Organic / Ethno / Folk / Percussion

 
Style: Organic

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Rainer Dimmler calming us down on his chinese zither. Accomapanied by guitar and percussion only - to create a lightweight but intense sound. There's a meditative atmosphere throughout the album. Highest recomendation!

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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: Experimental Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Wap

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Mindblowing collabo between the otherwise very gentle Thilo and the amazing Ellen who has tickled something experimental in gentle Thilo.

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Style: Organic Sounds / World Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Pro Sound (Private)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM

Crossover kitchen blending indian and european spices.

Tiny cuisine so no one ever heard of it ;) Highly unique taste.

In other words: delicious!

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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: 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:  Folky Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Aulos / Private

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Wonderful Kraut Fusion with a folky feel and some EXCELLENT dialogies between flute and guitar. This private album from Krefeld, Germany is VERY listenable all the way through. Highly recommended!

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Style: Indo Fusion / Organic as shahi korma

Format: LP
Label: Sonet

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG

Okay Temiz and his crew teaming up with members of the infamous College of Percussion for a proper trip from Stockholm to Istanbul via South India!! Check the organic ambient masterpiece High Fly

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Style: Drums!

Format: CD
Label: ITM

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Two Drummers drumming for world peace.

Tropical Drums of Deutschland!

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Style: Synth Folk

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM 

Pretty unusual sounds for friends of the unexpected.

Deep and melancholic folk not folk not pop.

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Style: Sultan Of Swing / Percussive Eden

Format: LP
Label: ARC

Year: 198?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Hossam Ramzy, the self declared sultan of swing delivers a workshop of middle eastern (egyptian) percussion. It's not only fun to hear him introduce the instruments he also plays on them. Most of these incredible instrumental jams are between 2 and 3 minutes but some are 5 minues and longer. All shortened in the clips...

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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: Percussion

Format: CD
Label: Mikado

Year: 

Condition: NM/VG+  

Crystal clear CD only Percussion madness on the tiny Mikado imprint.

Turning towards "To Be" like Fusion in the end...

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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: Organic!

Format: CD
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 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: Organic Steel

Format: LP
Label: Hip Pocket (Ger)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

The german Direct Metal Mastering version of this organic fusion classic. Burn yer socks and dance on steel. Would you be so kind to tell me who sampled the first one in the second clip?

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Style: Guys'n Guitars

Format: LP
Label: Milky Music

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/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: Namlook Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Frog

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Peter Kuhlmann (read the last name reversed) and his crew with one of the great Electronic / New Age /Organic Jazz  fusion LPs of Germany's 80s. Autumn Air vibes!

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Style: Organic Sounds

Format: LP
Label: CMP

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+

Is there a place to. byu organic diving suits?

No? Not a problem you can just listen to Mark Nauseef!

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Style: Elefantentanz

Format: LP
Label: Nektar

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

If you should be after the mad rare debut on 7" I strongly recommend to take off the blinders and check what the guys have done through their career. The percussive Call For Action powersound is there and WTF is that incredibly deep Fourth World shit???

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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:  Indian Fusion

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

This is the turning point in Tri Atma's oeuvre. The synthesizer founds it's way into their music. Still in the background but enough to make forget about the drugs. Highly recommended!!

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Style: Percussion Madness

Format: LP
Label: Jazzlabor

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Total percussion madness from the private laboratory.

Producers, i call on you!

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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:  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:  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:  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: 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.

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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: 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:  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:  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: 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: 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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