Albums of the Year 2019 // Comps & Reissues

Artwork by Rosie Kelly

Here are the compilations and reissue titled that kept and held our attention throughout the year 2019. Each album title is a link to purchase from the label. At the bottom of the page, please find and enjoy a Spotify playlist of our favorite selections from this list.

"Blue" Gene Tyranny, Peter Gordon ‎– Trust In Rock [Unseen Worlds]

4AM ‎– 4AM [Mutual Intentions]

Aaron Broomfield- Boomerang [Crown Ruler]

Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou– Anou Malane [Sahel Sounds]

Abdullah Sami– Peace Of Time [Spiritmuse]

Akiko Yano– Iroha Ni Konpeitou [Wewantsounds]

Alexis Zoumbas- A Lament For Epirus 1926-1928 [Third Man]

Algebra Suicide- Still Life [Dark Entries]

Alice Coltrane- Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana [Antarctica Starts Here]

Ariel Pink- Loverboy [Mexican Summer]

Arthur Russell- Iowa Dream [Audika]

Back East- Day By Day [Everland]

Bob Bell- Necropolis [Telephone Explosion]

Brent Snyder- Cumulus [Morning Trip]

Brief Encounter- We Want To Play [Athens of the North]

Buari- Disco Soccer [BBE]

Carey Harris and Michael Orr- Spread Love [Tidal Waves]

Charlie Megira- Tomorrow's Gone [Numero Group]

Christy Essien Igbokwe ‎– Give Me A Chance [Afrodisia]

Dibson & Essody ‎– Justice [Dig This Way]

Emersen- If You Need Me, Call Me [Kalita]

Ernest Ranglin- Be What You Want To Be [Emotional Rescue]

Fabriana Fuzion- Cosmik Sindika [BeauMonde]

Folkal Point- Folkal Point [Merry Go Round]

Gyedu Blay Ambolley – Ambolley [Mr. Bongo]

Harry Mosco- Peace & Harmony [Isle of Jura]

Horace Tapscott- The Call [Outernational Sounds]

Jim Sullivan- Jim Sullivan [Light In The Attic]

Joe Tosini and Friends- Lady of Mine [Efficient Space]

Karen Marks- Cold Café [Efficient Space]

Mahotella Queens ‎– Meet The Mahotella Queens [Umsakazo]

Mappa Mundi- Musaics [Midnight Drive]

Max Rambhojan– Max Rambhojan [Secousse]

Mel Production Band- Trying To Get Out of Here [Everland Music]

Michael O'Shea- Michael O’Shea [Allchival]

Mort Garson- Mother Earth’s Plantasia [Sacred Bones]

Nâ Hawa Doumbia ‎– La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 1 [Awesome Tapes From Africa]

Nkono Teles- Party Beats [BBE]

People's Pleasure- Do You Hear Me Talking To You? [Athens of the North]

Peter Ivers- Becoming Peter Ivers [RVNG Intl.]

Potter and Tillman- New York To L​.​A​.​: Coasting [High Jazz]

Rob- Funky Rob Way Analog Africa]

Ronald Langestraat- Searching [South of North]

Roy Ayers- Silver Vibrations [BBE]

Rupa- Disco Jazz [Numero Group]

Sam Mallet– Wetlands [Musique Plastique]

Sanford Clark- They Call Me Country [Numero Group]

Seaside Lovers- Memories In Beach House [Ship To Shore]

Standing Room Only- Heart and Soul [Everland Music]

Steve Hiett- Girls In The Grass [Efficient Space]

Stone Harbour- Emerges [Guerssen]

Surfing- Deep Fantasy [100% Electronica]

The Students‎– Students In Summer [Les Masques]

TRjj‎– Music Compilation "12 Dances" [STROOM.tv]

V/A- Alternative Funk- Volume 2 [Platform 23]

V/A- Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969, Vol. 1 [Third Man]

V/A- Disco With A Feeling [Athens of the North]

V/A- Electro Music Union, Sinoesin & Xonox Works 1993​-​1994 [Cold Blow]

V/A- Imaginational Anthems, Vol. 9 [Tompkins Square]

V/A- Fragments du Monde Flottant [Bongo Joe]

V/A- Kankyō Ongaku (Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980 - 1990) [Light In The Attic]

V/A- No Other Love: Midwest Gospel (1965​-​1978) [Tompkins Square]

V/A- Pacific Breeze (Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986) [Light In The Attic]

V/A- Puro Tayta Shanti [Little Axe]

V/A- Sad About The Times [Anthology]

V/A- Self Discovery For Social Survival [Mexican Summer]

V/A- Soviet Freakout Vol. 2 [Soviet Freakout]

V/A‎– Radio Verde: Cape Verdean Dancefloor Music (Compiled By Americo Brito & Arp Frique) [Colorful World]

Vernal Equinox– New Found World [Aural Medium]

Zack & Gebah- For The Love of Money [BBE]

Zru Vogue- Zru Vogue [Dark Entries]

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