Egon and Madlib visited genius Champagne grower/vintner Jerome Prevost of Champagne La Closerie on their last visit to France. Radio Nova was there to document the proceedings, which involved comparisons of music to wine and vice versa, naturally, free jazz and the Freddie Gibbs and Madlib album Bandana.
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Experience Unlimited’s “Free Yourself,” and a deep dive into the legendary Black Fire catalog
Free Yourself, a Now-Again x Vinyl Me, Please release, was the latter’s May 2019 Record of the Month.
We are also offering limited runs of four key Juju/Oneness of Juju titles with Vinyl Me, Please, including a previously unreleased album recorded at the legendary Brooklyn jazz venue The East.
All albums were lacquered by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman from the original master tapes.
Each album comes with an oversized 12″ x 12″ 12 page full color booklet detailing the story of each album and the Black Fire collective and showcasing dozens of unpublished photos. A variation of each of these albums will see public issue via Now-Again over the course of 2020.
ORDER » Oneness of Juju – Chapter Two: Nia
ORDER » Oneness of Juju – African Rhythms
ORDER » Oneness of Juju – Space Jungle Luv
ORDER » Juju – Live At The East MORE
Out now – James Brown’s Psych-Rock Albums, the definitive reissues
James Brown issued two psych-rock albums. Sho Is Funky Down Here is the one he released under his own name.
OUT NOW » JAMES BROWN – SHO IS FUNKY DOWN HERE
OUT NOW » DAVID MATTHEWS – THE GRODECK WHIPPERJENNY
Sho is Funky Down Here and The Grodeck Whipperjenny are a pair of albums that are the result of an unlikely but highly productive musical relationship between James Brown, a superstar at the creative and commercial peaks of his long career, and David Matthews, a then young arranger-musician whose limited professional experience had little or nothing to do with the funk and soul of his collaborator.
James Brown Goes Underground – a short film about these albums by Bennett Piscitelli.. MORE
Announcing: Karl Hector & the Malcouns “Non Ex Orbis”
Krautjazzrock produced by JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm/Whitefield Brothers). The long-standing band’s third album. Featuring Embryo’s Marja Burchard. LP w/ Download Card/CD.
Non Ex Orbis, the band’s third studio album, 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 spurng from there: Amon Düül, Popol Vuh and Embryo. MORE
“Boston” Bob Gibson’s Record Collection – Online Grab Bag Sale at Rappcats
Selected from records at the most recent Ubiquity Records pop up – buy either an LP or 7″ “Boston” Bob Grab Bag at our web store at Rappcats – each comes with 4 pieces of wax selected by Egon.
This was the second pop up in what will be three events – Rappcats brought back Ubiquity Records founder Michael McFadin and thousands of records from the collection of “Boston” Bob Gibson for a record shop in our 1500 square foot space in Highland Park. The shop is now closed but the online grab bag is still available. MORE