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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The Time For Peace Is Now

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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.

God and money

The gospel part of the music business is quite different from other parts of the music business. ..Read More

Luaka Bop Announces The Time For Peace Is Now

Historic Compilation of ‘70s Secular Gospel Out September 13, The Second Volume In Our World Spirituality Classics Series …Read More

RIP Tim Jones aka Preacherman (March 6, 1946 – March 17, 2019)

We at Luaka Bop are saddened to share the news of the death of Tim Jones, aka Preacherman. He passed away on March 17 while on vacation in the Philippines. …Read More

Treasure Trove of Brazilian Music

When we started Luaka Bop 30 years ago(!!!), Brazilian music wasn’t known like it is today. Maybe you had an old bossa nova record, or you had heard “The Girl from Ipanema” countless times at any number of restaurants. To celebrate that, we’re reissuing them in a boxset featuring blue, yellow and green colored vinyl. …Read More

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