The second album from Stenhjärta follows up Gryning Kommer Röd (Grapefruit Records, 2024) and very much continues in the same vein while approaching a rather damn catchy pop song format at times. Fear not, Stenhjärta is still a group heavily rooted i…
2024 Stock. Shivkumar Sharma's contribution to the Indian classical tradition is that he introduced the Santúr (hammered dulcmimer) to the classical Indian repertoire. That is no small feat, considering the conservative attitude that these performers…
2024 Stock. The Nimbus recordings of Hariprasad Chaurasia are among the best of his recorded repertoire. Hariprasad Chaurasia's hauntingly beautiful interpretation of Raga Lalit probably is the best introduction to that raga for listeners unacquainte…
2024 Stock. Nishat Khan has earned an international reputation over his long, distinguished career, which began when he was just seven and saw him performing ragas at the Queen Elizabeth Hall by the age of 16. With a sitar-playing lineage that goes b…
2024 Stock. Sensitive sitar from one of the instrument's leading younger exponents, specializing in the vocal-derived gayaki style. Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee is an Indian classical sitar and surbahar maestro of the Imdadkhani gharana (school), reco…
Tip!!! 2024 Stock. Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (14 March 1929 – 28 September 1990), (aka Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and popularly known as Z. M. Dagar), was a North Indian (Hindustani) classical musician, one of the 19th generation of Dagar family dhrupad mus…
*2024 stock* "...the opening alap, dreamy and haunting, is most satisfying, whereas in sitar rags, the closing gat is more exciting. Fans of Indian music should welcome it." - The Birmingham News
Tip! *2024 stock* "This CD defines tastes, intelligence, control, musicality, creativity, and performance excellence. Subramaniam's mastery is confirmed in these revelatory ragas, revelatory in the vision that they impart and also as a demonstration …
Zehra is proud to present the debut album Istehlal by the Mohamad Zatari Trio, consisting of musicians from Syria, Iran and India. The trio merges traditional Middle Eastern sounds with contemporary vibes incl. interpretations of Hossein Alizadeh and…
Remastered vinyl reissues of the two essential albums by Turkish folk/ jazz singer Tülay German, starting with the self-titled release (1980) and followed by „Hommage to Nazım Hikmet“ (1982) in early 2022. Referring heavily on turkish poets and the …
Teppana Jänis was born in the village of Uuksujärvi in Suistamo on 21 June 1850. After becoming blind in the late 19th century, he went house to house, supporting himself by playing the kantele, a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instr…
Tip! Two musicians, two different folk music traditions, two soundscapes hundreds of miles apart and one nightingale song. Nightingale melodies inspired this intoxicating folk album by Slovakian flautist Michaela Antalová and Norwegian double bassist…
Yavireri - a Matsigenka word that can be understood as "those who live in the depths" - describes the spirits of the forest and those who, from within the jungle, sustain a way of life rooted in listening, vision, and oral tradition.
2025 stock Originally released in 2006. Under the direction of Anak Agung Gede Mandera; Recorded in New York & London, 1952. The gamelan and dancers of Peliatan were the first to give an extensive foreign tour, demonstrating their revolutionary kebya…
”David Blue was the peer of any singer in this country, and he knew it, and he coveted their audiences and their power, he claimed them as his rightful due. And when he could not have them, his disappointment became so dazzling, his greed assumed suc…
Ultan O’Brien is a fiddle player and composer from the wilds of County Clare in the West of Ireland. Ultan is a performer as well as a regular at sessions all of Ireland and can be found by chance in any pub in Dublin, Cork or some remote village on …
In 1988, David Blair Stiffler risked life and limb to document under-recorded cultural groups living lives of extreme isolation in the mountainous Philippine regions of Nueva Ecija, Aurora, and Luzon. These are the fruits of that expedition. In the g…
The Jericho project is fully in line with the approach of the La Nòvia collective from which it originates, a hub for like-minded musicians reinventing regional folk repertoires, marrying traditional French song with minimalism via the use of drone. …
Faun Fables’ most encompassing collection of “songtelling” to date: a true family album, etched exquisitely and studded with fine-hewed jewels of song. The richly lived-in atmosphere is a sonic world unto itself. Timeless folk music, warmly redolent …
2025 stock The b-side by Joanna Newsom of the now-distant (but still close) "Sprout and the Bean" single, pressed into its very own piece of vinyl with its very own etching on the other side and a Civil War-styled jacket designed just for the occasio…
Several years in the making, Lion can now finally deliver on our promise of another Groove Club volume dedicated to the deep and moving (and grooving) compositions of Sinn Sisamouth, sung by the Emperor of Khmer music himself, alone or duetting with …
Sir Richard Bishop returns with Hillbilly Ragas, an album of raw, solo acoustic guitar explorations. Stripping back to basics, he blends American Primitive style with East Indian raga, creating untamed, rhythmic pieces that evoke the spirit of an out…
Julian Cope, The Prince of Fried has brung forth 12 brand new humdingers: all hummable and lyrically compelling and replete with wah-acoustic guitars and beautiful orchestrations of Mellotron 400 from Liverpool’s Blondest. So inhale the garage fuzz d…
For the first time on vinyl, two hidden gems from Eduardo Mateo’s songbook, recorded in Buenos Aires between 1968 and 1971 at the legendary TNT studios. These versions remained unreleased for over five decades… until now.
The record is largely sung in Scots language, one of Scotland’s three official languages along with Gaelic and English. “Scots gives me a way of expressing myself which is connected directly with the landscapes I love. It brings the songs alive and i…
"Pasé Bél Tan" bridges Louisiana’s past and present through a 34-track compilation and a bilingual book, uniting archival and modern sounds. It explores Francophone/Creole heritage and identity, inviting dialogue on music’s evolving legacy.
80s synth magic for the four-track mind. DIY outsider Rick Cuevas was a post-punk refugee on a vision quest for a hit. Tracked at home in 1984, "The Birds" is that 40-year-delayed viral smash, one of eight retro-futurist anthems that make up Cuevas' …
When not gazing out windows into the stormy Manhattan skyline, Margo Guryan spent her thirties banging out earworms for the likes of Bobbie Gentry, Jackie DeShannon, Claudine Longet, Carmen McCrae, and Julie London at CBS’s April Blackwood Music. Gur…
“Hiraeth,” the second collaborative album by Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka, explores longing for the intangible. Inspired by Welsh “hiraeth,” the duo’s acoustic improvisations—recorded in Sokołowsko and Copenhagen—prioritize vulnerability, nature,…
"The Polydor Years" is a comprehensive triple-CD box set released in 2019 by Floating World Records, chronicling the formative and most influential period of the Pink Fairies, one of the UK’s cult underground rock bands of the early 1970s. This colle…
The influence of the Texan, who died in 1997, on the alternative country scene was quite simply decisive. His songs have been interpreted by numerous stars, including Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris and even Bob Dylan. This double CD con…
Afro-Colombian Pacific rites like gualíes, alabaos, & levantamientos accompany the dead, easing grief & strengthening community bonds through song, prayer, and solidarity.
A lost classic of the Ethiopian Golden Age, reissued in full for the first time! On this 1976 gem of a record, Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebret’s voices intertwine in close harmony, the two “beauties” singing in duet across 10 gorgeous tracks. Th…