Int'L & World Music

Vinyl LP pressing. An amazing bit of Brazilian samba funk that also touches on MPB, bossa nova, jazz. Originally released in 1976, this sought-after gem opens with the beautiful version of Burnier & Cartier's "S? Tem Lugar Prß Voc?", building up a...

Vinyl LP pressing. Amadjar means 'the unknown visitor' in the language of Tamashek, the one who seeks hospitality and who's condemned to an inner exile, within a territory or within himself. The story of Amadjar, the ninth Tinariwen album, begins at the...

Vinyl LP pressing. Alfredito 'Sabor' Linares is a globetrotting pianist, composer, bandleader, and producer from Lima, Peru with a long, prolific career in hot Latin music spanning more than half a century. Though Linares has come to recent international...

Vinyl LP pressing. After a 'brief' 25 hour delay in Morocco on his way from Niger, Bombino arrived in Woodstock, New York to record his 2016 album at Applehead Studio with Dave Longstreth (Dirty Projectors). Applehead is a beautiful studio in a converted...

Vinyl LP pressing. African, funky, sarcastic, bewitching, green, ecstatic: these words collide to describe Vaudou Game and all of them are true. Noussin is the fourth album by the French Afro Funk band. Forced into lockdown, like much of the planet,...

Vinyl LP pressing. A totally cohesive slice of lo-fi Tropicalia funk and a perfect reissue to help restore Guilherme Coutinho's place in the pantheon of great Brazilian artists.

Vinyl LP pressing. A classic and essential hi-life and Afro-funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, reissued for the first time. The legendary K. Fimpong's fantastic rare album was recorded in 1980. K. Frimpong was born on July...

Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. With Ask, the Amsterdam-based sextet Altin G?n marks an exuberant return to the '70s Anatolian folk-rock sound that characterized their first two albums, On (2018) and Gece (2019). It is also the closest the band have...

Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. The album "Portuguesa" began to take shape in 2019 and it's genesis has the same basis as all the previous ones: A permanent fascination with fado, for it's inexhaustible paths and possibilities within the same matrix,...

Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release from the Cuban singer and 'Diva of Buena Social Club. At the age of 90, Omara found herself stuck in Havana due to the pandemic, and the busy lady, like everyone else, had to put the tours on hold. Known for her compassion...

Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 EP release. Vladislav Delay presents the third EP in his Hide Behind The Silence series with five 10" releases coming throughout 2023. Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on Ripatti's own label Rajaton...

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. Slipping through the cracks of infinite timelines, the Man from the Future just can't put his past behind him, Continuing Polyrhythmics exploration across genre and stylistic lines, their 2020 release documents them at...