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Black Vinyl LP (Now-Again’s Officially Sanctioned 2025 Record Store Day Release)

The first commercial release of Ngozi Family drummer and vocalist Chrissy Zebby Tembo’s promotional-only second album. Featuring Paul Ngozi.

INCLUDES OVERSIZED, 8 PAGE BOOKLET THAT DETAILS PAUL NGOZI AND THE NGOZI FAMILY’S ARC, INCLUDING RARE PHOTOGRAPHS, DISCOGRAPHY AND ANNOTATION.

“Zambia’s Zamrock movement that exploded in the 1970s … provided young musicians access to European and American music, and created a unique sound. At its root, Zamrock melded fuzz-toned psychedelia, chugging garage rock and roiling funk with a broad mix of African cadences and beats…. enlivening a scene that included bands like Musi O Tunya, Amanaz and the Ngozi Family.” — The New York Times

Zamrock was a bona-fide rock scene, with albums released through independent labels based in Zambia. This music scene was complete, encompassing the genres of rock, acid folk, fusion, Afro-beat, South African jazz and traditional Zambian melodies. It quickly became a uniquely Zambian movement, befitting of its name. WITCH, Paul Ngozi and Amanaz sound nothing like other rock music from the African continent or elsewhere.

Now-Again has been reissuing the essential records from the Zamrock scene since 2010. This is the first commercial release of Ngozi Family drummer and vocalist Chrissy Zebby Tembo’s promotional-only second album and is part of an extensive campaign centered around Paul Ngozi and his band.

Tracklist:

1. Mad-matron
2. Atatue Inu
3. Well Up People
4. Mulungo Atate
5. You Are So Lazy
6. Untrusted Dad
7. Muno Muziko
8. I Chose To Die
9. I Am Not Made Of Iron

Personnel:

Paul Ngozi – Guitar, Vocals
Tommy Mwale – Bass, Backing Vocals
Chrissy Zebby Tembo – Drums, Vocals

Album produced by Chris Siwila Ndhlovu and Chrissy Zebby Tembo.
Produced for issue by Egon.
Engineer – Detlef Degener.
All numbers composed by Chrissy Zebby Tembo and Paul Ngozi and arranged by The Ngozi Family.
Cover design by Errol F. Richardson.
Restoration and Remastering by Jason Bitner.
Production Coordination by Tanner McCrary.

LP, Digital. 2025 Record Store Day. NA5274.

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Blunt Smoke Colored Vinyl LP w/ OBI (Now-Again’s Officially Sanctioned 2025 Record Store Day Release)

Now-Again presents – The Origins of Memphis Rap

A multiple album series.

Gimisum Family – Gimisum Family

Blunted and brutal underground gangster rap by Skinny Pimp, 211 & Lady B in 1993. Official reissue, first time on LP, “Blunt Smoke” color vinyl.

This multiple LP series on Now-Again Records attempts to capture Memphis and its underground rap scene as it began to produce some of the most distinctive music of the ’90s.

This was a unique hip hop strain – visceral and often vicious. It was a local, low-fi, cassette-tape based movement – yet it went on to change the course of rap music.

These albums have never been pressed on vinyl – until now. From Skinny Pimp and Carmike to Gangsta Blac and Shawty Pimp, these albums have been relegated to the proverbial bins of history and bootlegged, with unofficial copies still fetching top dollar on the secondary market. These albums were all licensed directly from their original creators, and come on black vinyl with artist-approved imagery for their first LP iterations.

You can read the story of the Memphis Rap scene in a 12-page, oversized booklet with notes by Torii MacAdams. It captures the story of Memphis rap starting with the city’s founding and ending with an auto supply shop that sold these albums over the counter, with all points in between.

“This keeps the legacy rolling and the legacy means everything. It’s your reputation – your name – and you guard it with everything. And this is keeping it out, and alive, in the world…. to that even those that don’t know, but want to know, can find out about what happened. It can be archived. Forever.” – Skinny Pimp

Tracklist:

1. Glock Tight
2. Silent Night
3. Caught The Tricks Slippin’ ft. 211
4. Skinny But Dangerous (Remix)
5. Sweet Stangin’
6. Bounce Thru The hood
7. Tha Park ft. 211 & Lady B
8. Act A Damn Fool (Drinking Bumpy Face)
9. Make A Nigga Like Me Run Into Yo Ass ft. Lady B
10. Undercover Police
11. Pimpin’ & Robbin’ ft. 211

Personnel:

Produced by Kingpin Skinny Pimp.
Licensed by Kingpin Skinny Pimp.
This reissue produced by Eothen Alapatt and Torii MacAdams.
Recorded & Mixed at Gimisum Productions, Memphis, by Kingpin Skinny Pimp.
Originally issued on Gimisum Productions Cassette GIM001C in 1993.
Production coordination by Tanner McCrary
Reissue Art Direction by Errol F. Richardson.
Restoration and Remastering by Jason Bitner.

LP. 2025 Record Store Day. NA5245.

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Definitive reissue of a Zamrock masterpiece, ranging from hard psych to wistful folk.

Contains bonus track “Sunday Morning Sunshine,” never before on LP.

“Zambia’s Zamrock movement that exploded in the 1970s… provided young musicians access to European and American music, and created a unique sound. At its root, Zamrock melded fuzz-toned psychedelia, chugging garage rock and roiling funk with a broad mix of African cadences and beats…. enlivening a scene that included bands like Musi O Tunya, Amanaz and the Ngozi Family.” – The New York Times

Zamrock was a bona-fide rock scene: on the African continent, only Nigeria can claim one so comprehensive, and Nigeria’s was largely catalyzed and funded by subsidiaries of the European major labels. Zamrock was as independent as its newly-named country, formerly known as Northern Rhodesia.

Zamrock is startling in its completeness, especially for a scene that emerged, unfurled, and disappeared so quickly. From Musi-O-Tunya’s fusion of Fela’s Afro-beat, Hendrix’s rock, South African jazz and traditional Zambian melodies and rhythms to Salty Dog’s acid folk/rock, Zambia’s rock scene contained all of rock’s subgenres.

Zamrock was much more than an imitation of American and European rock music: it quickly became a uniquely Zambian movement, befitting of its name. WITCH, Paul Ngozi and Amanaz sound nothing like other rock music from the African continent – or elsewhere.

Zamrock came from a nation’s youth carrying forth the momentum of a political and social revolution with a musical revolution that maintained the fiery power of early rock – in the mid-to late-’70s. From that era, Zamrock’s energy is matched only by the punk and hip hop scenes of England and America.

Tracklist:

Fast
Mama
See The Storm
Down In My Shoes
Try A Little Harder
Tisauke
Sunshine In My Hair
Have You Got It
Doggy Rock
Lullaby
Sunday Morning Sunshine

Personnel:

Jackie Mumba – Guitars, Tambourine, Harmonica, Vocals
Norman Muntemba – Bass, Vocals
Alex Mwilwa – Drums, Vocals
Hassan Hassan – Drums (Tracks 1 & 6)

Recorded at dB Studios, Lusaka, 1976.
Engineers: Peter and Nikki
Designed by Norman Muntemba
A Teal Record Company product.

LP, Digital. 2025. NA5273.

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Notes & Tones is a collaborative effort in wine and music by DJ Muggs, Now-Again’s Egon and Broc Cellars’ Chris Brockway. Their inspiration: Art Taylor / Sun Ra / Stanko Radikon / Xavier Caillard. Notes & Tones, the Second Vintage follows Muggs and Egon’s Holy Ghost wine and record pairing, and the first vintage of Notes & Tones. As with their first collaboration – based on samples from the Sun Ra catalog – this collaboration pays homage to jazz’s deep lineage with samples sourced from Gene Perla’s PM Records catalog.

Notes & Tones – the wine: 2022 vintage. Produced by Chris Brockway of Broc Cellars in Berkeley from grapes picked in Broc’s organically farmed Fox Hill Vineyard in Mendocino. The wine is a blend of three grape varieties: 50% Ribolla Galla, 45% Tocai Friulano and 5% Trebbiano. All grapes naturally fermented on its native yeasts and skins in sandstone jarres, then gently pressed to age back into jarres for twelve months. After that year in jarres it was racked to neutral oak barrique where it lived for six months to develop further. The wine was hand bottled by Muggs, Egon and Chris at the start of 2024 and aged for another year in bottle. 540 bottles made.

Notes & Tones – Second Vintage – the album:

The second vintage of Notes & Tones continues where the first album – all based on Sun Ra samples – left off: Muggs’ deep dive into Gene Perla’s PM Records catalog of jazz’s wide reach, produced in collaboration with Now-Again’s Egon, who manages Perla’s catalog and readied this album for release.

Tracklist:

Berkeley Groove
Breakfast at Swan Oyster Depot
Ukiah Sunrise
Trebbiano Funk
From Our Hearts to Your Hearts
Tocai Friulano Suite
Dinner at Chez Panissse
Amphora
Volatile Acidity
Savage Savagnin
Sunday at Broc Cellars
Ghosts of Fox Hill

Personnel:

Produced by DJ Muggs
Executive Produced by Egon
Mixed by DJ Muggs
Mastered by Brian “Big Bass” Gardner
Recorded at Soul Assassins Studios Los Angeles
Artwork by Ayis Lertas
Art Layout by Hypnotized Studios

All samples from Gene Perla’s PM Records, used with permission.

DJ Muggs X Egon X Broc Cellars.

LP, Digital. 2025. SAR034.

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Spacing Out is an instrumental masterpiece only ever issued in Bermuda at the turn of 1970. A mix of the band’s out-there original compositions and extravagant covers of The Meters, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin and The Isley Brothers, it established this band as one of the greatest instrumental bands of any genre, and helped kickstart the retro-soul/funk scenes that birthed the likes of Daptone and Big Crown Records. It’s certainly a lodestar for Now-Again Records.

This reissue was done with the license and participation of the entire Invaders band, with their story told in great detail in an oversized booklet penned by Jefferson “Chairman” Mao, complete with rare photos of this rarely seen ensemble.

From the proverbial stank face-inducing opening bars of reverb-drenched drums and congas that announce Spacing Out, you’re thrust into something visceral and fleeting: a pocket universe in which technical excess, chemistry between players, and the uninhibited energy of youth align in a kind of glorious imperfection. Spacing Out is one of the greatest instrumental albums of its or any period in that unmistakably raw – as in honest – way only a crew of largely self-taught young uns could catch a groove.

Mysteriously dub-like in its audio and visual presentation, it’s exemplary of what George Clinton cited when he explained funk as, “Anything it needs to be to save your life at that time.” James Brown had already aged well into adulthood when he alchemized the essential elements of funk. But the Godfather’s late ’60s rhythm revolution inspired countless kids barely out of their teens to pick up instruments, form bands and attack the R&B songbook with a ferocity that prioritized proper allegiance to the One. Funk’s youth movement reverberated across the globe. And in the curious case of The Invaders, ascended across an imagined echo-imbued cosmos from a tropical island blast-off in Bermuda, where those sounds ricocheted off and reanimated every lick as an otherworldly transmission, infusing a vibe both earthy and interstellar.

Tracklist:

Side A –
It’s Your Thing
Lost Times
Can’t Get Next To You
The House That Jack Built
Look A Py Py
Bossa Blue

Side B –
Spacing Out
Where We Are
Latin Lips
It’s Your Thing – Part 2

Personnel:

Sturgis Griffin Jr. – Congas
Ralph Richardson -Trumpet
Lloyd Williams – Sax. Flute
Stan Gilbert-Bass
John Burch – Guitar
Mike Stowe – Drums

Produced by Jean Paul Salvatori.
Executive produced by Eddy DeMello.
Produced for Reissue by Eothen Alapatt.

Special thanks to Herman Eve, Angelo Angione, Gerald “Jazzman” Short, Josh “DJ Shadow” Davis.

Licensed courtesy Ralph Richardson, Stan Gilbert, John Burch, Mike Stowe, Sturgis Griffin Jr., and Lloyd Williams.

Liner notes by Jefferson “Chairman” Mao.
Restoration and remastering by Jason Bitner.
Art Direction by Errol F. Richardson.
Reissue coordination by Tanner McCrary.

LP, Digital. 2025. NA5262.