Sweet, uptempo rock steady from Henry Buckley, in 1968, with backing from The Gaylettes. A more rootsy, Biblical edge to the B-side, which was originally coupled with Roland Alphonso’s How Soon.

Fragile, dignified performances by two of Cajun music’s finest and most unusual artists, originally released on 78 in the late 1920s. French vocals accompanied by guitar or fiddle, or sometimes both. Impeccable ballads and breakdowns. Old school tip-on cover.

Legendary free jazz recordings from 1964 and 1965, with the Danish pianist alongside Fritz Krogh on tenor saxophone, Poul Ehlers on bass, and Finn Slumstrup on drums.
‘Close-miked percussive sax-pad treatments that swing like mad and give the music a VERY radical profile and color,’ writes Mats Gustafsson in his liner notes. ‘I have NEVER heard anything like it.’

‘Lo-fi, primitive orchestral pieces for a Swedish TV-documentary series that in the end never was finished. Someone said, If the Penguin Café Orchestra would’ve used old rhythm-boxes and recorded rough demos influenced by Moondog, then this would’ve been it. That’s not true, but it’s still a hell of an album. Unique and warm. And in totally gorgeous sleeves… Old album covers have been remade and glued and etched on with the old artworks shining through here and there.’

Original copies in mint condition.

A second volume of Charles Brooks’ magical recordings from central and southern Madagascar. Polyrhythmic rug cutters through stately Kabosy ballads.
Says Brooks — ‘The musicians on this album are storytellers and much of their craft is improvised and has a strong foundation of expertise in their respective cultural traditions… Seeking, recording, and sharing the intangible experience, the best of all of this, is to catch a ghost.’

Free-flowing recordings made in Pakistan with members of the instrumental quartet Jaubi (including Zohaib Hassan Khan on sarangi).

Led by guitarist Dekula Kahanga, veteran of the legendary Tanzanian dance band Orchestra Maquis Original; also featuring Congolese singer Gaby and musicians from Kenya, Uganda, Senegal and Sweden.
Hypnotic, infectious, graceful soukous; newly recorded, channelling thousands of rollickingly good nights out. (The band plays monthly at the not so glamorous club Lilla Wien in Stockholm.)