They’ve just arrived and damn do they look beautiful! The limited edition 4 x 10″ vinyl box set of our Fela Kuti-inspired anthology Black Man’s Cry is in and shipping immediately from Stones Throw’s webstore. Out everywhere 2.23.
Buy it here. And, don’t forget the download, if you haven’t already gotten it!
Link: Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti
Download: Dan Satch and his Atomic 8 Dance Band: “Woman Pin Down.”
More Info and Pictures at Stones Throw here.
Yup, here’s the second Zambian psych gem we’re releasing in conjunction with Shadoks on February 16th: WITCH’s masterpiece Lazy Bones!!
This official reissue was licensed by the band’s sole survivor, vocalist Emanyeo Jagari Chanda. As with the Amanaz reissue, this CD comes with Egon’s liner notes detailing Zambia’s 70s scene. After we issue Rikki Ililonga’s anthology, Now-Again will present an anthology of WITCH’s music which, in the band’s original incarnation, spread over five albums.
Bide your time with this, our favorite song from Lazy Bones!! – Chanda’s hallucinatory “Strange Dream,” offered straight from the master tapes.
Link: WITCH: Lazy Bones!!
More info on our Zambian Reissues (and a picture of Rikki Ililonga) here.
On February 16th Now-Again, in association with Germany’s Shadoks Records (and with thanks to Rikki Ililonga and collector Richard Leckie), presents the first entries in a series of reissues from Zambia’s 70s unsung (until now!) psych-rock heroes. Amanaz’s Africa and WITCH’s Lazy Bones are both masterpieces. More on Rikki and WITCH later. For now, we’ll focus on Amanaz.
This official reissue was licensed by the band’s two surviving members, vocalist Keith Kabwe and fuzz guitarist Issac Mpofu, after Rikki tracked down Keith in a remote portion of Zambia’s north on a recent trip back to his homeland. This CD comes with Egon’s liner notes detailing Zambia’s 70s scene.
In anticipation of this reissue, we’re giving you a taste now: the band’s beautiful ballad “Khala My Friend.” If we ever do a Forge Your Own Chains Vol. 2, this song is definitely going on!
Link: Amanaz: Africa
Download: Amanaz: “Khala My Friend.”
More info on our Zambian Reissues (and a picture of Rikki Ililonga) here.
Buy it here.
Tracklist:
Vinyl
A1) Kalimba Deathswamp / Kurt Feelingx
A2) On The Same Picture w/ Elan Tamara*
A4) Firevomit (O.D.N.)
B1) Sun-sized Twinkles
A2) Elbow Flood
B3) Rump Studies w/ Ketepica**
B4) Can’t Get Used To Those (Afterlude)
CDs + Digital
1) Kalimba Deathswamp / Kurt Feelingx
2) On The Same Picture w/ Elan Tamara*
3) Firevomit (O.D.N.)
4) Sun-sized Twinkles
5) Elbow Flood
6) Elbow Flood (instrumental)
7) Can’t Get Used To Those (Afterlude)
All music written, performed, recorded and mixed by D. Grimm for
Ehstrawlogy Produkte.
* Vocals written and performed by Elan Mottley.
** Transverse flute by O. Palmades
Mastered by Adi Flück @ Centraldubs, Bern, Switzerland.
Artwork by www.fichtre.ch
Executive produced by Egon.
CD and 12″ EP. 2010. NA 5060.
It’s almost here – the lost dark soul/funk masterpiece from Hampton, Virginia high school champions of Pepsi’s “New Sounds Of 1972” challenge. The stories of great high school funk bands are, thanks to an abundance of reissues, commonplace. The tales of great high school soul-bands are still rare. Enter The Equatics and their brooding masterpiece Doin’ It!!!!
This official reissue was licensed by the Equatics’ bandleader, bass player Benjamin Crawford. Packaged as a “mini-LP” in a thick, “paste-on” cardboard sleeve that mimicks the original album jacket, Now-Again’s reissue of Doin’ It!!!! also comes with a eight page booklet with full liner notes, annotation, and never-before-seen photos of this most impressive organization.
In anticipation of this reissue, we’re giving you a taste now: the band’s mournful cover of Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine.”
Link: The Equatics: Doin’ It!!!
Download: The Equatics: “Ain’t No Sunshine.”
More info, pictures and full liner notes here.