Idrissa Soumaoro teaches blind children music and how to read Braille in Bamako, Mali. In 1978, he released the album Ampsa with his band L’eclipse that features the two blind students Amadou & Mariam. It...
Groovy folk pop from Iraq by Ja’afar Hassan, his track They Taught Me can be found on the compilation Choubi Choubi! Folk And Pop Sounds From Iraq that was released by Sublime Frequencies in 2005.
Imagine it’s 1974: Bill Holt, impressed with The Beatles’ “Revolution #9”, starts to experiment in his basement with sound collages and early electronic instruments on top of a beautiful, simple Folk song. The most...
Appears on the compilation “1970s Algerian Folk & Pop” published by Forced Exposure.
I was sure to have heard this song before and thanks to the omniscient internet and the notorious Radio Diffusion blog, I found out. It’s the wonderful track “Leylim Leylim” by the Turkish band...
Buy it on Forced Exposure or Vampi Soul Records. “First-time ever legit reissue of this lost gem from the late 60’s euro psychedelic underground. Belgium-based portuguese soul brothers Tony & Waldo Lam (better know...
Buy it at Forced Exposure: “The Rahbani Brothers are acclaimed composers, producers and arrangers, and also responsible for bringing western sounds into Lebanon (at that time the music and artistic capital of the Arab...
Appears on the great compilation “Psych Funk 101 World Psychedelic Funk Classics”, try Forced Exposure or Honest Jons.
This killer track an be found on the LP Hürel Arsivi, rereleased in 2008 by Guerssen Records.