These undeniably soulful, passionate, and urgent songs from obscure 45’s, dug up from a long dormancy in attics, sheds and crates across the American south, are a subset of seventies-era gospel, focusing not on Jesus or God, but instead on ourselves, and how we exist with each other. Compiled by Greg Belson.
World Spirituality Classics 2:
The Time For Peace Is Now:
Gospel Music About Us is out NOW!

Bremer/McCoy is a Danish duo of Jonathan Bremer on acoustic bass and Morten McCoy on the keys and tape delay. While the two started as a reggae group (believe it or not), their sound has transformed into an amorphous mix of jazz, dub, and neo-classical. Utopia encapsulates what Bremer/McCoy do best: kaleidoscopic instrumental music, touching a multiverse of genre that evokes passion and promotes contemplation.
UTOPIA is out NOW!

Tim Jones is known by several different monikers; Preacherman, Midi Man and Ironing Board Band to name a few. Though perhaps his most notable is the one that describes him best, T.J. Hustler. We are excited to announce the release of Universal Philosophy - Preacherman Plays T.J. Hustler's Greatest Hits out now!

Kassin - Relax

Over the course of his career, Kassin has produced roughly 100 records for singers like Marisa Monte and Bebel Gilberto, recorded with Sean O’Hagan and made a full album based on Nintendo GameBoy sounds.

Across 11 tracks, Kassin flirts with Latin rhythms, Brazilian pop, and straight-ahead soul, using this varied sonic array to tell imagined tales of death, drug usage, politics and fate.

Domenico Lancellotti - The Good is a Big God

“Working with music is crazy,” multi-instrumentalist Domenico Lancellotti recently said in an interview. “God be crazy. Out of fear.” He’s right. To do anything creative is to exist outside your body, to teeter between reality and sanity. It’s from this mindset that Domenico created his new work, The Good is a Big God, a 14-track collection of reflective samba that first took shape almost six years ago.

We feel very honored to announce the release of “World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda” - the first-ever compilation of Alice Coltrane’s spiritual recordings from the Sai Anantam Ashram in California” Read more here..

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Happy Birthday Tim Maia!!!

8 years ago we celebrated Tim’s 70th birthday by releasing ‘Nobody Lives Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia’ and hosting massive birthday parties all over the globe. Today would have been Tim’s 78th birthday, and our dear friends at Rough Trade are helping us celebrate with a super and limited edition of our album.

Doug Hream Blunt the movie

At some point in your life or maybe all your life you’ve wanted to be in a band and play for adoring fans. Right?

Male nurse turned Luaka artist / cult icon Doug Hream Blunt wanted that too and at the age of 35 sought to make it happen by signing up for a class called ‘How To Form A Band’. Thirty years later Luaka Bop released My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt and catapulted Doug to superstardom.

Now available for the first time to you, the masses, is a wonderful film called ‘HREAM: A Documentary About Doug Hream Blunt’ that tells this story and charts how Doug went from performing only for his hospital patients at the Laguna Honda Hospital to playing shows in New York City, Los Angeles, Moscow and Tasmania with a bunch of amateurs, semi-professional and professional musicians from all over the world and even some actually pretty famous people like Peanut Butter Wolf and David Byrne. It premiered last week in The Quietus, who said: “Hug’s film is terrific…. It presents in Blunt a truly inspirational figure, whose enthusiasm for life and music is at the film’s heart.”

King Changó is out now for first time on vinyl

Luaka Bop is releasing King Changó’s albums on vinyl for the first time as a tribute to Blanquito Man, who passed away in 2017 after a long battle with liver cancer, and in gratitude of King Changó’s die-hard fans. …Read More!

The Time For Peace Is Now: Soul Gospel of the 1970s

None of these artists expected anyone to care 40 years after they recorded these songs—in a different life and a different time. And we didn’t expect the stories about what their lives were then to resonate so powerfully now. We set out to make a documentary on gospel, but by the end of our trip it was clear that there was so much more to it than just the stories of the music. …Read More and Watch Now!

Utopia is here!

Luaka Bop is excited to announce the release of Danish duo Bremer/McCoy’s debut album, Utopia, released October 18th. …Read More

Time For Peace

We asked Leo Hallin to make an animated video for the title track from our new compilation World Spirituality Classics 2: The Time For Peace Is Now: Gospel Music About Us, and we love his interpretation.

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