3. One Boy Playing Three Sets of Bongo Drums with His Hand and One Drum Stick
4. Rhythm Ensemble with Voices
5. Zum, Zum
6. Ole
7. Bo Diddlie
8. Gugamuga
9. Riding Hood Boogy Man
10. Sister Suki
11. Why Can't I Get It Too
12. Cha Cha Cha
13. The Fox
14. Gang Fight
15. Shoe Shine
16. Shoe Shine Shakedown
17. Dumb Boy
18. Money Honey
19. I Want Some Food
Street percussion, drumming, songs and chants recorded in New York in 1959 by a group of street kids. Kind of like a prototype Haryou Percussion Group ('Welcome to the Party'). Wicked!
It contains sounds sourced from dozens of LPs, from Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Sounds of Insects to Voices...
Charles "Cha Cha" Shaw released his first solo album on Folkways in 1976 after having performed and recorded trumpet for pop and jazz icons like Curtis...
Super-tough funky, funky, funky female proto-rap poetry from Sarah Webster Fabio. Killer!
Armed with an incredible rhythm section this album is a classic...
Amazing deep, deep jazz as featured on our "New Thing!" compilation! Includes heavyweight African/Eastern styles and the out-there 13 minute version of...
Heavy, heavy, heavy drum rhythms recorded in Haiti. Voodoo plus some Rara. This is like Soul Jazz Records' own "Voodoo Drums", only recorded in 1950! Produced...
Excellent recordings of Haitian voodoo music in all its many forms and variations. Comes with superb booklet.
Cuts from live Vodou ceremonies are juxtaposed...
** Now available on vinyl **
Super rare funk album released on smithsonian folkways in the early 1970s. "The music of the Montgomery Express is a buried...
The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music,...
Great compilation featuring some of our favourite leftfield artists including Liquid Liquid, Steve Reich, John Carpenter, Moondog, Conrad Schnitizler,...
The French-speaking, black Creoles from the prairies of lower Louisiana produce a wide variety of music, from Cajun two-steps to the blues. This album...
An astounding compilation of the breakneck Shangaan dance music from South Africa! Shangaan is traditional South African music fused with electronics...
Excellent early recordings of Yoruba, Lucumi and more religious afro-cuban cult music with songs for Shango, Legba etc. Recommended.
These recordings...