World New Releases
World New Releases
Below is a list of all World titles released in the last 90 days.
Displaying items 1 to 16 of 16
Marcos Valle
Braziliance! (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 14/Feb/2020 ] To call Marcos Valle 'a legend' of Brazilian music is much more than just easy press-release hype. As singer, writer, musician and record producer, Marcos has played an integral role shaping the sound of the country's music from the 'golden era' of... |
Fela Kuti
Army Arrangement (LP) [ Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Army Arrangement is about Nigeria's attempt at 'democracy' in 1979 after more than a decade of military rule. In 1970, Nigeria emerged from a three-year Biafra civil war with the largest standing army in black Africa, no financial debts - careering... |
Fela Kuti
Coffin For Head Of State (LP) [ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Knitting Factory Records/Cooking Vinyl have reissued the individual titles from the Fela Kuti Box Set #4 Curated by Erykah Badu. After the sacking and burning of Fela's Kalakuta Republic in 1977, Fela wrote several musical responses attacking the... |
Fela Kuti
J.J.D. (LP) [ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Johnny Just Drop is talking about Africans who travel abroad only to return home with new values and mannerisms. Since the advent of colonialism in Africa, the education system left Black people with an inferior perception of their culture. Those who... |
Fela Kuti
No Agreement (LP) [ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "No Agreement" showcases some of Fela and the Africa 70's highest caliber work within the signature Afrobeat genre. Smooth guitar parts and a pronounced brass section (which included the addition of Art Ensemble of Chicago trumpeter Lester Bowie),... |
Fela Kuti
Undergound System (LP) [ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Fela starts the song in Underground System by saying he had sang songs for great African men: Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana was for him the greatest of all. In the same breath, he had sang songs against African thieves: Olusegun... |
Fela Kuti
V.I.P. (LP) [ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] Performed by Fela and his Afrika 70 at the renowned Berlin Jazz Festival in 1978, this live recording of V.I.P. is possibly Fela's most profound vilification of the Nigerian government. In his very public address to the European crowd, Fela explains... |
Fela Kuti
Yellow Fever (LP) [ Knitting Factory / Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The title track, "Yellow Fever", is a scathing criticism of post-colonial Nigerians who cannot shake their "colonial mentality." Fela rails on women who bleach their skin as an act of beauty, contemptuously adding that, despite what they think, it... |
Jacques Brel
Jacques Brel - 50 Plus Belles Chansons [ Wrasse Records / 3 CD - released 12/Dec/2019 ] |
Burna Boy
African Giant [ Atlantic / Warner / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] African Giant features a series of extraordinary singles, including "On The Low", "Gbona", "Dangote", and "Anybody". Burna Boy is among contemporary African music's brightest new stars and creator of an enigmatic new genre he simply dubs... |
Colleen Grant/Sandra Hamilton
Latin Parang / Parang Jam (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Soundway presents two rare Parang dancefloor cuts from early 1980s Trinidad & Tobago. Parang is a style of folk music that originated from Venezuelan and Colombian immigrants that came to the Caribbean, and evolved to include elements of Latin... |
Susso
Keira (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Susso, aka bassist/producer Huw Bennett, creates music inspired by, and directly sampling, the magnificent sounds of the Mandinka people, recorded during a recent trip to Gambia. |
Xylouris White
The Sisypheans [ Drag City / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Xylouris White's fourth instalment of progressive Cretan lute compositions present the sounds of the lute, George Xylouris' vocals and Jim White's drums in an open, spacious sound-field. With the philosophical bent that suits their music's ancient... |
Antoinette Konan
Antoinette Konan [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] It makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring... |
Antoinette Konan
Antoinette Konan (LP) [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 22/Nov/2019 ] It makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring... |
Shina Williams & His African Percussions
Shina Williams & His African Percussions (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 22/Nov/2019 ] First official reissue of the extremely rare full-length album by Lagos-based bandleader Shina Williams. The record was born in 1979 when Shina put Biddy Wright, Fred Fisher, Saliu Alabi, Prince Bola, Tutu Shoronmu, Tunde Williams and several... |
