Available NOW! Restored/remastered transfer, pitch/speed corrected for the first time ever. First edition contains second CD/bonus LP: Damon’s ’60s recordings, and never-before-heard demos. Extensive booklet contains dozens of unpublished photos and images, a thorough investigation into this landmark album, and an extensive interview with Damon.

Damon’s Song Of A Gypsy is generally regarded as one of the finest privately-pressed psychedelic rock records and has, for over twenty years, been one of the most sought after late 60s American rock artifacts. Bad bootlegs and scrappy reissues have spread his music, but left Damon’s story untouched, leaving Song of a Gypsy high on its own plateau: out of reach and indescribable.

Finally, Damon’s story can be told. Under the supervision of Now-Again’s Egon and Damon himself, and over a five year period, Song Of A Gypsy has been researched and documented, and has now been pitch-corrected and remastered. It now sees what we’d like to call its definitive issue as a 2CD and limited edition deluxe 2LP.

This edition investigates a seemingly impossible story – one that encapsulates the last bloom of the flower power movement before it decayed into the haze of the 70s underground. It traces a pop hopeful descending into chaos, and becoming the tortured soul who would create an LP to file alongside works by other lost greats of the late ‘60s, from Shuggie Otis to Rodriguez.

Buy: Song of a Gypsy at Rappcats
Buy: Song of a Gypsy on iTunes.

Linked below: Egon’s newest Funk Archaeology post at Red Bull Music Academy’s website, a piece that any parent who’s tired of endless Youtube loops of corny “Wheels On The Bus” renditions will undoubtedly appreciate.

The exclusive download this time around: the full version of Paternoster’s “Old Danube.” Sadly we couldn’t edit the first twenty seconds to give you the toddler version. We’ll leave that up to you.

The New Series: Soothing Sounds for (Egon’s) Baby – Egon’s Funk Archaeology at Red Bull Music Academy.
The Old Series: Egon’s Funk Archaeology at NPR.
Download: Paternoster: “Old Danube.”

Buy it here.

All music arranged and performed by The Heliocentrics:
Produced, mixed and engineered by Malcolm Catto and Jake Ferguson.
Executive produced by Eothen Alapatt
All tracks recorded and mixed at Quatermass Studio, London.
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters.

Tracklist:

1. Intro (J. Ferguson, M. Catto)
2. The Five Thing (J. Ferguson, M. Catto, C. Mwamba, O. Parfitt)
3. Thunder & Lightning (M. Catto, J. Ferguson)
4. Noises and Conversations (M. Catto, J. Ferguson, M. Burnham)
5. Tomorrow Today (J. Ferguson, M. Catto, A. Owusu, O. Parfitt)
6. Primitivos (M. Catto, J. Ferguson, A. Owusu, O. Parfitt, T.Hodges)
7. Something Bad A Coming (J. Ferguson, O. Parfitt, M. Catto)
8. Outer realms (M. Catto, J. Ferguson, T. Hodges, O. Parfitt)
9. Outro (M. Catto, J. Ferguson,)

LP. 2013. NA5108.

A few months ago we announced that we’d completed negotiations with Georgia soul and funk hero Richard Marks’ family to issue a comprehensive anthology of his rare 45s. Egon has been spending time in Atlanta with Richard’s family and friends, uncovering master tapes, never-before-seen photos and superb examples of first-hand ephemera – such as the early 70s juke-joint show poster that Roy Lee Johnson holds above. The anthology will feature liner notes by noted Georgia soul and funk archivist Brian Proust and is right on track on for a 2014 release.