Dust to Digitals Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM (4CD+Book) now available for Pre Order

Dust to Digital keep the heavy weight box sets coming with this 4-CD collection featuring 100 tracks taken from rare 78rpm recordings of African music (1909 to mid-1960s), none of which have ever been issued on CD until now.

Pan-African in scope & wildly diverse, Opika Pende is a testament to the deep riches found in early recorded music across the continent. compiler bio: Jonathan Ward is a Los Angeles-based collector, researcher, & writer. In 2007, he began the well-known website Excavated shellac, which features a wide-range of scarce, international 78rpm records from across the globe with extensive commentary.

In 2010, Jonathan released his first LP in a series for Dust-to-Digital’s vinyl imprint Parlortone. Titled Excavated Shellac: Strings (available from the recordette shop), it contains 14 exemplary performances on string instruments from across the globe, all from his collection of 78s.

I have 10 of these wonderful sets available for pre order on eBay and also available in the Preorder section of this blog.

So in order to not feel left out on release day (25th October) pre order now at the special price of:
£45 with free shipping
(please note prices will go up after the 25th October)