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Cover of Introduction by Witch.

Witch

Introduction

Now-Again

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    “Electrified by a diet of James Brown, the Stones and Deep Purple, WITCH were the stadium-filling kings of 70s Zamrock. - **** Mojo // Archival reissue of the garage-psych Zamrock masterpiece (1974). Our comprehensive overview of Zambia’s premier garage-, psych-, prog-, funk-,afro-rock ensemble WITCH, We Intend To Cause Havoc!, is now sold out in its 6LP box set form. So we are making the first four WITCH albums available in archival reissue form. As with our box set, the audio is nigh-perfect – restored and remastered from the original master tapes. The entirety of WITCH’s first album, restored and remastered from master tapes, and presented as an archival reissue. WITCH’s musical arc is contained to a five year span and, in retrospect, is a logical one. The band’s first two, self-produced albums - released in unison with the birth of the commercial Zambian recording industry – are exuberant experiments in garage rock, and are as influenced by the Rolling Stones as they are James Brown. Thus Introduction, their first, is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in delving into the WITCH band, or Zamrock in general.

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    Cover of Those Shocking Shaking Days - Indonesia Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock And Funk 1970-1978 by Various Artists.

    Various Artists

    Those Shocking Shaking Days - Indonesia Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock And Funk 1970-1978

    Now-Again

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    Now-Again deliver the first ever compilation to assess the incredible psychedelic rock, funk and progressive scene of 1970s Jakarta!

    Whilst some collectors fiend for the incredibly rare LPs from the likes of Sharkmove and their later incarnation Giant Step, very little is known about Indonesian rock music - until now. Now-Again Records has teamed up with local musicians and experts to provide a fascinating in-depth look at the flourishing of progressive psychedelic music in early 1970s Indonesia, where fiercely independent musicians criticised the military dictatorship, raised awareness of drug abuse and much more - all to the glorious sound of the fuzz guitar and some of the most ambitious arrangements you’ll ever hear.

    FORMAT INFORMATION

    3xLP Info: Limited triple vinyl pressing in six-panel triple gatefold sleeve with 16-page full colour booklet.

    CD Info: Deluxe paste-on card sleeve with O-card and fat booklet with extensive liner notes.

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    Cover of Earth Rot (Black Friday 2018) by David Axelrod.

    David Axelrod

    Earth Rot (Black Friday 2018)

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    "Includes Never Before Issued Instrumentals! Comes Packaged In A Gatefold Jacket With A 28-Page Booklet! Earth Rot is visionary composer/ arranger/ producer David Axelrod’s third album, and the last of his Capitol trilogy. Recorded as a concept album about the decrepit state of the environment in 1970 Los Angeles, and scheduled for release on the first Earth Day, it features choral vocals and marks a departure for Axelrod’s signature sound, which would take on a jazzier feel in the 1970s. This definitive version of Earth Rot, overseen by Now-Again’s Eothen Alapatt in conjunction with Axelrod’s Estate, fulfills a request Axelrod made while alive – to see the instrumentals of this album, never beforereleased, issued. They see release here as the second LP in a 2LP set. This is an audiophile reissue, with the vocal version lacquered directly from Axelrod’s original master tapes at Capitol Records by Ron McMaster. The master was approved by Axelrod’s son Michael, who adapted ancient lyrics for the album in one of three collaborative projects he did with his father. Contains a 28 page booklet that delves into Axelrod’s incredible life and music, replete with never before published photos and an interview.

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    Cover of Fancy Pants by Lightmen Plus One.

    Lightmen Plus One

    Fancy Pants

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    Revolutionary, spiritual jazz from the unlikely city of Houston, Texas, reissued for the first time. Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues, served as a session musician for Peacock and Back Beat Records, and played straight ahead jazz with legends before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led him to a path first charted by Coltrane.
    Fancy Pants is his second LP with his Lightmen band and, like the deep-set, maverick jazz issued by the likes of Tribe and Strata East, is amongst the best of the 1970s jazz underground, a collective voice of resistance to the musical and cultural status quo. Presented in both stereo and mono mixes. Extensive booklet, download card for WAV files and footage of live performances included. 

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    Cover of Black Power by The Peace.

    The Peace

    Black Power

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    First official reissue of this essential Zamrock album, painstakingly restored, remastered and pieced together from multiple copies of the incredibly rare original album. Contains extensive booklet with never before published photos, an overview of the Zamrock scene, and the history of Peace and Black Power. The Boyfriends, from Kitwe’s Chamboli Mine Township, supplied the founding members for Zamrock’s most famous band, WITCH, and kick started one of Zamrock’s best bands, Peace. Their sole Zamrock entry, 'Black Power', recorded at Malachite Film Studio circa 1973/4 and issued circa 1975, sounds like nothing else in the Zamrock canon: a lost message drifiting from the flower power era, imbued with a fiery Zambian voice. Essential garage Zamrock / soul / funk: the first official reissue of the celebrated band’s one and only album.

    “The musical style that became known as Zamrock came to embody the economic despair that followed the 1973-1974 oil crisis, which flung Zambia into recession and exacerbated a wide range of social tensions. Much of Zamrock also captured the controversy of wider politics in Africa and the world. Perhaps the finest example of this is Black Power by The Peace”. - The Guardian 

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    Cover of Wake Up You! Vol. 2 - The Rise & Fall Of Nigerian Rock Music (1972-1977) by Various Artists.

    Various Artists

    Wake Up You! Vol. 2 - The Rise & Fall Of Nigerian Rock Music (1972-1977)

    Now-Again

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    2xLP /  CD comes packaged with a hard cover 100 page colour book, filled with incredible photos and words by Nigerian music historian Uchenna Ikonne ('Who Is William Onyeabor?'). 

    The Western world was in the throes of peace, love and flower power as Nigeria descended into Civil War in 1967. The rock scene that developed during the following three years of bloodshed and destruction would come to heal the country, propagate the world-wide ideal of the Modern Nigerian, and propel Fela to stardom after conflict ended in 1970. 'Wake Up You!' tells the story of this time, pays homage to these now-forgotten musicians and their struggle, and brings to light the funk and psychedelic fury they created as they wrested free of the ravages of the late 1960s and created thrilling, original Nigerian rock music throughout the 1970s.

    Presented in two volumes, each in a 100 page book full of never-seen photos along with detailed liner notes by Nigerian musicologist and researcher Uchenna Ikonne ('Who Is William Onyeabor?'), with all tracks fully licensed from the bands themselves. 

    FORMAT INFORMATION

    2xLtd LP Info: 2xLP box set with book.

    2xLtd LP includes MP3 Download Code.

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    Cover of Wake Up You! Vol. 1 - The Rise & Fall Of Nigerian Rock Music (1972-1977) by Various Artists.

    Various Artists

    Wake Up You! Vol. 1 - The Rise & Fall Of Nigerian Rock Music (1972-1977)

    Now-Again

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    The CD Comes Packaged In A 104 Page Full Color Book, Filled With Incredible Photos And Words By Noted Expert On Nigerian Music, Uchenna Ikonne. The Western world was in the throes of peace, love and flower power as Nigeria descended into Civil War in 1967. The rock scene that developed during the following three years of bloodshed and destruction would come to heal the country, propagate the world-wide ideal of the Modern Nigerian, and propel Fela to stardom after conflict ended in 1970. Wake Up You! tells the story of this time, pays homage to these now-forgotten musicians and their struggle, and brings to light the funk and psychedelic fury they created as they wrested free of the ravages of the late 1960s and created thrilling, original Nigerian rock music throughout the 1970s. The CD will be presented in two volumes, each in a 104 page book full of never-seen photos along with detailed liner notes by Nigerian musicologist and researcher Uchenna Ikonne (Who Is William Onyeabor?), with all tracks fully licensed from the bands themselves. 

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    Cover of Strange Things - The Complete Works 1970 - 1974 by 4th Coming.

    4th Coming

    Strange Things - The Complete Works 1970 - 1974

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    Eccentric soul and funk recordings from an unlikely crew of Los Angeles musical misfits - including psych-rock cult figure John Greek (Reachin’ Arcesia, Beautiful Daze) and members of the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band. They had a catchy, but inappropriate name: there is nothing forthcoming about Los Angeles’ 4th Coming, unless one counts a copious amount of releases - on rare 7” singles - that didn’t sell farther than vocalist / principal Henry “Hank” Porter’s Datsun 1200 could take him. Assembling a complete set of 4th Coming recordings was nearly impossible, until the issue of this, the lost 4th Coming album.

    At its core, the 4th Coming was a songwriting duo - Porter and Jechonias “Jack” S. Williams - and a rotating cast of musicians - including members of lauded LA funk ensemble the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band - that Williams assembled at Artist Recording Studio to realize the pair’s ideas. They existed only from the latter half of 1969 until 1974; during that time they issued eight singles as 4th Coming and one as Impact! on Al Firth's Alpha imprint. And now, 'Strange Things', a thrilling listen, a mysterious trove of recordings made possible by an open minded and well-funded indie impresario, which document a very real and very weird Los Angeles of the past. It’s a city we’ll never know again, and one that might never again produce an ensemble like the 4th Coming. If Firth’s faith only rolled snake-eyes in terms of commercial success, in terms of documenting Los Angeles’ vibrant soul and funk underground, he rolled boxcars. This, the album Williams and Firth always hoped would bring them real success, now sees its complete release and allows us to ponder the might-have and the would-have beens had a 4th Coming album come together in the mid-‘70s.

    16 entries and bonus tracks as likely to find influence in Parliaments’ cosmic slop as Charley Pride’s country, as likely to find a sweet funk groove or a synthesizer-lead stomp. Includes booklet with detailed liner notes illuminating this mysterious band. 

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    Cover of Drumside/Dreamside by Rodinia.

    Rodinia

    Drumside/Dreamside

    Now-Again

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    Now-Again Records has enjoyed a long and creative partnership with Munich-based multi-instrumentalist JJ Whitefield, creative force behind the Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers and Karl Hector & The Malcouns.

    Rodinia, his latest project, is quite different than anything that’s come from his oeuvre to date, but follows in the line of the Poets of Rhythm’s great 'Discern/Define', as it reaches back to Krautrock’s experimental heyday but pushes its boundaries with a post-hip-hop approach. That’s to say that everything you read in the header above is true, but the ambient sound Whitefield and his Rodinia collaborator - saxophonist and keyboardist Johannes Schleiermacher - reached for found itself morphing over the course of a year. What was originally recorded in a two-day studio lock-in, which found Whitefield and Schleiermacher hooking up “all our vintage synths (Korg MS-20, Moog Prodigy, Roland Juno 60, Jen SX 1000, Korg Polysix), triggering everything with a vintage Korg rhythm box, absorbing some mind altering substances and jamming out,” was later turned into two, side-long suites, with over-dubbed reeds, drums and guitar, and self-made Moroccan field recordings introducing the project on its Drumside. The result is as winsome and exploratory as those from their forebears, but respectfully distanced from the past’s trappings. 

    FORMAT INFORMATION

    LP includes MP3 Download Code.

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    Cover of Free And Easy - The Complete Works 1970-1975 by Apple And The Three Oranges.

    Apple And The Three Oranges

    Free And Easy - The Complete Works 1970-1975

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    Edward “Apple” Nelson is best known for the small clutch of 45s he released under the Apple And The Three Oranges name on local Los Angeles labels in the 1970s. He first found credit as “Apple” on a Marie Franklin single released the Stage Music imprint which led to the issue ‘Free And Easy’, the first record released as Apple And The Three Oranges. This rapid development from road hog to recording artist inspired him to found Sagittarius Records, named after his zodiac sign. His run with Sagittarius contains six unimpeachable soul and funk numbers released under the Apple And The Three Oranges banner and one issued under his own name, Ed Nelson. This material is ripe for a historical reappraisal. The low fidelity of every Apple And The Three Oranges single was never a problem for the low-riding Eastside Angelenos, who lionized tracks such as ‘True Love Will Never Die’, but their muddy quality cast Nelson outside of the canon in which troubled soul singers like Bobby Womack have held court for decades. Nelson’s master tapes - lost in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina - will never surface to right this wrong. And the records themselves are rare: the ‘Love Brings Out The Best Of You’, ‘Curse Upon The World’ and ‘I’ll Give You A Ring (When I Come, If I Come)’ singles are amongst the most sought after and expensive Los Angeles soul and funk records to ever list at auction. Nearly 40 years after he gave up on his recording career, we’re left with little more than Nelson’s explosive music and his straight-shooting stories of his life’s arc in this anthology of his complete works. Whether it’s his first hand experience with the great New Orleans drummers who laid the foundations of funk, or his relating the oft-told, and always sad, tale of lust supplanting love, Nelson offers confounding words to complement his all too beautiful soul and funk music.

    FORMAT INFORMATION

    2xLP Info: 2xLP + booklet. This 2LP set comes sleeved in a lovingly reproduced version of the cover photo, and contains a 16-page booklet with full annotation, extensive liner notes and previously unpublished photos.

    CD Info: CD comes in outer slipcase with 56 page with full annotation, extensive liner notes and previously unpublished photos.

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    Cover of Loving On The Flipside - Sweet Funk And Beat-Heavy Ballads, 1969-1977 by Various Artists.

    Various Artists

    Loving On The Flipside - Sweet Funk And Beat-Heavy Ballads, 1969-1977

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    The long-overlooked ballads from the flipsides of the funk 45s in the Now-Again and Truth & Soul vaults … 21 rare and unreleased sweet funk and soul tracks from 1969-1977. Now-Again unearthed so much information about the bands that recorded the definitive disco and modern soul contained in their recently launched Soul Cal anthology that they decided to release an album and a book at the same time. Following that precedent, the music contained on ‘Loving On The Flip Side’is just too damn good to be anonymously relaunched, decades after musical visionaries blended the best of heavy funk and sweet soul into a unified whole. And simply telling the stories of these vocalists and bands without allowing their lovelorn pleas to be heard again wasn’t an option. Thus, ‘Loving On The Flip Side’ again offers the enthused a chance to listen to, read about and reflect on another great burst of black American inspiration : the creation of the sublime genre called Sweet Funk. It seems laughable to skip past Thomas East’s ‘Slipping Around’ 7” for the cheesy funk of ‘Just A Trip’, or to listen obsessively to Lou Ragland’s instrumental funk on the Hot Chocolate LP and ignore his indolent-yet-stirring ‘We Had True Love’. Yet the archivists at Now-Again did just that, until they first heard the Darling Dears and Funky Heavy’s beautiful two-sider nearly 10 years back. This was the record that set ‘Loving On The Flip Side’ in motion, as the Darling Dears and Funky Heavy’s two songs precipitated the Sweet Funk genre: the dichotomy of Funky Heavy’s skull snapping rhythm section and the teenage Dears’ angelic harmonies didn’t sound like anything they’d heard before. That discovery set off a decade long search for the band and culminated in their discovery, the documenting of their stories, the emergence of their master tapes and the inclusion of their songs on ‘Loving On The Flip Side’. Going back into the field in search of other Sweet Funk swooners and beat-heavy ballads to round out this anthology, the opportunity to present anew such wondrous soul music made the exhaustive process that produced ‘Loving On The Flip Side’ worthwhile, collecting many other rare one-offs that escaped prior investigations into the deep funk and sweet soul genres.

    FORMAT INFORMATION

    2xLP Info: Double LP in gatefold sleeve with 80-page book filled with full annotation, unpublished photos, and each band’s story.

    CD & Book Info: Presented as an 80-page book filled with rare photos and each band’s story; CD comes in its own sleeve within.

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    Cover of Hell Below - CD Box Set by East Of Underground.

    East Of Underground

    Hell Below - CD Box Set

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    United States Army soldiers made the music contained in this three album box-set during the politically turbulent early 70s, towards the end of the Vietnam War. East of Underground, The Black Seeds and The Sound Trek were bands comprised of soldiers stationed in bases across Western Germany. While little is known about the bands, the players, and the milieu they came from - other than what can be pieced together from a handful of photos and documents found in a box in the New York Public Library, and the vague recollections of some of those involved – we at Now-Again Records have worked diligently with the United States Army and researchers the country over to present this important document – and some damn good soul and funk music.

    Only one former band member has come forward during the assembly of this anthology, which has lead us
    to question: where did these talented performers land after their winning performances in Army-sponsored Battle Of The Bands contests afforded them (musical) tours across European Army bases? Perhaps some
    are still around somewhere: perhaps some are still involved in music; perhaps some were killed in action; perhaps some passed on after returning to the States. We’ve assembled vestiges - a show band contest entry form, a list of names, a couple of photographs, a playlist – to embellish this sonic time capsule, a capsule that functions as a snapshot of American culture during this politically charged era.

    Each of the two double-billed albums contained in this box-set is presented as an exact reproduction of the original United States Army issue. The extensive, full-color booklet features essays, annotation and a collection of Army ephemera from the creation of these albums. Also included is a full-color, exact reproduction of East Of Underground’s 1971 tour poster.

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    Reduced Cover of Winter Winds - The Complete Works 1968-70 by PE Hewitt Jazz Ensemble.

    PE Hewitt Jazz Ensemble

    Winter Winds - The Complete Works 1968-70

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    PE Hewitt was just 16 years old when he recorded and released his debut album "Jawbones", in a run of just 50 copies. By the time he sold out of the 100 press of his third album, "Winter Winds", he was approaching the ripe-old age of 20. The three albums he and his group of young compatriots wrote, recorded, pressed and - in a sense - distributed are some of the very best late 60s / early 70s jazz records you could hope to hear. That’s why, despite a 40 year gap and the tiniest of private presses couldn’t suppress their re-emergence. Rather than offer us just an anthology Now-Again decided to give us all three albums as they were made, out of respect for Hewitt’s monstrous achievements. The label have recreated the albums as they were released, down to the hand-painted covers. Also included is a 44-page booklet which includes the original liner notes, an essay on Hewitt and his career, an interview with him and never-seen-before photos.

    FORMAT INFORMATION

    3xLP Info: Deluxe 3xLP hinged box set. Each LP comes with authentic replica sleeve artwork. Aslos includes liner notes and exclusive interview.

    3xCD Info: Packaged in a hard-back box that includes exact reproductions of the three original albums and a 44-page booklet with extensive liner notes, photos, interview and annotation

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