Organic / Ethno / Folk / Percussion

 
Style: Spiritual

Format: LP
Label: Sound Aspects

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM

Close the window, grab a tea and sit down.

This spiritual beauty will care for the rest.

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Style: Experimental World

Format: LP
Label: Fata Morgana

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM

Wonderful organic Experiments including spoken word in schwyzerdütsch. Sure we're attracted to this unusual beauty because of Tini Hägler on Marimba and Djembe. Heininger played in Lost Peace, so the euro-oriented Jazz Funk heads her him play sax at least.

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Style: Esoteric Woosh

Format: LP
Label: Intuition

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Welcome to esoteric Wunderland of Wolfgang Neumann and Rudi Zapf. Hammering their organic soundscapes into dulcimers, hackbretts and other odd pieces of wood. Härte 10's Mike Herting adding some relaxed layers od synth. Sock free zone!!

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Style: Worldmusic behind the Iron Curtain

Format: LP

Label: Amiga

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG+

Bayon is kind of the East german Between with one more toe in folky waters. Highly recommend (counts for all their records!!)

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Style: World Music / Universal Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: World Music

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+

Get Cosmically Connected with the I.N.O. coming with some slow and danceable world synth joints as you expect them to serve.

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Style: Eso Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Sehnsucht nach Veränderung translates "yearning for change". well that change came the same year. This wonderful east german Eso Jazz album was part of the prediction!

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Style: Organic Jazz

Format: LP
Label: VeraBra

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

My favourite Matthias Frey LP.

Those wings of the colibry ...

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Style: Oriental Pop / Prog

Format: 7"

Label:  Virgin (Ger)

Year:  1983

Condition: NM/NM

What a cover! On top of that the turkish Band Kobra (at that time living in Germany, maybe still now?) plays excellent oriental music somewhere between Funk and Prog. Check out the amazing tune Nargile. If you dig the sound of a bong over turkish funk, this one's going to make you dance like a derwish. German only release.

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Style: Percussion / Jazz

Format: LP
Label: LAG (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG seam split

Here's an odd compilation recorded at a jazz meeting in Remscheid, 1984. I couldn't pass it since i spotted a cooperation of Jasper van't Hof and Peter Giger on the record plus another van't Hof tune. Both are actually great contemporary jazz tunes. But the real surprise is that laid back percussion jam called BUBU played by Gerhard Laber...

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Style: Fluffy Clouds

Format: LP
Label: Traccia

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+ cut corner

Fluffy Folk-Pop fusion perfect for sunday mornings in or out of bed.

Sehr senusal and highly recommended!

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Style: Voodoo Drums

Format: LP
Label: Lyricord

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+

Wicked Voodoo Drums from Port au Prince. Please excuse me if i might have said about other drum records as well: Great for tribal dancers, producers and open minded DJs.

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Style: Esoteric Guitar

Format: LP
Label: JCI

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Heinz is from Switzerland and he's a fusion guy. He knows his instrument and seems to be a pretty chilled guy judging from his music.

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Style: Indie Pop

Format: LP
Label: Indie Pop

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

Monsoon's Sheila Chandra showing that it's more than just possible to make spiritual dance music. All gold or rather insense!

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Style: Percussion, Mallets and Synths

Format: LP
Label: Not On label

Year: 1985

Condition: M/M

Friends of organic percussion, Producers and DJs dancing hand in hand when Moisy and Burzlaff are On Tour. Wether it's mellow fusion, hypnotic Techno Jazz or tribal rhthms. These guys know their stuff!!

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Style: Organic!

Format: LP
Label: Amadeo

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Austrian Free jazz legend Wolfgang Puschning accompanied by Linda Sharrock (Lobster, Lobster, Lobster) getting down with the korean percussion ensemble SamulNori. Sometimes worlds don't collide but amalgamate!

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Style: Organic Music

Format: LP
Label: Wundertüte

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Completely chilled vibes in this wundertüte of harps and percussion.

Kick back and enjoy the setting sun!

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Style: Drums, Drums, Drums

Format: LP
Label: AVC

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

One of the rarest private german precussion bits out there and it's a blast. the vocal percussion sounds like art belching at times. yeaaaaah!

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Style:  Ethno / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Chlodwig

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

.... this is a true gem that has received little recognition by now. Let's change this! Vassilos Nikitakis is a greek guitar and bouzouki player with a deep understanding of tunes. He's accompanied by a some of the cologne Jazz Haus heads like Dieter Manderscheid or Fritz Wittek  and the whole thing was recorded by Ansgar Ballhaus. Enough of the name dropping. Please take some time and ....

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Style: Organic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Wergo

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG+  

The very first album by the "International fusion band based in Munich (formed in 1970 as Between The Chairs), featuring avant-garde tendencies within a music that blended the medieval, the ancient and the futuristic." This is the hard to find Wergo 1001 first issue - not the common Spectrum issue from 1972.

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Style: Weltmusik maybe?

Format: LP
Label: Marizet

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

Gebärväterli's Dieter Weberpals teams up with Murphy Blend percussionist Achim Schhmidt to make die beste Weltmusik. As featured on Tropical Drums of Deutschland. Mellow and organic.

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Style: Ambient / Organic

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1992

Condition: NM/VG+

Various percussion and flute is enough to light the fire. This impossible to find private pressing from 1992 has enough fire to burn entire woods. Light yer insense and burn the socks. It's time to dance!

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Style: Psychedelic Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Pool

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Unplayed archive copy incl. printed inner sleeve and press sheet. Ikarus is the band around Mohammad Tahmasebi and Wolfgang Heinze acompanied by Joe Kucera on Saxes and flutes, Michael Clifton on drums and Gerard Batrya on Bass. The Solaris Suite that fills the complete B-Side is such a wonderful trip!

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Style: Organic

Format: CD
Label: Yaya

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Dancing For Mental Health in the organic workshop.

Filled to the brim with wit and percussion.

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Style: Organic Music

Format: CD
Label: Yaya

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

If you dig percussive post Can vibes here's your altar!

The CD hardly pops up these days...

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Style: Organic

Format: LP
Label: Antilles New Directions

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Drum machines, organic percussion and brazillian chants.

Music to get lost in Amazonia while dancing!

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Style: Post Can Soundtracks

Format: LP
Label: Teldec

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Dark, drony and partly sentimental soundscapes by Can's man on the keys. Mixtape heaven!

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Style: Drum Machine Folk

Format: LP
Label: Musikiste

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

Tucker Zimmerman is a poet and musician from California who stranded in Europe in the late 60s. He recorded a bunch of albums that didn't receive a lot of attention. At least Bowie was a fan. Word Games is the last album in a series before Zimmerman's hiatus lasting from 1983 to the new millenium. The sound on Word Games is different from its predecessors - using drum machines and synthesizers might be a bit unusual for a folk record, but that attracted my attention when turning the cover one day. It actually sounds like a mix of folk and synth pop. One of a kind ...

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Style: Percusion Madness

Format: LP
Label: Polydor Of India

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG+

Tight percussion and mouth harps that sound like synths.

Production or dancefloor?!?

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Style: Planctonic / Subaquatic Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Nabel

Year: 1989

Condition: M/M

Thos of you who have recently discovered these Elefants will be very happy to hear that there's a grown up equivalent in quality to their rare 7". Wasserwüste is a true beauty filled with subaquatic and organic floaters, culmintaing in the blissful flute jam - Dream Of Plancton. Don't miss this!

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Style: Chilled Rai

Format: LP
Label: ARC

Year: 198

Condition: NM/VG+

When the sun sets over the pyramid of Djoser and Imhotep's spirit makes your belly dance... it's time to worship Hossam Ramzy. And the Star Collector!

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Style: Ethno Gods

Format: LP
Label: ECM

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/ NM

Get your spiritual update with these two middle eastern flavoured Ragas. Both sides around 30 minutes... Like new copy!!

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Style: Organic Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Rillenwerke

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

On his 2nd release Matthias Frey is joined by organic percussion legend Trilok Gurtu . Frey knows how to create tension with his prepared piano and Gurtu easily understands. The listener easily forgets that it's just 2 guys playing ...

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Style: guess what!

Format: LP
Label: RASH

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG

Deep and organic PERCUSSION.

A bit of Esoterica adds the essential spice!

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Style: Eso Percussions

Format: LP
Label: Jazz Haus Musik

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Highly Esoteric Percussion Jazz by the group around Christoph Haberer. Has some proper chill out vibes too ;)

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Style: Acoustic Dreams

Format: LP
Label: Ivy (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/NM 

Percussion, guitar, flutes and lovely voices - jazzy folk and acoustic delights. If you dig melancholic guitar picks à la Nick Drake - here's one for you. If  dancing on flower beds like a fairy is your thing you might be happy with this sensationally sensual gem too :) 

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Style: Contemporary Kings / Ethno Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Splasc(h)

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+ cut corner

Highly recommended contemporary ethno-jazz  by this young italian combo around Gianni Gebbia and featuring Pino Minafra on trumpet and didjeridoo. Only great tunes on this seldom seen album!!!

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Style: Organic Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Gerryland (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Jazzy & deep Folkrock from Franconia. A private release knowing no boundaries. Friends of organic Jazz will love this as much as collectors of underground Krautrock.

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Style: Voodoo Chanson

Format: LP
Label: Chant Du Monde

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Deep and mysterious chansons from haiti.

Expect percussion and expect voodoo energy!

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Style: Turkish Folk

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Sought after Turk-folk album including that psychedelic orchestral Funk jam Mehmetçik Mehmet

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Style: Experimental Percussion

Format: LP
Label: View

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  small tear

Experiments on instruments. Jazz not Jazz.

Organic percussion. Breathing in.

Dark and deep. Breathing out.

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Style:  New Age Of Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG

I discovered the group Bayon via this LP. Took it home from the fleamarket and didn't expect much of it. After listening to first side I probably thought something like ahh nice not knowing that I would manically hop around the room to Ballata and Fantasia only seconds later ....

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Style: Looking East

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

Young hamburgers back from India. Playing their version of indian inspired folk fusion and seriously grounding us with these soothing jams!

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Style: Iraqui Folk Tales

Format: LP
Label:  Le Chant Du Monde

Year: 1975

Condition: VG+/VG+

If silence sounds like this i want silence all day...

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Style: Ethno-Jazz / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Polskie Nagrania

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+  Ringwear

Slowomir Kulpowicz hottest LP in my humble opinion. All gold from the ethereal Lokas to Adoring Shree Ganesh!

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM  

Who would have guessed that a small town like Esslingen near Stuttgart in Germany's south would have a female Afro Brazillian Percussion Group and gents that play some amazingly smooth Latin Jazz? Dug it out in the Stuttgart area and found out later that it was mainly pressed on CD and in very limited quantities on LP too. I have never seen more copies than the 2 I have here. Your chance to get hold of one of these .... but first ....

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Style: World Dance!

Format: LP
Label: Global Pacific

Year: 1988

Condition: M/M sealed

Mindful organics made for barefoot pleasures. I have no clue what Do'ah means but i made a similar sound when dropping the needle on 19 Letters

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Style:  Ambient / Folk / Fralearic

Format: LP
Label: Hexagone

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Original french gatefold version of this little recognized french folk pearl with Benoit Widemann on Synths and Marc Chanterau on percussion... Pensive music for the summer days!!

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Style: Organic Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Zytgloge

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Incredible organic jazz made in Switzerland... 

These ladies know about some damn good voodoo!!

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Style: Mutant Folk

Format: LP
Label: New Ways / Private

Year: 1981?

Condition: NM/VG+  woc

Mutant Folk with drony elements, citterns & synths, irish folk in indian disguise. Melodies from Scotland, Romania, Ireland, Ex-Yugoslavia and Norway. Recorded in Hamburg, Germany. I call this an adorable oddity!

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Style: Organic / Esoteric

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

The duo's second and last album including their esoteric guitar tales plus a mighty version of Andy Narell's Stickman. Sizzling!

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Style:  Ambient / Esoteric

Format: LP

Label:  Stunt

Year: 198x

Condition: NM/VG+

Fantastic ambient and ethnic jazz by Knudsen featuring Ole Theill and Mikkel Nordso.  Tablas and synths are an anazing combination imho....

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Style: Organic Folk 

Format: LP
Label: MNW

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG-

Anita Livstrand was musically born from the swedish Träd, Gräs Och Stenar collective. This is her first album and it's a world music feast. And it's probably the first time a dijeridoo appeared on a record outside of Australia...

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Style:  Open Music

Format: LP
Label: Sesam

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/NM

One of my favourite band names ever. And they play open music of course! Simple instrumentation: Flute, Guitar / Saz, Bass, Percussion and Vibes. The outcome is deep organic jazz. Highly recommended

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Style: Organic / Esoteric

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Two gentlemen and their guitars touching wood like no one else would. Please excuse the rhyme and dance the meditation with these fine folks!

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Style: Organic Jazz / Spiritual Kraut

Format: LP

Label: Jazz Haus Musik

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM (incl. Insert)

The first Boury LP in amazing condition. The booklet insert is also included. Anyway it's about the music and not the packaging and the music is simply wonderful. Organic and partially psychedelic jazz meandering into progressive krautrock. The sound that you'd expect to hear on an early 70s Dauner LP ... Changed hands for for some money.

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Style: Guys'n Guitars

Format: LP
Label: Milky Music

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Seldom seen coop of Günther Beckers and Özkan Yalkinoglu.

Partly pensive, partly funky or simply guitar imitating a kalimba.

Jamming in the exhibition!

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Style: Organic Jazz

Format: 2LP
Label: Eigelstein

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

In December 1984 musicians from different countries and the 'Tanzforum der Oper/Köln' met in the almost 100 years old drinkingwatertank (Wasserspeicher) SEVERIN (which had been emptied for refurbishment) located on the southside of Cologne for an exceptional music and danceproject. The recordings of this double-LP testify for the unique acoustics (up to 45 seconds of echo!!) of the subterraneous colonnade. All takes have only been recorded with microphones distributed throughout the tank, without using any additional studioeffect equipment before it was finally flooded again.

Feat. Büdi Siebert, Roberto Laneri, Heiner Goebbels, Joe Koinzer, Dario Domingues and many more

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Style: Organic Pop

Format: LP
Label: Fink & Star

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

Thomas Diethelm of Diethelm/Famulari fame.

Esoteric Pop at it's best. Music for hopping from cloud to cloud!!

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Style: Experimental Jazz / Latin Jazz / Organic Music

Format: LP
Label: Entente

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Check out this  amazing mix of mandolin, violin, piano and even Human Beatbox in a scatting mode. Truly unique sound and pressed in VERY limited quantities.

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Style: FUSION!

Format: LP
Label: Spiegelei

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG slightly wavy cover

Superfunky fusion embracing the music of the world. Georg Lawall and his crew did it again! Full LP in the clip

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Style: Organic

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Rainer Dimmler calming us down on his chenese zither. Accomapanied by guitar and percussion only to create a lightweight but intense sound. Meditative atmosphere throughout the album!!

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Style:  Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Schwann Studio

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG++ 

Seldom seen political Krautfolk in top condition. Interesting to know that Ihre Kinder have not been the only ones singing in german in 1971. 

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Style: Bard Gone Mental

Format: LP
Label: Nature

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

VERY unusual album by the german Liedermacher Peter Horton. He usually cooperates with Siggi  "Sitar" Schwab in a guitar duo. On this release he adds synths and percussion to the guitar. Of course Siggi Schwab is featured on some of the tracks, but the outstanding ones are made by Horton - left alone experimenting in Studio 70, Munich.

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Style: Organic Folk

Format: LP
Label: Trikont

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Tribal Proto House a la Finis Africae meets Amazonian Folk. The end of someone's journey might be the beginning of another's...

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Style: Organic Experiments

Format: LP
Label: Grosor

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG archive sticker

Calling this unique is a bit of an understatement. Sorof's fingers fly over his chapman sticks like colibry's wings. Trying to find words for this. I just can't ... I'm blown!

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Style: Ethno Rock!

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Percussive Ethno Rock from Düsseldorf, 1990.

Mostly arabian spices in the pot. Delicious stuff!

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Style:  Organic Harp

Format: LP
Label: Folk Freak

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM  

Deepest Ethnic Harp-Jazz / Fusion by Rüdiger Oppermann accompanied by Dario Domingues on Flutes and Holger Michalski on bass. The 20 minute long Nebelreiter is a masterpiece of psychedelic Harp Folk!!

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Style: Krautfólk

Format: LP
Label: Leico

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  

Mostly laid back folk with a bit of a pacific feel.

These german gentlemen sing in english.

Their thoughts and dreams matter!

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Style: Pensive Folk

Format: LP
Label: Guimbarda

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Calm and pensive harp based Folk with influences of neo classical music. Creating an atmosphere of warmth and privacy.

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Style: Esoteric / Ethno

Format: LP
Label: Trikont

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG

Uschi Laar is top choice if you dig harps and you like it a bit more percussive than Vollenweider. Ainka is her first record and it's filled with deep and percussive tracks......

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Style: Organic / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Wergo

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Deep organic sounds somewhere bewteen Ambient and Modern Classical. The sidefilling title track with relaxing overtone singing is a masterpiece!

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Style: Experimental Fusion / Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Olufsen

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+ 

A seldom seen Ocean Fables offshoot project lead by Kim Kristensen on keys and synths and Marilyn Mazur on percussion. Unusual Fusion with an outerworldly sound - very organic and highly recommended!

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Style:  Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  Incl. Insert

Wonderful folky kraut from the politically left. Sung in german so most of you won't get the sometimes brilliant verbal attacks against the establishment. 

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Style: Percussive Seduction

Format: LP
Label: Barclay

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

Highly seductive chansons by a beautful lady.

Who could resist?

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Style: "World Music"

Format: LP
Label:  Tropical Music

Year:  1987

Condition: NM/VG+   

Pretty hard to categorize album, so I called it world music. It's from Argentina. The whole record is astonishingly beautiful. One of my favourite recent discoveries

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