Various – Forge Your Own Chains (Heavy Psychedelic Ballads And Dirges 1968-1974) (2xLP)
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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.
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A1 Song Of A Sinner
A2 How Great Thou Art
A3 It'S Not Easy
B1 Smiling Faces
B2 Forge Your Own Chains
B3 Twilight
B4 Hajm-E Khaali
C1 Let Your Life Be Free
C2 Two To Make A Pair
C3 Don'T You Feel Me
C4 Strawberry Rain
C5 Who Can I Say You Are
D1 Don'T Let It Get You Down
D2 Nina Nana
D3 Somebody Keeps Calling My Name