This is a record released by the percussion group Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff from Dakar, Senegal, from Mississippi Records in the United States in December 2023.Contains 12 songs based on traditional rhythms from Senegal, Cameroon, and Gorée Island.Click here to see more Mississippi Records...

A masterpiece of Ethiopian jazz has been reissued by Mississippi.Below is an explanation by the label. "On this gem of a 1976 record, the voices of Aselefek Asine and Getenesh Khebre sing in close harmony, and the two 'beauties' sing duets over 2 songs. Backed by eccentric musicians, the Army Band delivers Muratou-esque minor piano runs, interlocking percussion, and rock-steady basslines, while arranger Teshome Sisei's flute is flamboyant and exhilarating. The best elements of Ethiopia's Golden Age come together on one of the last records of this era: Aselefesh and Getenesh, in Addis at the end of the empire. Raised in the bustling, cosmopolitan world of Ababa, the two met at Addis' legendary center for arts and cultural learning, the Harger Fikr Theater, where they received centuries of vocal and acting training. BEAUTIES was a hit and sold out as soon as it was released in 10. However, its glory was short-lived, as the Derk regime imposed a severe crackdown on music and artistic expression. Artists (and most musicians) targeted as allies had to keep a low profile, and for 1 years almost all recording and live music was canceled in Ethiopia. One of the last great records of the golden age.Although we were unable to release a second record, Aserefek Asine is proud of her work.From her home in Addis, she says now." I have full confidence that if this album is released again, it will become popular and become a hit! Long in the making, this album is a collaboration between the artist and New Orleans powerhouses Domino Sound. Old-school "Tip-on" jacket specification. /// Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases...

This is a reissue of a record released in 1970 by Rail Band, the official band of the Malian National Railways. Below is an explanation by the label. "One of the greatest, heaviest and most popular guitar records from 1970s West Africa is now available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade! 1, Bamako, Mali: The official orchestra of the Malian National Railways, Rail Band. Release of self-titled LP, a relentlessly soulful and hypnotic blend of American funk, jazz horn, and Afro-Cuban music, reflecting centuries of Mande tradition and making music on the African continent. The greatest artists blasted out loud: Leil, led by legendary trumpet and saxophone man Tidiani Kone, supported by Jerimadi Tunkara's intricate mesh of rumbling, reverberated guitars. - The band's expansive lineup embodies West African storytelling traditions while celebrating the technology and modernity of newly independent Mali. Vocalists Salifu Keita and Molly Kante later achieved worldwide solo success. A hero of African music who would go on to achieve great fame, he sings with endless emotion, oscillating between silky ballads and funk screams.The band's sound is made up of layered percussion, rolling guitars, Filled with melodic horns through a Caribbean filter. Starting in 10, the Rail Band played five days a week from 1973pm until early morning at the Buffet Hotel de la Gare. The audience was a cosmopolitan mix of businessmen, young people, and Bamako nightlife.The band was surprisingly versatile, switching genres, rhythms, and styles to suit the audience.It was an unstable mix; Shortly after these recordings were made, Salif Keita left to form the rival group Les Ambassadeurs, and the band disbanded.Rail Band continued to operate in various forms, but none of the bands included on this album The eight songs in this collection reveal one of the greatest bands of all time, at the height of their creativity.Their songs date back to the 1970th century and have been passed down through the oral tradition of the griots. On "Duga", the rail band replaces the balafon, and the speakers interplay with Cech Tidian's bass and Alfred Coulibaly's delicious organ. The iconic saxophone intro and Molly Kante's James Brown "Marabayasa" is a deep cut favorite of DJs all over the world. The Rail Band is part of a long and prestigious lineage of Malian guitar orchestras whose mission is to translate Malian traditional music into modern instrumentation; its tradition is second to none. Transformed and reimagined with unforgiving style and energy. "...

This is a reissue record released by Mississppi Records in June 2023 by Michael Hurley, a country folk writer from Oregon, USA. (Original released in 6) Includes 2008 pastoral country folk songs.Click here for labels and other works /// Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases available at Tobira. ...

A two-disc compilation record of Canto A Lo Divino, a religious folk song from Chile's Central Valley.Below is an explanation by the label. "Canto A Lo Divino is the sacred music of Chile's Central Valley. This music is a community of worship and reflection for the peasants of this area, and it is played in packed rooms all night long after work. With guitars and 2-string heavenly guitarrons blaring with hypnotic variations, Kant has lived on for centuries in the voices of hundreds of men and women, apocalyptic, divine and Angelitos (dead little child). It conjures up a vivid vision, but the poem is also rooted in the daily life of the valley: labor, drought, the life cycle of families, animals and plants.Ancient, originating in Spain and reaching the Mississippi Delta from South America. Innumerable entnacions (melodies) are inherited in the ten-line rhyme decima, the song form of the , a combination that is captivating, transporting, cosmic, and terrestrial at the same time. The artwork showcases the work of Frederico Rohse, a baker from the village of Los Vilos, who brought to life a vision of the apocalypse from Kant on an old flour sack. Mississippi Records, in conjunction with the Museo Campesino En Movimiento, has the privilege of offering an archive of hundreds of hours of Kant's field recordings, a double LP containing 25 pages. Housed in a gorgeous gatefold jacket with lyrics, photographs and detailed notes on Kant's traditions." More on the label here ///...

This record is a compilation of songs by Markos Vamvakaris, a virtuoso of Greek working-class music Rebetika.Below is an explanation by the label.Continuing Mississippi's exploration of the dark side of Greek music, Markos Vamvakaris, one of the most legendary artists of the Greek rebetika, presents 12 rarely heard recordings of addictive pain and love.Rebetika is the sound of Greece and Asia Minor clashing during the civil wars, mass population exchanges and anarchy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.A poetic, wistful, bitter music, Rebetika was born in the Mediterranean port of Hasden (Tekes), and its poetry was in no small part driven by a series of remarkable recordings by his Markos Vamvakaris in the 1930s. , was whispered in a Greek prison before spreading to more people.Marcos (the first name any Greek music fan will know) sang and drunkenly sang love, pain and longing in the brothels, bars and hash dens of Piraeus port. In 1917 he arrived in the port of Piraeus as a young man and worked as a skinner in a tannery. When he got his hands on a bouzouki in 1924, he was fascinated by the life of the lowest social class in Greece, the Mange.They lived by their own laws, dressed, walked, and spoke in their own style, in complete opposition to others. Rebetika was their music. Recorded in Athens between 1932 and 1936, Marcos was already a bouzouki virtuoso with these early twelve pieces.His strong, clean playing complements his hoarse voice and excellent sense of rhythm that comes from his years of experience as a Zebekiko dancer.The song spirals, his open-note drones and melodic lines evoking ecstatic voices and encouragement from his fellow musicians.The music of the Ottoman cafés, the voices of the Greeks taking refuge in Smyrna, the turmoil and suffering of port life, all come through in Marcos' songs. This is a very rare remastered version that appeared in the recording scene in the early 12s and was recorded in a short period from 1930 until the lyrics were censored by the government.There were no Rebetika recordings under the Axis occupation, and Marcos had several hits in the years after the war, but he never reached this level again. A dazzling, mesmerizing and heaviest work by one of the greatest artists of the 1936th century. " Labels and other works /// Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases...

A compilation record of the Kenyan guitarist George Mukabi tribute, who developed fingerpicking in the early days of popular music in East Africa, has been released by Mississippi Records. Includes a 12-page color booklet.Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases available at Tobira. -------------------------...

Mississippi Records released the first record of Kiko Kids Jazz, which was by far the most popular in the cobblestone mix in the 1950s Tanzanian guitar scene, which gained momentum in proportion to the national independence movement. Includes 8-page full-color insert.Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases available at Tobira. ...

 Mississippi Records has released a private record recorded on an open reel at home by 92-year-old blues writer Brother Theotis Taylor.The songs made by fasting and praying before recording are even divine.Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases available at ...

Psychedelic guitar music compilation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.This is an underground music collection that has nothing to do with major local record companies. Includes 8-page booklet.Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases available at Tobira. ------------------------- Includes 2-color jacket ...

Mississippi remastered the record of the last Phil Reco session held by Alan Lomax, who has been researching and collecting American primitives from early on, from 1978 to 1983, and released it as a two-disc set.A luxurious insert is also included. Contains 2 songs.Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases available at Tobira. ------------------------- Mississippi ...

A compilation album of the legendary Greek singer Marika Politissa released in January 2021 by Mississipi Records in Chicago.Comes with a luxurious color insert.Click here to see more Mississippi Records releases available at Tobira. -------------------------...