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The Indianapolis soul album that should-have-been – The Hamilton Movement’s complete recordings, presented in an album form and a bundle including Bernie Grundman’s all-analog lacquered 7″ of their legendary single “She’s Gone” while stock lasts!

You’d be hard pressed to name a song with the driving, emotional intensity and raw energy of the Hamilton Movement’s anthemic ode to heartbreak, “She’s Gone.” Issued as the B-side of the band’s 1976 single “We’re Gonna Party,” and distributed in and around Indianapolis, there is no evidence the song garnered significant attention upon release — yet over the past fifty years it has amassed a cult of devotees across the globe.

But while interest in the group’s music remains strong, little information has surfaced about the Hamilton Movement’s history, and until now, there have been no official reissues of their work. This collection presents the band’s discography, alongside previously unreleased music discovered on tape.

The keys to the Hamilton Movement’s mystery can be found in central Indiana, where promoter Dick Melvin has lived the past few decades, in a rural suburb of Indianapolis, amidst forests and cornfields. Melvin served as the group’s manager throughout their entire existence, but his involvement extended far beyond typical managerial duties. He co-wrote and co-arranged the band’s music; he produced and released their recordings on his Look Out label.

Dick Melvin is also the Hamilton Movement’s archivist. His home is filled with boxes of demo sessions, live tapes, contracts, posters, and promotional photos documenting his work with the Hamilton Movement. He entrusted his archive to Now-Again’s care and we assembled this album under his watch. Dicks’s story, and the story of his band, are presented in an extensive, oversized booklet with Dick’s rarely-seen photos and ephemera and words by Now-Again’s Egon and Naptown historian Kyle Long.

Tracklist:

1. Introduction (Love Man)
2. Love Circuit
3. Send Me Some Love
4. Having A Set At The Disco
5. Your Love (Brings Out The Man In Me)
6. We’re Gonna Party
7. She’s Gone
8. That’s How Strong My Love Is
9. Love Man (That’s What I Long To Be)
10. Dick’s Theme

Credits:

Original sessions produced by Dick Melvin for Pure/Soul Productions.

This anthology produced by Eothen Alapatt.
Liner notes and coordination by Kyle Long.
Licensed from, and all images courtesy of, Dick Melvin.
Restoration and remastering by Jason Bitner.
Production Coordination and Vinyl Transfers by Tanner McCrary.
Tape Transfers by Dan Johnson.
Art Direction by Errol F. Richardson.
“She’s Gone” 7″ cut in an all-analog lacquer by Bernie Grundman.

LP. 2026. NA5287.

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It’s been nearly twenty years since Karl Hector and the Malcouns’ ‘Sahara Swing’ saw release on Now-Again in 2008. Their fourth invites you on an adventure within the kosmiche grooves of 70s Krautrock as seen through the global prism of greats like Embryo and Agitation Free.

Is this Khruangbin? Nope, but if you like them, you’ll dig this. Kraut-Funk – that’s our preferred term.

The Karl Hector adventure continues with their fourth studio album.

‘Yolek’ digs deeper into the Krautrock history embedded deep in the soil of their native Munch – three of the most influential bands of the 1970s experimental German rock scene sprung from there: Amon Düül, Popol Vuh and Embryo. Drawing from those bands’ homebound and worldly influences, JJ Whitefield and Zdenko Curulija conceived and produced this kosmiche-werk.

Influenced by these musical heroes, and following the path of ‘Non Ex Orbis,’ Whitefield and Curulija shape a sound that takes the experimental approach of the classic Krautrock era and slides between beat-heavy drone and spacey, prog-rock suites.

‘Yolek’ symbolizes an innocent way of composing and improvising music, free from the influences of our contemporary environment, preserving a childlike way of hearing sounds in their unfiltered purity.

“Some will classify this as a retro, but for the band it simply is a form of creating, Whitefield states. “We’re drawing from an established musical vocabulary which was popular at a time in Germany, when underground musical culture had its creative peak.”

Tracklist:

1. Go Caravan!
2. Space Race
3. Mellow Skyfall
4. Blurry Time
5. Yolek
6. The Unseen Road
7. Zen///topia
8. Love Is The Key
9. Aiaiai
10. Noon At The Oasis
11. Exot
12. Crimson Dune
13. Sahara Sepp

Credits:

Written by, All instruments performed by, and produced by Zdenko Curulija (1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12) and JJ Whitefield (2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13)

Additional Flute by Maasl Maier (3, 5) and Wolfi Schlick (4, 5, 10)

Mixed by Jasper Geluk At Tone Boutique, Haarlem.
Mastered by Jukka Sarapaa at Timmion, Helsinki.
Cover illustration by Zdenko Curulija.
Art Direction by Errol F. Richardson.
Executive Produced by JJ Whitefield.

LP. 2026. NA5292.

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Now-Again’s officially sanctioned 2026 Record Store Day release

Never before issued Zamrock – The lost album by Paul Ngozi, Chrissy Zebby Tembo & the Ngozi Family.

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

Tracklist:

1. Apongozi
2. Jealousy
3. Poem Writer
4. Munzanga
5. Gate Crash
6. Easy Baby
7. Bukoko
8. Tikonde Alendo

Credits:

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

This record can be played on stereo or mono.

A lot of thanks to Zambia Music Parlour and Chris Edditions for the support over the years. And Timmy Mvula for the spins.

Musical Director/Promoters: Edward G. Khuzwayo and Chris Ndhlovu

All numbers composed by Chris Tembo and Paul Ngozi and arranged by The Ngozi Family

Produced by Paul Ngozi and Chris Tembo.

Produced for issue by Egon.
Cover designed by Errol F. Richardson.
Production Coordination by Tanner McCrary.

LP. 2026. NA5269.

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Now-Again Records presents the first official reissue of one of the most sought after Disco/Crossover/Northern Soul songs: the Hamilton Movement’s “She’s Gone!”

We pulled out all the stops in the reproduction of this record – which in its original, super-rare form sells for upwards of $10,000.

The 7″s all-analog lacquer was cut by Bernie Grundman in Hollywood, CA bdirect from Dick Melvin’s recently discovered master tapes.

The B-side presents a never-issued alternate mix of the song, sans overdubbed horns and with punchier drums and bass.

This record was pressed in a numbered edition of 350 copies at one of the world’s most lauded plants – Optimal in Germany. Printed jacket with printed insert. You simply cannot and will not get better than this definitive issue of this amazing, uplifting song.

Tracklist:

– Side A
She’s Gone

– Side B
She’s Gone (Alternate Mix)

Credits:

All analog lacquer cut in Hollywood, CA by Bernie Grundman direct from Dick Melvin’s master tapes.
Original sessions produced by Dick Melvin.
Recorded in 1976 by Bruce C. Eddings at Merit Sound Studio, Columbus, GA.
Lacquer for this 7″ cut in 2025 in an all-analog transfer by Bernie Grundman in Hollywood, CA.
This issue produced by Eothen Alapatt.
Art direction by Errol F. Richardson.
Production coordination by Tanner McCrary.
Special thanks to Herb Miller and Kyle Long.

A Now-Again X Pure/Soul Production. 1976/2025.

7″. 2026. NA7044.

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The last of WITCH’s Zamrock to finally see wide commercial release – their uber-rare 7″ singles collected as an album. Pressed on Deep Purple colored vinyl: Now-Again’s officially sanctioned Black Friday Record Store Day 2025 Release!

“Electrified by a diet of James Brown, The Stones, and Deep Purple, WITCH were the stadium-filling kings of 70’s Zamrock.” – MOJO

The last of WITCH’s Zamrock to finally see wide commercial release. Pressed on Deep Purple colored vinyl: Now-Again’s officially sanctioned Black Friday Record Store Day 2025 Release!

“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. Chrissy Zebby Tembo, Paul Ngozi and Amanaz sound nothing like other rock music from the African continent or elsewhere.

WITCH issued five albums as a Zamrock band. With ‘Fool’s Ride,’ we have collected the band’s uber-rare 7″ singles and present them as the final, golden-age WITCH LP.

WITCH’s first two, self-produced albums – ‘Introduction’ and ‘In The Past,’ released in unison with the birth of the commercial Zambian recording industry – are exuberant experiments in garage rock, and are as influenced by the Rolling Stones as they are James Brown. Their third album,’Lazy Bones!!,’ is the band’s masterpiece – a dark, brooding psychedelic opus that makes equal use of wah-wah and fuzz guitars, that relies as heavily on the stomping feel of hard rock as it does the syncopation of funk. The band’s last two albums – ‘Lukombo Vibes’ and ‘Including Janet,’ recorded after the band toured with Osibisa – make use of traditional Zambian rhythms and folk melodies. They are the most “afro-rock” of WITCH’s oeuvre.

Tracklist:

1. Talking Universe
2. Evil Woman
3. Sweet Sixteen
4. Up The Sky
5. Toloka
6. 81st Crowd Confusion
7. Fool’s Ride
8. Chifundo

Credits:

This compilation produced by Eothen “Egon” Alapatt.
Original sessions produced by WITCH.
Licensed, and all photos, courtesy Emmanuel Kangwa “Jagari” Chanda.
Restoration and remastering by Dave Cooley.
Art Direction by Errol F. Richardson.
Production Coordination by Tanner McCrary.
Vinyl Transfers courtesy George Douvartzidis, with thanks to Jason Conoy.

“Toloka/81st Crowd Confusion” “Talking Universe/Sweet Sixteen” “Up The Sky/Evil Woman” 7″ singles produced and arranged by WITCH. Recorded at D.B. Applications, Lusaka, Zambia in 1975.

“Toloka/81st Crowd Confusion” 7″ originally released on Teal Record Company/Zambezi Records ZTZ 4.

“Talking Universe/Sweet Sixteen” originally released on Teal Record Company/Zambezi Records ZTZ 6.

“Up The Sky/Evil Woman” originally released on Teal Record Company/Zambezi Records ZTZ 9.

‘Fool’s Ride/Chifundo” 7″ single: Produced by Teal Record Company. Arranged by WITCH. Recorded at Sapra Studios, Nairobi, Kenya on September 21, 1976. Engineered by Detlef Degener.
Originally released on Teal Record Company WITI.

LP. 2025. NA5291.