Africassette
P.O. Box 24941
Detroit, MI 48224
USA
313-881-4108 (vox) 313-881-0260 (fax)
The best mail order source for African music. They carry lots of hard-to-find imported and domestic CD's and tapes.
Afrisong
60 Parkway Drive, Suite 15K
East Orange, NJ 07017-4550
USA
201-673-7374 (vox) 201-673-7361 (fax)
An online source for ordering African music.
Dandemutande.com
1122 East Pike Street, #1163
Seattle WA 98122-3934 USA
email: email@dandemutande.com
Focusing mainly on Shona marimba and mbira music, Dandemutande.com is a great online source for ordering African music.
Irresistable Rhythms
1-800-969-5269
Call for their free catalog of CDs and cassettes.
Musicstrip:
the Universal Music Store
317-293-117 (vox) 317-293-1346 (fax)
email: Service@musicstrip.com
This online music store has quite a good selection of African artists, you have to know what you're looking for though, the only access is through a search engine.
Planet
Earth Music
PO Box 789
Ukiah, CA 95482
USA
888-216-4029 (vox) 888-212-9930 (fax)
An online source for New Age Music, also has African music available.
Rexam
Music
210 Park Ave. #301
Worcester, MA 01609
USA
Tel/Fax (508)797-3312
An online source for African music, heavy on highlife and music from Ghana.
Round-World By Mail
591 Guerrero Street
San Fransisco, CA 94110
USA
415-255-8411 (vox) 415-255-8491 (fax)
send $2 for their catalog of African, Arabic, Brazilian, Latin, Caribbean, etc., recordings available.
Of course, you can always try Tower, they have quite a wide sampling of African music availble through special mail order. I was able to find two pretty rare CDs by Adewale Ayuba through Tower.
Earthbeat
(Distributed by Warner Bros. Records)
PO Box 1460
Redway, CA 95560-1460
USA
Earthworks
c/o Caroline Records
114 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
USA
Ellipis Arts
20 Lumber Road
Roslyn, NY 11576-9894
USA
1-800-788-6670
Ellipsis is a relatively new company, they have an excellent 3-CD compilation The Big Bang which they call "an explosive exploration of percussion music around the world." (ELLI-CD-3401, 3402, 3403)
Green Linnet Records
43 Beaver Brook Road
Danbury, CT 06810
USA
Look for their release of I.K. Dairo & His Blue Spots, Ashiko (GLCD-4018).
Hannibal
is a Rykodisk label and is distributed by them, see below for
address.
Hemisphere
c/o I.R.S. Records
3520 Hayden Avenue
Culver City, CA 90232
USA
or for a free merchandise catalog:
IRS Merchandising
PO Box 4346
North Hollywood, CA 91617
Hemisphere has an interesting series of CD's on release including Patience Dabany, Reggae Africa, Super Guitar Soukous, and the King Sunny Ade release, Live at the Hollywood Palace.
Lyrichord Disks, Inc.
141 Perry Street
New York, NY 10014 USA
Mango Records
14 E 4th St.
New York, NY 10012
Music of the World
PO Box 3620
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3620
USA
They distribute the wonderful work of Dumisani Maraire's, Chaminuka (CDC-208), which is a fine example of mbira and marimba music from the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
Pi'ra:nha Musik
Kurfurstendamm 186
D-1000 Berlin 15
Piranha is distributed in America by Stern's, see below for address.
Real World Records, Ltd.
Wiltshire
SN14 9PN
UK
or:
Real World Records/Virgin Records,
Ltd. are distributed by:
c/o Caroline Records
114 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
Peter Gabriel's label featuring WOMAD artists among many others.
Nonsuch
c/o Warner Music Group Company
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019
They released the '95 Cesaria Evora CD.
Rounder
Records
One Camp Street
Cambridge, MA 02140
USA
1-800-44 DISCS
Rounder has a small collection of African and Reggae recordings, I particularly reccommend Juju Roots: 1930s-1950s (CD-5017). They also have an interesting recording, Kwanzaa Music (CD-2133), which has a sampling of African and African-influenced music perfect to stick in the CD player while you're celebrating Kwanzaa. One of my very favorite CD's is Les Ambassadeurs Internationales featuring Salif Keita (CD-5053), an incredible piece of work.
Rykodisk
Shetland Park
27 Congress Street
Salem, MA 01970
USA
or:
Rykodisk Europe Unit 3, Linen House
253 Kilburn Lane
London W10 4BQ
UK
Another favorite CD is Talking Timbuktu with Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder (HNCD-1381).
Shanachie Records
37 East Clinton St.
Newton, New Jersey 07860 USA
A large and diverse World Music label, featuring artists ranging from all sorts of Reggae artists to Ladysmith Black Mambazo to Clannad.
Stern's African Classics
598 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 USA
212-925-1648 (vox) 212-925-1689 (fax)
or:
116 Whitfield Street, London W1P 5RW, UK
071- 387-5550 (vox) 071-388-2756
(fax)
This label re-issues many of the finest recordings, including early releases by Youssou N'dour and Orchestra Baobab. I particularly reccommend The Wassoulou Sound: Volume 2 (STCD-1048).
World Circuit Music
is distributed by Rounder Records, see above for address.
ZimBob Inc.
PO Box 2421
Champaign, IL 61825
217-344-6878 (vox) fax 217-355-1801
(fax)
email: zimbob@msilink.com
Zimbob (Bob Diener) has a large African catalog available, he specializes in music from Zimbabwe. I highly reccommend any recording by Thomas Mapfumo, he's a must have for any serious lover of African music. Currently I'm again enjoying the '93 release of Hondo (TMBU-13) by Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited.
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