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

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Established 1974.

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Ray Fernandez With The Zanja All Stars

Tentaciones

Zanja

Gregory Isaacs

Babylon Too Rough

Belmont / 17 North Parade

The heaviest Cool Ruler of them all; the heaviest Joe Gibbs / Errol T dub. Murder, she wrote.

Natural Information Society

Perseverance Flow

Aguirre

‘Back to the core formation of Lisa Alvarado on harmonium, Mikel Patrick Avery on drums, Jason Stein on bass clarinet, and composer/multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams on guimbri, for one continuous 37 minute composition across a single LP.
‘This time around, Abrams has pushed post production techniques found only sporadically on earlier NIS records deep into the heart of the music, distorting and reshaping instruments to mutate timbre and texture, color and time.
‘Refracting the band’s signature mesmerizing chains of overlapping rhythmic patterns through the sonic funhouse of dub makes Perseverance Flow the most formally experimental NIS album to date.’

“I imagine Perseverance Flow like a live extended realization of a Jaylib lost instrumental as remixed by Kevin Shields,” says Abrams. “Or vice versa. I also think it has sympathies with some of the more rhythmically intricate dance musics out of Chicago and Lisbon… Perseverance Flow is skipping rope in slo-mo. A dance of co-operation to rally guts and humors and keep marching through pouring tears.”

Sound Dimension

Sing A Simple Song

Studio One

Ruggedly funky, tantalisingly rare do-over of Sly & The Family Stone, by Jackie Mittoo and the crew.

Aza Lineage

Sound System

Jammys

Leroy Brown

Color Barrier

Kismet

Leroy Brown’s killer detournement of Bobby Bland’s classic Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City, plus Clint Eastwood’s storming deejay excursion.
It’s a shame there’s no room for the stunning dub on the original Stagesound release of the Clint, but you can’t have everything.
It’s a must.

Lee Perry

I Am The Upsetter

Skank And Groove

Bobby Reed

The Time Is Right For Love

Celestial Echo

Johnny Osbourne

Purify Your Heart (Jam Can Mix)

TECHNIQUES / HORNIN SOUNDS

Winston Riley

Meditation Dub

TECHNIQUES / HORNIN SOUNDS

Arvo Part

And I Heard A Voice

ECM

Carlos Garnett

Cosmos Nucleus

Muse / Time Traveler

CD from Soul Brother.

Terry Callier

The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier

Prestige / Craft

Olivia Dean

The Art of Loving

Capitol

Doechii

Alligator Bites Never Heal

Top Dawg

Makaya McCraven

Off The Record

International Anthem Recording Co.

Elvin Jones

Puttin' It Together

Blue Note

‘Classic vinyl series.’

Khruangbin

Con Todo El Mundo

Night Time Stories

Khruangbin

The Universe Smiles Upon You

Night Time Stories

African Steel

Slide Guitar Classics from Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe & the Congo 1953-1966

Olvido

Chaos In The CBD

A Deeper Life

In Dust We Trust

Freddie McKay

If You Must Go

Melrose

Gasper Lawal

Ajomase

Strut

‘The groundbreaking debut album by legendary Nigerian percussionist Gasper Lawal, originally released in 1980 on his own label CAP.
‘Lawal meticulously self-produced, composed, and overdubbed the album over four years, assembling an elite group of musicians from both Nigeria and the UK. Several of he instruments used were hand-built, including a powerful one-of-a-kind drum carved deep in the Nigerian bush. “This music is not about trends, about what is commercial or a “sound” of a particular moment,” explains Lawal, “it is about music to be felt, that gives pleasure. It is nurturing and meditative.”
‘Spiritually resonant, rhythmically rich and genre-defying,’

The Staple Singers

Let's Do It Again

Omnivore / Music On Vinyl

Blaxploitation from the Staples and Curtis Mayfield. The title track is all-time knockout soul music: Mavis is startlingly randy, over a masterful, sinuous rhythm. Goddess. New Orleans winningly sublimates I Heard It On The Grapevine; I Want To Thank You is decent, too; Curtis throws in a few Shaft-style instrumentals.
That title track, though.

Emilio Santiago

Mais Que Um Momento

Universal

Classic Brazilian boogie, from 1983; including a killer version of Tania Maria’s Come With Me — Vem Menina — and the dancefloor smash O Amigo De Nova York.

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