A
2:28 Creative Music
8:32 Free As You Wanna Be
5:15 High Pockets
B
4:34 Talk Visit
4:36 May ’67
5:35 # 109 Psychosomatic
3:08 Luke 23:32 – 49
Mono:
C
2:28 Creative Music (Mono)
8:31 Free As You Wanna Be (Mono)
5:14 High Pockets (Mono)
D
4:36 Talk Visit (Mono)
4:33 May ’67 (Mono)
5:36 #109 Psychosomatic (Mono)
3:08 Luke 23:32 – 49 (Mono)
This anthology produced by Eothen Alapatt. Associate production by Mark Taylor. Liner notes by Lance Scott Walker and Eothen Alapatt, with a contribution by Flash Parks.
Tape and vinyl transfers, restoration and remastering by Dave Cooley for Elysian Masters, Los Angeles, USA. Select tape transfers by Len Horowitz for History of Recorded Sound, Los Angeles, USA.
Lacquered by Chris Potter at Electric Mastering, London, UK.
Art Direction by Errol Richardson.
Licensed courtesy Bubbha Thomas.
2LP. NA 5150. Part of the Bubbha Thomas & The Lightmen Creative Music: The Complete Works anthology.
Comments Off on The Lightmen – Free As You Wanna Be
Ships immediately via our webstore; available WW where good music is sold.
1LP in a chipboard jacket with WAV download card.
1CD in a 6-panel, eco-wallet case.
Tempo dos Mestres (Time of the Masters) is the second album from the tireless, young Brasilian guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimento. It finds its roots in the depths of the Amazon rain forest, passed down through generations of Native Brasilians, and is imbibed by the Afro-Brasilian culture that arose after Portuguese colonization. It is the third Brasilian album released on Now-Again, following Seu Jorge and Almaz and Do Nascimento’s debut Dança dos Tempos. Do Nascimento’s is joined on Tempo dos Mestres by his long time percussionist, Ricardo “Tiki” Pasillas on trap drums and percussion, and Sam Gendel on saxophone and flute. Vocals are performed by Thalma de Freitas and Carla Hasset.
The album was produced and mixed by Dança dos Tempos producer Luther Russell, who recorded Do Nascimento and his band directly to a 1/2″ Ampex tape machine with engineer Jason Hiller. It was sparingly mastered by Elysian Masters to focus on the subtleties of the performances. Do Nascimento’s fans include legendary percussionist Airto Moreira, who recorded Dança dos Tempos and can be found playing live with Do Nascimento. “He’s Brazilian but (his mind is) from a place in Brazil that is not common.” Moreira states. “Fortunately, we still have some musicians who like to play music and who like to touch the instrument and who like that energy!”
Below, a short video about the album by Bennett Pisctelli.
Will You Be There
Funky Movement
Funky Movement No. 2
Sagittarius Black
K.C. Stomp
Easy, Easy, Easy
What Would You Do
Do It
I Am So Glad You’re Mine
What’s Going On
Original sessions produced by Timothy McNealy. Associate production by Walter Jackson on all titles, with Roger Boykin on “I Am So Glad You’re Mine” and “What’s Going On.” This anthology produced by Eothen Alapatt. Associate production by Mark Taylor. Liner notes by Eothen Alapatt.
Restoration and remastering by Truth and Soul.
Lacquered by Chris Potter at Electric Mastering, London, UK.
Art Direction by Errol Richardson.
Licensed courtesy Timothy McNealy, with thanks to Roger Boykin, Leon Michels and Philippe Lehman.
Rare rap records and ephemera from NYC’s underground hip hop mecca, from its founder’s collection.
Saturday, February 25, 2017, Noon-6
Rappcats
5638 York Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90042
Rappcats is bringing the collection from Fat Beats founder Joe Abajian to Los Angeles for a one day pop up. Fat Beats, in its first incarnation in the East Village NYC in 1994, was the epicenter of the ‘90s East Coast independent rap explosion. In the days before web-stores, collectors and fans from all over the world made pilgrimages to this hip hop mecca to buy the latest vinyl releases by their heroes. Whether the release was a rare double vinyl LP on a major label or one of a five-hundred press run released by a fledgling indie, Fat Beats stocked it all. It’s hard to describe just how thrilling it was to walk down the steps at 332 East 9th St, feel the heat from the overhead lamps, and hear the likes of DJ Avee play Jay Z’s “In My Lifetime” as a new release on his self-funded Roc-A-Fella records, but that’s exactly the mise en scene of the environment. It was ’90s hip hop at its best, and the scene was welcoming. At its height, Fat Beats employed DJ Eclipse, Mista Sinister, Ill Bill, Q-Unique and other NYC hip hop staples who would happily recommend records to anyone who walked in the door. (more…)
David Axelrod, visionary producer, composer and arranger – and one of the patron saints of this label – died earlier this week at nearly 86 years old. He and Egon were friends for nearly two decades; Egon produced the David Axelrod anthology The Edge for Blue Note/Capitol Records in 2005 and did numerous interviews with him which were published in Big Daddy and Waxpoetics magazines, amongst others.
Axe died sometime in the early morning of February 5th, 2017, at nearly 84 years old. Terri, his wife of 38 years, didn’t want to disclose the cause of his death, saying that the only thing that really mattered is that he was gone. What do you say to a person so dedicated to another, in that first moment of loss, when that other is a force so beyond the normal that you never thought he would leave? “He just seemed indestructible,” she said, and I knew what she meant. Axe signed off every call with an “I’ll be here.” And, like everything he said, he meant it. (more…)
