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We Love Record Shop Day

By Sanjiv Ahluwalia on April 18, 2013
This entry is filed under Europe: Features, Events and tagged Amy Winehouse, Cuba, dub, jazz, Motown, New York, psychedelic, record shop day, reggae, soundtrack.

Modern British culture was shaped by three things – DJs, radio (especially pirate radio), and clubs. And record shops are the thread between all three. Sanjiv takes a break from his global tour of record shops for his upcoming book to sing their praises on their special day. Continue reading We Love Record Shop Day

Sahara Soul – featuring Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba, Tamikrest and Sidi Touré

By Damian Rafferty on January 14, 2013
This entry is filed under Events and tagged Barbican, Bassekou Kouyate, Celtic, dub, folk, Glasgow, London, Mali, ngoni, psychedelic, Sahara, soul, Tamikrest, tuareg, Worthy.

One of Africa’s richest musical heartlands, Mali today is sorely afflicted by internal conflict, an ongoing state of adversity from which this defiantly inspiring collaboration, uniting artists from three of Mali’s different musical cultures, arose to demonstrate their shared homeland’s strength, diversity, and its music’s power to bring people together.

26 January 2013 – Barbican, London

27 January 2013 – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (as part of Celtic Connections) Continue reading Sahara Soul – featuring Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba, Tamikrest and Sidi Touré

V/A – Psychedelic Pernambuco

By Gerry Hectic on July 17, 2011
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews, Latin America: Reviews and tagged blues, bongo, Brazil, compilation, delta blues, disco, folk, funk, Geraldo Azevedo, Hollie Cook, Horse Meat Disco, jazz, Latin, Lula Côrtes, Mungo, North, Pernambuco, psychedelic, Recife, Rio, Sao Paolo, Seu Jorge, tropical, Tropicália, Zé Ramalho.

I don’t know what The Gentlemen were on when they recorded ‘Sorriso Selbagem’ but whatever it was, we all need some more of this Psychedelic Pernambuco from Recife in the north east of Brazil.
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Tamikrest on tour and new album Toumastin

By Damian Rafferty on June 22, 2011
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Events and tagged Africa, Amadou et Mariam, blues, Burkina Faso, Desert Blues, Europe, festival, Festival Au Desert, funk, Habib Koité, Kidal, London, Mali, Manchester, North, psychedelic, rock, Sahara, Tamikrest, Tinariwen, tuareg, United States, West Africa, World Music.

Young Tuareg desert blues rockers Tamikrest follow up their critically acclaimed debut album Adagh with Toumastin.

Music always is a borderline experience. Especially when not only stylistically boundaries are shifting, but the centres of musical creativity are moving.

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Dennis Coffey + Alice Russell, Mayer Hawthorne — XOYO, Monday 27 June 2011

By Damian Rafferty on June 10, 2011
This entry is filed under Events and tagged Alice Russell, Barbican, Dennis Coffey, funk, funk guitar, Funkadelic, Motown, psychedelic, rare groove, soul, soundtrack, strut records, Wah Wah.

Cult funk guitar hero Dennis Coffey appears in a very rare solo show in support of his fine new album on Strut Records

Continue reading Dennis Coffey + Alice Russell, Mayer Hawthorne — XOYO, Monday 27 June 2011

V/A – Far Out Spaced Oddyssey (Vols. 1 & 2)

By Gerry Hectic on July 31, 2010
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews, Latin America: Reviews and tagged 1970s, Afro Rock, Big Chill, Brazil, compilation, dub, Far Out, Heliocentrics, house, jazz, Joyce, London, Michael Leonhart, Nana Vasconcelos, Nigeria, psychedelic, rock, soul, South, The Heliocentrics.

Sub-titled “Psychedelia Folk, Rock, Electronica & Jazz from the Out There Edges of Brazil” this is so much more than a trip into the mid 60s to 70s as Far Out Recordings bring you a trip of a lifetime.

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V/A – The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia In 1970s Nigeria

By Gerry Hectic on July 27, 2010
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Europe: Reviews and tagged 1970s, Africa, Afro Rock, blues, criolla, funk, Ghana, Gilles Peterson, highlife, Nigeria, palenque, psychedelic, Quantic, rock, Sofrito Soundsystem, South, tropical, West Africa.

Why The World Ends?…The latest title from Soundway Records features 32 electrifying and funk laden grooves from the sound of a generation attempting to pick up the pieces after the devastation of the Nigerian civil war.

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Build An Ark – Love (Part 2)

By Gerry Hectic on June 7, 2010
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews, US/Canada: Reviews and tagged Birmingham, Build An Ark, California, dub, Dwight Trible, Emanative, festival, jazz, North, psychedelic, soul, Sun Ra.

Last year we showed Build An Ark some Love (Part 1) and leader Carlos Ni?±o showed us some love back. Now it’s time to do it all over again as Love (Part 2) is now in the air!

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Next Stop…Soweto Vol.2, Funk & Organ Grooves From The Townships 1969-76

By Gerry Hectic on May 19, 2010
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Europe: Reviews and tagged acid jazz, Africa, Blockhead, compilation, funk, Gillett, jazz, Nelson Mandela, psychedelic, punk, soul, South, South Africa, Soweto, Steve Reid, The Monks, township.

Next Stop… Soweto 2, sub-titled “Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves From The Townships 1969-1976″ is the second of a three part series by Strut’s finest in the underground sound of South Africa in the 60s and 70s.

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The Bamboos feat. Kylie Auldist – 4

By Gerry Hectic on March 27, 2010
This entry is filed under Asia/Pacific: Reviews, Europe: Reviews and tagged Alice Russell, Bamboos, compilation, Cookin' on 3 Burners, Europe, house, jazz, Kylie Auldist, psychedelic, rock, soul. | 1 Comment

Taking their lead from such rock giants as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Aussie funk-soul-boogie experts drop their fourth album with the unimaginative title, 4; thankfully, the 12 tracks are anything but 4th rate – this is a big one!

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Thomas White – The Maximalist

By Gerry Hectic on March 14, 2010
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews and tagged Brighton, London, psychedelic, rock, Thomas White.

Thomas White is The Maximalist! In fact, everything about this album is taken to the maximum so don’t be put off by the cover.

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V/A – Nigeria Special: Volume 2 – The Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds and Nigerian Blues of 1970-6

By Gerry Hectic on March 13, 2010
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Europe: Reviews and tagged 1970s, Afro Rock, Afrobeat, Agboyabakpa, blues, Bola Johnson, chief stephen osita osadebe, compilation, Cuba, disco, Don Issac, Egwo Umu Agbogho, Family, Fela, Fubura Sekibo, funk, Ghana, house, Ibi Awo Iyi, James Etamobe, jazz, Joy Nwoso, Lagos, Nigeria, Omohupa, Onwu Dinjo, Onyebu Chi, port harcourt, psychedelic, rock, Rome, sir victor uwaifo, The Professional Seagulls Dance Band Of Port Harcourt, Totobiroko. | 1 Comment

Its back! The Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds and Nigerian Blues of 1970-6 that is Nigeria Special; if you really love me, take me to your house and do me how you like (as Fubura Sekibo might say).

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V/A – Garrincha!! Estrela Solitaria (The Lonely Star)

By Gerry Hectic on March 3, 2010
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews, Latin America: Reviews and tagged Africa, Brazil, Brownswood, compilation, Egypt, Far Out, football, Gotan Project, Ireland, Jazzanova, psychedelic, Samba, soundtrack, South, South Africa.

Far Out release the Original Sound Track to the brilliant film Garrincha ‘Estrela Solitaria’ on CD and they couldn’t have timed it better.

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Nommo Ogo – Across Time And Space

By Katja on January 31, 2010
This entry is filed under US/Canada: Reviews and tagged Nommo Ogo, Polar Bear, psychedelic.

Nommo Ogo’s psychedelic connection Across Time And Space

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V/A Panama! 3 – Calypso Paname, Guajira Jazz & Cumbia Topica on the Isthmus 1960-75

By Gerry Hectic on November 29, 2009
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews, Latin America: Reviews and tagged 1970s, blues, Brighton, calypso, Colombia, compilation, cumbia, funk, Ghana, guajira, highlife, Jamaica, jazz, Latin, Nigeria, North, Panama, psychedelic, rap, rock, Samba, soul, South, tango, The Roots.

Wow! Those boys at Soundway are really too good for us folks as here’s the third release in the Panama! series and there’s a hell of a fire down below.

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