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TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Static On The Radio
2. Bluebird
3. Combing My Hair In A Brand New Style
Side B
4. That Girl From Brownsville Texas
5. Borrowed Wings
6. If Jesus Drove A Motor Home
7. Objects In Motion
Side C
8. Buzzards Of Love
9. Alabama Chrome
10. Phone Booth In Heaven
11. Land Called Home
Side D *Unreleased Bonus Tracks!
12. Suckerz Promisez*
13. Stranger Candy*
14. Cinderblock Walls*
Os Mutantes
World Psychedelic Classics 1: Everything Is Possible: The Best Of Os Mutantes - 2023 Reissue
Luaka Bop
TRACK LISTING
A1. Ando Meio Desligado
A2. Ave, Lúcifer
A3. Dia
A4. Baby (1971)
A5. Fuga No. II
A6. Cantor De Mambo
A7. Adeus, Maria Fulô
B1. Desculpe, Babe
B2. El Justiciero
B3. Panis Et Circenses
B4. A Minha Menina
B5. Bat Macumba
B6. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
B7. Baby (1968)
TRACK LISTING
Side A
I. Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) - Jorge Ben
2. Sonho Meu - Maria Bethania E Gal Costa
3. Só Quero Um Xodó - Gilberto Gil
4. Um Canto De Afoxé Para O Bloco Do Ilê (Ilê Ayê) - Caetano Veloso
Side B
I. O Leãozinho - Caetano Veloso
2. Caçada - Chico Buarque
3. Cálice - Chico Buarque
4. Equatorial - Lô Borges
5. San Vicente - Milton Nascimento
Side C
I. Quilombo, O El Dorado Negro - Gilberto Gil
2. Caramba! ...galileu Da Galileia - Jorge Ben
3. Caixa De Sol - Nazaré Pereira
4. Maculelê - Nazaré Pereira
5. Queixa - Caetano Veloso
Side D
I. Andar Com Fé - Gilberto Gil
2. Fio Maravilha - Jorge Ben
3. Anima - Milton Nascimento
TRACK LISTING
1. La Noche Y El Día
2. Si Me Quitaran...
3. Caracunde
4. El Fusil Del Poeta
5. Se Me Van Los Pies
6. 13 De Mayo
7. Toro Mata
8. Afro-blue/zum Zum
9. The Anchor Song
Now on vinyl for the very first time, this limited 25th anniversary edition of pretaluz is a contender for the best-sounding record on luaka bop.
TRACK LISTING
1. Sofrimento
2. Rainha Ginga
3. Muxima
4. Kuribôta
5. Morro Do Kussava
6. Minha Família
7. Menina
8. Querida Angola
9. Kanguru
For those of you who already know this record, then you know that its origin story is as elusive as Pharoah was about everything Pharoah. It was born out of a misunderstanding between him and the India Navigation producer Bob Cummins, and was recorded when he was at a crossroads in his career with an unlikely crew. Among them was a guitarist who was also a spiritual guru, an organist who would go on to co-write and produce “The Message,” and a classically trained pianist—his wife at the time, Bedria Sanders—who played the harmonium despite never having seen one. At times ambient and serene, at others funky and modal, PHAROAH radically departed from his earlier work. And it became beloved.
Last fall, we were working with Pharoah on this project when he unexpectedly passed away. At first, it was hard to know what to do. We loved him, and the reason you do all of this is not solely for the music, but also for the person who made it. It’s their personality, their humor, and their wishes that drive you forward. So, we decided to go deep into the research. We set out to create something that showed Pharoah and his music in a new light.
Over the next few months, we’re going to share with you all the amazing things we found, from personal photos of Pharoah to newspaper clippings that people saved in their time capsules. (Sign up at the link in our bio to get updates.) And we’re going to share the live versions of “Harvest Time,” which turn the original piece on its head.
For seasoned listeners and new acolytes both, Pharoah will never sound the same.
TRACK LISTING
2LP
Pharoah
A1. Harvest Time
B1. Love Will Find A Way
B2. Memories Of Edith Johnson
Harvest Time Live 1977
C1. Harvest Time Live – Version 1
D1. Harvest Time Live – Version 2
CD1 - Pharoah
1. Harvest Time
2. Love Will Find A Way
3. Memories Of Edith Johnson
CD2 - Harvest Time Live 1977
1. Harvest Time Live – Version 1
2. Harvest Time Live – Version 2
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- Ltd LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- LB1099LP
- Release date
- 4 Aug '23
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- £22.99
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- LP99LP
- Release date
- 13 May '22
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- CD
- £12.99
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- LB99CD
- Release date
- 6 May '22
Like many gospel groups at the time, they were a family band: The Browns from Aberdeen, Mississippi. Annie was 11, A.R.C was 12, and Edward was 13 when they got their start, building a reputation by playing school talent shows and front yards in tow.
“We were so strange and we were so young,” says Edward Brown, “and a lot of people didn’t understand that.”
Every weekend, they would pile into their family van and travel across the Bible Belt, performing sometimes as many as three shows in a single day. Back then, the South was desegregated on paper but not always in practice, and the Staples Jr. Singers weren’t always sure what kind of welcome they would receive—whether a new audience would embrace them, whether local restaurants would serve them.
Forty years, three generations, and countless performances later, the original members of the Staples Jr. Singers are still on the circuit, performing almost every weekend at local churches as the Brown Singers and the Caldwell Singers. While they’ve written an entire catalog of gospel music since 1975’s When Do We Get Paid, for the Staples Jr. Singers, the incantatory funk of this music still holds the power to help make a way out of dark and troubled times.
“I can be a witness,” Annie says, “Back then you could feel it. You were basing it on yourself. These are the songs that are really going to take us over.”
TRACK LISTING
1.Get On Board
2. I Know You’re Going To Miss Me
3. I’m Looking For A Man
4. I’m Going To A City
5. Somebody Save Me
6. Trouble Of The World
7. Waiting For The Trumpet To Sound
8. I Feel Good
9. When Do We Get Paid
10. On My Journey Home
11. Too Close
12. Send It On Down
13. I Got A New Home
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- Coloured LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- LPLBOP1011
- Release date
- 12 May '23
- Format Info
Amazon Green Vinyl.
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- LP
- £22.99
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- LPLBOP11
- Release date
- 12 May '23
- Format Info
Black vinyl.
Black vinyl.
Here’s what you have in store: Household appliances and tools in arrangements with horns, strings, “prepared” guitars (punctuated by grunts, screams and other wild percussion), all melded with eccentric metaphorical lyricism.
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- Coloured LP
- £26.99
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- LPLBOP1003
- Release date
- 12 May '23
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Brazillian Blue Vinyl.
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- LP
- £22.99
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- LPLBOP3
- Release date
- 12 May '23
- Format Info
Black vinyl.
Black vinyl.
Here’s what you have in store: Household appliances and tools in arrangements with horns, strings, “prepared” guitars (punctuated by grunts, screams and other wild percussion), all melded with eccentric metaphorical lyricism.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Mã
A2. O Riso E A Faca
A3. Toc
A4. Tô
A5. Um “oh!” E Um “ah!”
A6. Ui! (você Inventa)
A7. Cademar
A8. Só (solidão)
B1. Hein?
B2. Augusta, Angélica E Consolação
B3. Dói
B4. Complexo De Épico
B5. A Felicidade
B6. Vai (Menina, Amanhãde Manhã)
B7. Nave Maria
Alice Coltrane
World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda - 2023 Repress
Luaka Bop
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- 2xLP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- LB87LP
- Release date
- 21 Apr '23
The critical event of this period was not that Alice fell into the nadir of her existence, but rather that she experienced tapas, a vital period of trial. These tapas (a Sanskrit term she used to describe her suffering) helped prepare Alice for the spiritual ally she found in Swami Satchidananda, an Indian guru, with whom Alice made her first trip to India. On her second trip there, Alice had a revelation instructing her to abandon the secular life and become a spiritual teacher in the Hindu tradition – so she moved out West – eventually opening the Shanti Anantam Ashram on 47 acres she’d bought in Agoura Hills, California.
Music was the foundation of Alice’s spiritual practice. From the mid 1980’s to mid 1990’s, Alice Coltrane self-released four brilliant cassette albums. These cassettes contained a music she invented, inspired by the gospel music of the Detroit churches she grew up in, mixed together with the Indian devotional music of her religious practice, and even finds Alice singing for the first time in her recorded catalog. Originally only made available through her ashram, they are her most obscure body of work and possibly the greatest reflection of her soul.
TRACK LISTING
1. Om Rama
2. Om Shanti
3. Rama Rama
4. Rama Guru
5. Hari Narayan
6. Journey To Satchidananda
7. Er Ra
8. Keshava Murahara
9. Krishna Japaye*
10. Rama Katha
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- LP
- £24.99
- Cat Number
- LBLBOP5045
- Release date
- 24 Mar '23
Along with the other four volumes of the series, Vol. 1 is now available—for the very first time!—as part of a complete set (in a box): Vol 1 - 5 (1978 - 1985) (November 4, 2022).
Waziri hails from a small part of Edo State in southern Nigeria called Afemailand, known for being a harmonious region where Muslims and Christians live—and dance—together. And there, as a devout Muslim and an exemplar of religious piety in his community, Waziri’s music fuses Etsako/Afemai folk styles with pan-Nigerian highlife and pop to create a sublime vehicle for his Islamic philosophy that gets everyone—Muslims, Christians, whoever—on the dancefloor.
Vol. 1 focuses on Waziri’s illustrious mid-career output—the music he created during the years leading up to and after he performed his first hajj. Every song here (one of which you might recognize from The Muslim Highlife) strikes his signature balance of traditional music, highlife, and funk, as he entreats you to stay on the straight and narrow, though there’s nothing straight about his beat.
TRACK LISTING
1. Forgive Them Oh God Amin -- Amin
2. Emoi Khakiegwi Aghumheile
3. Igwegi Baba
4. Iyuchele Opomumhe
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- 12"
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- LPLBOP5050
- Release date
- 17 Mar '23
Many of these songs, which they wrote when they were just teenagers, first appeared on their only full-length release in 1975, When Do We Get Paid (Luaka Bop, 2022), but none have been revisited—until now.
TRACK LISTING
A1 When Do We Get Paid (In Full)
B1 Somebody Save Me
B2 I’m Looking For A Man
B3 Tell Heaven
Alhaji Waziri Oshomah
World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife Of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah
Luaka Bop
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- 2xLP
- £27.99
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- LPLBOP100
- Release date
- 23 Sep '22
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- CD
- £15.99
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- CDLBOP100
- Release date
- 30 Sep '22
- Format Info
Gatefold CD with 24 page booklet.
Gatefold CD with 24 page... [ + ]
He’s the creator of a unique dance music that’s fused with local folk styles, highlife, and Western pop, and imbued with Islamic values— and he’s the greatest entertainer in all of Edo State.
They call him the Etsako Super Star.
TRACK LISTING
CD
1. Forgive Them Oh God Amin – Amin
2. Jealousy
3. Alhaji Yesufu Sado Managing Director
4. Omhona - Omhona
5. Ovini Omoekeke Alhaji Inu Umoru
6. Okhume Ukhaduame
7. My Luck Feat. Madam Hassanah Waziri And Her Velvet Voice
2LP
A1. Forgive Them Oh God Amin – Amin
A2. Jealousy
B1. Alhaji Yesufu Sado Managing Director
C1. Omhona - Omhona
C2. Ovini Omoekeke Alhaji Inu Umoru
D1. Okhume Ukhaduame
D2. My Luck Feat. Madam Hassanah Waziri And Her Velvet Voice
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- Ltd LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- LB96LP
- Release date
- 8 Apr '22
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- LB96CD
- Release date
- 1 Apr '22
We met Pastor Champion a few years ago while we were putting together another release, The Time for Peace Is Now: Gospel Music About Us. We found him in a collection of YouTube videos from the 37th Street Baptist Church in Oakland, California, put together by the pastor there, Bishop Dr. W.C. McClinton. There was quite a lot of talent in those videos, and among them was Pastor Champion whom we liked so much that we decided to make a record with him.
Pastor Champion wasn’t like any other pastor you’ve ever met. As an itinerant preacher, a carpenter, and a father of five, he made a name for himself traveling up and down the California coast with his electric guitar. He travelled alone and he played alone, well into his seventies. The easiest way to describe him would be as an outsider gospel artist. Other than these bare facts, we never learned much about him—except that he was also the brother of the well-known soul singer Bettye Swann. In fact, most of what we knew about him we got from his sister’s Wikipedia page.
We decided that because we met Champion through the 37th Street Baptist Church, we would record him there too. We recorded him live on a two-track Nagra reel to reel, as we wanted the album to be analog in the style of traditional gospel recordings. Over the course of two evenings (when the workday was done), Champion taught his band—musicians who had never played together before—a handful of songs, a small selection of the nearly 2,000 fragments of songs and sermons that he regularly performed. We listened in as they all got more familiar with the material and each other over time.
At some point, we mentioned to Champion that he would have to be interviewed by someone to write notes for the album. He wasn’t too pleased with this idea, saying he’d had a hard life and he didn’t want to talk about it. Over the next few months, we kept asking Champion to talk to someone about his life. He told us that he didn’t want to talk about growing up in Louisiana, his mother being accosted by the Klan, or that his father was a gambler. He didn’t want to talk about being jailed for 90 days for using a whites only bathroom, being in gangs or having a street name. We told him that was fine—he could talk about what he wanted to talk about. And he told us that he didn’t want to talk about anything.
You know, there are times when you make a record where it’s already made in your mind before you start. But then in the end, the record you thought you were making is not the record you made. We spent years puzzling over this one, trying to figure out what it was saying, who it was for, and how to get people to pay attention to it.
But Champion knew that this record wasn’t going to be for everyone. He didn’t really care. The important part for him was just getting the message out there in the same way that he always had, travelling alone with his electric guitar. “I want to say what I mean,” he said, “be practical, precise, to the point, and, at the same time, diplomatic.” In other words, he just wanted to be a good man.
God bless Pastor Champion and Mother Champion, peace be with them and their family. Love to all
TRACK LISTING
01 / A1. Intro
02 / A2. I Know That You’ve Been Wounded (Church Hurt)
03 / A3. He’ll Make A Way (Trust In The Lord)
04 / A4. Talk To God
05 / A5. In The Name Of Jesus (everytime)
06 / B1. To Be Used By You (I Want To Be A Good Man)
07 / B2. Who Do Men Say I Am?
08 / B3. Storm Of Life (Stand By Me)
09 / B4. In The Service Of The Lord
10 / B5. I Just Want To Be A Good Man (To Be Used By You)
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- Coloured LP
- £25.99
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- LB97LPSE
- Release date
- 3 Dec '21
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"End of the year" colour vinyl edition with die-cut gatefold sleeve.
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- Indies Exclusive LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- LB97LP180
- Release date
- 26 Mar '21
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Limited edition indies exclusive 180g black vinyl in a gatefold die-cut sleeve.
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- CD
- £10.99
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- LB97CD
- Release date
- 26 Mar '21
The entire album revolves around a recurring phrase played by Sam Shepherd on the piano, harpsichord and celesta. This phrase becomes the central pulse around which the other textures float, suspended in the space inbetween. The loose tempo allows for the improvised saxophone passages to flow freely and for Pharaoh to lean into the most tender moments of his performance.
At the beginning of the album the string section gradually emerges like a delicate silver thread before building through a series of sweeping chord progressions and moments of bittersweet dissonance. This leads into the third movement where Sam Shephard’s deft synth arrangement becomes the focal point. And later on we hear a hushed vocal performance from Pharoah. It’s one of the most touching moments of the album, with years of lived experience seeping through every crack and bend of his voice in a captivating way.
Promises is an album of subtle expression which invokes a feeling of boundlessness. It’s a wide open sonic space where each note is allowed to resonate to its full conclusion. There’s a constant feeling of push and pull, of tension and release, though it never really resolves fully. Something is always left hanging in the air - a question, a prayer, an inexplicable feeling. It’s perhaps one of the most surprising and profound releases of the year.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: A beautiful orchestral piece that while both resplendent with FP's and PS's wonderful idiosyncrasies; recalls the gorgeous depth of Prefab Sprout's "I Trawl The Megahertz" but without the vocal parts! Epic!TRACK LISTING
Side 1
1. Promises (Movement 1) (1:16)
2. Promises (Movement 2) (3:56)
3. Promises (Movement 3) (3:16)
4. Promises (Movement 4) (3:39)
5. Promises (Movement 5) (6:06)
Side 2
1. Promises (Movement 6) (8:25)
2. Promises (Movement 7) (3:26)
3. Promises (Movement 8) (9:57)
4. Promises (Movement 9) (5:43)
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- 3xLtd LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- LB6LP (#RSD19)
- Release date
- 26 Apr '19
30 year anniversary box seT of David byrne’s legendary brazil Classics series. This is one of the first compilations of pop music from Brazil, and one of the most important compilations of music from anywhere. It became the beginning of a shift to music in other languages and from places other than where you are now. And, it was the beginning of Luaka Bop, which we are pretty happy about. New sleeve notes from David Byrne!
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- LP
- £17.99
- Cat Number
- LB5034LP
- Release date
- 27 Nov '15
Among the crate-digging few that knew of him, he is considered a complete myth. While he has never performed live and almost never given interviews, his fantastical biography is scattered and has to this day not been verified. And, though he is still alive, he refuses to speak about anything regarding the past.
According to various rumors, he left home following the Biafran War and went to study cinematography in the Soviet Union, returning in the mid-70s to start his own film company and record label, Wilfilms. He then self-released eight remarkable records from 1978-1985. He wrote and produced everything on his own, and possibly played every instrument himself. Then, at some point of his life, he became born again and denounced his earlier music, deciding it is something he would never speak about.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Tomorrow
A2. Why Go To War
B1. Love Me Now
B2. Fantastic Man
B3. Try And Try
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- 3xLP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- 8089900791
- Release date
- 28 Oct '13
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- CD
- £10.99
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- 8089900792
- Release date
- 28 Oct '13
Through its World Psychedelic Classics series, Luaka Bop has succeeded at introducing long-forgotten artists including Os Mutantes, Shuggie Otis and Tim Maia to the world at large. William Onyeabor is as obscure as these other artists were before their Luaka Bop releases, although his recordings from the 70s and 80s are beloved by die-hard record collectors and artists such as Damon Albarn, Devendra Banhart, Four Tet and Caribou, to name a few. The music ranges from synth-heavy electronic dance music to Afrosoul with saxophones and female backup singers, to psychedelic funk with wah-wah guitar and fuzzy keyboards - and often combines all of these elements.
'Who Is William Onyeabor?' may be the most complicated, if also one of the richest, undertakings in Luaka Bop's (rarely straightforward) 25-year history. Following the eight albums Onyeabor self-released between 1978 and 1985, he became a Born-Again Christian, refusing ever to speak about himself or his music again. Various biographies can be found online. Some say he studied cinematography in the Soviet Union and returned to Nigeria in the mid-70s to start his own film company, Wilfilms. Some say he was a lawyer with a degree from a university in Great Britain. Others portray him as a businessman who for years worked on government contracts in Enugu, Nigeria.
By attempting to speak with Onyeabor himself, and by talking to people who seem to have firsthand knowledge, Luaka Bop has been trying to construct an accurate biography of him for the past 18 months...without success.
One thing that's undisputable is that Onyeabor's music is utterly unique and ahead of its time.
The vinyl release comprises 13 tracks spanning Onyeabor's body of work and will include artwork by John Akomfrah, Njideka Akunyili, Harrison Haynes, Dave Muller, Odili Donald Odita and Xaviera Simmons.
"The world might just be better off not hearing [Onyeabor's "Atomic Bomb"], which will burrow and propagate its seed exponentially by the second, into the hearts and souls of all humanity. It's the catchiest song I've ever heard; when it gets in my brain, I can't sleep...He's a mythical character from Nigeria." - Devendra Banhart in Uncut
"Anyone out there who is making music at the moment...will be quite excited by this..." - Damon Albarn on BBC Radio One
"LCD Soundsystem sounds like an American William Onyeabor." - Peaking Lights
"Talked to Luaka Bop about details of the William Onyeabor comp they are working on... Gonna blow minds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - Four Tet
"People are really going to freak out!" - Caribou
TRACK LISTING
1. Body And Soul
2. Atomic Bomb
3. Good Name
4. Something You Will Never Forget
5. Why Go To Ware
6. Love Is Blind
7. Heaven And Hell
8. Let’s Fall In Love
9. Fantastic Man
LP EXCLUSIVES – NOT AVAILABLE ON CD OR DIGITALLY:
10. When The Going Is Smooth & Good
11. The Way To Win Your Love
12. Jungle Gods
13. Love Me Now
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- 2xCD/DVD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- VVR1047282
- Release date
- 23 Jul '07