Folk & Traditional / All styles

1970's Dutch edition on Philips' "Song And Sound The World Around" ethnic music series of the 1968 Santūr, Tunbūk, And Tār album of superb recordings of Persian traditional music.

1985 LP released by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, the Ireland-based association promoting Irish music and culture worldwide with Irish traditional musicians celebrating European Music Year.

Early 1970's re-issue on RCA of the 1968 hair-raising first album by the very intense Sicilian folk music interpreter. With original innersleeve.

Superb double-album on Wergo with classical shakuhachi masterworks beautifully played by the acclaimed performer.

Rare 2012 first vinly re-issue on Arabesque of the 1992 CD-only compilation of early 1970's recordings of Lebanese traditional music / Western psychedelic rock fusion.

Rare 1980 album on Ducale with diverse field recordings made in Nepal.

Early 1970's re-issue on Musicaphon of the Original 1965 album of music Of Tibetan Buddhism on Bärenreiter/Musicaphon's wonderful Unesco Collection "A Musical Anthology Of The Orient".

1973 album on I Dischi Dello Zodiaco with field recordings made "on the roads of Vietnam" during the Vietnam war.

Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Ziad Rahbani reissue program with Ana Moush Kafer, a classic album by the Lebanese legend Ziad Rahbani, recorded at his By-Pass Studio in Beirut during the height of the Lebanese Civil War in 1985. Showcasing…

Tip! Gagaku is the oldest of the Japanese performing arts, with a history more than a thousand years old. The term refers to Japanese classical music and dance, traditionally performed by families of musicians linked to the ancient Imperial court, an…

2025 stock In France: Live at the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (1977) is a previously unissued live recording from the legendary bluesman B.B. King captured by the Ortf in France on October 7, 1977 and released on producer Zev Feldman’s Deep Digs l…

Produced and annotated by Charlotte Heth, a member of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma and a noted ethnomusicologist. This disc offers ceremonial and social music of Indians from the Great Plains. Although the styles of singing and drumming vary grea…

The racist stereotyping of blacks in the minstrel shows that enjoyed such enormous popularity during the latter half of the nineteenth century might be considered reason enough not to resurrect this material, but anything with so much cultural impact…

Brass bands flourished in mid-nineteenth century America and were an integral and indispensable part of the social, cultural, and political life of the land. Regimental bands assumed tremendous importance during the Civil War whilst civic bands suppl…

In aboriginal times the coastal Indians of Northern California shared a tremendous wealth of food, clothing, and material goods. From Trinidad, California, to the Oregon border, the forests almost touch the Pacific Ocean, which gave the people the bo…

An evergreen for Fourth of July festivities, this reissue of music from the American Revolution restores to the catalog a classic of the original Recorded Anthology of American Music. It is a scholarly and well-programmed musical recreation of a defi…

American society was much less homogeneous during the Great Depression (1929 - 1941) than it became after World War II. There were still quite sharply defined classes, divided along economic, geographic, and ethnic lines. Each group was affected by t…

The great age of the American march can be bounded by the years 1876 and 1926. This record gives a representative sampling of the American march during those halcyon years with a deliberate emphasis on some of the period's lesser-known and hard-to-fi…

Life in 19th-Century Cincinnati The Harmoneion Singers; John Miner, conductor; Peter Basquin, piano and harmonium; Clifford Jackson, baritone; John Aler, tenor Where Home Is is an anthology of traditional songs of family and religious life coupled …

Music of the San Juan Pueblo, Seneca, Northern Arapaho, Northern Plains, Creek, Yurok, Navajo, Cherokee, and Southern Plains Indians  The importance of American Indian music is found not in its impact on modern scholarship and composition but in the …

This album is a loosely structured survey of different types of vocal styles and resources found in rural Anglo-American lower- and middle-class communities. Some of the modes of performance, such as hollering and solo ballad singing, have almost die…

This recording is a collection of American songs and hymns published mostly during the 1860s and 1870s that deal generally with angels, heaven, and death. Considering the rather morbid subject matter of these songs, they are surprisingly pleasant and…

The Civil War, one of the most deeply felt episodes in America's history, has left a heritage of music that reflects those feelings in the most vivid way. Indeed, this music was so intimately involved with events of the time that it became part of th…

*300 copies limited edition* 'After the Bend is the second album from Louisville based Flanger Magazine, and the follow up to FM’s 2018 debut, Breslin. Whereas Breslin was the solo creation of Christopher Bush, an album noted for “an astute synthesis…

2007 release ** "Ecstatic and silent mantras in the traditional sense, with only acoustic instruments, so as to preserve their deep spiritual impact."

*250 copies limited edition* In 2019, Resistencia Sonora was launched as a collaborative project where urban resistances and ethnic-peasant rural resistances converge in the greater area of Montes de Maria, situated in Colombia's western Caribbean re…

Original 1973 edition of the live Witthüser & Westrupp double album on Kosmische Musik with gatefold sleeve.

Original 1972 edition of the fourth Witthüser & Westrupp album and the second on Pilz, with gatefold sleeve.

Original 1971 edition of the third Witthüser & Westrupp album and the first on Pilz, with gatefold sleeve.

Rare original 1971 edition of the second Witthüser & Westrupp album on Ohr with gatefold sleeve.

Original 1970 edition of the first Witthüser & Westrupp album on Ohr released under the sole name of Bernd Witthüser.

"Jackson C. Frank has become a folk legend. As an American folk musician and songwriter known for his brief but influential career in the 1960s. His debut album, Jackson C. Frank, is considered a folk classic. It featured songs like 'Blues Run the Ga…

King Tubby and producer Bunny ‘striker’ Lee are intertwined in the birth of dub music. After discovering a mistake that made a ‘serious joke’ they went on to release the first pressings of this new musical genre namely ‘dub music’. Tubby’s vast knowl…

The definitive collection of Denny’s early home demos authorized by her estate, with Sandy's daughter Georgia Lucas’ own charming drawings of her mother making their first appearance on an official Denny release, plus previously unpublished images of…

Hometown to Come, the second full-length album by Minhwi Lee. The eight tracks were written over a period of seven years after Lee's first album and loosely form a single story, contemplating how people who have lost their hometown can return. “What …

Violinist Nils Økland and keyboardist Sigbjørn Apeland, musical partners for thirty years, have long explored the interface of Norwegian traditional music and improvisation. Glimmer, an exceptionally beautiful and touching album, takes as its startin…

The band Tuleje consists of Gosia Zagajewska, Ksawery Wójciński and Wojtek Kurek. Their original arrangement of folk music from eastern Greater Poland is filled with deep respect for the original material, and at the same time expresses their subject…

Still Valentine’s Day 1969’ is the highly anticipated live recording which was recorded at the same night as John Fahey’s seminal release ‘The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick’ by influential solo guitarist Sandy Bull. Bull took elements of so many diff…