Best of African Funk, Jazz and Afro-Beat

Best of African Funk, Jazz and Afro-Beat

Great rhythms and beautiful melodies.
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In Ghana “to chop” is to eat, so the phrase No Funk, No Chop quite simply means; deliver afro funk and disco bombs, or no one will eat today.
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No Funk, No Chop Volume 1
Various Artists
African Funk
£22.00
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Formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums; Khruangbin’s sounds are rooted in the deepest waters of world music infused with classic soul, dub and psychedelia. Their 2015 debut album ‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’ was heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s Thai cassettes the band listened to on their long car journeys to rehearsal in the Texan countryside. ‘Con Todo El Mundo’ takes inspiration not just from South East Asia but similarly underdiscovered funk and soul of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, particularly Iran.
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Con Todo El Mundo
Khruangbin
African Funk
£23.00
Live! is an album recorded in 1971 by Fela Kuti's band Africa '70, with the addition of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker on two songs.
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Fela With Ginger Baker Live!
Fela Kuti
African Funk
£24.00
A fantastic and rare album by the Afro soul maestro.
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African Voodoo
Manu Dibango
African Funk
£25.00
Hailu Mergia weaves Moog and DX7 synthesizers, Rhodes electric piano and rhythm machine into the rich harmonic layering of his accordion, creating hauntingly psychedelic, elegantly arranged instrumentals.
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Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye
Hailu Mergia
African Jazz
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Issued in 1975, this is the articulation of Zambia’s Zamrock ethos.
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Africa
Amanaz
African
£33.00
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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'.
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Life Stories
Ebo Taylor
African Funk
£24.00
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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.
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New York - Addis - London - The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975
Mulatu Astatke
African Jazz
£32.00
Living near Dortmund, Atta worked as a day-laborer, farmhand and English teacher, but he was also absorbing Stevie Wonder, the Staples Singers, KC and the Sunshine Band, Michael Jackson and the disco movement.
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Obaa Sima
Ata Kak
African
£23.00
This disc is an overt response to the consistent harassment afflicting Fela Kuti's Kalakuta Republic in the early '70s under the oppressive Lagos authorities.
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Expensive Shit
Fela Kuti
African Funk
£22.00
2000 Blacks Got To Be Free is a musical collaboration between the African American vibraphone player Roy Ayers and Fela.
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Music Of Many Colours
Fela Kuti and Roy Ayers
African Funk
£25.00
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Compilation on Wagram Music of Afro-Funk / Disco and Rare Groove heavy hitters!
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African Rare Groove – Rare Funky Songs From Africa
Various Artists
African Funk
£30.00
Next up on Africa Seven is the second edition of our "African Funk Experimentals" LPs. With these we took some of our favourite African artists, choose the most funky we can find and then put together a compilation of their choicest and funkiest tracks.
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African Funk Experimentals (1979 to 1981)
Pasteur Lappe
African Funk
£24.00
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No effort has been spared to document these 15 irresistible tracks and the music scene from the 70s in Ghana and Togo.
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Afro Beat Airways: West African Shock Waves: Ghana & Togo 1972-1979
Various Artists
African Funk
£33.00
It was the sound of post-independence Nigeria, a time of celebration and wealth but, ultimately, of political oppression. 
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Nigeria 70 - Lagos Jump
Various Artists
African Funk
£28.00
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Africamore: The Afro-Funk Side of Italy (1973-1978) Continuing Four Flies' dedication to delving into lesser-explored periods of Italian music, Africamore takes us on a captivating journey into the intersection of Afro-funk and the Italian soundscape during the six years between 1973 and 1978 
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Africamore - The Afro-funk side of Italy (1973-1978)
Various Artists
African
£36.00
Les Amazones d’Afrique is a creative force that embraces international voices; sweet, strong harmonies that summon the rights of women and girls; and a meltdown of heritage and new gen talent.
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Musow Danse
Les Amazones d'Afrique
African
£27.00
Over the past few years Acid Jazz has released a series of reissues from the enigmatic ‘Albarika Store’ – a goldmine of records from Benin, West Africa from the late ‘60s through to the early ’80s. 
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Le Sato 2
T.p. Orchestre Poly-rythmo
African
£27.00
Fela Kuti lives on! This is the 10th Anniversary reissue of the classic tribute album pressed on opaque banana yellow and opaque red vinyl benefiting the Red Hot organization. 
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Red Hot and Fela
Various Artists
African Funk
£28.00
Afrique Victime sounds and feels like a Tuareg hand reaching down from the sky, and we are very lucky for this chance to get lifted.
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Afrique Victime
Mdou Moctar
African Funk
£23.00
First full length album since 2020! Third full-length LP from the band. Recorded live to tape. Features a locked-groove on the B-side.
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Hox
Black Market Brass
African Funk
£29.00
Our compilation focuses on the funkier end of Ekambi's music drawn mainly from the 1975 to 1978 period.
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African Funk Experimentals (1975-1982)
Ekambi Brilliant
African Funk
£21.00
After what seemed like ages we finally tracked Eko down in Cameroun and persuaded him that a re-issue was most definitely needed.
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Funky Disco Music
Eko
African Funk
£22.00
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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.
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Inspiration Information
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics
African Jazz
£22.00
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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!”
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Ibio-Ibio
Camilla George
African Jazz
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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.
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Anbessa
Akalé Wubé, Manu Dibango
African Jazz
£23.00
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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.
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Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972 - 1991)
Various Artists
African Funk
£33.00
Witch's musical arc is contained to a five year span and, in retrospect, is a logical one.
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Lazy Bones
Witch
African
£27.00
Rich in ancestral flows, between Ghana and Europe, powered by deep, conga led rhythms and seductive warm horn riffs come Jembaa Groove, whose new album and newly rendered sound, reminds us that jazz, in its contemporary, soulful form is not just a London ‘ting’.
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Ye Ankasa | We Ourselves
Jembaa Groove
African
£24.00
High-quality vinyl old school jacket faithfully reproducing the iconic “mermaid” design from the 1973 release.
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Rail Band
Rail Band
African
£26.00
Inspired by his cultural background Bukky goes in search of the cuisine traditions of his mother land Nigeria.
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Obedun (Sweet SOUP)
Bukky Leo
Afro-Beat
£24.00
Raised on Colombia’s Caribbean coast and united by it’s capital, Bogota, Ghetto Kumbé combine the rich musical heritage of their home, to invoke the spirit of digital rumba in audiences all over the world.
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Ghetto Kumbé
Ghetto Kumbé
African Funk
£25.00
Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after many years driving a cab in Washington, DC.
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Pioneer Works Swing (Live)
Hailu Mergia
African Jazz
£26.00
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From the landlocked tropical savanna of Upper Volta, an ever-evolving cast of musicians brought the world's rhythms to the streets of their native Bobo-Dioulasso.
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Air Volta
Volta Jazz
African
£26.00
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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.
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Nigeria 70: No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-funk & Juju 1973 -1987
Various Artists
Afro-Beat
£28.00
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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”. 
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Afreaka! (1LP Magenta Coloured)
Demon Fuzz
African Funk
£32.00
On the title track Fela and the backup singers ridicule the mindset of men in uniform over an urgent, quick-march accompaniment from Afrika 70.
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Zombie
Fela Kuti
Afro-Beat
£26.00
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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.
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Dancing Time - Best Of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents
The Funkees
African Funk
£25.00
This album captures unique moments spent under the spell of sweeping guitar solos of the musicians of M’berra. 
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M Berra
Khalab & M'berra Ensemble
African
£27.00
A treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa.
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Kenya Special
Various Artists
African Funk
£30.00
Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania.
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Poulo Warali
Awa Poulo
Afro-Beat
£24.00
For 20 years the Tuareg culture and music has fascinated the world.
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Aboogi
Imarhan
Afro-Beat
£22.00
Abacothozi were formed in 1973 by bassist Berthwel Maphumulo, formerly of the Elite Swingsters.
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Release Date: 31/05/2024 -Thema Maboneng
Abacothozi
African Funk
£27.00
Intuitive, authentic, and full of ruthless rhythms, Madalitso will make you clap, dance, smile, and rethink everything you thought you knew about African sound and instrumentation.
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Musakayike
Madalitso Band
African
£28.00
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In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife.
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Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93
Various Artists
African Funk
£32.00
Nigerian classic Black Children Sledge Funk Group 1976's debut album full of positive vibrations and feel-good grooves! A sunny blend of Reggae and Afro-Funk with a lot of percussions, psychedelic and rhythmic guitar and organ.
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Love Is Fair
Black Children Sledge Funk Group
Afro-Beat
£24.00
The ultra-rare holy grail masterpiece by Elcados originally released by EMI-Nigeria in 1973 and recorded by Kayode Salami.
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This World is Full of Injustice
Elcados
Afro-Beat
£25.00
Archival reissue of the Afroprog-psych Zamrock masterpiece.
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Lukombo Vibes
Witch
African Funk
£27.00
Rejoice is a very special collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz.
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Rejoice
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela
African Jazz
£22.00
Lo-fi Tuareg guitar from renowned Timbouctou musician Abba Gargando.
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Abba Gargando
Abba Gargando
African
£26.00
Soul Jazz Records' new Nigeria Soul Fever is their first release to explore the vast wealth of Nigerian music recorded in the 1970s.
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Nigeria Soul Fever - Afro Funk, Disco and Boogie West African Disco Mayhem!
Various Artists
African Funk
£37.00
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Hard Afro Pop featuring large percussive rhythm section and front line.
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Afro Rock
Alan Parker/john Cameron
African
£24.00
Konkolo Orchestra is a Zürich/Switzerland based project initiated by multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Alexis Malefakis. With strong jazzy afrobeat and highlife references, Konkolo Orchestra pays homage to musical innovators such as Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Tony Oladipo Allen, Ebo Taylor and many more.
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Future Pasts
Konkolo Orchestra
African
£25.00
Digitally remastered from the original tapes, Ali Farka Touré’s ‘Green’ album showcases Ali's acoustic guitar and vocals, both alone and accompanied by calabash and ngoni (traditional four string guitar)
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Green (Ali Farka Toure)
Ali Farka Touré
African
£27.00
The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil.
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Souvenirs
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
African
£27.00
In Sudan, the political and cultural are inseparable.
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Two Niles to Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan
Various Artists
African
£28.00
By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one of the most avidly followed musicians in West Africa. 
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Roforofo Fight
Fela Kuti & Africa 70
Afro-Beat
£22.00
Also featuring Ginger Baker, the title track is among Fela’s first overtly political lyrics.
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Why Black Man They Suffer
Fela Kuti
Afro-Beat
£22.00
The deepest song here is the second track, "Mr Grammarticalogylisationalism Is The Boss,” which ridicules the notion that speaking ""proper"" English demonstrates superior intelligence, and bemoans the fact that doing so is, unfortunately, a requirement for upward mobility.
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Excuse-o
Fela Kuti
Afro-Beat
£22.00
This epic Afrobeat album contains just one eponymous track clocking in at just over 25 minutes in length, and beginning with a mysterious and psychedelic musical interplay between Fela on organ and Tony Allen on drums. 
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Confusion
Fela Kuti
Afro-Beat
£26.00
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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.
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Volume 5
Dur-dur Band
African
£24.00
Gratitude is the eagerly anticipated new solo album from Abiodun Oyewole, the poet, teacher and founding member of The Last Poets.
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Gratitude
Abiodun Oyewole
African
£28.00
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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.
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Wede Harer Guzo
Hailu Mergia
African Jazz
£24.00
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First time ever on vinyl for one of Ali Farka Toure's greatest albums. 
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The Source
Ali Farka Touré
African
£33.00
Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia.
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Che Belew (March Forward)
Ayalew Mesfin
African Jazz
£30.00
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Ofege was formed in the early 1970s by a bunch of teenagers at the St. Gregory’s College in Lagos Nigeria.
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How Do You Feel
Ofege
African Funk
£32.00
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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.
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Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Music In The Digital Age, 1983 - 1992 (Volume 1)
Various Artists
African
£26.00
First official reissue of this essential Zamrock album, painstakingly restored, remastered and pieced together from multiple copies of the incredibly rare original album.
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Black Power
Peace
African
£27.00
An essential addition to any collection of continental African music in general and Nigerian music in particular
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Nigeria 70 - The Definitive Lp Edition
Various Artists
Afro-Beat
£32.00
"I heard about Seif Abu Bakr and The Scorpions maybe 3-4 years ago. Their album "Jazz, Jazz Jazz" ended up on my radar because of an eBay auction with the bids eventually rising daily up to a staggering 1000$.
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Jazz, Jazz, Jazz
The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr
African Funk
£27.00
Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia.
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Good Aderegechegn (Blindsided By Love)
Ayalew Mesfin
African
£28.00
Welcome To Zamrock!, presented in two volumes, is an overview of its most beloved ensembles, and a trace of its arc from its ascension, to its fall, to its resurgence.
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Welcome to Zamrock Vol 2
Various Artists
African
£32.00
Immy Owusu’s debut LP LO-LIFE! draws on the work of West African giants such as Ebo Taylor and William Onyeabor as well as psychedelic troubadours like Rodriguez.
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LO-LIFE!
Immy Owusu
African
£30.00
Since the 60s, Congolese guitar combos and orchestras have always been popular across West and Central Africa. 
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Ewondo Rythm
Ondigui and Bota Tabansi International
Afro-Beat
£25.00
The album is a fusion of highlife and soul.
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Funky Highlife
C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7
African Funk
£26.00
It’s a voice that soars – pure, clear and true — above bass and synths, traditional percussion and infectious Mande guitar grooves. A stop-you-in-your-tracks voice instantly familiar to anyone in Mali, West Africa: Rokia Koné, aka the Rose of Bamako.
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BAMANAN
Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee
African
£29.00
Sometimes a musical message is so urgent that questions of recording quality are almost beside the point. Informally recorded in 1969 in a noisy club – Copenhagen’s famous Jazzhus Montmartre – the flavour of this album is ‘documentary’ rather than luxuriantly hi-fidelity, yet the essence of Abdullah Ibrahim’s communication comes through loud and clear. 
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African-Piano
Abdullah Ibrahim
African Jazz
£24.00
After “Afro Exotique – Adventures In The Leftfield, Africa 1972-88” was enthusiastically embraced by heads, collectors and core Africa Seven enthusiasts alike, we dived back down into the vaults, and hope we’ve come up with another volume of listenable esoterica from roughly the same period.
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Afro Exotique 2 – Further Adventures In The Leftfield, Africa 1975-87
Various Artists
African Funk
£24.00
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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.
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Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol 2
Alemayehu Eshete
African Funk
£24.00
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Ten track compilation of killer instrumental songs, which was originally released on LP in 1972.
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Ethiopian Modern Instrumental
Various Artists
African Funk
£24.00
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.
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Indaba Is
Various Artists
African Jazz
£17.00
And now, after a 10-year hiatus, Doumbia is back with a new set of original songs. “Kanawa”, the word and the song, refers to the youth fleeing poverty and unemployment in Mali.
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Kanawa
Nahawa Doumbia
African
£23.00
The past five years have seen amapiano, South Africa’s electronic music movement born in the townships of the country’s Gauteng province, evolve from an underground sound to a nationwide mainstream staple.
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Amapiano Selections
Teno Afrika
African
£23.00
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Keleketla! is an expansive collaborative project, reaching outward from Johannesburg to London, Lagos, L.A. and West Papua.
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Keleketla!
Keleketla!
African Funk
£26.00
Ebo Taylor is one of Ghana's finest producer/arrangers. Taylor was heavily influential in the unique sound that emerged from the country in the 70's; a combination of traditional Ghanaian with Afro-beat, jazz, and funk rhythms. He worked with bands including Stargazers Band, Broadway Dance Band, Black Star Highlife Band (with Teddy Osei and Sol Amarfio who later joined Osibisa), Apagya Show Band and fellow musicians C.K. Mann, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and the legendary Pat Thomas.
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My Love And Music
Ebo Taylor
African Funk
£25.00
Gentleman is both an Africa 70 and Afro-beat masterpiece.
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Gentleman
Fela Kuti
Afro-Beat
£23.00
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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.
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Mothers Garden (The Funky Sounds Of Female Africa 1975 - 1984)
Various Artists
African Funk
£23.00