Int'L & World Music

In 1988, D?but de soir?e released "Nuit de folie". The title achieves the best sale of 45 rpm of the year 1988 in France with 1,500,000 copies sold. At the end of the year, the duo again enjoyed great success with the following single "La vie la nuit",...

In 1979, long-time Highlife veteran Aigbe Lebarty decided to try his hand at high-energy disco funk. Checking the Lebartone Aces at the door, he borrowed the Sex Bombers from Prince Omo Lawal-Osula and created Unity, a sure-fire dance floor stomper that...

In 1977 Jake Sollo returned to Nigeria to record his first solo album, Coming Home. His long-term band, The Funkees, had imploded in London. And his big break with the Afro super band, Osibisa, was cut short when he went on strike with Kiki Gyan and...

In 1976, when Georges Lautner and Philippe Sarde imagined the instrumental colors of Death of a Swine (Mort d'un Pourri), they immediately agreed to give priority to the smooth timbre of the saxophone. Lautner: 'It wouldn't be bad if we had a Stan...

In 1974, a brash young designer called Augustus Kerry Taylor had an idea. He'd gather together the hottest musicians in Ghana and record an album of the heaviest and funkiest sounds coming out of America. And this time, he wouldn't just design the cover,...

In 1972, Tom Z? released what has been noted to be one of the most important records of his career, ?Se o Caso ? Chorar?. The singer and songwriter's third album confirmed that he was one of the most irreverent and creative artists in Brazlian Tropicalia...

In 1969, Michel Colombier, composer of the credits ½ Dim Dam Dom ?, of ½ Salut les Copains ! ?, virutoso orchestrator of songs, generics or BOF, creates and conceptualizes the album ½ Capot Pointu ?, even if it will remain quite confidential when it was...

Import only vinyl pressing of the seventh studio album from Etienne Daho who has spent time working with Saint Etienne over the years.

Import 2 x LP set. Universal. 2019.1. L'africain 2. Ouvrez Les Frontières 3. Où Aller Où? 4. Africain À Paris 5. Ayebada 6. Soldier 7. Non À L'excision 8. Foly 9. Viens Voir 10. Promesses Bla Bla 11. Gauche Droite 12. Ma Côte D'ivoire (Feat. Beta Simon)

IKOQWE (pronounced ee-kok-weh) is a new project by Batida (aka Pedro Coquen?o, the Angola-born, Lisbon-raised artist who ranks among the leading exponents of the new wave of African electronic music), and Luaty Beir?o, aka Ikonoklasta, the Angolan rapper...

If you were to ask Habibi Funk for a defining label track, there are a few that come to mind: from Fadoul's "Sid Redad," Dalton's "Soul Brother" to Ahmed Malek's "Omar Gatlato." However, none are as widely connected with them at this point as Hamid Al...

If Surround can be listened to as music that's asclose to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener's sound scenery, or assomething that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle groundbetween sound and music, and transforming it into a...