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Now-Again’s Foray Into Funky Psychedelia: American gospel, paranoiac soul, loner folk, East-Nigerian fuzz, Thai rock, Iranian ballads, and more….

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1.	Top Drawer - Song Of A Sinner 08:39	buy track
2.	Sensational Saints - How Great Thou Art 03:28	buy track
3.	East of Underground - Smiling Faces Sometimes 06:22	buy track
4.	D.R. Hooker - Forge Your Own Chains 04:35	buy track
5.	Shin Jung Hyun and the Men feat. Jang Hyun - Twilight 05:36	buy track
6.	T. Zchiew and The Johnny - Let Yourself Be Free 03:39	buy track
7.	The Strangers - Two To Make A Pair 02:47	buy track
8.	Damon - Don't You Feel Me 02:30	buy track
9.	Ellison - Strawberry Rain 05:20	buy track
10.	Morley Grey - Who Can I Say You Are 03:40	buy track
11.	Shadrack Chameleon - Don't Let It Get You Down 04:39	buy track
12.	Ofege - It's Not Easy 04:20	buy track
13.	Ana Y Jaime - Nina Nana 03:16	buy track
14.	Kourosh Yaghmaei - Hajm-e Khaali 02:42	buy track
15.	Baby Grandmothers - Somebody's Calling My Name 09:11	buy track

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Now-Again’s Foray Into Funky Psychedelia: American gospel, paranoiac soul, loner folk, East-Nigerian fuzz, Thai rock, Iranian ballads and more….

This compilation introduces a new direction for Now-Again Records and its owner, Stones Throw Records GM, A&R and producer Egon. With the same detailed, no-stone-unturned approach he used for Deep Funk (The Funky 16 Corners, Cold Heat ), he tackles beat-heavy global psychedelia with Forge Your Own Chains.

Forge Your Own Chains showcases music from all corners of the world: Colombia, Nigeria, Sweden, South Korea, Thailand and Iran. The focus – in keeping with Now-Again’s tradition – is on melody, driving rhythms and accessibility. Not one song is included on this compilation because it is from a “rare” album. Certainly, many of these songs do spring from albums that exchange hands for many thousands of dollars. Certainly, many of these songs have never seen reissue. But these songs are all beautiful in their own right and work to form a coherent album.

Psychedelic records, long the mainstay of older, grizzled collectors and seemingly quaint, are, in the hands of Egon and those of his generation, giving up new ghosts. And, with comps like Forge Your Own Chains, inspiring new investigations into our not so distant (and still very much alive) musical past.

Digipak CD package includes 40-page full color booklet with detailed liner notes, annotation, photos and ephemera. Gatefold 2LP includes all liner notes.

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released October 13, 2009

Compilation produced, annotated and researched by: Egon
Liner notes by: Egon, except for the Ellison entry by Tim Perlich.

Restoration and remastering by Sean C., Traffic Entertainment Group, Boston.
Art direction by Matthew Boyd for Way Shape Form.

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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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