Browse by Label: HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)

Artist:	BROOKS & LIGHT OF SABA, CEDRIC 'IM'
Title:	Light of Saba - Lambs Bread Collie
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 004EP

"You may know Cedric Brooks from the Soul Jazz Dynamite series. He was a serious sax player who left Jamaica for the States in the mid 60's, became heavily influenced by Sun Ra & went back to Jamaica to express his own vision of Ra's message, fusing rastafarian drumming with Afro beat, funk & Latin. This is a sampler for a forthcoming compilation we're doing of his own Light of Saba record label. All the originals go for big bucks & are impossible to find. The EP itself consists of a wonderful instrumental & dub & a roots vocal on the B side, with a DJ version."

Artist:	THE CONGOS
Title:	Congo Man (Carl Craig Edits)
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 005EP

"From one the finest albums ever made, The Congos -- Heart of the Congos. Originally recorded in the late 1970's by Lee Perry & featuring the unique falsetto vocals of Cedric Myton backed by the deep, religious harmonies of the Congos. Carl Craig has spliced up different issues to make a more minimal mix, making more use of the ancient, drum machine sounds from the original. The A- side is a dub, the B-side features more of the vocals."

Artist:	BROOKS & LIGHT OF SABA, CEDRIC 'IM'
Title:	Africa
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 006EP

"A second helping from the forthcoming Light of Saba compilation. This time the sound is Afro-funk with a Jamaican edge, coming across more like an early Kool & the Gang or Cymande. This is reggae with a Disco beat and flailing Nyabinghi drums. The extended remix is exclusive to this 12", the album will only feature the shorter version. The B-side 'Sabebe' is an equally wonderful afro-JA disco funk workout. Comes in Honest Jons house bag, emblazoned with the Light of Saba logo."

Artist:	MOONDOG
Title:	Playing Moondog's Music
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	10"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	HJP 017EP

Repressed! "Recorded in 1955, released on his own short lived Moondog label. 4 tracks of manic saxophone and snare drum mayhem. You will not find an original of this anywhere. Blind from the age of 17, classically trained in music, Moondog aka Louis Hardin left the countryside in the late 1940s to busk on the streets of New York, playing percussion instruments of his own creation. He later became the darling of the NY arts & music set. He also recorded for Folkways, Woody Herman's Mars label, then Prestige and CBS." CD of this was previously issued in 2003 by Moondog's Corner.

Artist:	CAMERON, CALVIN BUBBLES
Title:	Wareika Hill Sounds
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 021EP

"Calvin Bubbles Cameron is the veteran trombonist of Tommy McCook's Supersonics, Count Ossie's Mystic Revelation, The Light Of Saba, and The Skatalites. Since the old days he has resided above the headquarters of The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari, in the Wareika Hill district of Kingston, Jamaica. This lineage is perfectly expressed for 2004 by these new cuts. The uptempo A-side should rock any dancefloor to pieces, reggae or not -- Warrior Charge comes to mind -- with full, bones-heavy horns, swirling organ and blood and fire nyabinghi drumming; and it comes with a storming dub. The B carries a grounation instrumental, and another reminiscent of The Light Of Saba classic 'Lambs Bread Collie'. For the first pressing, the record comes in a three-colour silk-screened sleeve, with handwritten notes by Calvin Cameron."

Artist:	HIGHTOWER, WILLIE
Title:	6 Track Sampler
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 022EP

"Originally from Gadsden, Alabama, Willie Hightower only released three singles whilst contracted to Fame in the early seventies, but they're three of the greatest soul records ever made, six simple songs that contain all that's magical about southern soul. They stand alongside anything to come out of Rick Hall's small studio, which is saying something when you count in classics like Etta James' 'I'd Rather Go Blind', Otis Redding's 'You Left The Water Running', Aretha Franklin's 'Do Right Woman, Do Right Man'. That's not even getting into the records that Rick released on his own Fame imprint by artists like Candi Staton, Spencer Wiggins and George Jackson. This EP from Honest Jon's comprises all six sides Willie Hightower cut at Fame Studios."

Artist:	MOONDOG
Title:	Moondog And His Friends
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	10"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	HJP 024EP

Repressed! 7 track 10" release, originally released by Epic! "Originally released in 1953 -- a fantastic collection of recordings from the eccentric genius that was Moondog. This mini-album features Moondog's pioneering techniques in tape overdubbing -- he harmonises with himself on voice, double bass and home-made drums. Touches of his classical music education are underpinned by his signature and irresistible Native American rhythms. Epic, prophetic, naive -- seriously lovable music. 10" vinyl only release." Tracks: "Dragon´s Teeth -- Voices of Spring," "Oasis," "Tree Frog -- Be a Hobo," "Instrumental Round - Double Bass Duo -- Why spend the dark night with you?," "Theme and Variations -- Rim Shots," "Suite No. 1," Suite No. 2"

Artist:	WAREIKA HILL SOUNDS
Title:	Coconut Head
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 026EP

"New four-tracker from Wareika Hill Sounds smashes open their 'Coconut Head' rhythm with a heavy, heavy, heavy dub version featuring the original Light Of Saba drummers, thumping bass, chant-down-babylon trombone -- blood on the dancefloor and up the walls. 'Joseph C' is in a more laid-back groundation style, with beautiful bonework from WHS-leader Calvin Cameron evoking his years with Count Ossie. 'Tears In Exile' is blood-and-fire again -- tough, scintillating roots percussion alongside a crowded brass section, and brilliant soloing from both. Finally, 'They Say' is pure nyabinghi, upful and defiant."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	One Tree: TP's Spirit Of Unity Mix / Instrumental
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 030EP

"Terrence Parker is an underground Detroit original. Unlike, say, Carl Craig or Claude Young, though -- both of whom are preparing mixes for this Honest Jon's series -- his music falls outside the city's techno traditions. Terrence Parker makes classic Detroit house. Since his debut in 1988 -- a collaboration with Marc Kinchen -- and then his legendary first solo EP, TP1, in 1990, Terrence has released more than a hundred records, under aliases like Disciples Of Jovon Blade, Disco Revisited, Plastic Soul Junkies, Minimum Wage Brothers, Seven Grand Housing Authority. These remixes are romping, stomping, tearaway house, the old school way."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Moyege
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 032EP

"Mark Ernestus, one half of the Basic Channel, Maurizio and Rhythm & Sound teams, inaugurates our series of reworkings of tracks from Tony Allen's Lagos No Shaking album. 'Mark's Mix' is not a nowadays-style remix, more an extended mix in the classical tradition headed by Tom Moulton, back in the days when Francois Kevorkian was his teaboy, and there was a cupboard in his office stuffed with Studio One master-tapes. 'Mark's Disco Dub' is its dub. This record brings to Afrobeat the dubwise intelligence of the discomix. It's beautifully crafted, irresistibly grooving, heavy."

Artist:	ILORI AND HIS AFRO-DRUM ENSEMBLE, SOLOMON
Title:	Igbesi Aiye (Song Of Praise To God)
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 035EP

...Gbogbo Omo Ibile (Going Home). "The first time ever on vinyl for these 1964 Rudy Van Gelder recordings for Blue Note; and astral strides beyond the flat highlife cuts originally issued. With Donald Byrd, Hubert Laws and Elvin Jones stretching out breathtakingly amongst resplendent Nigerian drumming, and anticipating the vibes of classic Pharoah and Alice Coltrane. Around thirteen minutes each side."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Ole Remix/Ise Nla Reggae Land Dub
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 036EP

With totally killer Mortiz von Oswald (Basic Channel) remix! "After Mark Ernestus' mix of 'Moyege' in this series, now his Basic Channel/Rhythm And Sound partner comes to the control tower. Moritz's deep Berlin steppers discloses dubwise traces of our original Lagos recording -- the percussion of Yinka Ogunye, the singing of '50s palmwine legend Rolling Dollar, Oscar Olimbi's guitar lick -- in with his own Oberheim voicings, additional drumming, and cool-and-deadly rhythm track. It's a tough, masterly dance record in fine Rhythm And Sound style -- which during its ten-and-a-half minutes seems to ponder time elapsed and journeys undertaken. Like a stepping razor, but t-u-m-p-i-n. This Reggae Land version is the take-no-prisoners, pared-down dub of Wareika Hill Sounds' rootical rework of Ise Nla. Magnificent trombone and percussion; expert, classical JA mixing. Brings to mind those great dubs of Glen Brown's 'Black Man Stand Up Pan Foot.'"

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Kilode Reworks by Waajeed
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 038EP

"Detroit native Waajeed cut his teeth with Slum Village, before forming the Platinum Pied Pipers in 2002. Recently he's stepped up solo and production projects -- check his ace Marvin vs. WJK edits from last year -- and for Honest Jon's he's totally re-worked Tony Allen's tough Afrobeat protest song: this is jazzy and soulful, percussive and a little bit bruk, with a gorgeous, searching vocal by Zaki Ibrahim. Together with an instrumental, and a grooving, roomy dub."

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Hypnotic Brass Ensemble/Salah Ragab Reworks
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 041EP

"When The Hypnotics handed over this monster, they mentioned something about its 'Egyptian' vibe, so -- on top of the fact that a couple of them are sons of Ra trumpeter Phil Cohran -- it seemed apposite to couple it with new recordings made for us in Cairo by space jazz luminary Salah Ragab, who once himself recorded and toured with the Arkestra. The shimmering, burnished, refined funk of Sankofa takes Tony Allen's 'Losun' for its departure point; the Cairo side is a burning basement session in the Ra big-band tradition, full of life and living, heavy on the percussion and choca with fine solos."

Artist:	SON PALENQUE
Title:	Samba/El Lobo/Aguata
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 043EP

The last of Honest Jon's Tony Allen series, presenting the legendary Afro-Colombian band from San Basilio de Palenque -- three new recordings curated by Lucas Silva and mixed by Moritz von Oswald -- a delirious brew of highlife, chalupa, Afrobeat and champeta. "Samba" is a homage to Nigerian musical heroes, and the burning horns are arranged by Colombian maestro Ramon Benitez. "El Lobo" tells the story of a wolf lost in the Palenque bush and "Aguata" -- played in the tambora rhythm -- is about rain.

Artist:	BOCOUM, DAMON ALBARN, TOUMANI DIABATÉ AND FRIENDS, AFEL
Title:	Mali Music
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 001LP

"In July 2000, Damon Albarn travelled to Mali for Oxfam's On The Line project, which focussed on people living along the Greenwich Meridian. He seized the chance to meet and play with the Malian musicians whose recordings he loved, to exchange ideas with them in their own backyard. Damon's chosen instrument was a battered melodica. His musical encounters were leisurely, low-key and immersive, as natural and spontaneous as could be. Touring the capital Bamako and its surrounding villages, he sat in on club and private jam sessions, playing concerts and street corners, bars and boats. He hooked up with practically any musician he came across, from enthusiastic amateurs to such master-musicians as Toumani Diabaté, Lobi Traoré, Afel Bocoum, Kassé Mady Diabaté, and the only female ngoni-player in Mali, Ko Kan Ko Sata Doumbia. 'One of my favourite memories is Les Escrocs playing a party at Toumani's house', says Damon. 'Bass and drums doing dead funky Malian reggae, with them in shell-suits and patent-leather shoes doing a kind of feminised ragga version of the James Brown shimmy.' The tapes kept on running, for more than forty hours, capturing the volatile collage of sound that would become Mali Music. Back home in Damon's London studio, the recordings take a few more spins. In line with their original, inherent diversity, they make nods to reggae, house, rock, ragga; and some stay just as they are. The bass-playing of Junior Dan emerges with a unifying authority which recalls his years with Augustus Pablo. Then the tapes return to Mali, for further contributions from the musicians there. 'My idea is to set up loads of dialogues between this music and other music that I love', says Damon. 'I'm sick of the cultural self-assurance you get in the West. I want to get everyone into Malian music.'" [CD version is on Astralwerks in the US]

Artist:	BROOKS & LIGHT OF SABA, CEDRIC 'IM'
Title:	Cedric IM Brooks & Light Of Saba
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 004LP

Double LP version. "The eminent Jamaican saxophonist, who played on many a classic Studio One tune, embarked on his Light of Saba project after trying to join Sun Ra's Arkestra, in the late 1960s. Saba was Brooks' own vision of Ra's spiritual music,which expressed itself in jazz, roots, dub, afro-funk & mento. The double album comes in a lavish package, including an exclusive interview with Cedric Im Brooks."

Artist:	HALL & MUSHTAQ, TERRY
Title:	The Hour Of Two Lights
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 005LP

"This is an album of genre-bending that fuses Arabic and Jewish musical forms, Asian and East European sounds, hip-hop atmospherics and wild gypsy passions and slamming beats. In short, an album quite unlike anything you've ever heard from Terry Hall before. That in part is because The Hour Of Two Lights is not a Terry Hall solo album, although it may have started that way. First, Mushtaq, once of British-Asian pioneers Fun-Da-Mental, came on board as an equal partner. Then the cast list expanded to include a Tunisian singer, a Syrian flautist, an Egyptian who had settled in Iraq, Hebrew vocalists, Turkish musicians, a 12 year old Lebanese girl called Natasha, a blind Algerian rapper from Paris, a troupe of Polish gypsy refugees and a septuagenarian clarinetist famous for playing the Pink Panther theme. And Blur's Damon Albarn is also in there somewhere. And yet The Hour Of Two Lights is not a world music record, or a DJ album. It's not even a DJ album with world influences. 'I don't think it fits with anything, really,' Hall says. 'I don't really know what it is. Or what it isn't.' Which, of course, isn't very helpful in a world that demands instant categorisation and easy pigeon-holing. Yet there is a unifying thread that comes from a shared humanity. 'We wanted to take influences from everywhere,' Hall says. 'But it's not a bish-bosh of other people's cultures. Everybody had a sense of something in common in their minority and oppression and struggle. In the end, it felt more like we were editing a film than making a record.' As the songs took shape in all their unconventionality, more and more voices were added. Lyrics were translated into different languages, including Arabic, Hebrew and Romany, with music as the esperanto that united different cultures, traditions and temperaments."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Lif Up Yuh Leg An Trample
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 009LP

"The best contemporary Trinidadian Soca. Hard edged, dancehall tinged with a smattering of sexuality & politics, this album also commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Notting Hill carnival." Double LP, full color gatefold sleeve. Artists: Laventille Rhythm Section, Dawg E Slaughter, Timmy, Maximus Dan, Andre Tanker, Massive Gosine, Denise Belfon, Bunji Garlin, Machel Montano, Michelle Sylvester, Bobo & Agony, Machel Montano & Black Stalin.

Artist:	SON CUBANO NYC
Title:	Cuban Roots New York Spices 1972-82
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 010LP

"Gorgeous, organic Cuban dance music -- rootsy and big-city at the same time -- from the neglected period in the seventies, when small independent New York labels like SAR and Mericana were emerging from the domination of Fania. In premature reviews, Q Magazine awarded Son Cubano its coveted 'Q recommends' accolade; DJ reckoned it 'a must'; and Music Week celebrated 'some of the most vibrant music on the planet'. Featuring Rey Roig y su Sensacion, Charlie Rodriguez y su Conjunto, Chocolate, Henry Fiol, Roberto Torres, Lita Branda and more." Elaborate gatefold jacket.

Artist:	LE VOLUME COURBE
Title:	I Killed My Best Friend
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HJR 014LP

"This is the long-playing debut of Charlotte Marionneau. Her 'Volume Curve' project features contributions from Hope Sandoval, David Roback, Colm O'Ciosoig and Malcolm Duffy, amongst others. Kevin Shields' contribution -- as co-writer, performer and producer -- is so thorough-going that this album really marks his first fully-realised music since My Bloody Valentine. The sound-world here -- it has the integrity of a classic soundtrack -- is intimate and uncanny, playful and compelling, brimming with musical ideas."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Lagos Chop Up
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 015LP

"Fela's success in the West has hidden from view the mind-boggling range of modern Nigerian music. Though formally these two compilations put things in perspective -- ranging across styles from the mid-sixties to the early eighties -- musically they are just staggering. There is juju apala, Afro-funk, highlife. Some breathtaking classic fuji -- raw Muslim street music -- for twenty-five years now the real soundtrack of Lagos youth. And the Afrobeat tracks here include one of the best you'll ever hear: thirteen minutes of Shina WIlliams And His African Percussions. As Chief Ebenezer Obey puts it -- 'Eyi Yato,' something different. With detailed notes by Michael Veal, Fela's biographer, and great artwork from Lagos." Artists: Sir Shina Adewale And His Super Stars International, Dr Victor Olaiya, Etubom Rex Williams, Kollington Ayinla, Ikenga Super Stars of Africa, Nigeria Army Rhythm Group, Eastern Minstrels, Oliver De Coque And His Expo '76, Steven Amechi And His Rhythm Skies, Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, Workers Brigade Band.

Artist:	VA
Title:	London Is the Place For Me 2
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 016LP

... Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London. "Another installment of amazing music from the first wave of modern black settlement in England. The focus remains on the fifties, classic calypsos running alongside the African jazz of Ambrose Campbell -- the father of modern Nigerian music -- and some blistering high-life. Amongst the contributions from the sixties there is some South African kwela (featuring Chris McGregor), and a jazz-dance percussion workout from the Trinidadians who put the Notting Hill Carnival on London streets. The LPs are housed in a gatefold sleeve with a beautiful folded insert. There is a trenchant introduction by Paul Gilroy, full discographical notes, and numerous wonderful photographs."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Lagos All Routes
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 017LP

"Honest Jon's bring us the second of two compilations (Lagos Chop Up being the first) focusing on music from the Nigerian city of Lagos circa the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (considered to be the golden age of African popular music). With many African nations fighting for (or gaining) independence, locally produced modern music was seen as a powerful expression of new national identity. Bands either modernized folk, classical or traditional African genres, or Africanized foreign genres such as R'n'B and funk. From West Africa came 60s highlife, which then influenced Fela Kuti's Afro-funk of the 70s, while from the traditional Yoruba religion came juju, fuji, waka and apala tracks, all of which are included here." Artists: Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Travellers Lodge Atomic 8, Sagbeni Aragbada, Super Negro Bantous, Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, Ambali Adedeji, Chief Umobuarie And His Group, Mike Ejeagha, Kollington Ayinla, The Harbours Band, Haruna Ishola, Dr. Victor Olaiya, Sir Patrick Idahosa And His African Sound Makers.

Artist:	MOONDOG
Title:	The Viking of Sixth Avenue
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HJR 018CD

Previously licensed to Astralwerks in the U.S., now re-released on its original label, Honest Jon's, with new and improved gatefold card wallet sleeve packaging. Poet, composer, street musician and cosmologist Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916-1999) learned rhythm from American Indians and counterpoint from J.S. Bach. Many of his recordings feature instruments he built himself: trimba, yukh, tuji, oo. Sometimes you can hear in the background the streets of New York, where Moondog often slept. In addition, he was blind, due to an accident when he was 15. Sometime in the 1950s, fed up with being mistaken on the street for Christ (his regular busking spot was uptown on Sixth) Moondog put on a Viking costume, with spear and horned helmet; and he dressed like this until the late 1970s (by which time he was working with orchestras in Germany). Moondog's renown was extensive: Igor Stravinsky lobbied a judge on Moondog's behalf. Charlie Parker wanted to play with him, Julie Andrews DID play with him, and he was feted by the likes of Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, and Steve Reich. Andy Warhol's mother designed one of his covers, and Weegee took photographs of him (included in the booklet). Janis Joplin covered him, Mr. Scruff owes him badly, and Antony and the Johnsons covers his songs. This is the first retrospective of Moondog's music -- 36 tracks from 1949-1995, most of them exceptionally rare, all of them miraculous.

Artist:	ALLEN, TONY
Title:	Lagos No Shaking
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 020LP

"'The most important musician of the last fifty years,' according to Brian Eno -- and this is Tony Allen's best album. An Afro-funk masterclass, stone classic dance music in six-minute chunks: strictly no neo-dub or lounge-house fakery. Recorded in Lagos last year under the auspices of Honest Jons by a nineteen-piece including local newcomers alongside Fela veterans and fifties legend Rolling Dollar -- and brilliantly mixed in Berlin by Moritz von Oswald. Artwork as with Lagos Chop Up / All Routes by Lagos street artist Demola Ogunajo. The vinyl comes with an extra track and sounds even more stunning than the disc."

Artist:	CAMPBELL, AMBROSE ADEKOYA
Title:	London Is The Place For Me 3
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 021LP

"Ambrose Campbell was acclaimed by Fela Kuti's generation -- by Fela himself -- as the founder of modern Nigerian music. Several of his recordings lit up London Is The Place For Me 2: now volume 3 is devoted to his music, drawing on the 78s he cut in London over ten years from 1949. Nearly all the tracks assembled here come from recordings made for the Melodisc label and originally released as 10" 78rpm singles. People who bought these records at the time can still recall how it was when the percussion team -- among them Ade Bashorun, Salustiano Dos Anjos, Manny Myers and 'Lati' Pedro -- built their polyrhythms in Ola Dosunmu's kingdom. With the melodic guitars of Brewster and Ambrose coming together behind Campbell's soothing voice, the musicians contrived to paint an evocative, enduring picture of palmwine Lagos nights." -- Val Wilmer

Artist:	STATON, CANDI
Title:	His Hands
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HJR 023LP

New album, released for the first time; CD is on Astralwerks in the US. "Candi Staton's triumphant return to soul music. The album combines her own new compositions with originals from admirers like Will Oldham, alongside a handful of revivals of luminaries like Charlie Rich and Merle Haggard. Recorded last year in Nashville by musicians including Aretha's right-hand man Barry Beckett, Jerry Lee Lewis' mainstay Chip Young, and members of the Lambchop crew, this is the soul album of 2006. There are southern soul voices and there are southern soul voices. Raw and ravaged, Candi Staton's is one of the signature sounds of the genre. It's a voice with a tear in it, the cry of a woman wounded by life, by men, by woes turned inwards. On her new album for Honest Jon's, it's also the voice of a gospel singer returning to the music that first made her name: the country soul songs presented by the same label on its 2004 compilation Candi Staton, twenty-six tracks of Muscle Shoals magic." -- Barney Hoskyns

Artist:	VA
Title:	London Is the Place For Me 4
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 025LP

...African Dreams and the Piccadilly High Life. Double LP version. "This is the fourth volume in our series celebrating the music of black London, staying for now with the first waves of modern immigration from Africa and the West Indies. After devoting a third installment to the accomplishments of the late Nigerian genius Ambrose Campbell, Honest Jon's resumes an open-house policy, suited to musicians whose lives and artistic ambitions carried them all over the world: calypso and kwela are back, and highlife and bebop, with a little rock n' roll, a 'mambo indio,' a shango hymn, and a cha-cha-cha for bellydancing jazzbos. A lake in a Johannesburg zoo pops up next to a Chinese on the Harrow Road. Astronauts and prostitutes mingle with landlords and Test cricketers, sex with streetfighting and doing a runner. The music is presented alongside very rare artist photographs by Val Wilmer, and detailed notes."

Artist:	LAS MALAS AMISTADES
Title:	Jardin Interior
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	3x7"
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HJR 026LP

"Psych folk! DIY punk! Tropicália! From Bogotá! Las Malas Amistades -- 'the bad friends' -- formed in 1994, when several art students in Bogota, Colombia, began meeting up to play music together (though none of them were musicians). From the start their method has been to make up songs there at the session, sometimes whilst their four-track is already running, moving straight on when something is caught on the tape. The music is fresh, spontaneous, intimate, spare. It's lovely, heartfelt, a bit wrong, full of poppy wit and beauty. There are six members at present. They use a hulking charity-shop synth and a Casiotone, electronic drums, an acoustic guitar and a cuatro, various small percussion gadgets. Sometimes songs are acoustic, sometimes electronic, usually both. Las Malas Amistades are heirs to the anthropophagism of the Tropicália movement, gobbling the brains of a scrumptious range of musical intelligence. The heroes and traditions of Colombian music: Los Carrangueros, Noel Petro, Andres Landero, Juancho Polo Valencia, cumbia vieja and Discos Fuentes. Also The Residents, Moondog, Sun Ra, Aksak Maboul, Morricone, Arthur Russell, Serge Gainsbourg, Paco Ibanez, The Slits, Tom Ze. '60s and '70s crooners like Jose Jose, Raphael, Sandro, Jeanette, Leonardo Favio. Las Malas Amistades have released two records. The first, La Música De Las Malas Amistades, compiled songs from the first five or six years of the band. The second, Jardín Interior, was recorded in Bogotá in March 2005. This three-7" set presents seventeen tracks, with full translations and great original artwork by the group."

Artist:	ORN, EINAR
Title:	Ghostigital
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2x10"
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJP 009EP

Artist:	JUNIOR DAN
Title:	Look Out For The Devil
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	10"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	HJP 011EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Dougla Rhythm
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 013EP

Artist:	LAVENTILLE RHYTHM SECTION
Title:	Two Rhythms
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 015EP

Artist:	SEIJI & SPOONFACE
Title:	Ying Yang
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 019EP

Artist:	DEMOCRAZY
Title:	Rappy Song (Freaks Remixes)
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 020EP

Artist:	DE CLIVE-LOWE, MARK
Title:	Mesmerized
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 023EP

Artist:	LONE OFFICIAL
Title:	Monarchos
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	3x7"
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HJP 029EP

Artist:	ALLEN/ELEWEDU OF AGEGE, TONY
Title:	Awa Na Re: A Remix By Bonde Do Role
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 034EP

Artist:	JUDD, ELMORE
Title:	The Insect Funk EP
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 037EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lal Waterson
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	HJP 040EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Fuji Ouija
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 042EP

Artist:	STEEL AN' SKIN
Title:	Afro Punk Reggae Dub
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 045EP

Artist:	LORD KITCHENER AND FRIENDS
Title:	London Is The Place For Me
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 002LP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Watch How The People Dancing
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 003LP

Artist:	SWANN, BETTYE
Title:	Bettye Swanne
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 008LP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Never the Same: Leave-Taking from the British Folk Revival
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 019LP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Boogaloo Pow Wow: Dancefloor Rendez-Vous in Young Nuyorica
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	HJR 027LP