Murky Recess

Enrique Delgado began learning guitar from his mother at age 5 in the slums outside Lima.  By 13, he joined his first touring group.  Growi...

Charlemagne Palestine is a peformer/composer/video artist originally from Brooklyn and still active today.  Best known for his composition...

Ti-Tho-- a dimunitive of the duo's Christian names, Chris ti na Marisa Calcagno and T ho mas Stelter-- formed in the...



Leaving behind a wife and three children, bricklayer Kenny Hill up and moved to the gulf coast town of Chauvin, Louisiana in 1988.  With le...

In anticipation of The Roots of Chicha 2 coming out on Barbés Records this month, I've decided to post a personal concoction of my ...

A Student's Dream,  a bodysnatcher's resurrection .

 Khana Rung Thawi's electric phin freakout was made available online for the first time just a few months back at the venerable  มนต์รั...

 "I don't want to achieve immortality through my music.  I want to achieve immortality by not dying." --Jack Blanchard ( Fac...

Aby Ngana Diop's truly awesome mbalax cassette has already been posted at Likembe and, more recently, Awesome Tapes from Africa , but...

"There’s something about this record that’s hard to get a grip on. It seems to float on layers of melody rather than rhythm, and in pl...

Scatman Crothers in Coonskin  (1975) Ahm a Niggerman

   (stolen with love from Jeff Winterberg 's Rat-a-Tat-Tat Birds ) Love Life formed their unholy alliance in 1999 when long-time lovers...

Interestingly, the Japanese began to adopt Western medical techniques at the same time they were closing the book on a rather disasterous c...

الحياة وراء الستار رمل

Chaabi Music From Al-Maghrib  is a collection of Moroccan music in the "proto-rai" vein of Sublime Frequencies' 1970s Algerian...

Wang Jiahua performs 甜蜜蜜 (" Sweet Honey") + 瀟灑走一回 ("???") The "Magic Saw" technique involves amping a traditi...