae and Julien Dechery. From Scott Seskind's adolescent musical road movie to Karen Marks' icy Oz-wave, the charming DIY storytelling of Italian-American go-getter Joe Tossini and the ethereal slow dance themes of Parisian artists Nini Raviolette and Hugo Weris, Sky Girl resonates on a wide spectrum historically, geographically and stylistically. It unites in a singular, longing, almost intangible ambience. If the names sound wholly unfamiliar that doesn't matter, the nature of the compositions swiftly nurtures an intimacy with these lonely, poignant, openhearted wanderers. Most were available in a very limited capacity at the time of their release, some were never really released at all - Gary Davenport declined to release "Sarra" after he split with the girl for whom the track is named - years later a friend convinced Davenport to allow him to put 100 copies online to sell and DJ Sundae was quick enough to snare one. Beyond their scarcity, these tracks are bound together by a certain raw beauty that's achievable when music is made and no one is listening. Sky Girl comprises of fifteen officially licensed songs, a two year international scavenger hunt through long-folded home label operations, the depths of internet forums and traceless acetates. Both compilers are well trained record sleuths - DJ Sundae's labels Hollie and Idle Press have reissued Arthur Russell affiliate Nirosta Steel and DIY relic Pitch, while Julien Dechery previously compiled Fire Star, a retrospective on Tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja, for Bombay Connection. Released by popular NTS show "Noise In My Head" offshoot Efficient Space, Sky Girl is enriched with artwork from Perks and Mini mutant Misha Hollenbach and appropriately elegant sleeve notes courtesy of Ivan Smagghe. Includes digital download. Also features: Linda Smith, Bruce Langhorne, The Seraphims, Some of My Best Friends Are Canadians, The Rising Storm, Warfield Spillers, Joyce Heath, Angel, Nora Guthrie and Once.

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Scottish Highland Music

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sacred Soul Of North Carolina

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Bible & Tire Recording Company)

23,24 €* 30,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rock Your Soul Volume 1: Blue Eyed Soul & Sounds From The Land Of The Free

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Compiled by Zaf Chowdry also responsible for Suss'd amazing 'P&P' and 'Deep Disco Culture' series. Co-compiled with music enthusiast and broadcaster Mark Taylor. A great genre of music given an arguably absurd title. A collecton of predominately white singer/songwriters from America's west coast influenced by African-americans R & B artists as much as soft rock, country, disco and jazz.

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Geffen)

Rhythm Country & Blues

37,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rhythm & Blues House Party Volume 2

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Koko Mojo)

11,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Türküola / Arsivplak)

Pop Hits 12

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Turkish disco pop funk sound compilation album. Great soul-pop and disco-funk with amazing moog organ, keyboards/synths, bass, rhythm and wah guitars.. This compilation has the unique sound in Turkish Disco-Funk music with influences of soul, jazz, pop, rock and beats. Turkish instruments with great disco tunes and great female & male vocals.

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Analog Africa)

Perú Selvático

34,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Less than a hundred miles inland from the capital city of Lima lies the great Peruvian jungle, an untamed land of impenetrable forests and endless winding rivers. In its isolated cities, cut off from the fashions of the capital, a unique style of music began to develop, inspired equally by the sounds of the surrounding forests, the roll of the mighty Amazon and Ucayali Rivers, and the rhythms of cumbia picked up from distant stations on transistor radios. With the arrival of electricity, a new generation of young musicians started plugging in their guitars and trading in their accordions for synthesizers: Amazonian cumbia was born.

Powered by fast-paced timbale rhythms, driven by spidery, treble-damaged guitar lines, and drenched in bright splashes of organ, Amazonian cumbia was like a hyperactive distant cousin of surf music crossed with an all-night dance party in the heart of the forest. While many of the genre’s greatest tracks were instrumental, and others were simple celebrations of life in the jungle, the goal of every song was to keep the party going.

Radio stations in Lima remained unaware of the new electric sounds emanating from the jungle, but a handful of pioneering record producers ventured over the mountain passes to the cities of Tarapoto, Moyobamba, Pucallpa – even Iquitos, a city reachable only by boat or plane – and lured dozens of bands to the recording studios of the capital to lay down their best tracks. Although many became local hits, few were ever heard outside the Amazonian region … until now. With eighteen tracks from some of the greatest names in Amazonian cumbia, Perú Selvatico is both the improbable soundtrack to a beach party on a banks of the Amazon and a psychedelic safari into the sylvan mysteries of the Peruvian jungle.

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LP | 2020 | JP | Original (Tramp)

Peace Chant Volume 4

Release: 2020 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | JP | Original (Tramp)

Peace Chant Volume 3

Release: 2020 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Paris Toujours

15,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Paris In Love

15,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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OST Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop, Soundtracks

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The fantastic soundtrack of the new Tarantino comes in a double gatefold sleeve with inlay and poster.

A phenomenal soundtrack to a phenomenal movie. Tarantino once again proves that he not only has a great taste when it comes to music, but he also takes a good amount of time to dig through record collections to pick gems for his soundtracks and arrange the 22 songs 9 era-specific radio advertisements.
This should become a movie soundtrack classic.

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Flee Project)

Nahma : A Gulf Polyphony

27,90 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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The pearls of the Gulf have stoked the imagination and desire of people around the world for centuries their magnificence matched only by the courage of the divers who found them. This project aims to honor the memory of these valiant free-divers, their culture and their music by the means of a transmedia object including: A 2xLP vinyl compilation containing undisclosed original recordings of pearl divers and inspired modern-day compositions by artists like Tomaga, YPY, Aya Metwalli, Joakim, Tarek Yamani or Hieroglyphic Being.

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Music Of The Bahnar People From The Central Highlands Of Vietnam

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Sublime Frequencies)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Morr Music)

Minna Miteru 2

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following the »Minna Miteru« compilation, released in 2020, Morr Music announces a sequel, dedicated to Japanese indie music, overflowing with surprises and welcome discoveries. Like its predecessor, »Minna Miteru 2« is compiled by Saya of Tenniscoats, with the support of Markus Acher (The Notwist). It’s also another part of the Minna Miteru universe, alongside retrospective albums by The Andersens (»There Is A Sound«, 2020) and yumbo (»The Fruit Of Errata«, 2021). Taken together, these albums suggest a scene in rude health, sharing a unique vibration. If its predecessor circled around Tenniscoats and their close friends, the second volume, though featuring a collaboration between Tenniscoats and Deerhoof as oneone, reaches far further afield, drawing from music old and new, far and wide. Consistent across »Minna Miteru 2« is a sense of wonder and a cheerful unpredictability: you never quite know what you’ll hear next. There are some gorgeous indie pop songs here, like Yuko Kono’s »Ginger« or HOSE’s »Baseball«, but there are other sounds too, like Kariu Kenji’s blue-hued electro-pop, or the wheezing pipe-organ ambient of Fuji||||||||||ta: »Minna Miteru 2« hints at new kinds of beauty. Some of the more widely known names here contribute typically gorgeous melodies – Kama Aina’s »Wedding Song«, from 2005’s »Hawaii Hawaii« CD, is a reflective tune that combines a country-ish lilt with hints of slack-key guitar. Shugo Tokumaru’s »5 A.M.« is a delirious psychedelic pop mantra, drawn from his excellent 2005 album, »L.S.T.«. Many of the revelations, though, come from artists and groups relatively unknown outside Japan. The lovely, disorienting glitch-folk of Wasurerogusa features Aki Tsuyuko, perhaps best known for her albums on Thrill Jockey and Jim O’Rourke’s Moikai label, collaborating with psych-folk legends Eddie Marcon. There’s also the delightful synth-pop of Jonathan Conditioner; the electronic dreamscape of Chaplin, whose opening »Out Cont« runs along several parallel paths at once; the twinkling, acoustic jangle at the heart of mmm’s luscious »Blue«; and a curious collection of miniatures, from acts like tenshinkun, Daisuke Tanabe and Nnmie, that embrace a childlike curiosity, essaying a kind of toytown pop-tronica. The twenty-six songs on »Minna Miteru 2« repeatedly catch you unawares, upending your expectations and signaling both the breadth and depth of the Japanese indie underground. It’s a compilation of play and pleasure, but also of bold experiment smuggled into the everyday through pop music’s welcoming moods, magically creating a new world for the listener, spun out of the air and woven in between your ears.

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Methusalem - Popcorn Sound Of Vienna 1954-1964

10" | 2022 | EU | Original (Club Methusalem)