Best of African Funk, Jazz and Afro-Beat

Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz.

A fantastic and rare album by the Afro soul maestro.

Following his recent studio album with Afrobeat Academy, 'Love And Death', his first international release, Ghanaian highlife guitar legend Ebo Taylor teams up again with Strut for a long overdue definitive compilation of his seminal 1970s recordings, 'Life Stories'.

Compilation on Wagram Music of Afro-Funk / Disco and Rare Groove heavy hitters!

No effort has been spared to document these 15 irresistible tracks and the music scene from the 70s in Ghana and Togo.

Akalé Wubé decides to pay a strong and sincere tribute to his friend, Manu Dibango, through out the album Anbessa - gathering the entire tracks written for or by Manu Dibango and played by the band - in a special LP.

Soundway Records present a new compilation of twenty rare and mostly unavailable tracks from the slick and sassy world of Nigerian pop music and club culture of the early 1980s.

Congo's turbulent and exhilarating '70s: Nightclubs and dancefloors were packed to the brim in the capital, Kinshasa. Exuberant crowds, still giddy from independence a decade prior, grooved to the sounds of the country`s classics. In fact the whole continent was submerged into the Congolese Rumba craze.

Our compilation focuses on the funkier end of Ekambi's music drawn mainly from the 1975 to 1978 period.

The third in Strut’s Inspiration Information studio collaboration series brings together an intriguing pairing between one of Africa’s great bandleaders, Mulatu Astatke, with the next level musicianship of The Heliocentrics.

Camilla describes: “I have dedicated ‘Ibio-Ibio’ to the Ibibio people and celebrate our creation and beliefs. Ibio-Ibio is a nickname for the Ibibio people, meaning brief / short, which is a reference to our quick and direct way of doing things and not our height!”

What you are going to hear here is a thick brew of Agbadja, Soul, Cavacha, Funk, Afro-Beat, AfroLatin Sounds all mixed in with Heavy Traditional Rhythms - distinctively Beninese Sound!

An aura of mystery is hidden on this magnificent album released on EMI Nigeria in 1974 and today a collector's cult object was the only one named Moonrakers Band.

Brand new release on Analog Africa. A mindblowing mixture of Somali Funk, instrumental masterpieces and previously unreleased reggae tunes from the vaults of Radio Mogadishu.

Witch's musical arc is contained to a five year span and, in retrospect, is a logical one.

Third Awesome Tapes From Africa reissue for Hailu Mergia! Super-rare, first time available outside Ethiopia! In the years since Shemonmuanaye, Mergia has revamped his touring career, playing festivals and clubs worldwide, including a recent tour supporting Beirut.

As part of their 20th Anniversary celebrations, Strut present the first new volume in their pioneering Nigeria 70 series for over 8 years, bringing together rare highlife, Afro-funk and juju from the ‘70s and early ‘80s.

An essential addition to any collection of continental African music in general and Nigerian music in particular

Demon Fuzz was an afro-rock group of which its members had all immigrated to Britain from Commonwealth countries. The band’s name means “devil’s children or bad policemen”. 

Double 180 Gram Vinyl Set with Download. Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973 - 77 by the Funkees is the latest title on Soundway to mine the rich musical output of 60s and 70s Nigeria.

A treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa.

Strut presents an all-time classic of South African music, the definitive remastered edition of Miriam Makeba’s Pata Pata, her first album recorded for Reprise in 1966.

Hard Afro Pop featuring large percussive rhythm section and front line.

Dur-Dur Band emerged in the 1980s, during a time when Somalia's contribution to the creative culture in the Horn of Africa was visible and abundant.

First time ever on vinyl for one of Ali Farka Toure's greatest albums. 

Ofege was formed in the early 1970s by a bunch of teenagers at the St. Gregory’s College in Lagos Nigeria.

Kalita are proud to unveil the first ever compilation focussing on the phenomenon of ‘Burger Highlife’, a crossover of West African melodies with synthesizers, disco and boogie that took over Ghanaian airwaves during the 1980’s and beyond.

Alemayehu Eshete is no less than one of the great voices of the heyday of modern Ethiopian music - the swinging sixties which, in this country, went on until the fall of the emperor Haile Sellassie 1 in 1974.

Ten track compilation of killer instrumental songs, which was originally released on LP in 1972.

Fabled as the city where dreams come to thrive or die, Johannesburg is forever pumping out the life-giving force of criss-crossing sonic tributaries.

With our Africa Airways series flying high we felt it is time to introduce a new compilation focusing on the unique contribution from some of Africa's most recognised female artists and some lesser known ones for good measure.