"Dallas, Texas funk and soul singer, songwriter, producer and firebrand Timothy McNealy’s “Sagittarius Black” 45 was one of the first key “deep funk” records of the genre’s re-discovery period in the mid- to late-‘90s, when collectors and DJ’s did with the black America’s fertile late-‘60s and early ‘70s musical scenes what they had done prior with blues, jazz and rock. When that rarity was first rediscovered, no one could really explain it’s genesis: It was that rare thing, a record that came out of a specific era, but transcended it. Those who were entranced knew now how much McNealy had recorded, how many records he’d issued on his self-funded Shawn Records, or how good his music might be.
With this anthology – the first time that McNealy’s work has been collected and officially reissued – we now know the answer, and we know that McNealy’s music deserves to be emblematic of Dallas funk and soul in the same way that Texas’s other two largest cities – Houston, with the Kashmere Stage Band, and San Antonio, with Mickey and the Soul Generation – have their unique ambassadors, colored by those cities’ milieus. " - Now Again Records
One of the funkiest movements of the new millennium is back with rare grooves and innovative Hip Hop production. Get down to the sounds of loop digger Oh No and Texas funk and soul singer, songwriter, producer and firebrand Timothy McNealy.
Renowned amongst the crate-digging community for their outstanding fusion of Funk, Disco and Soul, Iowa's Split Decision Band have been the talk of collectors who have searched long and far for their superb single “Watching Out/Dazed”. After many years of this being the only recording by SDB, Now-Again Records tracks down the band's vocalist to revive some unreleased jewels from their music back catalog. The result is a self-titled album and limited-edition &" vinyl repress of the sought-after "Watching Out" for 2017.
The previously-unreleased Split Decision Band self-titled LP now available at Juno Records on vinyl, on CD at Amazon and the 2017 repress of "Watching You" at Turntable Lab.
Enjoy a lost gem of eccentric Funk and Soul by Los Angeles band The 4th Coming and watch a two minute primer about the album as Now Again Records catches up with one of the band members in 2015. Their lost album "Strange Things"is out now thanks to the ear of Egon who continues his label's legacy of finding gold of music's yesteryear.
"Following the release of Cook Classics Vs. Now-Again, Now-Again presents its second Oh No library offering.
Oh No's debut album for Now-Again was also the first in our music library series - and was one of our most successful exercises in creating modern "library music" for easy synchronization. For this entry, Oh No combs through the vast array of Now-Again's catalog – from American soul, funk and jazz to Iranian folk to Zambian hard rock to create a series of beats that range in mood and style and all contain Oh No's trademark swagger.
Fans of the variety of projects that Oh No is a part – from his Gangrene project with Alchemist to his production for the likes of Talib Kweli - will be pleased with the variety of beats contained within.
This limited edition is CD is packaged in a "mini-LP" thick cardboard "tip-on" sleeve and is available in limited quantities. Once they're gone, they're gone."
Tracklist and Pre-order of "Oh No - 'Oh No Vs. Now-Again 2: Now-Again Music Library Vol. 7" (LIMITED EDITION) (MINI LP CARDBOARD SLEEVE)' (Audio CD) here at ughh.com
Until we get snippets from what should be a banging new instrumental project by Oh No, take a dip into the crates with a 50+ song playlist of Rare funk, soul, psychedelia and rap you won't hear anywhere else, selected by Egon. E is the general manager of the Stones Throw label. He also founded Now-Again Records, which reissues American funk and soul albums, as well as the Soul-Cal imprint with Peanut Butter Wolf. He DJs funk and psychedelia sets at venues all around the world.
Now Again Records presents a 3 CD set of music from an outstanding Jazz fusion outfit of the 1970's. To this day the unique sound of The Stark Reality stands amongst the crates as a meeting of great musical minds who thought outside the box to project a distinct and organic vibe of Jazz/Funk. One of the most intriguing aspects of the group is their free-thinking approach toward incorporating a number of musical styles to form their own communication of Jazz music.
Acting, Thinking, Feeling marks the first time that psychedelic jazz ensemble The Stark Reality's Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop album has been reissued in full (the 2003 Stones Throw Records anthology Now only contained half of the original album's music). The anthology also contains the band's out-of-print Roller Coaster Ride (first issued as 1969 on Now-Again in 2003), and a series of recently discovered, previously-unreleased tracks in a 3 CD "complete works" box set.
Besides the missing Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop songs, the most exciting additions to the Stark Reality's oeuvre are the three songs recorded between the earliest incarnation of the band – the big band that recorded "Theme To Say Brother" and "Acting, Thinking, Feeling" in 1968 - and the slimmed down combo that recorded the Roller Coaster Ride and The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop. These recordings display a band in flux, and color the development of Stark's genius. We hear the signature sound of his "plugged in" vibes for the first time; we hear an early stab at the psychedelic "Red Yellow Moonbeams" (and realize why his addition John Abercrombie and his fuzz guitar was crucial to his vision); we hear a sublte change towards a more funk and rock based sound.
This anthology thus encapsulates the first known Stark Reality recordings – done for and in performance at WGBH, these transitional big band pieces, and the Roller Coaster Ride and The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop albums in full. The liner notes are updated with Ahmad Jamal's participation, more photos and full annotation of the additional songs.
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