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Los Reyes 73
Los Reyes 73 (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 2/Aug/2024 ] Continuing the Mr Bongo Cuban Classics Series, we shine a light on Los Reyes 73 and their sensational debut LP from 1975. The album had multiple different pressings under various titles and artworks, but the music stayed the same and speaks for... |
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Maria Rita
Brasileira (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Maria Rita is a musical pioneer that was ahead of her time. On first hearing her song, 'Cântico Brasileiro No.3 (Kamaiurá)', we thought it sounded like a contemporary remix that an artist such as Carl Craig could have produced. In fact, it came out... |
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Minoru Muraoka
Bamboo (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 24/May/2019 ] Japanese jazz/breakbeat, folkloric mega-rarity as hallowed by the likes of DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Egon and co. Uniquely combines traditional Japanese instrumentation with Western jazz influences. Official Mr Bongo reissue. Gatefold single LP. |
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New Regency Orchestra
New Regency Orchestra (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 14/Jun/2024 ] Announcing the debut album from one of London's most electrifying acts, New Regency Orchestra. An 18-piece Afro-Cuban jazz big band, inspired by the musical melting pot of NYC in the 1950s, but with the punch and power of a whole host of London's... |
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Nina Maia
Inteira (Deluxe Edition) [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] It began with a cassette tape entitled 'Pleased To Meet You' gifted to us at Sessa's Fasching, Stockholm show by Yann Dardenne, the multi-tasking tour manager/sound engineer/producer/merch stall worker and co-owner of Seloki Records. On first listen,... |
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Nina Maia
Inteira (Deluxe Edition LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 22/Aug/2025 ] It began with a cassette tape entitled 'Pleased To Meet You' gifted to us at Sessa's Fasching, Stockholm show by Yann Dardenne, the multi-tasking tour manager/sound engineer/producer/merch stall worker and co-owner of Seloki Records. On first listen,... |
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Nina Maia
Inteira (Deluxe Edition Limited Cream Vinyl LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 22/Aug/2025 ] It began with a cassette tape entitled 'Pleased To Meet You' gifted to us at Sessa's Fasching, Stockholm show by Yann Dardenne, the multi-tasking tour manager/sound engineer/producer/merch stall worker and co-owner of Seloki Records. On first listen,... |
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O'Donel Levy
Simba (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Baltimore-born, Levy was already well regarded as one of the best up-and-coming jazz guitarists at the time of Simba's release. Having toured with George Benson and Jimmy McGriff, as well as featuring on McGriff's Black Pearl album on Blue Note, he... |
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Pearly Queen
Quit Jive' In / Jungle Walk (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Proudly presenting a 7-inch reissue of this mythical, raw funk rarity by the Miami-based, Cuban rock band, Pearly Queen. Featuring the hugely sought after, infectious cut 'Quit Jive' In' and a fantastic cover of The Rascals 'Jungle Walk', this is... |
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Prince Fatty
Ba Ba Ri Ba Skank b/w I Can't See (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 7/Nov/2025 ] |
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Prince Fatty
Super Size Me [ Mr. Bongo / CD - released 29/Nov/2010 ] |
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Project Gemini
Colours & Light (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] If 2022's The Children Of Scorpio was the debut album that turned people onto the world of Project Gemini aka Paul Osborne, Colours & Light is the body of work that will be buried deep into their hearts. It is a majestic album, bringing together the... |
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Raúl Gómez
Instrumental (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 30/Aug/2024 ] For the next reissue in Mr Bongo's Cuban Classics series, we look to Raúl Gómez's entrancing 1977 Instrumental album. Presenting a unique blend of orchestral disco and jazz-funk, with Afro-Cuban flavours and soundtrack influences, it's rich with drum... |
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Rita Lee & Tutti Frutti / Pete Dunaway
Agora É Moda / Supermarket (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 30/Aug/2024 ] Mr Bongo's Brazil 45's series serves up another pair of Brazilian classics in the form of Rita Lee & Tutti Frutti 'Agora É Moda' and Pete Dunaway 'Supermarket'. 'Agora É Moda' is a psychedelic, disco-boogie-groove monster brought to our attention... |
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Ronald Mesquita
Bresil 72 [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 8/Mar/2019 ] Classic Brazilian album from master drummer Ronald Mesquita, originally released in 1972. Featuring songs by Jorge Ben, Antonio Carlos-Jobim, Gilberto Gil, Edu Lobo and others. |
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Ronald Mesquita
Bresil 72 (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 8/Mar/2019 ] Classic Brazilian album from master drummer Ronald Mesquita, originally released in 1972. Featuring songs by Jorge Ben, Antonio Carlos-Jobim, Gilberto Gil, Edu Lobo and others. |
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Rubel
Beleza. Mas Agora A Gente Faz O Que Com Isso? (Limited Gold Vinyl LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 17/Oct/2025 ] For his fourth studio album, Brazilian troubadour Rubel returns to his roots with a sublime, stripped-back, singer-songwriter classic. Beleza. Mas agora a gente faz o que com isso? which translates to "Beauty. But now what do we do with it?", was... |
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Soyuz
Force Of The Wind (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] SOYUZ (which translates as 'union') is a creative collective from Minsk, Belarus, led by composer, arranger, and singer, Alex Chumak, multi-instrumentalist, Mikita Arlou, and drummer, Anton Nemahai. SOYUZ's previous albums explored and reimagined the... |
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Tom Ze
Estudando O Samba [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Incredibly unique concept album from the one and only Tom Zé. As featured in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Brazilian Albums of all-time list (2007). One of Ze's finest, Estudando do Samba, originally released by Continental Brazil in 1976... |
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Trio Mocoto
Trio Mocotó [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] |