various / honest jon's records
Something Is Wrong: Vintage Recordings From East Africa
Select Color and Embed!
|
|
Get The Code!
Instructions
1. Select your desired color from the color picker2. Check the preview on the right
3. Copy the code above and paste into your blog or web page
4. Enjoy!
Clicking on the image or play buttons above will direct you to boomkat.com
various / honest jon's records - Something Is Wrong: Vintage Recordings From East Africa
Closing an immense year for Honest Jon's, 35 precious selections from East Africa spanning the mid-1930s till the mid-1950s. Taking full advantage of unprecedented access to EMI's treasured archives in Hayes, Middlesex, HJ's drew from more than 400 sides in the HMV MA series: 10" 78rpm 'Native Records', a set of recordings made in Africa, pressed in the UK and sent back to Africa, aimed at native Africans rather than the white colonialists or increasing Indian communities, all with the intention of raising record and gramophone sales. The tracks can be broadly split into three substyles, minstrelsy, percussion-based ensembles and taarab. Most fall into the former category, relating tales of punch-ups at rumba parties and covering subjects as diverse as sex, death and cut-off trousers, best exemplified in Ssekiomou's strikingly urgent 'Wireless', a song about the arrival of wireless radio to Kampala and the flurry of excitement reflected in the rapidly bowed ostinato of his Ndingidi. Taarab was more popular with Swahili-speaking communities and those familiar with imported Indian and Arab Egyptian records, mostly defined by lilting melodies played on Oud, violins or Indian Harmonium with Arab-styled poetry. Influenced by an influx of Congolese musicians, the percussion-based ensembles account for a small but exhilarating section of the comp, including a spectacular big band Kenyan Calypso. As expected, the attention to detail and luxurious hard-cover book presentation is second to none, and the mind boggles at the amount of work gone into translating and compiling the extensive sleevenotes and accompanying photographs. All music lovingly restored at Abbey Road. Highly recommended!
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings From Istanbul
Honest Jon's Records
2CD // £14.99
32 intensely beautiful recordings made in Istanbul during the the first three decades of the 20th century...
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
London Is the Place for Me 5: Latin, Jazz, Calypso and Highlife from Young Black London
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £7.99
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
2CD // £14.99
**Beautifully presented as miniature books, saddle-stitched, with 40 pages of photographs**
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
2LP // £13.49
*Volume 5 of this killer archival Calypso series from Honest Jon's - double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve*
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
2LP // £12.99
*Volume 6 of this killer archival Calypso series from Honest Jon's - double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve*
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
Feat Actress, MMM, Demdike Stare, Villalobos, Ernestus, Hype Williams, 'Shake' Shakir', Old Apparatus+++
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
London Is The Place For Me 2 : Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz from young black London
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
Honest Jon's revive the winning formula for volume 2 of this love letter to antique calypso.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
London Is The Place For Me 3: Ambrose Adekoya Campbell
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
A fantastic collection of African music originally recorded as 78's on the Melodisc label.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
London Is The Place For Me 4: African Dreams And The Piccadilly High Life
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
This is the fourth amazing volume in a revelatory series celebrating the music of black London.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
2LP // £13.99
CLASSIC compilation focussing on killer dancehall vocal and dub's from the Unity Sounds crew - DON"T MISS!
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
Killer collection of Juju And Highlife, Apala And Fuji from Lagos.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
Juju, apala, afrofunk, highlife and classic fuji!
Fireworks (T++ / Mordant Music Mixes)
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £2.95FLAC Download // £3.95
New material from Shackleton, weighted with dynamic remixes by T++ and Mordant Music.
Deadman (King Midas Sound Mix)
Honest Jon's Records
MP3 Download // £1.95FLAC Download // £2.95
Digital version includes a bonus remix from The Bug!
Honest Jon's Records
CD // £11.49
Moritz, Sasu Ripatti (AKA Vladislav Delay) and Max Loderbauer with a darker and more driving third album.
KELAN PHILIP COHRAN & THE HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE
Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Honest Jon's Records
CD // £11.49
The legendary Philip Cohran hooks up with his brood - the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - for Honest Jon's.
Honest Jon's Records
CD // £10.49
Something like a cross between Stina Nordenstam (in the vocals) and the Cocteau Twins (in the textures)...
TREMBLING BELLS & BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Honest Jon's Records
CD // £9.99
Trembling Bells meets Bonnie 'Prince' Billy on one of the finest releases either act has put their name to.
Honest Jon's Records
CD // £10.99
Long awaited debut album from Moritz Von Oswald with Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer.
Honest Jon's Records
CD // £11.99
Moritz Von Oswald, Max Loderbauer, and Sasu Ripatti return for a second album for Honest Jon's.
New State
CD // £8.99
This is the first commercially released mixtape of South African House, or Kwaito, available in the UK.
TRIKONT
CD // £13.99
Badass comp of Eastern European and Russian party tunes from the intrepid Trikont camp.
CHUSMA RECORDS
CD // £12.99
Crackin' comp of modern Cumbia hits from a diverse international network of 2/4 time protagonists...
Strut
CD // £12.99
A brand new album (his first studio set to be released internationally) from Ghanaian music legend Ebo Taylor
VAMPISOUL
2CD // £18.99
The irrepressible Vampisoul label presents a wonderful overview of Nigerian legend, Bola Johnson.
VAMPISOUL
2CD // £19.99
A double-disc career retrospective on this Nigerian contemporary of Fela Kuti
Lion Productions
CD // £12.99
A retrospective of far-out Urugayan band El Kinto, featuring Eduardo Mateo
Lion Productions
CD // £12.99
Collaboration between El Kinto's Eduardo Mateo and Afro-folk percussionist Jorge Trasante, from 1976
Sublime Frequencies
CD // £18.99
Ace retrospective from the most beloved pop group in the history of Indonesian music.
Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti
Now Again Records
CD // £11.99
Huge Fela Estate-approved anthology includes rare and previously unreleased music +a large-format book.
