Essential 2LP compilation ! *Compiled by Soi48, who also provides liner notes.*

Proof yet again that “fusion” is a misnomer. This is simply wonderful music that need be nothing else.

BaBa ZuLa describe their sound as ‘Psychedelic Istanbul Rock ’n Roll’ – a heady mixture that laces the classic Anadolu psych sound with modern electronics, dubwise studio smarts, and fiery left-field sonic radicalism.

A Colourful Storm presents Seance, a new set of songs by Maxine Funke.

Înregistrările realizate de Romica Puceanu împreună cu Taraful Fraților Gore pe întreaga perioadă a anilor ’60 surprind o artă muzicală aflată la apogeul ei, echilibrată și senină, încă deschisă transformărilor – așa cum aveau să o arate deceniile următoare –, dar pe de-a-ntregul matură și cristalizată.

With the exception of the title piece, based on a traditional Norwegian tune, the music on Bayou was collectively created in the moment.

Otherworldly Caribbean electronic dance floor cuts! Arousing prog-zouk and abstract futurism from the French West Indies by synthesist Claude Rodap, released on vinyl for the first time by Rush Hour.

The unbelievably prolific Haruomi Hosono is one of the major architects of modern Japanese pop music.

Crack out the Gucci loafers and silk shirt for these fruity disco and jazz-funk flights of fancy inspired by ‘80s Naples, from Roman artist Alessandro La Padula - commonly known as pAd - following his reworks of Alessandro Adriani

ZEHRA is proud to present the debut album ISTEHLAL by the MOHAMAD ZATARI TRIO, consisting of musicians from Syria, Iran & India. The trio merges traditional Middle Eastern sounds with contemporary vibes incl. interpretations of Hossein Alizadeh & Riad Al-Sunbati classics.

In the beginning, there was Moğollar.

România. 100 de minute este o remarcabilă și bine documentată expediție acustică începută de grupul Trei Parale în Bucureștiul mijlocului de secol al XIX-lea și continuată pas cu pas în toate regiunile istorice ale României

Mark Ernestus, Gavsborg (Equiknoxx), Jimi Tenor and Waltraud Blischke rework the foundational ‘70s Ghanaian Afro Rock of Hedzoleh Soundz for Belgium’s Meakusma

Searchlight Moonbeam is the new narrative compilation from Time Is Away (Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney) whose eponymous monthly NTS Radio shows, tinctured fusions of fugitive sounds and reverie-inducing archival speech, have won them an ardent following. It follows from the London-based duo’s Ballads, a remarkable driftwerk released on A Colourful Storm in 2022.

A New Directive From The Bureau Of Compulsory Entertainment from contemporary Irish guitarist Jonny Dillon.

The misfit caters loose percussion and Mellotron to Osaruxo’s strings and Oberheim Matrix-1000 on the A-side’s curiously slanted mix of rustic North European folk and Mid Eastern styles in ‘Hebi’, whereas the B-side’s ‘Haru’ breaks down in three parts of solo strings and stark dark ambient tones that unexpectedly keen into a steeply psychedelic finale on ‘Part 2’.

One of the past decade’s most charming, lowkey influential compilations, brimming with folk-pop, DIY new wave and art music micro presses 1961-1991 by Bruce Langhorne, Linda Smith, Nora Guthrie and many many more weirdos.

Equipped with one drum only and laser-pattern–electronics, Mortazavi and Friedman produce delicate, yet archaic, trance–inducing, transnational dance music with"...hints of dust and grain... ".

Morphine blow minds with a remarkable slab of experiments by Indonesia's Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi a.k.a. Senyawa.

Maya Ongaku’s uninhibited world-building will make it possible for us to see the unseen, expand the possibilities of the naked eye—all through the unbridled vibrancy of their music.