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01.When The Sun Breaks Through
02.Nyx
03.Followed Path
04.Transition >J<
05.Sahara Swing
06.Psycles
07.Transition >I<
08.Koloko Pt. 1
09.Debere
10.Transition >Z<
11.Jabore Pt. 3
12.Mystical Brotherhood
13.Timely Interuption
14.Transition >B<
15.Mellow (Version)
16.Rush Hour
17.Transition >W<
18.Toure Samar
19.Passau Run

NA5031 CD, 2LP – July 9, 2008

Produced by Jay Whitefield

Afrodelic Kraut Funk from the minds behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers.

Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics’ percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany.

Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns.

Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich- based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not “world music” but that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on “the one.”

Promotional Only. Free with your purchace of the Karl Hector and the Malcouns Sahara Swing LP.

Side A:

1. J.B. Rip

Side B:

2. Popcorn With A Feeling

NA71018 7″ 2008

Produced by Jay Whitefield

This Jay Whitefield side-project follows the direction he began with The Whitefield Brothers. A funk odyssey through all musical cultures informed by the African diaspora.

Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For his Now-Again album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns.

Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich- based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. Their album, Sahara Swing, is of that world. Not “world music” but that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on “the one.”