Hank Jacobs was an accomplished West coast keyboard player, who smashed it with So Far Away in 1964.
One of his four releases on Alton Scott’s LA-based Call Me label, the slamming Elijah Rockin’ With Soul is a Northern favourite; whilst the more sophisticated, cool, sunroof-down East Side is a Popcorn and Lowrider go-to.

Outstanding Goldwax soul, unreleased at the time.
A once-bitten-twice-shy wailer, backed with some rocking Northern.

From a short stack of 45s we bought in Algiers fifteen years ago.
Wonderful music from Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and the Lebanon;
This is shop stock, so the vinyl is in VG+ condition or better; the beautiful sleeves are a little worn and crumpled from their decades of shelf life.

A compilation of ‘Burger Highlife’, the crossing of West African melodies with synthesizers and drum machines, disco and boogie, which took over Ghanaian airwaves during the 1980s. Dominant figures like Thomas Frempong and George Darko, alongside more elusive, nowadays hard-sought recordings by Aban and Uncle Joe’s Afri-Beat.