Not what you might expect when shopping for African music – unique electronic sounds from Cameroon musician Francis Bebey – as heavy on keyboards as other 70s work is on guitar! There's still plenty of acoustic elements in the mix though, too – lots of earthy percussion at the ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(2LPs – and a very nice package!)
Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit —
Ethiobraz ... LP PNL, New Copy 2LP ...
$34.9939.99About March 20, 2024
Ray & His Court —
Ray & His Court ... LP Sound Triangle/On High, 1973. New Copy (reissue)...
$28.9934.99About March 20, 2024
Some of the tightest funky 70s jamming ever – a lost gem from Ray & His Musical Court, a group that perfectly fuses JB/Horny Horns funk with beat-heavy Afro-Cuban groove! Ray and the group are one of the more obscure funky combos of the era, and it's a damn shame, because the group's ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Ariel —
Ariel ... LP Pick Up/Jazz Room (UK), 1980. New Copy (reissue)...
$23.9928.99About March 20, 2024
Brazilian fusion from Denmark – a really wonderful set from this cool Scandinavian combo! The record feels a fair bit like some of the Brazilian jazz coming out of the west coast of the US during the 70s – soaring, soulful, and put together with a breezy brilliance that almost takes ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Khan Jamal —
Give The Vibes Some ... LP Palm/SeriE.WOC (France), 1974. New Copy (reissue)...
$49.9959.99About March 20, 2024
Shuya Okino/Root Soul —
Destiny – Replayed By Root Soul ... LP Village Again/At Home Sound (Japan), 2014. New Copy (reissue)...
$38.9948.99About March 20, 2024
A wonderful reworking of a wonderful record – as Root Soul take on all the tracks from Shuya Okino's Destiny record – and delivery them with an old school funky club sound! The instrumentation is great – live and very spontaneous, with an energy that takes us back to vintage ... (New Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Breezy electric vocals from 70s Sweden – a great little record that's heavy on electric piano and organ, and which features some sublime vocals from singer Meta Roos! The record does a great job of blending influences from bossa nova and sophisticated American soul – in a style that ... (Vocalists) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Amazing sounds from the righteous Roy Brooks – a drummer who worked strongly in the soul jazz mainstream of the 60s, then stepped out into even headier territory here in the 70s! The album's a spiritual masterpiece all the way through – an album on par with early 70s Impulse sides from ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Mark De Clive-Lowe/Andrea Lombardini/Tommaso Cappellato —
Dreamweavers ... LP Mother Tongue (Italy), 2020. New Copy ...
$26.9929.99About March 22, 2024
Some of the most jazz-based work we've ever heard from keyboardist Mark De Clive-Lowe – continuing a progression that's been taking place over the past decade or so – to a point where the musician is turning out a record to rival the classics of some of the 70s giants who influenced his ... (New Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Tiombe Lockhart feat Robert Glasper, Bilal, eCUSSIONIST —
Aquarius Years ... LP Mother Tongue, Early 2000s. New Copy ...
$25.9929.99About March 22, 2024
The first official release of this debut solo album from Tiombe Lockheart – originally distributed via shows when she was a member of the Platinum Pied Pipers, and still a completely winning bit of spacey soul – with a vibe that really prefaces so much energy on the west coast in more ... (Neo Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Jackson 5 —
Boogie (180 gram pressing) ... LP Motown/Music On Vinyl (Netherlands), Early 1970s. New Copy (reissue)...
$32.9936.99About March 22, 2024
An obscure Jackson 5 album – one that hails from 1979, but which features work from the early 70s – tracks recorded during the glory years of the group's best Motown era, seven of which were unissued at the time – and packaged under the Boogie title to cash in on the chart success ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Black Beat Disco —
Narg Funk Machine ... LP Dig This Way (Italy), New Copy ...
$34.9939.99About March 22, 2024
An excellent later set – a trio date with Doug Raney on guitar and Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass – on long tracks that include "For Minors Only", "Down", "Broken Wing", and "Daybreak". (Jazz) LP, Vinyl record album
A fantastic album that brings together all of the European winners of the recent Downbeat polls – like Karin Krog, John Surman, Albert Mangelsdorff, Francy Boland, Daniel Humair, and Niels Henning Orsted-Pedersen. The sextet is a lively batch of free-swinging European jazz stylists, with ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Stunning work from the great second chapter of Patrice Rushen – the time when the lady moved over to Elektra Records and really opened up her groove! Rushen had already been making great music for most of the 70s – playing fantastic keyboards as a real up-and-coming star on the funky ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 22.
Chaka Khan —
Chaka ... LP Warner/Rhino, 1978. New Copy (reissue)...
$22.9924.99On March 22, 2024
The classic! This beautiful album showed that Chaka could stand very well on her own two feet without the help of Rufus, thank you. Of course, she's got some fantastic help from Arif Mardin, who works as much magic with Chaka here as he'd worked with Aretha Franklin a decade before. Includes the ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 22.
A warmly wonderful trio record – from a time when Chet Baker was exploring a whole new side of his talents! The group features just Doug Raney on guitar and Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass – which gives Chet a lot of room to open up! (Jazz) LP, Vinyl record album
A fantastic live performance from Alice Coltrane – and one that features a very heavy-hitting group, one that features both Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp on tenor, in a spirit that's as strong and righteous as Alice's Ptah The El Daoud album! The lineup features two bassists – Jimmy ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 22.
Dustin O'Halloran —
1001 ... LP Deutsche Grammophon, 2024. New Copy ...
$24.9926.99On March 22, 2024
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 22.
Bahamadia —
Kollage ... LP Chrysalis/Be With (UK), 1996. New Copy 2LP (reissue)...
$43.9948.99About March 22, 2024
An underrated classic! Beats by Primo, Guru, the Beatminerz, the Roots, Ski and others. Tracks include "True Honey Buns", "I Confess", "Word Play", "UKNOWHOWWEDU", "Three The Hard Way" with , "Da Jawn" with the Roots, "3 Tha Hard ... (Hip Hop) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A very cool Sun Ra performance from 1980 – recorded in Rome, and a wonderful summation of all the new directions the Arkestra took during the 70s! There's a wonderful balance here between intimate vocal tracks, sung by June Tyson, and some fuller ensemble numbers – mixed up in ways ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Nat Birchall Unity Ensemble —
New World ... LP Ancient Archive Of Sound (UK), New Copy ...
$35.9939.99About March 22, 2024
Pretty much all the essentials from the Danzig era Misfits catalog with the exception of "Hybrid Moments" – includes the ghoulish hits "She", "Bullet", "Teenagers From Mars", "Night Of The Living Dead", "Where Eagles Dare", "I ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(RSD Essentials pressing – on glow in the dark vinyl! Quantities strictly limited!) This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 22.
Hip hop for the Gainsbourg fan? This Handsome Boy Modeling School spin off has Nathaniel Merriweather, aka Dan The Automator, working in his smoothest, sexiest, loungiest mode ever! Like Handsome Boy, Lovage is packed to the rafters with mysterious guest appearances, including the turntable and ... (Hip Hop) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(RSD Essentials pressing – on clear with red & turquoise splatter colored vinyl. Quantities limited!) This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 22.
Monica Lassen & The Sounds —
Woman ... LP Sony/Lawson (Japan), Late 60s. New Copy (reissue)...
$42.9953.99About March 24, 2024
A set that's definitely all woman – thanks to the sexy sounds of Monica Lassen on vocals! The singer works at a wordless level here – breezily scatting alongside these slinky, jazzy lines from The Sounds – a Japanese group who've clearly drunk deep from the well of bossa nova and ... (Vocalists) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Monica Lassen & The Sounds —
La Jouissance ... LP Sony/Lawson (Japan), Late 60s. New Copy (reissue)...
$42.9953.99About March 24, 2024
A totally wonderful little record that's every bit as sexy as you might guess from the cover – and which also has some of the groovy French elements you might expect from the title! The set's got this slinky, erotic vibe that's almost in Serge Gainsbourg territory – save for the fact ... (Vocalists) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Totally cool, totally amazing music from the enigmatic Francis Bebey – a contemporary on the early 80s African scene of William Onyeabor, and an equally experimental artists! Bebey used a fair bit of electronics, but often with sounds that had acoustic roots – in this case, the ultra ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Andrzej Korzynski —
Possession ... LP Finders Keepers (UK), 1981. New Copy (reissue)...
$28.9935.99On March 25, 2024
Amazing sounds from Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski – penned for a legendary horror film from the early 80s! The movie goes way beyond typical grit and gore – with a surreal bent that's made it the stuff of much discussion over the years – and Korzynski's music definitely lives ... (Soundtracks) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Monday, March 25.
Genius early work from a young Barney Wilen – an album issued in the US during a brief time when the French tenor star was turning a lot of heads on the American scene! The date's a great illustration of Wilen's amazingly deft talents on the tenor right from the start – a keen ear for ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The warm sound of the Sea & Cake gets a just a touch more guitar based on their lucky 7th album – with a bit more of a kick in the drums and bite to the strings in spots – a subtle but definite change from the one of the most consistent indie pop crews ever This time out, longtime ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
("Aluminum" colored vinyl!) This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 29.
Candi Staton —
Candi Staton (1972) ... LP Fame/Kent (UK), 1972. New Copy (reissue)...
$23.9929.99About March 29, 2024
A hard one to find by Candi – and a classic batch of tracks produced by Muscle Shoals legend Rick Hall – probably the best producer ever to work with Candi's voice! The style's a bit smoother than on some of Candi's first few recordings – but still very much in a deep soul mode, ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of our favorite Mo Wax singles, from the label's heyday, or at least our favorite period, when they still had the Swifty graphics with the band down one side of the cover. Funky French club cuts, from the days just before Bob Sinclair and the Yellow Productions folks took it to the big time, ... (New Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of our favorite-ever keyboard albums – a rare lost session from pianist Pete Jolly – one of his only electric dates, and a completely improvised set of grooves! Pete plays electric piano, organ, and even a bit of musette – jamming in the studio with help from Chuck Berhofer ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(A beautiful clear amber vinyl pressing – remastered by Kevin Gray from the original tapes!)
Machi Oul Big Band —
Quetzalcoatl ... LP Souffle Continu (France), New Copy ...
$31.9934.99About March 29, 2024
Maybe our favorite record ever from Thievery Corporation – and one that really stays true to the sound of all the styles that have inspired them! For over a decade, the duo have been playing with elements borrowed from bossa nova, old soundtracks, French pop, and lounge – but this is ... (New Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 29.
Beautiful work from reed player Tony Scott – recorded during a time when he was doing a lot of soul-searching with Eastern cultures! The set's a stripped-down batch of long tracks, with Scott's clarinet in the lead, and backing by 2 Japanese musicians on Koto and Shackuhachi. The tracks are ... (Global Grooves) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 29.
Titles include "Night In Tunisia", "Cry Me A River", "This Year's Kisses", "Music Goes Round & Round", "Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie", "My Reverie", and "You're My Thrill". (Vocalists) LP, Vinyl record album
(Part of the Verve Acoustic Sounds series – heavy cover and vinyl!) This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 29.
An amazing album by the great guitarist Eddie Fisher – and completely unlike his later funk records! Eddie plays stripped down jazz with a small combo that includes organ by Robert Selby, bass by Paul Jackson, and some rhythm guitar by Phil Westmoreland – and the twin-guitar approach ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 29.
New Mastersounds —
Old School ... LP One Note (UK), New Copy ...
$24.9929.99About March 29, 2024
One of the most legendary albums from groundbreaking Brazilian music pioneer Tom Ze – and a record that introduces itself with an equally legendary cover image! (Hint: that's not an eyeball on the front.) Ze had already been recording a bit by the time of this record – but this set is ... (Brazil) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 29.
Yusef Lateef's Detroit is a mighty funky one – a great summation of all the soulful sounds he'd crafted on previous records, but with a full groove that really points the way towards the 70s! Lateef's reeds are still the main attraction – great solos on tenor and flute – but ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Creation Rebel —
Psychotic Jonkanoo ... LP Statik/On-U Sound (UK), 1981. New Copy (reissue)...
$25.9927.99On March 29, 2024
An early Adrian Sherwood production! Titles include "The Dope", "African Space", "Threat To Creation", "Highest Degree", "Mother Don't Cry", and "Drum Talk". (Reggae) LP, Vinyl record album
This item will not be delivered to you before Friday, March 29.
Creation Rebel —
Rebel Vibrations ... LP On-U Sound (UK), New Copy (reissue)...
$25.9927.99On March 29, 2024