Khaya Records

17/02/2026

16/01/2026

Sights and sounds...

16/12/2025

14/12/2025

We've just recently bought a huge collection of LP's , 12" and CD's. There's a lot to go through but we will start adding to the website and physical store in the weeks to come. Expect to see a lot of 80s 12" and some great disco soul and funk. Saying that there's a bit of something for everyone here. Keep an eye out!

05/12/2025

We are super excited about our new haul of amazing samprecords releases at our physical store. It's so good to see so many great albums by local artists on vinyl. Keep em coming! We have a few copies of a lot of the titles so come grab them while you can.

29/11/2025

Have you met this legend?

Meet Andy.

If you’ve spent time in the shop, you’ll know Andy brings his own kind of magic to Khaya Records. He’s here because he genuinely loves music, all of it, and that energy sets the tone for the whole place.

When he’s not holding down the fort, he’s making the magic happen with his band Shop, a Midlands favourite in its own right.

Andy keeps the vibes good, and the music spinning. Pop in, say hi!

Open today 9am till 3pm.

Always online!

28/11/2025

Because we are so reasonably priced, every day is Black Friday at Khaya Records. 🙌💥

27/11/2025

A wall full of classics.

The Beatles section is looking strong this week, with early pressings, compilations, live cuts, and a few gems you don’t often see together in one place. From Help! and Abbey Road to The Red & Blue Albums, plus solo pieces and Yoko’s work, it’s a proper snapshot of an era that shaped modern music.

Whether you’re digging for a specific pressing or just want to browse some timeless records, the crates are full and the shelves are stacked.

Available online and in-store.

24/11/2025

We have an excellent selection of CDs available in store and coming soon online... 🙌

Don't want to wait?

Email us at [email protected]

21/11/2025

Malombo | Sangoma
Available online and in-store at khayarecords.com

Deep Sounds from South Africa brought to us by Matsuli.

"Afro-jazz ancestral healing at the crossroads of tradition and tomorrow

Philip Tabane (1934–2018), the mercurial guitar genius of South African music, forged a sound that was as rooted in the spirit world as it was in daily life. With the Malombo Jazzmen of the 1960s, Tabane disrupted Western notions of “jazz,” bringing the resonant rhythm of cowhide malombo drums into the foreground. While outsiders and the uninitiated often reached for labels like “primitive yet sophisticated,” Tabane and his collaborators named it more truthfully: “music of the spirit.”

By the time of Sangoma, Tabane stood at a crossroads. Fresh from a period of three years’ touring in the United States where he graced the Newport Jazz Festival, and played alongside Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders and others, he brushed off comparisons with characteristic self-assurance: “No, I don’t play like Miles. Miles plays like me.” Back home in South Africa, and with a newly signed international distribution deal with WEA Records, he harnessed this momentum into a larger band setting, capturing a rare intensity.

The result was Sangoma, an album that bridges contradictions: expansive yet intimate, celebratory yet haunted by exile and return. Tracks such as “Sangoma,” “Hi Congo,” and “Keya Bereka” are not simply performances but living testaments, songs that would remain in his repertoire for decades. Unlike the moody, immersive character of much of his work, here Tabane is on the move, urgent, restless, uncontainable. As he announces on the second track, “Maskanta wa tsamaya” (“something that kicks ass”).

More than four decades on, Sangoma is both a historical document and a timeless invocation. From his home in Mamelodi to the world and back again, Tabane’s spiritual healing endures, raw, electric, and unbowed. "

19/11/2025

It’s here.

We’ve been waiting for this one, and it’s everything we hoped for, and then some.

The 20-year edition of Songs From The Cane Fields brings a landmark South African album back into the light. Fully reworked, newly remastered, and expanded with rare and unreleased tracks, it’s a fitting celebration of a South African artist who has become a national treasure.

The presentation is superb: a beautifully crafted gatefold, refreshed liner notes that revisit the album’s story, and a clean, collectible OBI strip that gives the whole release a refined, archival feel.

This is why vinyl matters, from that first cut of the shrink wrap to the moment the needle lands, it’s beauty in motion.

Available now at Khaya Records, online and in store.