Honest Jon's
278 Portobello Road
London
W10 5TE
England

Monday-Saturday 10 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

Honest Jon's
Unit 115
Lower Stable Street
Coal Drops Yard
London
N1C 4DR

Monday-Saturday 11 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

+44(0)208 969 9822 mail@honestjons.com

Established 1974.

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Chester Coke

African Race

Solid State

Tough roots, produced by Rod Taylor.

African Head Charge

Drastic Season

ON U Sound

African Head Charge

My Life In A Hole In The Ground

ON U Sound

African Head Charge

Voodoo Of The Godsent

ON U Sound

The 2011 album available on vinyl for the first time.
Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah meets Adrian Sherwood, with numerous guest spots including Jazzwad and Adamski.
Some of the hardest hitting AHC rhythms are here; more tailored to sound-system transmission than ever before.

African Head Charge

Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa

ON U Sound

The first vinyl release of this 2005 reunion of Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and Adrian Sherwood.
Richly percussive African rhythms, bubbling with trippy effects; pounding bass.

African Head Charge

A Trip To Bolgatanga

ON U Sound

‘The star of the show is Noah’s mesmerising hand drumming, especially on the headspinning Microdosing’ (The Guardian).
‘Easily AHC’s most accessible, vivid approximation yet of Brian Eno’s fabled ‘vision of a psychedelic Africa’’ (Mojo).
‘A ceaselessly unpredictable and eclectic record that manages to sound as traditional as it does experimental’ (Uncut).

The Gaylettes

If You Can't Be Good

Merritone / Dub Store

Clark Terry

Color Changes

Candid

The Hokum Boys

You Can't Get Enough Of That Stuff

Yazoo

Bumptious sauce recorded for Paramount in 1929 by different lineups including Leroy Carr, Scrapper Blackwell, Tampa Red and Blind Blake, and Bob Robinson on banjo and clarinet. Archetypal Crumb; 180g.

Holland Dozier Holland

Why Can't We Be Lovers

Invictus

The Jamaicans

Ba Ba Boom

Duke

The Jamaicans

Peace And Love

Duke Reid

Gnonnas Pedro

The Man Who Sings All African Languages: Retrospective 1967-1985

Nanga Boko

Brian And Tony Gold

Can You

Two Friends

Heart-breaking, skilfully epistolary song-writing from inside the belly of Apartheid, on a killer rhythm.

Ras Midas

Can't Stop Rasta Now

Rock A Shacka

An upful, radiant, chugging version of the McFadden & Whitehead, by way of Harry J, strung out on flute and Syndrums.

Mr Dallas

Can't Give Up

Tuff Scout

Dawn McCarthy And Bonnie Prince Billy

Christmas Eve Can Kill You

Drag City

Dawn Le Faun with Billy Le Bon, co-singers of The Letting Go and Wai Notes, digging up a modern(ish) parable from deep in their Everlys sack, afore getting down and sliding around on the flip.

Holland-Dozier

Why Can't We Be Lovers

Invictus

Laura Lee

I Can't Make It Alone

Invictus / Demon

The Widow's Joy

Eastern European Immigrant Dances In America, 1925-1930

Sound American

The forgotten music of the Austro-Hungarian diaspora in the mid-west of the United States. An Ian Nagoski compilation to inaugurate the label, with a cover by Eric from Mississippi Records.

Na Hawa Doumbia

La Grande Cantatrice Malienne, Vol. 1

Awesome Tapes From Africa

Beautifully direct Wassoulou songs by the twenty-year-old accompanied only by N’Gou Bagayoko on acoustic guitar.

Everton Chambers

I Can Feel

Partial

Ann Peebles

I Can't Stand The Rain

Fat Possum

Bump And The Soul Stompers

I Can Remember

Numero

Invoking The Delfonics’ Do You Remember, and flipping its melody the other way around. Recorded at the Damon Studios in Kansas City (owned by Victor Damon, inventor of the spring reverb).

Lucan Scissors

Music Family

Iroko

1990 digi killer by Leicester’s finest, originally out on the Japanese Tachyon label run by Bullwackies cohort Sonny Ochiai. Classic.

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