2023. Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson (April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014) was an American memojirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several..

2023. In the early 1970s, critics called Gil Scott-Heron the most important black voice since Martin Luther King Jr. and referred to him as black Bob Dylan. Born in Chicago, the musician, poet and controversial huma..

2023. 2023 album from renowned songwriter Eliza Gilkyson, including duets with Robert Earl Keen and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Eliza Gilkyson is a singer-songwriter and activist who is one of the most respected musician..

2018. Chenta Tsai Tseng, better known as Putochinomaricon, is a migrant originally from China, he is architect, musician, activist and a unique, inimitable character embracing pop culture from recent decades. His s..

2023. A descendant of the Hausa (a people from the Sahel) born in Riyadh in 1947, Ettab was a celebrated singer, actress and activist... and perhaps the only female artist of Saudi origin of her time to claim an int..

2024. Celebrated composer, performer, saxophonist, soloist, band leader, educator, activist, and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts returns with a next installment of their acclaimed Coin Coin series. 'Coin Coin Chap..

2023. The versatile singer, songwriter, pianist, musical arranger and civil rights activist Nina Simone was one of the most iconic of all jazz performers. Operating in a range of genres, from folk, blues and rhythm'..

2021. The music that accompanies Nathan Grossman's documentary about teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, issued on vinyl. The LP was produced as climate friendly as possible!

2023. A lost '80s groover from Bay Area soulster Fats Gaines is stepping out here with vocalist Zorina London! Fats Gaines was a jazz musician and orchestra leader born in Kansas, who had a significant presence in t..

2023. Tulsa-bred but nowadays Los Angeles-based jazz bassist, vocodorist, producer, songwriter, composer, artist and activist Byron Crenshaw (a.k.a. The Growth Eternal) presents his debut-album 'Parasail-18'. The al..

2022. Taiwanese-born Chenta Tsai Tseng, better known by the stage name Putochinomaricn, is a singer, musician, architect, multimedia artist and activist. His 2022 album 'Jaja Equisde (Distopea Aburrida)' reveals inf..

2022. The acclaimed 1972 full-length by Portuguese folk musician and political activist José Afonso gets a well deserved reissue treatment. 'Venham Mais Cinco', Afonso's most daring album, was the last rel..

2022. The acclaimed 1972 full-length by Portuguese folk musician and political activist José Afonso gets a well deserved reissue treatment.

2024. A 2x10" set including insert and download card. Celebrated composer, performer, saxophonist, soloist, band leader, educator, activist, and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts returns with a next installment..

2019. "The system says we're different but the struggle makes us one"... utters Nigerian political activist, singer and saxophonist Seun Kuti, at the beginning of this session for the track entitled 'Strug..

2023. This album is a wild ride where Swedish DIY artist/music activist Karl Jonas (Sing A Song Fighter) and his musical friends throw all kinds of ingredients in their witchy brew mix and still make it taste natura..

2023. Stellar songs, heartfelt performances, the finest Nashville players and the greatest set of tonsils to ever wrap themselves around activist country-pop. Here are the almost forgotten masterpieces of Henson Car..

2014. This release shines a light into the dark and yet strangely uplifting world of Inryo-fuen's early 80s wonderland. It's a surreal, adventurously analogue, positively negative realm of freedom. Following the rel..

2020. Containing eight tracks, 'Australien' is the long-awaited debut-EP by Adelaide's self-made sonic activist Gabriel Erjok Majer Akon, a.k.a DyspOra, who originally hails from South Sudan.

2023. Jeane Lee (1939-2000) was an African American vocalist, poet, composer, improvisor, activist and educator. In her 40-year career she played with Archie Shepp, Marion Brown, Frank Lowe, William Parker, Andrew C..

2024. Sahrawi singer-songwriter activist Aziza Brahim's fifth album 'Mawja' ('Wave' in Hassaniya Arabic) is fashioned from a simple but powerful foundational palette: Saharan and Iberian percussion entwining with st..

2024. Sahrawi singer-songwriter activist Aziza Brahim's fifth album 'Mawja' ('Wave' in Hassaniya Arabic) is fashioned from a simple but powerful foundational palette: Saharan and Iberian percussion entwining with st..

2024. The acclaimed 1981 full-length by Portuguese folk musician and political activist Jos Afonso gets a well deserved reissue treatment.

2024. The acclaimed 1981 full-length by Portuguese folk musician and political activist Jos Afonso gets a well deserved reissue treatment.

2016. Hope Medford - Hopemedford.com - In a time when there is a need for balance between the masculine and feminine voice, Hope rises to meet this call with her conscious, powerful beats. Hope’s indpendent musi..

2023. In the early 1970s, critics called Gil Scott-Heron the most important black voice since Martin Luther King Jr. and referred to him as black Bob Dylan. Born in Chicago, the musician, poet and controversial huma..

2023. In the early 1970s, critics called Gil Scott-Heron the most important black voice since Martin Luther King Jr. and referred to him as black Bob Dylan. Born in Chicago, the musician, poet and controversial huma..

2019. This second edition still focuses on the Britfunk genre - or British jazz-funk. It defines a unique mix of jazz-funk & disco including reggae & dub from Afro-Caribbean communities. Parisian DJ, activis..

2017. Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP) is a dynamic, 8- to 14-piece collective rooted in '70s funk and jazz-infused afrobeat. In its own urban, contemporary style, CAbP reinterprets music pioneered by Nigeria's chari..

2013.  Tony enos bring 'the heat' - like a hot knife through butter, international r&b/pop recording artist tony enos continues to melt us down as he brings 'the heat,' his latest cd offering from lil' t..

2013. Budget-price label sampler for DWA - featuring 6 new and exclusive remixes, 2 tracks from the new TERROLOKAUST and CYGNOSIC albums, and 4 tracks never previously available on CD. Initially released exclusively..

2014. This release shines a light into the dark and yet strangely uplifting world of Inryo-fuen's early '80s wonderland. It's a surreal, adventurously analogue, positively negative realm of freedom. Following the re..

2017. Oscar Brown, Jr., singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor, releases his first LP in 1960. This album - SIDE 1 - SIN,Work Song,But I Was Cool,Bid

2009. On the flagship release to his 13 month/13 cd series Masami Akita, herein known as Merzbow, returns to his drumset to accompany his complex analogue noise. His prowess as a drummer rivals his abilities as a no..

2009. "Vol. 2 : Owl". Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a 13-month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien's "Catalogue D'Oiseaux." Author, activist, painter, & sound artist Masami Akita..

2011.  New series framework is an extension of sub rosa's concrete electronics noise, a brand new mix-up of unusual conceptions of sound material by young unknown composers, well known not-so-young compose..

2017. Ektro/Full Contact commemorates the 10th anniversary of the beloved musician and actor Markku Peltola's passing by reissuing his debut solo album 'Buster Keatonin Ratsutilalla' (2003). Markku Peltola was a pro..

2017. Ektro/Full Contact commemorates the 10th anniversary of the beloved musician and actor Markku Peltola's passing by reissuing his debut solo album 'Buster Keatonin Ratsutilalla' (2003). Markku Peltola was a pro..

2018. Since first joining forces in 2014, hardware freak Parrish Smith and former punk activist Mark van de Maat (founder of Amsterdam's admirable Knekelhuis label) have earned a reputation for delivering the kind o..

2018. Former wrestling rock'n'roll one man band activist Lightning Beat-Man (1992-1999) turned into a primitive rock'n'roll blues preacher during the millennium change and released countless recordings on several la..

2018. Former wrestling rock'n'roll one man band activist Lightning Beat-Man (1992-1999) turned into a primitive rock'n'roll blues preacher during the millennium change and released countless recordings on several la..

2022. The acclaimed 1972 full-length by Portuguese folk musician and political activist José Afonso gets a well deserved reissue treatment. 'Venham Mais Cinco', Afonso's most daring album, was the last rele..

2019. This second edition still focuses on the Britfunk genre - or British jazz-funk. It defines a unique mix of jazz-funk & disco including reggae & dub from Afro-Caribbean communities. Parisian DJ, activis..

2019. Reissue of one of Brooklyn's most sought after "holy grail" soul records, 'YIA Talent Hunt Winners'. Youth in Action, Inc. (YIA) was formed in 1963 when the Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council rece..

2020.  Rsd 2020 release.  Gil scott-heron was one of the foremost singer-songwriters of his generation.  A committed civil rights activist that also wrote a couple of unusual novels exp..

2020. Isabel Frey is a Jewish singer and political activist and dedicates herself mainly to Yiddish revolutionary and resistance songs. Her debut solo album 'Millenial Bundist' is a collection of these kind of songs..

2020. In this era of unparalleled political discord and social unrest, veteran hip-hop artist, producer and activist Paris returns to the scene with 'Safe Space Invader', a timely musical critique offering aggressiv..

2021. Muito Kaballa, also known as Niklas Mündemann, started out as a one-man show on the streets and quickly gained attention through his loopstation performances. After the recording of the first album Niklas..

2021. A Civil Rights activist who marched alongside Jesse Jackson, preacher for Earth Wind & Fire, Stax recording artist, 'Family Feud' contestant, Stephen Curry soundtracker, high school drop out, and Kanye sam..

2021. A Civil Rights activist who marched alongside Jesse Jackson, preacher for Earth Wind & Fire, Stax recording artist, 'Family Feud' contestant, Stephen Curry soundtracker, high school drop out, and Kanye sam..

2022. A bit of blues, rock and maybe even a little jazzy improvisation, with numerous inspirations from the folk music of various cultures, and the never absent conscious Turkish modes and vaguely reminisced melodie..

2019. On vinyl, here's the first-ever release of a long-lost 1973 session by the Philadelphia-based jazz group and activist collective Sounds Of Liberation. Created with passion and purpose by masters of the artform..

2019. Bluesman. Sharecropper. Church deacon. Civil Rights activist. Hayes McMullan should be a name on every blues aficionados short-list and thanks to the preservation fieldwork carried out by one of the genre's gr..

2008. Chanson meets Americana in Marianne Dissard's enchanting debut album, co-written & produced by Joey Burns of Calexico. Website: http://www.myspace.com/mariannedissard Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/wat..

2022. The acclaimed 1972 full-length by Portuguese folk musician and political activist José Afonso gets a well deserved reissue treatment.