Various - Afro Psych (Journeys Into Psychedelic Africa 1972 - 1977)Whilst the continents contribution to the global funk, boogie and disco canon has been well documented for decades, the strong presence of rock and psychedelia in 1970's African music has been a more slowly evolving story over the years. Pockets of young Africans, turned on by Hendrix, the Doors, Santana and more, started to add heavy guitar riffs to rumbling, ever present funk, and built an afro psych scene that is still turning up gems to this day.

The technology was hard-wired into the very heart of their music

Original copies of the album fetch for $10

Too unwieldy

Emerging from Nassau in the Bahamas in 1971

the dilapidated wood-panelled Lisbon radio studio of a 1960s vintage where the band set up for 12 days

It follows the triumphant success of 2014's comeback album 'Carry On The Grudge'

the similarities are really only skin-deep because the album sounds truly original

Mogwai on ‘Miracle’ and Lemonheads’ Evan Dando ‘Wake Up In New York’

hip without being inaccesible

remixed September 1972 at Dierks Studios in Stommeln

Powder blue swirl vinyl *22

& whilst Nirvana is most fa- mous for their British psychedelic classic ‘Rainbow Chaser’