Int'L & World Music

This album is a celebration of benga and rumba music recorded in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 1980s. The five Kenyan groups chosen all feature 'Boys' in their band names in one form or another (Kangundo D Boys, Kyanganga Boys Band, Nyeri Honey Boys,...

This "Indian Rare Groove" volume explores the artists who redesigned the musical universe of Bollywood. During the 70's and the 80's, funk, soul and disco are invited inside most productions. From comedies to horror movies or thrillers through romantic...

Third album by the Green Lads, a boosted electro-Celtic quintet, "Nebula" is an addictive river of positivity. A bewitching journey through the nebula of their inspirations that takes you from green Ireland to the deserts of the Orient, from the raging...

These amazing Brazilian soul-funk nuggets from Renata Lu?, originally appeared on a 7" compacto and on her self-titled debut album for Copacabana Records in 1971. The up tempo break-beat funk of 'Faz Tanto Tempo' has a real dance-floor cross-over appeal...

There is a tidal wave of cross-cultural expression washing inland out of Long Beach and Rudy de Anda is at the forefront of this genre-bending, sonic re-definition of the musical melting pot. Young and softspoken, his is cutting and bringing a fresh...

The wondrous psychedelic/guitar pop private press artifact left behind in 1988 - Aber Heidschi is the work of Naoki Asai, a Tama Artr School student at the time. The album was recorded quietly with help from friends in rental studios around Kichijoji and...

The voice of La Zarra is a theater, an orchestra in full performance in the heart of an emotional storm. Canadian-born singer-songwriter, La Zarra mixes genres, erases eras and outlines a new path where clich?s implode and eventually disappear...

The undisputed master of the Glampop is back with two extraordinary songs. Hollow Men: 80s, Bobby and his friends smoked clove cigarettes, listened to Bauhaus and Gary Numan and read dark poetry, which they didn't really understand. Bobby was...

The third in STRUT's Inspiration Information studio collaboration series brings together an intriguing pairing between one of Africa's greatest and most innovative bandleaders, MULATU ASTATKE, with the next level musicianship of THE HELIOCENTRICS...

The third appearance in the Brazil 45 series for the mighty Sonia Santos, here with a relatively under-the-radar gem. 'Mario' is a quirky samba-funk bomb with tripped out synths, wah-wah guitar, horn stabs and is one aimed straight for the dance-floor...

The Talbots were one of the first notable vocal groups from Bermuda to gain international acclaim. The group frequently performed for television in the 1950s, appearing on Ed Sullivan's variety shows and other programs. The Talbots performed Trinidadian...

The solo project of Japanese hardcore punk band NICE VIEW's vocalist, Shota Terai, focuses on folk based songs. As his new challenge, he recorded this new album with the band unlike previous works with strings and more like chamber music.1. Memento 2...