exotic

What can I say apart from utter fantastic. This was THE best stuff send to our inbox in August and the reason that keeps us sifting through hundreds of irrelevant music every month. Histórias da Casa Velha is a collection of songs released in Angola, mainly during the years leading to independence in 1975.

Tribecastan’s “Strange Cousin” is no artificial pipeline or Eastern Western cultural bridge bullshit, these guys are real freak scientists, clinically obsessed with strange “out-of-fashion” instruments and have a huge ear for cultural instrumentations.

Ontario resident Ryan Waldron or in an obscure pacific language Talugung makes exotic polyrythmic instrumental music. Don’t be scared if this repetitive and minimalistic ritual music summons beasts from the netherworld. Out on Foxglove.

Another reissue by the lovely Tiliqua Records on their “Oriental Erotic Sunshine” series that we’ve been enjoying for some time is Masami Kawahara & The Exotic Sounds’ 1970 album “Kokotsu / Ecstasy”. Originally released by Columbia Records in 1970, “ Kokotsu” sees the 70’s Japanese obsession with vintage bossa & Latin music coupled with sexploitation sounds.