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Notes & Tones - Album and Wine

by DJ Muggs

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Notes & Tones – the album: produced by DJ Muggs, made with samples from Sun Ra. Also a wine, available in bundled purchases below, vinted by Chris Brockway of Broc Cellars with Muggs and Egon.

    The only name that fit this collaboration was that of the landmark book by the great jazz drummer Art Taylor. Muggs complimented Chris's wine with music that he and Egon sourced and cleared from the landmark catalog of the cosmic jazz musician Sun Ra. A Soul Assassins x Now-Again x Broc Cellars collaboration.
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  • Black LP with OBI + Wine bundle
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Rappcats exclusive OBI wrapped LP, plus a bottle of the Notes & Tones wine. The LP will be shipped the second week of April 2023.

    You must be 21 years old to purchase the wine bundle. Wine will be shipped via Fed Ex, separately from vinyl as required by law – ID and signature required upon delivery. All bundles will include an additional $30 shipping charge for the wine, per bottle. Wine can be shipped within the United States only, and cannot be delivered in Utah. If you are not 21 years old or older, your package will be rejected upon attempted delivery and will not be redelivered.

    - PLEASE PROVIDE A PHONE NUMBER TO ENSURE PROPER DELIVERY -

    Orders placed outside of the US or in Utah will be refunded.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Notes & Tones - Album and Wine via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Black LP + Wine Bundle
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The record plus a bottle of the Notes & Tones wine. The LP will be shipped the second week of April 2023.

    You must be 21 years old to purchase the wine bundle. Wine will be shipped via Fed Ex, separately from vinyl as required by law – ID and signature required upon delivery. All bundles will include an additional $30 shipping charge for the wine, per bottle. Wine can be shipped within the United States only, and cannot be delivered in Utah. If you are not 21 years old or older, your package will be rejected upon attempted delivery and will not be redelivered.


    - PLEASE PROVIDE A PHONE NUMBER TO ENSURE PROPER DELIVERY -

    Orders placed outside of the US or in Utah will be refunded.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Notes & Tones - Album and Wine via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

  • Black LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Standalone LP. These can be shipped worldwide. Orders will ship the second week of April 2023.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Notes & Tones - Album and Wine via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

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Intro 01:28
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What Planet 03:07
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Third Planet 01:39
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His Story 02:32
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Nebula 02:53
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about

Inspiration: Art Taylor / Stanko Radikon / Xavier Caillard

Following the launch of their Holy Ghost wine and record pairing, DJ Muggs and Egon have teamed up with California’s Broc Cellars and its winemaker Chris Brockway for Notes & Tones: Deep natural wine meets deep jazz and rap samples on vinyl.

Natural wine can be the same, obscure type of thing as a natural hot dog. Natural in what way? As in it, in some way, originally came from nature? In this case, we mean an unadulterated wine made without chemical pesticides or fertilizers used in grape cultivation; a wine made without unnecessary intervention by the vintner without fining and filtering; and with little or no sulfites added to extend the wine’s shelf life.

In this case, this wine is a “living” – sensitive, evolving – thing. If you follow the biodynamic calendar, you might find it tastes different if you drink it on a “root” day or a “fruit” day. And you will probably find that it is not sanitized like the commercially produced, neutered and shelf-stabilized wine that is what 90% of wine consumers tend to drink. In other words, Notes & Tones is probably unlike most wines you have ever had.

This is a good thing. This is purposeful. Chris Brockway of Broc Cellars worked with Muggs and Egon to conceive, ferment, taste, blend and then bottle this homage to the skin-contact wines of yore brought into the modern day – those by the likes of Stanko Radikon in Italy and Xavier Caillard in France.

The only name that fit it was that of the landmark book by the great jazz drummer Art Taylor. Muggs complimented the wine with music that he and Egon sourced and cleared from the landmark catalog of the cosmic jazz musician Sun Ra. A Soul Assassins x Now-Again x Broc Cellars collaboration.

credits

released March 10, 2023

Notes & Tones – the wine: 2020 vintage – 90% Tocai Friulano/10% Trebbiano old vine grapes from Fox Hill Vineyard in Mendocino County.

Notes & Tones – the album: produced by DJ Muggs, made with samples from Sun Ra.

Broc Cellars is a natural winery in Berkeley known for their wines crafted with creativity and intention. Chris Brockway, winemaker and owner, established Broc Cellars in 2004 to showcase California’s range for delivering fresh, affordable wines. All wines use only native fermentations and are made with the intention to lift you up, never weigh you down. Broc works with all organically farmed and family-owned vineyards across California.

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Now-Again Records Los Angeles, California

Now-Again Records is the imprint founded by Eothen Alapatt 2002. He oversees all of the label’s reissues and manages a vast catalog of music from the 1950s through the present day, with a focus on the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.

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