Love Raid: Arabic Leftfield, Novelty, and Protest 45s 1960-1974

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

DINTE collaborates with the cult WFMU show and blog Bodega Pop, known for collecting the assorted musics of the world available in New York's bodegas and cell-phone stores. Love Raid is focused on leftfield, novelty, and protest 45s from across the Arabic world recorded between 1960 & 1974. "A series of random discoveries in the mid-1990s led me to abandon American and British pop and focus on non-English-language music, predominantly Arabic, for the next two decades. Feeding my ears required bi