The great Algerian diva of Arab song — a Dilla favourite, incidentally — accompanied by a full-sized orchestra, augmented by electric guitar and organ, in a characteristically grooving, classy composition by her old man Baligh Hamdi. This reissue features newly remastered audio, the original cassette artwork, and a two-page insert with a new introduction by Mario Choueiry from the Institut du Monde Arabe
Two teenagers’ amapiano music from Gauteng province in South Africa, drawing on jazz, folk, afro, deep and tech house, kwaito, and dibacardi… but sounding like none of them.
Frank Hutchison, Fiddlin’ John Carson, Gid Tanner, Georgia stringbands, Roscoe Holcomb, Mountain Music, Jimmie Rodgers, New Lost City Ramblers, Preston Young, the Delmore Brothers, the Tennessee ramblers, Bob Wills, Jesse Rodgers, Swift Jewel Cowboys, the Piedmont Log Rollers, the Foggy Mountain Boys, the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers etc etc.
1971-89. The entire run, 1-45, except issues 2 and 3.
Eighty-six issues, between numbers 15-161, years 1968-95.