Three Reissues That Illuminate South African Jazz During Apartheid

Writer, Morgan Enos wrote an incredibly well researched and thoughtful article for Discogs on some of our recent and forthcoming reissues. We count ourselves in incredible company alongside all those interviewed in the article and are excited to share more of our releases shortly. To start, we are excited to announce a partnership with As-Shams/The …

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We Are Busy Bodies is proud to announce a limited edition vinyl remaster of The Drive’s 1975 second album, “Can You Feel It?” Due to the nature of the license, digital files are not available for purchase from We Are Busy Bodies. The album has been remastered from original files by Noah Mintz, Senior Mastering Engineer at …

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With its much-lauded release of South Africa’s Heshoo Beshoo Group now imminent, Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies next turns its attention to West Africa, as it proudly re-issues the ultra-rare and essential 1977 album Obi Agye Mi Dofo by revered Ghanian Highlife band Vis-A-Vis. As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982, …

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We Are Busy Bodies is excited to announce a short-run white label subscription single series for 2021. Each single is limited to 100 copies and is one-sided. The artists are from all around the world and stylistically across many genres. The songs are only available on vinyl through the label and are either new to vinyl, …

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We Are Busy Bodies is proud to congratulate label and management acts Wide Mouth Mason on their Blues Artist of the year and Ryan Carl Dahle for Producer of the year for their BreakOut West (Western Canada Music Awards) nominations. We’re really proud to have released what we believe to be one of Wide Mouth Mason’s best albums to date and that longtime friend, Limblifter co-leader produced the album.

The Elwins share new single, “Take Me All The Way,” their first release in over two years.

Rich Aucoin releases new single, “How It Breaks,” a year after Release, his most recent album.

We Are Busy Bodies is excited to announce the reissuing of The Deathray Davies back catalogue on vinyl! The reissue series will start with their 2005 album, The Kick And The Snare.

To celebrate, we are hoping to issue 15 new releases. The series of releases started with Wide Mouth Mason’s incredible new album ‘I Wanna Go With You,’ issued at the end of 2019. We’ve issued five to date (ABC Gum, The Lemons, Wide Mouth Mason, Limblifter & Patrick James) and have another six set for the fall …

We Are Busy Bodies turned 15 earlier this year.Read More