Saba - Jidka-The Line (CD)
€4.90*
Die Sprache Somali (oder einer ihrer Dialekte), eine Orchestrierung, die sich auf afrikanische Instrumente stützt, einige Balladen, ein Cover-Booklet, in dem man einiges erfährt, und einige Titel, die man sich merkt! Das Album dieser italienisch-somalische Sängerin weist eine klare Identität afrikanischer Tradition auf, die durch typische Instrumente wie die Kora unterstrichen wird, ist aber sehr stark von R'n'B-Rhythmen, Pop-Atmosphäre und einem sehr modernen perkussiven Abschnitt beeinflusst.
Jeb Loy Nichols - Long Time Traveller (DOCD)
€19.90*
Jeb Loy Nichols finally comes home to On-U Sound, the label he first befriended in 1981. A country/dub crossover record, backed by members of Dub Syndicate and the Roots Radics, and with Adrian Sherwood at the controls. The subtle dub production gives Jeb's careworn songs of love and loss a unique sound - this is Nashville-by-way-of-Kingston, Lee Hazlewood if he'd made an album with the Wailers, equal parts Johnny Cash and Horace Andy.
Following a limited Japanese release in 2010, the album has been remixed, resequenced and redesigned to present the definitive edition of this sublime set of songs. A cult figure for fans of Americana, Jeb was born in the Midwest of the United States. His career has encompassed leading The Fellow Travellers (one of the first bands to be described as ‘alt country’), sleeve design for the Pressure Sounds reggae reissue label, compiling the acclaimed Country Got Soul series, writing a regular column for the Heavenly-affiliated Caught By The River periodical, and solo albums for Capitol, Decca, Rykodisc and Rough Trade. He now resides in rural Wales, where he spends his time making art, playing music, writing, worrying, digging holes and planting things.
CD edition includes a bonus disc containing 11 additional songs and alternate mixes.
“The high priest of country cool” – Rolling Stone
VA - Afrique De L'Ouest / West Africa (CD)
€18.90*
An important inter-cultural and commercial crossroads in the centre of the Ivory Coast, the town of Bouake prospered during the 20th century around one of the richest and most colourful markets of West Africa. Working in this town in the mid 1970s, the biologist Bernard Mondet was fascinated by the Ivorian, Ghanaian, Malian, Guinean or Voltaic musical traditions he encountered there. Armed with his Nagra tape recorder and a pair of microphones, he collected a vast number of sound documents in which Senufo and Bobo balafons, lute harps kora of the Manding, Peul and Mossi flutes and Birifor musical bows are mingled skilfully.
A glimpse of musical life in the 1970s in Bouake, the second most populated city in Ivory Coast. A collection of traditional music recorded with Peul, Bobo, Mandingue and Birifor musicians from various regions of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali.
