Now-Again Records

Deep Dayton Disco Soul: Record Player’s Unreleased Album Out Now

Unreleased disco and boogie from Dayton, Ohio’s Record Player: their full album, recorded in the late ‘70s, and unreleased until now. Contains oversized booklet detailing the Record Player’s story and the history of the Ohio music scenes that allowed for their rise.

BUY THE LP NOW AT BANDCAMP» Record Player – Free Your Mind

In 1979, Record Player privately pressed and issued a solitary 45 on their Gem City Records imprint in Dayton, Ohio. Though they had recorded a host of other songs, and were on the verge of signing to a major label, their trajectory stalled and the band splintered by the early 1980s. In the early 2000s, Record Player principle Charles Jackson surfaced with their unreleased songs. To date, only two Record Player songs have been reissued, as part of Now-Again’s long-running Soul Cal series. Now, the entirety of their oeuvre is presented here as Free Your Mind, and their story detailed in words by Bret Sjerven in the oversized booklet contained within. MORE

SoCal Soul, Psych, Funk and Folk: The Complete Lennan Records Discography

Streaming Everywhere Now: The Complete Lennan Records Discography

Over twenty years ago, when we went to reissue Lil’ Lavair and the Fabulous Jade’s funk masterpiece “Cold Heat,” we had one source for the audio: a CD-R that the Scottish collector and DJ Keb Darge had given Egon. At the time, Egon had only heard the group’s A-side, “I’ll Be So Happy,” once, at Keb’s Deep Funk night in London, where he played the Northen Soul classic as a favor to our erstwhile founder. He’d owned the record for years, but never really rated the track. And it was in that Deep Funk era in which Lil’ Lavair’s fortunes changed, and with them, those of Leonard Wojtowicz and his small Southern California concern, Lennan Records. MORE

The Definitive Reissues of Paul Ngozi and the Ngozi Family’s Zamrock Albums

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The first commercial issue of Ngozi Family drummer and vocalist Chrissy Zebby Tembo’s lost second album. LP includes oversized 8p. booklet detailing Ngozi’s arc, rare photographs, discography and annotations. Released under license from the Estate of Paul Nyirongo and Chrissy Zebby Tembo.

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. The Ngozi Family,WITCH and Amanaz sound nothing like other rock music from the African continent or elsewhere. MORE

Salty Dog’s Solitary Zamrock Album – The Definitive Reissue

The definitive reissue of a Zamrock masterpiece, ranging from hard psych to wistful folk. Contains bonus track “Sunday Morning Sunshine,” never before on LP.

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Salty Dog’s solitary Zamrock album, custom-pressed for the band by the South African Teal record company’s Zambezi subsidiary is one of the more difficult Zamrock records to find clean; in our years of searching and friendship with the late Norman Muntemba, the band’s leader, we’ve only come across two. Now, the album has been restored and remastered – and expanded – in this definitive reissue, done in conjunction with the Salt Dog’s bandmembers’ heirs. MORE

The Invaders – Spacing Out: First ever official reissue of the band’s psych-funk masterpiece

Spacing Out is the epitome of Psychedelic Funk – an exceedingly rare album sought out by rock, funk, soul and hip hop sample fiends – and bootlegged – for decades. This is the first official reissue of the album, 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.

BUY THE LP NOW AT BANDCAMP» The Invaders – Spacing Out

Spacing Out is 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 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 lode star for Now-Again Records. MORE