Now-Again Records

Dimlite on Tour – September

Big news – well, it is if you’re able to make it out to any of the European dates listed below: our man Dimlite is hitting the road ahead of the release of his forthcoming Now-Again album The Grimm Reality (more information on that one coming soon)… He’s touring with his drumming pal Julian Sartorius, who he describes as “the incredible drummer I had never dared to ask for collaboration, who grew up near to where I did, and who has been recording and uploading one rhythm every single day for half a year now.”

He sounds like our kind of guy.

Saturday, 03 September 2011 @ Bimhuis, Amsterdam (NL)
w/ Julian Sartorius on drums
Friday, 09 September 2011 @ New Morning, Paris (FR)
w/ Julian Sartorius on drums
Friday, 16 September 2011 @ Vingis Park, Vilnius (LT)
w/ Julian Sartorius on drums.
Friday, 23 September 2011 @ A38, Budapest (HU)
w/ Julian Sartorius on drums
Saturday, 01 October 2011 @ Avant Art Festival, Wroclaw (PL)
Collaborative show w/ Richard Eigner

Vogue France beats us to the punch: Announcing “Where Are You From?,” an anthology presented with Christophe Lemaire

To say that Ludivine Grétéré is our French publicist would be like saying that Lee Anthony is a record label owner, or that Kourosh Yaghmaei is a guitarist: Sure, that would be a factual statement, but it would only tell part of the story.

Case in point… before the ink is dry on the tip-on sleeved, gatefold CD package for the forthcoming anthology that we’re presenting with French fashion designer (and all around music lover) Christophe Lemaire; before we can announce the anthology to our faithful, she somehow convinces Vogue France to post a story about it. I mean, we assumed that the French would take to an anthology subtitled “Christophe Lemaire and Now-Again Records present a series of global psychedelic rock, funk and folk grooves – 16 tracks from 1968 until the present day” – but the Vogue homepage? Damn!

So, if you read French, you’ll get a bit more information in the link below. And, if you don’t, we’ll make an announcement – in English – soon.

Read: Vogue France on Where Are You From?.

This weekend! Kourosh L.A. Record Release Party at Palate Food + Wine

We’re following up June’s True Soul party with a special one for Kourosh’s Back From The Brink anthology: On Sunday, August 21st, from 3 until 8 pm, Egon, Finders Keepers’ Mahssa and friends will be playing nothing but Iranian and Mediterranean psych grooves as the Palate folks roast an entire lamb, serve up Iranian specialties and pour rosé wine specials….

We’re going to be selling our Back From The Brink album and we’ll have a small number of a $40/4 CD “Psych Funk Sampler” for sale.

The Sunday Times on our Kourosh anthology: Must Have Reissue

Little more than a week after highlighting our True Soul: Deep Sounds From The Left Of Stax anthologies as “Must Have Reissues,” The Sunday Times has done the same for Kourosh: Back From The Brink. An excerpt from the review:

“… Two recent compilations of Iranian psychedelia, Pomegranates and Raks Raks Raks, suggested hidden deposits, but this double disc set is the motherlode..”

If you didn’t know, both the 2CD and 3LP volumes are in stock and shipping at Stones Throw’s webstore, and our 4 x 7″ box set will be available everywhere good music is sold on Back From The Brink‘s official release date of August 23rd… next Tuesday!

Read: The Sunday Times on Kourosh: Back From The Brink.
Buy 2/CD: 2 discs in a hardbound 52-page book full of liner notes, full annotation, rare photos and ephemera. Note: CD version contains songs not available on vinyl; text is in English only.
Buy 3/LP: 3 records housed in a 2-panel jacket and comes with a download card for all audio and also a 28-page book full of liner notes, full annotation, rare photos and ephemera. Note: CD version contains some songs not available on vinyl; text is in English only.
Buy 4×7” Box Set: Exact reproductions of the 4 picture-sleeve 7” singles Kourosh released before the Revolution, housed in a magnet-clasped box and comes with a 44-page book full of liner notes, full annotation, rare photos and ephemera. Note: text is in English only.

Video: Kourosh “Niyayesh” (1977)

With the exception of those that we shot for Brazilian superstar Seu Jorge and those that our Swiss friend Dimlite occasionally assembles, we infrequently present videos here at Now-Again. And, with the exception of the True Soul Revue TV Pilot from 1973, which provided the fodder for our True Soul bonus DVDs, we almost never have footage from our reissue projects.

Which makes this 1977 video for Kourosh’s “Niyayesh” – uncovered and restored by our friend Dario Margeli at irannostalgia.com – that much more amazing. Yes, it’s a simple video: Kourosh, on a Tehran sound stage, lip synching the words to a song about one man’s amazement of life’s wonders and what will happen to him after his passing. But “Niyayesh” was one of the last videos Kourosh filmed before the Islamic Revolution occurred. Thus, its a wonder that this footage survived at all – and we’re left with a fleeting image of the artist in his prime.