Name: Joe Mensah - Shakamo by Soundway Records
Duration: 8 min 10 s
Description: Shakamo is taken from Cry Laughter, the Soundway Record Store Day 2016 release. Available from all participating indies from April 16th. Strictly limited to 1000 units. 180g vinyl and housed in a heavyweight paste-on rigid sleeve.

Where can i buy a digital copy ? In India we don't get Vinyls. This is Amazing stuff from the man who gave us the happy beat

https://open.spotify.com/album/4XfjbetSzQqOXXE0NVdOjl

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-moving-finger/1663546857?i=1663546858

The Amazing Dorothy Ashby in a slight extended version for her beautiful creation "The Moving Finger".

Dedicated to my newborn Aviv "Ginger".

Dorothy Ashby - The Moving Finger (Ginger Dream Edit)

Ninine Garcia - My Dream Of Love

Shakamo is taken from Cry Laughter, the Soundway Record Store Day 2016 release. Available from all participating indies from April 16th. Strictly limited to 1000 units. 180g vinyl and housed in a heavyweight paste-on rigid sleeve. 

Joe Mensah - Shakamo

Funk was the syncopated groove that emerged in the mid-sixties through hits from James Brown and Dyke and The Blazers. It was a natural development out of rhythm and blues. Thousands of local bands tried to emulate Brown’s success, and in the process created a plethora of rare and sought after 45s and album cuts that have been mined by DJs and producers to fill floors or provide breakbeats. Whilst the 20 tracks on this compilation would cost you thousands of pounds to own on their original issue, that isn’t really the point. Instead you get to listen to magnificent grooves such as Mickey & The Soul Generations explosive ‘Iron Leg’, Andrew Brown’s blues tinged ‘You Made Me Suffer’ or the message music of 24 Carat Black.

On the 14th October 2016 J&D Records release three exceptional compilations that look at vintage African-American music through the prism of UK club culture. All Night Long, Can You Feel ThatBeat and Extra Added Soul will be available on CD & double vinyl and are compiled by DJ and award winning compiler Dean Rudland, with stunning artwork from his long-time collaborators The Unknown. Across the three volumes there are 60 tracks of soul, funk and boogie.

Can You Feel That Beat: Funky 45s and Other Rare Grooves

The First Thing I Do In The Morning - Joyce Williams

Joe Cruz & The Cruzettes - Love Song (1973)

Remix done by The Reflex

https://thereflex.bandcamp.com/

Million Sellers Vol.3

Nina Simone - Be That Way Sometimes (Reflex)

Buddy Sativa ft. Onra  Una Peripecia(7'inch)

Pre-order album ~ https://hopest.re/NamingAndBlaming

The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra (The POAO) release ‘Fight So Hard’, the first single from their long-awaited second album ‘Naming & Blaming’. Recorded with the full POAO 17 piece ensemble, Fight So Hard is a simmering slow burn with MC One Sixth trading rap verses with singers Kuukua and Lydia Acquah, Fem Belling and Lamine Sonko. In true afrobeat tradition the album version clocks in at a trance-inducing nine minutes long! (Radio edit supplied for those on a tighter schedule). The vocals are broken up with heavy brass sections and extended instrumental improvisations while the understated rhythm section bubbles away without pause or deviation.

Available everywhere on all formats on November 30th, the ‘Naming & Blaming’ album is a pulsing, percussive journey into classic afrobeat led by fierce vocals and a howling horn section. It’s a fitting 21st-century response to the world-shaking music of 1970s Nigeria defined by Fela Kuti. The result is true to the afrobeat blueprint of hypnotising rhythm, extended improvisation and political comment, but adds to the formula a host of pan-African and local influences as well as hip-hop elements that reflect the deep ranging roots of the band. This balance is what The POAO is all about, paying respects to the culture while keeping their feet planted in the 21st century.

Naming & Blaming

Pre-order Album

The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra - Fight So Hard

The Cinematic Orchestra - Ode To The Big Sea

Piero Umiliani - Lady Magnolia (Kid Loco Remix)

Chip Wickham Flute.
From the UK's leading trumpeter Matthew Halsall's first album 'Sending My Love'

Reflections (Matthew Halsall)

MUSIC FROM PLANET EARTH: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Joe Mensah - Shakamo

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