Orlandivo Orlandivo

This beautiful bossa / downtempo samba like album contains the sought after tracks such as ‘Onde Anda O Meu Amor’ and ‘Tamanco No Samba’. Apart from Orlandivo, other artists such as João Donat…

Hannibal Marvin Peterson The Tribe

The official release of the 1976 recording ‘The Tribe’. Previously only a handful of ultra-rare test pressing copies were floating around of this beauty. Finally after more than 35 years, this essentia…

Super Mama Djombo Festival (Deluxe Edition)

Hailing from a boy scout camp deep in the jungle of late 1960’s Guiné-Bissau, Super Mama Djombo’s founding musicians have come a long way to display their wonderful music to the world!…

V/A Brazuca! - Samba Rock And Brazilian Groove From The Golden Years (1966-1978)

A great document on samba rock from the golden years of Brasilian music…

V/A Surinam! - Boogie & Disco Funk From The Surinamese Dance Floors '76 - '83

The SURINAM! compilation features 10 rare tracks within the Surinamese boogie funk genre. Key players from the ‘76-’83 era such as Solat, Sumy, Erwin Bouterse, Reingoud and Thunderstorm are all inc…

Jimi Tenor & Kabukabu Mystery Of Aether

A sense of togetherness is at the heart of Aether, and not just in the concert hall. It permeates Jimi’s whole world-view, even embracing other worlds. Lyrically, the song ‘Resonate And Be’ captu…

Super Biton De Segou Super Biton De Segou

Of all the Malian orchestras, the mighty Super Biton de Ségou stands tall in the history of Malian modern music. Largely forgotten these days, it still remains one of the oldest and probably one of th…

African Brothers Band Tribute To D.K.

Reissue of one of the top African albums from Ghana. Super deep highlife music from 1979! Essential!
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L'Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti Kanaga De Mopti

Kindred Spirits kicks off its Mali-series with one of the most in demand Mali records, by L’Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti….

Jungle By Night Jungle By Night

“the revelation of afrobeat” – Chief Udoh Essiet (percussionist of Fela Kuti’s Egypt ‘80) Jungle By Night present their first CD filled with the highlights from a recent studio session….

Tony Allen Hits With The Africa 70 Jealousy

Jealousy is the first of the 3 solo albums by Tony Allen produced by Fela Kuti. In 1975 Tony Allen, the band-leader of Afrika 70, got an opportunity to rehearse his compositions together with rest of t…

Tony Allen Plays With Afrika 70 No Accommodation For Lagos

1978 was without a doubt one of the most disturbing years in the history of Fela and the Afrika 70. Just a year before the army had raided Fela’s compound destroying his house, his club, his brothers f…

Tony Allen And The Afro Messengers No Discrimination

After 14 years of close collaboration Tony Allen stopped working with Fela Anikulapo Kuti. After breaking from the band during the gigs at Berlin’s festival in 1978, Tony Allen returned to Lagos to s…

Tony Allen Plays With Afrika 70 Progress

In 1976 Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Afrika 70 released a total of 8 albums including the hit Zombie. At the time of their height Tony Allen, Fela’s drummer, decided to release a follow-up album to Jealou…

Arthur Verocai Arthur Verocia

Official limited reissue of the ultimate Brazilian classic: Arthur Verocai – Arthur Verocai. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with unreleased photo’s, 180 gram vinyl, remastered audio and a printed innerslee…

Guelewar TOUKI BA BANJUL: Acid trip from Banjul to Dakar

A compilation featuring the highlights of the sought after er Senegalese psych records by Guelewar, and the first official reissue of these funk gems….

Myrian Makenwa La Extraodinaria

One of Colombia’s most significant afro-psychedelia records. Perfectly capturing its whole sound system movement subculture of the time….

Soulful Shanghai The Many Districts Of Soulful Shanghai

New IG Culture album, featuring ID4 Windz, John Robinson and Bilal Salaam. This is Ltd to 1000 copies and comes in a heavy gatefold sleeve. TIP!!
With ‘Soulful Shanghai’ IG draws a lineage directl…

Sun Ra Paris Tapes

Unreleased live recordings from the legendary 1971 performance at Theatre Du Chatelet, Paris, France. The three stunning full length tracks featured on this LP must have sounded INCREDIBLE to the audie…

Le Mystere Jazz de Tombouctou Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou

The second reissue from the Mali Kunkan label on Kindred Spirits. One of the rarest records from Mali ‘Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou’ is now available again with remastered audio and restored artw…

Peter Fish The Silver Apple

In the summer of 1975 Peter gathered his collective to record 5 compositions. The outcome was this great album ‘THE SILVER APPLE’ heavily influenced by Coltrane and his quartet, as well as by Cecil Tay…

Cha Cha Shaw Kingdom Come

Reissue of this lost 1979 gem from trumpeter, Charles Shaw. A super nice LP of some pretty wild styles, oddball grooves and fairly tripped out blowing. The untreated recording approach gives this a rea…

Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band Egyptian Jazz

A Tribute To Sun Ra & Latino In Cairo. This record represents The Cairo Jazz Band responding to the American Jazz scene of the 60s & 70s with influences from Mongo Santamaria to Randy Weston and Sun Ra…

The Prime Element Alborada

Kindred Spirits launch their new imprint, Free Spirits Series, in fine style with this much sought after rarity. ‘Alborada’ was originally released on Trova Records in 1976 by The Prime Element, a …

Zelia Barbosa Brazil: Songs Of Protest

A beautiful and politically conscious Brazilian record that was originally released in the US only by Monitor Records (1968). It’s master tapes were archived at Smithsonian Folkways institute in the US…

Lloyd Miller in Europe w/ Jef Gilson Paris 1961
Limited reissue of French, modern spiritual jazz tracks on Kindred Spirits…. holy grail for some, a great new discovery for most of us!! Really cool and playful music – full of 1950s angst! …

Byard Lancaster Funny Funky Rib Crib

First official reissue of this obscure and rare Palm imprint recording from 1979.

Numerous artists featured, including cult pianist Francois Tusques, African guitarist Francsois Nyombo (Lafayette Af…

Sun Ra The Antique Blacks

The vitality you hear on Antique Blacks is a testament to the unique energy of the community around The Foxhole Cafe in Philadelphia, as Ra honed his unique brand of Afro-Futurism through the late 60’s…

Sun Ra Disco 3000

January 1978 was a fruitful month for Sun Ra. As well as days spent in the recording studios in Rome, Ra, along with John Gilmore, Michael Ray and Luqman Ali, played several gigs in Italy before flying…

Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Sleeping Beauty

One of the more delicate recordings of Sun Ra’s 28-strong Arkestra, ‘Sleeping Beauty’ drifts in on a cloud of cosmic dust, sounding unlike anything before or after. With drummer Luqman Ali keeping the …