South American

Mike D (Beastie Boys) passes the Brazil 45 baton to Japan's DJ Koco who is renowned for his commitment & passion to 7" singles.

Long-awaited repress of a classic Mr Bongo compilation, compiled by Sean Marquand and Greg Caz, 2 DJs well-known for their epic parties at Williamsburg’s legendary Black Betty club, that sadly closed in 2009.

A transatlantic collaboration between five musicians from the UK jazz collective Steam Down (and DoomCannon) plus eight musicians from Colombia's folk, jazz, hip-hop, salsa and electronic scenes and groups such as Ondatropica, Frente Cumbiero and La Perla.

Buena Vista Social Club was released in June 1997 and has since come to be regarded as a classic, selling 7 million copies worldwide.

Gotan Project's 10" vinyl for "Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)," first pressed in April 2001 under Ya Basta Records, features the brilliant mix of traditional tango with electronic vibes.

The iconic multi-million selling Cuban album, featuring remastered audio from 2021's 25th Anniversary, pressed on limited edition gold vinyl.

THE JAZZINVADERS "Last Summer in Rio" (feat. Alex Malheiros, Ivan Conti) 'Samba Doido (Crazy Samba)' is definitely the best term to describe the music of the Brazilian band Azymuth.

‘Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall’ is the second album released by the original Buena Vista Social Club™; this extraordinary collection of Cuba’s greatest musicians includes Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo, Cachaíto López and Guajiro Mirabal.

In its isolated cities, cut off from the fashions of the capital, a unique style of music began to develop, inspired equally by the sounds of the surrounding forests, the roll of the mighty Amazon and Ucayali Rivers, and the rhythms of cumbia picked up from distant stations on transistor radios.

Another stunning compilation compiled by Bob Stanley. Latin Freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultra- modern music.

The sonidero who brought Peruvian and Ecuadorian music to Mexico was the legendary Pablo Perea from Sonido Arco-Iris, and although his fingerprints are all over the compilation Saturno 2000, this selection of songs in rebajada is exclusive to DJ Lengua. 

A beautiful deep-soulful-folky Brazilian album from 2018 by the Bahian vocalist Luedji Luna. 

Sim Sim Sim' is the Latin Grammy award-winning debut album from Bala Desejo.

Gilberto With Turrentine is an album by Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto and American saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.

Classic Brazilian album from 1977, featuring the incredible Nao Adianta and a brilliant cover of Jorge Ben’s Que Nega E Essa. Luiz Carlos Fritz (Fritz Escovao), Joao Parahyba and Nereu Gargalo aka Trio Mocoto are most well-known as Jorge Ben Jr.’s backing band. 

Puerto Rican\-born Jose Feliciano had already been a major star in Latin America for several years with his Spanish\-language recordings when he spectacularly broke into the US mainstream in 1968 with an acoustic reworking of Light My Fire.

Reissued for the first time outside of Brazil, Todos Os Olhos is one of the most important Brazilian records of all time.

For the third release in our Mr Bongo Cuban Classics series, we reissue the iconic 1974 debut album by the mighty Grupo Irakere.

With two critically acclaimed albums and a swathe of award-winning production turns under their belt, Ana Frango Eletrico present their most confdent and accomplished work to date: Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua / Call Me They That I'm Yours.

First time reissue of one of the essential and most sought-after Venezuelan rock albums, originally released in 1970, along the lines of what other artists such as Santana or El Chicano were doing from the United States in those same years.

This release contains a representative collection of Jobim’s songs in classic versions performed by some of the most remarkable bossa nova artists, and in many cases presenting Jobim himself as accompanist, conductor or arranger.

It was the early 1970s when Azymuth really began to cause a stir and Marcos Valle invited them to record on a soundtrack LP he was doing. The unique Azymuth sound was now born. 

After the demise of LOS SHAKERS, brothers HUGO & OSVALDO FATTORUSO released in 1969 "La Bossa Nova de Hugo & Osvaldo".

It’s the 25th anniversary of this criminally under-appreciated compilation of Brazilian pop music (New! More! Better!), so Luaka Bop put it on vinyl for the first time. 

All of the music featured here on this new Soul Jazz Records collection was created by Brazilian artists in the USA in the 1970s. In the early 1970s North American jazz musicians were eager to work with upcoming Brazilian musicians.

This is the sound of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Salsoul is the 9th studio album by trailblazing Filipino-African American singer Joe Bataan, featuring his classic single ‘Mujer Mia’.

A groundbreaking collection of work from the legendary Tom Ze - and a record that really helped introduce his genius to the world outside of Brazil!

In 1974 Ana Mazzotti recorded her first album Ninguem Vai Me Segurar, enlisting the in-demand arrangement talents of Azymuth’s original keyboard maestro Jose Roberto Bertrami who co-wrote several of the tracks and plays organ, piano and synthesizers on the album. 

The intention was to create a screenplay in different settings and have short intervals between tracks - almost none - with songs with lyrics and instrumental songs as well. 

Joao Gilberto (1931-2019) was a true legend of bossa nova.