Folk /
Calypso Travels
New vinyl reissue remastered from the original 1960s master tapes, packaged in classic Folkways-style tip-on jackets with original liner notes. Lord Invader was one of the most iconic and well-regarded calypso musicians of the mid-20th century. Comin…
Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar
Elizabeth Cotten's 1958 debut album Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar, (aka Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes) is best known for containing the earliest recording of her classic "Freight Train." The breadth of her repe…
Zayna Jumma
Group Doueh's latest record is here and the plot continues to thicken! From the gorgeously cracked yet all-embracing opening drum roll of Zayna Jumma (the title track), it's evident this band is hell bent on redefining the sound of its influences and…
Tim Hardin 2
Limited LP, Deluxe 180-gram reissue including original artwork & credits.. The second album by folk artist Tim Hardin, released in 1967, Tim Hardin 2 contains his most popular and much-covered composition “If I Were a Carpenter,” most notably recorde…
Clouds
Joni Mitchell’s second album Clouds is BPI certified gold and won the 1969 Grammy (her first of nine) for Best Folk Performance. Originally released 1st May 1969, all tracks were written by Mitchell and the album features a self-portrait as it’s art…
Ladies of the Canyon
Ladies Of The Canyon was originally recorded between 1969 and 1970, and serves as a transition from her earlier folk inspired release to the more sophisticated albums Joni Mitchell would go on to release. Many of the songs feature lengthy instrumenta…
Blue
A peak album for Joni Mitchell and genuinely one of the greatest singer-singwriter albums of the '70s, of not ever, all the greater for the intimacy of the songs and beauty of her voice! Perfect isn't a word you want to throw around too often, but Jo…
Njitna !
Nanga Boko Records is very proud to present you "Njitna !" ("I'm Coming" in Bamoun vernacular langage of Cameroun), the official compilation of the finest early recordings (1979/1980) of the Cameroonian composer & musician Théodore Mounta, known on s…
Merci Yaya Bongo - Les Groupes d’Animation Féminins du Gabon 1982 - 1989
Gabon, 1980’s. President Omar Bongo has been in power since 1967. Together with his wife, the infamous singer Patience Dabany, he invents one of the ultimate political propaganda machine: ‘animation groups’, massive female choirs and dancers, up to 6…
Glimmer
Violinist Nils Økland and keyboardist Sigbjørn Apeland, musical partners for thirty years, have long explored the interface of Norwegian traditional music and improvisation. Glimmer, an exceptionally beautiful and touching album, takes as its startin…
Genesis
Enchanting and sunny 1969 psych folk by San Francisco teenage sisters Wendy & Bonnie Flower. A cult album that would later inspire bands like Stereolab, with dreamy vocal harmonies as the main attraction, laced with Brazilian splashes and soft-rock s…
Puste Ulice
The band Tuleje consists of Gosia Zagajewska, Ksawery Wójciński and Wojtek Kurek. Their original arrangement of folk music from eastern Greater Poland is filled with deep respect for the original material, and at the same time expresses their subject…
Trance Gnawa Music From Morocco
"In North Africa, a ziara is a spiritual ceremony where people come to exorcise demons, purify their bodies and loudly reaffirm their attachment to God, the prophet and the deities who claim to embody him. On this occasion, there are uncontrolled out…
Les Filles De Illighadad
Sublime recordings from rural Niger. Two very different sides of Tuareg music - dreamy ishumar acoustic guitar sessions, and the hypnotic polyphonic tende that inspires it. Guitarist Fatou Seidi Ghali and vocalist Alamnou Akrouni lead the troupe, nam…
Raga Jaijaivanti
*2024 stock* "Beautiful music, splendidly played on the ancient and noble rudra veena. Highly enjoyable."- Anonymous
Four Dhuns
*2024 stock* "Imaginitive and playful light classical Hundusthani bansuri" - Megan Vance
Raga Patdip, Pahadi Dhun
*2024 stock* "Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia has excelled himself in the rendition of raga Patdip in this album. His melodious alaap and creative phrases as only he can, take the listener to the lush meadows of ancient India."
Raga Bairagi Bhairav, Raga Shuddh Sarang, Raga Madhuvanti
*2024 stock* Born in Mumbai, India, Aruna Narayan Kalle is a renowned sarangi maestro.
Raga Yaman, Raga Bhupali
*2024 stock* Italian master of Hindustani classical music in collaboration with tabla player Giuseppe Fiore.
Ragas Purvi & Joyiga
*2024 stock* "Two other beautiful interpretations by Ustad Asad Ali Khan, whose mastery of his rudra veena must be blessed by the gods."- Anonymous