Various Artists - Malawi Grooves 1950, ’57, ’58
This album with grooves by Cewa, Mang’anja, Tumbuka, and Tonga musicians represents only some of Malawi’s many rich musical cultures. Eight of the fifteen t..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / SWP051
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional, Vinyl.
Various Artists - Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957
Music from another world! Magnificent recordings of the traditional musics of the Congo, as found by Hugh Tracey in the 1950s.
Label: SWP Records / SWP046
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional, Vinyl.
Various Artists - African Gems
“This is some of the best traditional African music ever recorded. The music is the star – of course – then come the wonderful musicians who performed..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / SWP044
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Traditional, Vinyl.
Various Artists - The Kankobela of the Batonga
The kankobela is the thumb-piano of the Batonga people who live either side of Lake Kariba in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Amazing thing is: the ‘distortion’ you he..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / SWP050
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Traditional, Vinyl.
De Nazaten (Play Robby Alberga) - Als De Haan Tanden Krijgt…
Nine man strong, this lovely brass & percussion band has been around for more than 20 years. The dutch/surinamese group play a mix of styles, “streetw..(read more)
Label: Strotbrock / 1801
Artist: De Nazaten (Play Robby Alberga)
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Brass, Jazz, Surinam, Traditional.
Various Artists - Modern Mayan – The Indian Music Of Chiapas, Mexico
Reissue of 1975 album originally on Folkways, recordings by Richard Alderson. He wrote: “The music of the indigenous people of the southern Mexican state ..(read more)
Label: Moi Je Connais / Mississippi / MJCR024 / MRP-068
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Folk, Mexico, Traditional, Vinyl.
Lahcen Akil and the Chaabi Brothers - Untitled
Lotar player Lahcen Akil (the lotar is a type of lute from the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco) was born in 1969 in the village of Tamlalte in the High Atlas, a..(read more)
Label: Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu? / TOFU 90
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Morocco, Traditional, Vinyl, World Music.
Various Artists - The Crying Princess
The Crying Princess compiles rare Burmese 78rpm records gathered by Robert Millis and Sublime Frequencies co-founder Alan Bishop during various trips to Burma (..(read more)
Label: Sublime Frequencies / SF078
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Asian, Traditional, Vinyl, World Music.
Various Artists - Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games
From the sexy, savage’ Cornish May Day rites of Alan Lomax’s Oss Oss Wee Oss, to Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s footage of ferociously fought t..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / ISBN 5035673009208
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: 2DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Compilations, Early Cinema, Film History, Folk, History, Traditional.
