Category: Catalog

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A late period hard-rock, proto-punk entry in Zambian guitarist and bandleader Paul Ngozi’s extensive catalog. Featuring drummer Chrissy Zebby Tembo. LP includes oversized 8p. booklet detailing Ngozi’s arc, rare photographs, discography and annotations. Released under license from the Estate of Paul Nyirongo.

Tracklist:

Side A
Chisoni Ku A Zimbabwe
99% Confusion
Stay With Me
Poem Writer

Side B
Tikonde Alendo
My Little Girlfriend
Tekanyeni
Calling Everybody

“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 for going on 15 years. 99% Confusion is part of an extensive campaign centered around Paul Ngozi and his band and is preceded by The Ghetto, Day of Judgement and 45,000 Volts.

LP, Digital. 2024. NA5259.

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The first vinyl single from Los Yesterdays debut album Frozen In Time, on Now-Again Records. B-side contains the instrumental to “Nobody’s Clown (Payaso Version).”

Tracklist:

Side A
Love Is A Game For Fools

Side B
Nobody’s Clown (Payaso Instrumental)

Personnel:

“Love Is A Game For Fools” written by V. Benavides and G. Rowland. “Nobody’s Clown (Payaso Instrumental)” written by V. Benavides, G. Rowland, and T. Brenneck.
Produced by Gabriel Rowland.
From the album “Frozen In Time”.

7″, Digital. 2024. NA7043.

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L.A.’s Brown Soul Sound! Debut album from Los Angeles duo Los Yesterdays – Sweet Soul music meets Mexican Folklorico.

Tracklist:

Side A

Nobody’s Clown
Frozen In Time
Something Happened
I Can’t Feel
Brown Boy

Side B

Last Request
I Want You To Stay
But You Did
Name On Me
Love Is A Game For Fools

Personnel:

Los Yesterdays – Gabriel Rowland (Drums, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Vibraphone, Piano, Fender Rhodes) and Victor “Bad Vic” Benavides (Lead Vocals) with Clarence Matheney (Piano on “Something Happened”), Clarence Matheney (Backing Vocals on “Something Happened,” “Name On Me,” “Brown Boy”), Dave Paul Rodriguez (Acoustic Guitar on “Nobody’s Clown,” “Love is a Game for Fools,” “Name On Me”; Backing Vocals on “Name On Me,” “Brown Boy”), Jackie Mendez (Vocals on “Name On Me,” “Something Happened,” “I Want You To Stay”), Asdru Sierra (Trumpet on (”Nobody’s Clown”), Michael Tejada (Harp on “Nobody’s Clown”), Arlyn Page (Backing Vocals on “Something Happened”)

Produced, recorded and mixed by Gabriel Rowland in Altadena, CA from January-June 2023

Executive produced by Eothen Alapatt

Mastered by Jason Bitner

Photography by Estevan Oriol

Art direction by Errol Richardson

All compositions by Gabriel Rowland and Victor Benavides, except “Last Request” with Thomas Brenneck and Trish Toledo and “Brown Boy” with Lisa L. Gonzales.

LP, Digital. 2024. NA5264.

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Heavy Psychedelic Ballads And Dirges – 1969-1976.

With Pale Shades Of Grey, we complete the trilogy Egon started with Forge Your Own Chains and followed with Tickets for Doomsday – another batch of rare, largely uncompiled – and sometimes barely heard – heavy psych-rock. Pounding drums, scathing fuzz guitar and morose, contemplative lyrics will bring you up on a downer.

Tracklist:

Side A

Heaven – Down By The Ocean
Image – The Out Station
WITCH – Evening Of My Life
Ofege – Sorrow
Kaleidoscope – Let Me Try

Side B

Pat’s People – December Sequel
Eye Q – I Am Selfish
Trevor McNamara – Digging
Ed Whiting and Joe Lano – Know Yourself
Ant Trip Ceremony – Pale Shades of Gray
Groep 1850 – I Know (La Pensee)
Christophe – Io Prego E Pregherò (Je Sais Que C’est L’Été)

This anthology produced by Eothen Alapatt
Art direction by Errol Richardson
Vinyl Transfers by Tanner McCrary and Cut Chemist.
Restoration and remastering by Jason Bitner

Licensed courtesy, in order: Heaven; Emmanuel Jagari Chanda, Ofege, Francisco Tirado, Ubiquity Recordings, Inc., Cuthbert Maziwa, Trevor McNamara, Ed Whiting and Joe Lano, Lion Productions.

LP, Digital. 2024. NA5254.

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Introducing The Story of Memphis Rap, a trunk-rattling nine-album, 11-LP slice of the origins of Memphis Rap, capturing a city and a scene as it began to create the most distinctive rap music of the ’90s. The Story of Memphis Rap, a collaboration between VMP and Now-Again Records, collects nine albums that were originally released within Bluff City limits and occasionally to other cities in the region.

Albums:

∙ Gimisum Family – Gimisum Family (1993)
∙ Skinny Pimp – Vol. 1 (1993)
∙ Gangsta Blac – Breakin Da Law (1994)
∙ Carmike – Comin’ At Yo Ass (1994)
∙ Shawty Pimp & MC Spade – Vol. 2: Gotta Get My Pimp On (1994)
∙ MC Money & Gangsta Gold – Da Hard Ov Frayser (1995)
∙ DJ Zirk – Looken for tha Chewin (1996)
∙ Lil Ced – Playin’ by the Rules (1997)
∙ MC Mack – Chapters of tha Mack for Life (2000)

LP Box-Set, Digital. 2023. VMP-A020. Now-Again X VMP.