New York Daily News Investigates Psych Funk: “….Now-Again Travels The Globe To Capture Far-Flung Psychedelia.”

We’re pleased to announce that the New York Daily News was so impressed by our investigations into global psychedelic funk music that they dedicated an article to it. Alongside discussions about our forthcoming Indonesian psych-funk compendium Those Shocking Shaking Days, writer Jim Farber had this to say:

“As it turns out, psychedelia’s glow didn’t only affect musicians in its clichéd epicenters but in places as far off as Ghana, Tehran and Manila all through the ’70s.

Only lately, though, has the full scope of these sounds come to light, many through the efforts of a company called Now-Again Records. Indian-American owner Eothen Alapatt began putting out collections of this swirling music in 2009 with “Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968 to 1974.” It featured mind-bending cuts by period acts born in Colombia, Sweden, South Korea and elsewhere. From there, the company started traipsing the world, territory by territory, to issue in the last year alone collections by psych bands centered in India, Zambia and Indonesia…

…f ew have exceeded Now-Again’s eagerness and breadth, not to mention their sumptuous packaging and obsessively detailed liner notes.”

Read More: New York Daily News – “It’s A Trip, Man…”
More: Indonesian Psych on Now-Again/Those Shocking Shaking Days Anthology.

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Announcing – “Tuck In With…” The Natural Yogurt Band

In 2009 we reissued the Natural Yogurt Band’s first platter – Away With Melancholy. Originally released in a limited run of 1000 pieces by Gerald “Jazzman” Short, those records quickly disappeared and the Jazzman himself had no plans to offer another helping. The result? An audience searching for psychedelic “music library” vibes from the golden era of the 60s and 70s meticulously recreated in the new millennium were left starved.

Two years later, the Band (really former Little Barrie drummer Wayne Fullwood and Miles Newbold) presents to you another platter of delights: Tuck In With… The Natural Yogurt Band. With their sophomore album, Fullwood and Newbold serve up more of what made the Natural Yogurt Band’s debut so special: quirky irreverence abounds, but the band has expanded their menu to include a influences from around the globe.

This album is presented in double 10’’ gatefold LP format, and a “mini-LP” version on CD. Both jackets are paste-on, thick-cut cardboard cases covered by die-cut OBI strips, all placed within a plastic sleeve.

Although we reported differently earlier, due to production problems Tuck In With… The Natural Yogurt Band will be released worldwide on March 8th, 2011.

Buy: Tuck In With…. The Natural Yogurt Band at Rappcats.
Download: The Natural Yogurt Band “Eastern Outro”

Announcing “Those Shocking Shaking Days – Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk: 1970-1978.”

We’re pleased to announce that our anthology of Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk – Those Shocking Shaking Days – is scheduled for worldwide release in early March.

This anthology is presented as a “mini-LP” CD – with a 64-page full color booklet chock full of liner notes, photos and ephemera, housed in a thick-cardboard O-card – and a 3 LP, 6 panel gatefold with the same detailed liner notes presented in an over-sized 16-page full color booklet.

More: Indonesian Psych on Now-Again/Those Shocking Shaking Days Anthology.

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Rikki Ililonga and Musi-O-Tunya on NPR’s “All Songs Considered.”

We’re pleased to announce that Rikki Ililonga and Musi-O-Tunya’s “Dark Sunrise” made it on to NPR’s “All Songs Considered” this afternoon. You can link to the program – and the song – below. A sample of the conversation shared by hosts Bob Bollen and Robin Hilton:

RH: You know so much about music, Bob…. I’m wondering, of all of the places you have mined for music – has your curiosity ever taken you to Zambian rock?
BB: I can’t think of one.
RH: I couldn’t have named one before this afternoon, when I started listening to this amazing collection of rock music from Zambia…. this producer named Egon discovered Rikki Ililonga’s music through a friend and made it his mission to get his music out there and, oh gosh, I’m so glad he did…

Link: Rikki Ililonga and Musi-O Tunya’s “Dark Sunrise” on NPR’s “All Songs Considered.”

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