Folk & Traditional / All styles

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

From the metal chimes of the gamelan, to the Burmese harp, passing through the Chinese Hu Ch'in, a traditional and ancient chordophone-bowed lute, Early Traditional Instruments In Asia is a sheer historical document that represents some of the most ancient instruments known to mankind. 45rpm audiophile vinyl; Limited edition of 300.

*few copies available* Private Charles Duvelle label, from the archive of Charles Duvelle includes recordings from disques Ocora 1960 to 1974 featuring complete and unedited recordings from master tapes.

With a deeply resonant voice that exuded a hundred things at once—pain, joy, weariness and decades ofexperience—Fred Neil created a small body of work that covered the world like paint. No one from the vibrant early '60s Greenwich Village folk scene had more staying power than this legendary recluse. Fred Neil's 1964 debut, Bleecker And MacDougal, captures the great man at the apex of his talents. Exact repro on High-Definition Vinyl, from the original analog masters!"Given the late Fred N…

Sublime Frequencies presents the third volume in a three volume set of contemporary field recordings by Hisham Mayet recorded in Burkina Faso during three expeditions from 2013-2015. Volume 3 includes regional instruments such as the Donso ngoni (hunters harp). The Donso hunters are a mystical animist sect living in western Burkina, Faso whose music is a source of protection and strength for the hunt. The Dioula are represented by one of Bobo-Dioulasso's premiere ensembles, Fassobolomba, who fus…

A reissue of Les Frères Mégri's Mahmoud, Hassan Et Younes, originally released in 1974. Les Frères Mégri was a Moroccan rock band formed in Oujda, Morocco in the late 1960s. The band consisted of four members: the three brothers, Hassan, Mahmoud, and Younès, and their sister Jalila Mégri. Before the creation of the band, the Megri brothers were popular session musicians, composers, and producers in Morocco, starting in the late '50s. In the early '70s, Hassan and Mahmoud released four sing…

2017 repress, originally released in 2012. "A compilation of the most popular music circulating the Sahara desert on the unofficial network of cellphones -- where mp3s are stored, played, and traded in very literal peer to peer bluetooth transfers. The contemporary West African sound from the new school of DIY production with little or no commercial release outside of their locales, from spaced out Tuareg autotune, Ivorian club jams, Mauritanian synth, and Malian hip hop electro. Collected from …

Release Date on May 5th. Bert Jansch's freewheeling fifth album, Birthday Blues, occupies a unique place in his solo discography. Released in 1969, the same year Basket of Light propelled Pentangle into the UK pop charts, Birthday Blues almost sounds like a Pentangle LP missing John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee. Backed-up by bandmates Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, Jansch neither holds back his characteristic moodiness nor takes himself too seriously. What's more, Jansch is in love. Heather Rosem…

"Lescudjack" is one of the finest moments in Michael Chapman's epic discography. Originally featured on 1978's "Life On The Ceiling" album, the instrumental track melded the British guitarist's distinctive finger picking style with throbbing synthesizer lines and heavy space rock influences. Famously a favourite of Daniele Baldelli, and a long-standing secret weapon of Kosmiche-minded DJs, Chapman's peerless original version is joined here by a brilliant Lexx edit that subtly extends it into a m…

Agrim Agadez is a compilation of contemporary field recordings of guitar music from the Sahelian empire of Niger. Focusing on guitar music throughout the country, from meditative starlight ballads, fuzzy Hendrix covers, rag tag wedding bands, to political minded folk guitarists. A beautiful encapsulation of the diversity of guitar as it exists today, recorded over years of travels. Like most of the Sahel, the guitar is found in every corner of Niger. Whether acoustic, electric, or built …

Signifying a return to form that heralded one of the most prolific periods of his life, this special collection features some of Jansch’s finest work. Living In the Shadows includes an extra disc of demos, alternate versions and never-before heard tracks, transferred from Jansch’s personal tapes, alongside the three studio albums of the 1990s: The Ornament Tree, When The Circus Comes To Town and Toy Balloon. This trio of works represents quite different facets of Jansch’s talent; where Circus is…

Bert Jansch, playing Live In Australia, in a cafe in 1998. This is a highly direct set, being mostly comprised only of Bert and his guitar, singing familiar favourite songs and newer lat-90’s material alike. The audio has been carefully remastered for this release, which is available on CD or LP, both with liner notes by Colin Harper. On Earth Recordings.

LP version. Includes an eight-page insert and a download code. The random-access memory of an hourglass. On the one hand, there's Cheveu, the French three-member band, whose soundtrack has never ceased to question music codes by exceeding various genres and pushing back their limits. On the other hand, you have Group Doueh, a Sahrawi band from the Sahara desert (Dakhla). Their music spans across many styles and hammers tradition with unprecedented finds. In between both their remote musical univ…

Dreamy instrumentals from Fouta Toro. Improvisational session of acoustic guitar and hoddu, drawing on regional folklore, ancient praise songs and epic ballads. Recorded in a fishing village in Northern Senegal, with an ever present backdrop of children's voices culminating in a clapping and stomping rhythm section. Debut release on Sahel Sounds & Mississippi Records new international imprint "Songs from Home." 

The tireless Death Is Not The End returns with the first of two primers of Caucasus folk in conjunction with the Ored Recordings label. Established in 2014, Ored Recordings is a free ethnographic net-label that has drawn together a truly enlightening collection of field recordings based on documenting the folk and experimental musicians living in villages and towns throughout the North Caucasus region. Working together, the two labels draw together a 13-track collection that offers an illuminati…

The tireless Death Is Not The End returns with the second of two primers of Caucasus folk in conjunction with the Ored Recordings label. We’ve been blown away by this joint endeavour from Death Is Not The End and Ored Recordings, a Nalchik, Russia-based net-label that is a treasure trove of ethnographic folk and experimental music spanning the North Caucasus region. This second volume profiles an intrinsic social function of the Circassian people; the urge to dance. Some ten tracks deep, it real…

The "London Taximi" cassette consists of some tracks recorded by Greek experimental musician Tasos Stamou and international artistic explorer Mike Cooper. These recordings took place from 2014 to 2016 in London. Although they have been playing together for some time, this is their first joint record attempt. In 66 minutes we hear the two authors "talk" in a very special musical language, whose vocabulary is derived by their common (and not) influences, using lap steel guitar, bouzouk…

Virtuoso Nikhil Banerjee, one of the 20th century’s greatest masters of the Indian sitar, passed away in 1986 at the age of 55. Banerjee was widely acclaimed for his intensely individualistic pursuit of the poetry of raga. Nikhil Banerjee studied northern Indian classical music with the sarodist Ustad Allauddin Khan, father of sarodist Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna and also teacher of Ravi Shankar and Pannalal Ghosh.

Pandit Ram Narayan, brother of Chatur Lal (the first tabla player to impress the western world on a larger scale in the company of Ravi Shankar), ranks as the most eminent sarangi player of today. His novel style of musical expression has changed the role of the sarangi forever, from that of an accompanying instrument to a full grown solo instrument. Take particular note of his alap in Puria Kalyan, perhaps the best this writer has heard him play.

Virtuoso Nikhil Banerjee, one of the 20th century’s greatest masters of the Indian sitar, passed away in 1986 at the age of 55. Banerjee was widely acclaimed for his intensely individualistic pursuit of the poetry of raga. Nikhil Banerjee studied northern Indian classical music with the sarodist Ustad Allauddin Khan, father of sarodist Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna and also teacher of Ravi Shankar and Pannalal Ghosh. For his second recording he had chosen Raag Desh.

Before Ustad had constructed his giant rudra veena he played the sitar, and what a sitar player he was! Very few people have heard him play the sitar and there are no recordings besides this one. This Mishra Bhairavi was recorded at one of the Sunday concerts he held in his house in Chembur every week. It was first released on LP in Sweden but here is the original one long track.

One of today’s finest exponents of the Sarod, Krishnamurthi Sridhar was, from very early childhood, initiated into the Carnatic music and is one of very few South Indians to have made North Indian music their playing ground. From the age of five Sridhar was the student of Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar of the Dagar School, the foremost master of the rudra veena and specialist in the traditionally classical and devotional Dhrupad Dhamar style of the North. Ustad it was who told him that the sarod was …

In 1968 Ustad did his first recording on his giant been, the rudra veena that he had designed. The recording was done in a private flat in Chembur on a quiet morning and was later released on a french label, B.A.M. with the name Raga Mangebushan. It is since long out of print. That morning Ustad did two takes of the same raga and we had considerable difficulties to choose which one to release since they were equally good and we finally settled on the first take. Ustad’s son Bahauddin Dagar has s…