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SPIN Premieres Delicate Steve's Two Lovers and Announces Yeasayer, Tune-yards dates, Awesome NYC Installation Project

Spin Magazine premiered Delicate Steve's 'Two Lovers' today- one of the many great cerebral songs on Positive Force- coming July 10. Listen to it here! Delicate Steve has also announced tour dates with Yeasayer and Tune-yards, and a wild public art installation project to support the new record happening in NYC in late May.

Bright Moments On the Road in May and June

Bright Moments will be bouncing around the Northeast with Jukebox the Ghost in June. They'll headline the Mercury Lounge in NYC on May 22nd. All dates here.

Delicate Steve & Ra Ra Riot limited release for Record Store Day

Luaka Bop and Barsuk are coming together this Record Store Day, April 21, to bring you a limited edition release of a Delicate Steve and Ra Ra Riot collaboration. The split 7" features Delicate Steve helping Ra Ra Riot cover Steve Winwood's "Valerie" on the A side and Ra Ra Riot helping Delicate Steve cover Brian Eno's "The Big Ship" on B side. Pick it up at your favorite independent record store.

A LITTLE HISTORY

Jan 24th, 2011 5 Comments

A comment on our blog prompted this post. We used to tell people a lot of different things when they asked what Luaka Bop meant: A classic Charlie Parker tune that was never recorded. A type of secret defensive move in an Indonesian martial art. A sweet Polynesian delicacy with aphrodisiac properties. The final position …Read Everything…

Communicating part 1

Aug 20th, 2010 6 Comments

For about two years, every month or so, I would get a package from Uruguay. …Read Everything…

After Fabian came by and we went upstairs where there were even more albums! Fabien is in the blue shirt.

Records

Nov 15th, 2010 4 Comments

After listening to a few hundred records I bought some and Fabian and I walked around the area to get lunch. Every once in a while we would pass someone Fabian knew and he would introduce me to them. “That guy has the best known soundsystema,” Fabian would say. …Read Everything…

Tom Ze Box set

Aug 16th, 2010 9 Comments

We are doing a Tom Ze box to be released this October. Box sets are about as much work as you would think they would be, what with the production of all the parts and making sure everything is on schedule etc. One of the production aspects is the making of the actual box …Read Everything…


For decades, Grammy Award winner Susana Baca has represented Peruvian music to the world. Here, Susana gives voice to her life-long immersion in the music of the African Diaspora. The songs of African descendants in Cuba, Argentina, New Orleans, and across the world... the rhythms of forro, cumbia, tango... *Afrodiaspora* is a travelog that spans centuries and continents through the voice of one of the world's most celebrated singers. "Susana Baca is one of the great voices of modern Peru. She's taken the country's Afro-Peruvian musical heritage to stages and airwaves around the world, becoming a key figure in reviving a culture that had been largely ignored within its country." NPR	The National Weather Service predicts the appearance of Javelin's long awaited follow up to No Más in the fourth quarter of 2012. To sate you, Luaka Bop will now put a finger in your yearning dyke. Prior to the release of No Más, Javelin issued two limited edition 12'''s with Thrill Jockey. Now collector's pieces, Javelin and Javelin 2 were held to 500 copies each and never made the light of a digital day. Taken together, the EPs contain some live set staples and fan favorites including the ferocious 8-bit homage 'Soda Popinski,' the flat ass-popper 'Beyondce,' and the sublime statement of intent 'Radio.' Listen now. It's preternaturally spring. Might as well be summer. Take these jams.	On February 21, Luaka Bop is proud to bring you *Natives, the debut album from Bright Moments*. Bright Moments is the nom de plume of Kelly Pratt- heretofore known as a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and arranger who's recorded and toured with Arcade Fire and who, as a founding member, has helped to define the sound of Beirut. We could drop further names, (LCD Soundsystem) but we'll leave it here. At the start, and end of the day, anyway, it's not about who you know. Natives is a beautiful, soaring, baroque vocal pop record. It's dense with detail, and sometimes fun as hell. We can't wait to introduce Bright Moments to the world in just a few weeks. Buy the record now from iTunes.