MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Deeply resonant spiritual music transmitted via piano, organ, and harmonium by beloved composer and Ethiopian Orthodox nun Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. Church of Kidane Mehret collects all the musical work from Emahoy's 1972 private press album of the same name, ...
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MRI-214 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Deeply resonant spiritual music transmitted via piano, organ, and harmonium by beloved composer and Ethiopian Orthodox nun Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. Church of Kidane Mehret collects all the musical work from Emahoy's 1972 private press album of the same name, ...
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MRI-214 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Four pieces by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, a pioneer of "holy minimalism." The album centers around a never-before-released rendition of "Silentium," the second movement of Pärt's most famous concerto, Tabula Rasa, performed by Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far ...
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MRI-208 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"For the first time on vinyl, Yo La Tengo's understated, lonesome score to Kelly Reichardt's classic "Old Joy. Recorded in a single afternoon at Yo La Tengo's studio in Hoboken, Old Joy is a drifting, improvisatory journey, born out of years-long friendship between the ...
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MRI-213 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Steel-string guitar and vocals by the great Giorgos Katsaros, a mythic figure of Greek rembetiko. Our obsession with underground Greek music continues with 10 ultra-rare recordings of heartbreak and vice from rembetiko legend Giorgos Katsaros. Katsaros, who by some ...
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MRI-204 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"The lost soundtrack to "Chess of the Wind," Iran's banned 1976 queer-gothic-class-horror masterpiece, restored by the director and released for the first time. Not for the faint of heart!" (label info)
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ANSW4001 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil. These are songs of wisdom, loss, mourning, and exile, sung directly into a ...
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MRI-201 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Newly remastered recordings pressed on 160gm black vinyl, heavy jacket with reproduction of the 1972 artwork, song notes by the artist. From beloved composer Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, a revelatory new album of piano pieces, unreleased or virtually inaccessible until ...
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MRI200 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Newly remastered recordings pressed on 160gm black vinyl, heavy jacket with reproduction of the 1972 artwork, song notes by the artist. From beloved composer Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, a revelatory new album of piano pieces, unreleased or virtually inaccessible until ...
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MRI200 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"The first-ever compilation of "havagies", the nearly forgotten Hawaiian-influenced music of 1930s Greece, focused on the compositions of Kostas Bezos and his ensemble White Birds. A world-class slide guitarist, political cartoonist and sleepless Bohemian, Kostas Bezos ...
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MR9-098 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Originally released on Grapefruit Records in 2013, in an extremely limited edition, this fine album by Marisa Anderson gets reissued with new tracks. On first glance of the track listing you may feel like you've heard it these guitar work outs before -classic folk ...
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MRP114 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Heavy cumbia guitar rock from 1960s Colombia. Formed in 1961 by the legendary brothers Pedro Jairo and Guillermo Leon Garces, Los Golden Boys rose quickly to the top of the Colombian "musica tripical" scene by combining popular rock influences with cumbia, gaita, porro ...
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MRI-138 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Of the many great talents of the Nigerian highlife scene, none contained the existential depth, transcendence and grace of Celestine Ukwu. This LP compiles some of Celestine Ukwu's deepest and most affecting songs from the 1970s, which have been restored and ...
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MRI-136 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Mammane Sani Abdullaye is a legendary name in Niger's avant garde. A pioneer of early West African electronic music, for over 30 years his instrumentals have filled the airwaves. The instrumental background drones of radio broadcasts and instrumental segueways of TV ...
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SS-011 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"Mike Hanapi was a brilliant steel guitarist and vocalist from Honolulu, whose recordings with Kalama's Quartet and the Ilima Islanders remain among the highest peaks of early 20th century Hawaiian music. Truly peaceful, tranquil and unique. Hanapi's gorgeous falsetto ...
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MRI-125 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"WEZIN, JAKWAR AND GUITAR BOOGIE FROM THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF MAURITANIA' - Legendary psychedelic guitar music from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania finally available on vinyl! Originally released as a double CD in 2010, 'Wallahi Le Zein!' has persisted as a cult ...
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MRI-126 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
"A truly unique Gospel stylist - Isaiah Owen's plays guitar and sings in his own very distinctive and otherworldly way. Isaiah plays loud and with quite a bit of dissonance, his voice floating above beautifully. This LP features some of his finest performances captured ...
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MRP-094 | MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
