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Electronic Touches Belly Dance
Wewantsounds continues its Middle East reissue series with Assa'd Khoury's 1978 rarity, Electronic Touches Belly Dance. Reissued for the first time in nearly 50 years in partnership with Byblos Records founder Mozart Chahine, the album features Orien…
Ritual Riots
With Ritual Riots, Stéphane Hoareau delivers a deeply rooted work in créolité, conceived as a force of unity, resistance, and transmission. A guitarist from Réunion Island and a key figure in the emergence of contemporary global music scenes, Hoareau…
The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier
The revered debut from the genre-spanning guitarist, singer and songwriter, Terry Callier, has returned to vinyl. Originally recorded in 1964 for Prestige Records, the album features Callier’s version of standards such as “Cotton Eyed Joe” and “900 M…
Divine Music From Jail
Oidupaa Vladimir Oyun was a Tuvan musician and a man with an amazing, but really heavy destiny, a man of unbending will and divine talent and the creator of a unique style of throat singing, accompanied by playing the button accordion. Researchers de…
The Enigma Of Evil
** 2026 stock ** Experimental psychedelic doom from Lima, Peru. The album by El Hijo De La Aurora explores new sonic territories, and is a balance between classic 70s doom and experimental sounds with unconventional instruments like Tibetan bowls and…
Poison Gown
2026 stock Poison Gown is the 2016 album by Portland-based chamber ensemble Disemballerina, blending cello, viola, guitar, and harp into a haunting, doom-laden sound. Released on Minotauro Records, its six tracks evoke dark romanticism with slow, glo…
Amarante-Cerisier
*300 copies limited edition* What if, alongside the mainstream history of music, with careers and discographies spanning ten or fifty years from album to album, there was an underground, minority history, that of artists and projects with only one re…
Undertaker Please Drive Slow
A long time resident of the Appalachian town of Asheville, North Carolina, Shane Parish is the mastermind behind the cutting edge rock band Ahleuchatistas. Here he steps out with a remarkable and soulful acoustic solo project that digs deep into Appa…
Antoine Dougbé et L'Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou 1977 - 1982
Who was Antoine Dougbé? Even the most dedicated crate-digger might go their whole life without stumbling across any of the three LPs he released in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Yet all the musicians who happened to cross paths with him remember him…
Istikhbars and Improvisations
On Istikhbars And Improvisations, Mustapha Skandrani turns solo piano into a bridge across the Mediterranean, translating Arabo‑Andalusian vocal modes into crystalline keyboard meditations that move like a modal Goldberg from Algiers to Paris and bac…
Happy Sad
Tim Buckley ranks among the most adventurous singer-songwriters, and 1969's Happy Sad shows his talent in full bloom. After two albums working with lyricist Larry Beckett, the Elektra collection is the first of all-Buckley originals, and these six so…
The Haunted House
Out on Leaving Records, The Haunted House is the latest EP from Los Angeles-based artist and musician Diva Dompé. Having spent the better part of two decades channeling otherworldly transmissions with projects including Yialmelic Frequencies, BlackBl…
Live at WFMU (LP)
Gwenifer Live at WFMU was recorded on December 8th, at the tail end of Gwenifer Raymond's December North American tour dates. This session captures Gwenifer Raymond performing a stark, spellbinding selection of songs drawn from her critically acclaim…
El Nuevo Montuno Llegó
First legitimately licensed and remastered vinyl edition of this legendary salsa dura classic from Puerto Rico’s Roberto Y Su Nuevo Montuno, originally released on Rubén Haddock’s Uniart label in 1970. Featuring detailed liner notes that reveal the u…
Dushore Dying
If the blues represents "the expression of a dissatisfied mind" then this EP can be considered a blues EP.  If not sonically then in attitude and intention.  A mind dissatisfied enough to travel three hours west to the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania …
Iivana Mišukka
Death Is Not The End present a further volume of Arja Kastinen's eerie amalgamations of 110 year old wax cylinders with her own meticulously transcribed takes, this time focussing in on Armas Otto Väisänen's field recordings of kantele player Iivana …
Vipérine
*300 copies limited edition* "Turner Williams Jr.'s music unfolds like a crossroads, where ancient and modern traditions intersect and attract each other. We hear American Primitive Guitar (Robbie Basho, John Fahey, Sandy Bull), the trance of Indian …
Songs Of Mine
Reissued on vinyl for the first time the sole album from this Westland folk trio, recorded in 1972 at the Folk Heritage Studio. An esoteric acid-pop masterpiece with irresistible and obscure melodies, a must have for all the British folk revival fans…
Bala
There’s a rich resonance to the music of Fodé Lassana Diabaté, whose music has travelled with him from his griot family in West Africa to the North American coast of Unama'kik (Cape Breton). Bala, his first album of purely balafón music, brings toget…
Araya Lam
*2025 European press* ‘Araya Lam’ marks the third album from The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band. Following their releases ‘21st Century Molam’ and ‘Planet Lam’, the band delves even deeper into the roots of Isan music, collaborating with t…
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