A true icon of Ghanaian music, Nana Ampadu was the leader of the African Brothers Band for almost half a century. They wrote some of the most important pages of high-life music and modern music from Ghana. They released over 60 LPs and …
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £17.29
‘Body Music’, Afro Funk’s 1975 LP, was recorded and released in London by a band comprised mostly of West African expatriates. At the time the city was host to a vibrant African music scene; the massive success of Osibisa created…
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Television has given us a picture of the day in 1945 war ended in Europe. Nostalgic black-and-white film footage captured the celebrations as men and women danced in the Trafalgar Square fountains and embraced complete strangers. You ca…
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- Available on: Double vinyl LP £13.49
* Fourteen years after their first gig, and five since the release of their last album, 2007’s Security, Antibalas — Afrobeat’s premier second-wave ensemble — are back with their fifth full-length release. …
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Antibalas recently surprised with their super solid self-titled debut on Daptone and here we have the fi…
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- Available on: 7" vinyl £4.59
Angolan / Portuguese Batida (aka Pedro Coquenão) returns with a new single following on from his critically acclaimed debut LP released earlier in the year. On the A-side thumping bass lines collide head on with 1970s Angol…
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2012's most exciting new Afrobeat band hail from Bamako, Mali. Ben Zabo’s debut album is full of funky and gritty tunes, wonderful musicianship, and songs of peace and hope. The album is a testament to the lesser-known culture of the Bwa peo…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £17.19
Ifetayo
Black Truth Rhythm Band
Soundway return once more to the Caribbean and are proud to present ‘Ifetaya’ by Black Truth Rhythm Band, originally released in 1976. Led by the charismatic Oluko Imo, ‘Ifetaya’ was the only release from the Af…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £14.99
Zol
Blk Jks
Little EP offering here from cheeky vowel-less Johannesburg resident Blk Jks. Can't say I've heard this guy before and I had no idea he was from South Africa! Anyway, 'Zol' is his 'sort-of' unofficial World Cup theme which is bolstered here by a c…
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- Available on: CD single £3.09
* Remastered from the original reels
* Old-style paste on sleeves
* Includes a copy of the original insert and artwork
* Limited edition, one time pressing on LP only
* Fully licensed
* Reissue of one of the…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £19.79
No! Don't call the record label that! No, No, No. Ok, let's start again, talking about the music this time. This is really great stuff straight outta Ghana. Musically it consists of repetitiv…
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- Available on: Double vinyl LP £18.89, CD £11.59
From the vaults of Philips in Nigeria comes this collection of mysterious trumpeter and bandleader Bola Johnson. Unmissable 60s and early 70s recordings for all highlife and Afrobeat fans. A missing jewel from a golden age of Nigerian music. Bola …
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- Available on: Double vinyl LP £21.39
New York City born and New Jersey City based Chico Mann (aka Marcos Garcia), a multi instrumentalist and guitarist with the afrobeat orchestra Antibalas presents his solo ‘Manifest Tone EP’ through Soundway Records…
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- Available on: 12" vinyl £9.29
Chico Mann's fifth album will be anticipated by the single Same Old Clown, featuring the sultry vocals of New York based Kendra Morris.
Displaying his mastery over an arsenal of studio weapons and synthesizers,…
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- Available on: Double vinyl LP £14.79
Strut link up with one of the true greats of Ghanaian music, Ebo Taylor, for his first internationally released new studio album in over 20 years.Following the wartime big band highlife pioneers like E.T. Mensah, Taylor became a major …
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Following his recent studio album with Afrobeat Academy, ’Love And Death’, his first international release, Ghanaian highlife guitar legend Ebo Taylor teams up again with Strut for a long overdue definitive compilation of his seminal 1…
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“I wanted to go back to a highlife feeling with this album,” explains Ebo Taylor. “The songs are very personal and it is an important part of my music to keep alive many traditional Fante songs, war chants and children’s rh…
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- Available on: Double vinyl LP £18.69
Originally released in 1977, Ebo Taylor?s self-titled album is a rarity that truly exposes the genius of the Ghanaian producer and arranger. Having spent most of the 1970s involved in Ghana?s afro-funk output, working with different ban…
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- Available on: CD £12.39, Vinyl LP £19.79
This extraordinary, dark , moody and experimental offering from teenage Ghanaian afro rock outfit Edzayawa (Pronounced Ed - Zye - Ow - Ahh) is one the more obscure and unique releases that Soundway have brought back to life over the past ten years…
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £11.99
* El Rego is a true legend of African Soul Music. Here for the first time on album are 12 of his greatest recordings from the late ’60s and early ’70s hand-picked by Daptone Records.
* Afro-Soul collector/DJ Frank …
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- Available on: Vinyl LP £14.89, CD £12.49
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