TAG: Now-Again

Aug24

Paul White – Rapping With Paul White (Review)

Paul White

Rapping With Paul White

Released by One-Handed Music


Part hip-hop, part electrofunk and part space-jazz, UK producer Paul White’s new record Rapping With Paul White, is a genre-bending mixture of geographically diverse sounds. Featuring Detroit’s heavy-hitter Guilty Simpson of Stones Throw and Random Axe fame on the single “Trust” as well as the Motor City rapper Danny Brown on “One of Life’s Pleasures”, Paul White cooks up some delectable selections for our audible consumption—from straightforward hip-hop bangers, to more methodical and introspective instrumental tracks. In addition to the already mentioned stellar collaborations, there are some intelligently composed tracks ...

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Mar31

Madlib’s Young Jazz Rebels Release Party (Video)

Young Jazz Rebels is a Madlib jazz group from the Yesterdays Universe collective, and this debut album Slave Riot is a fully developed avant-garde free jazz record, representing the furthest Madlib in developing this style. The musicians featured in Young Jazz Rebels: Melvin Hampson, Juggy Lewis, Lena Hamilton, Mary Jane, Tyrone Crumb, Lamont Parker, Monk Hughes, Brother Dave L. Produced & Arranged by Madlib. Slave Riot (Stones Throw) & PE Hewitt’s Winter Winds Complete Collection (Now-Again) both drop April 6th. We’re doing something casual (and weird) at Palete Wine Merchant in Glendale CA.


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Feb27

Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti (Review)

Various Artists

Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti

Released by Now-Again Records


To begin describing the epic importance of Fela Kuti is to write a doctoral thesis on the history of African music from before his birth to the present day. To understand the impact the music of a person such as Fela is to consider the history of struggle, prejudice, racism, and political disenfranchisement as an understandable whole.  In the music of Fela Kuti, we see these positive undercurrents of political awakening, consciousness, activism, empowerment and liberation.  These values are what make the messages embedded in the work of Fela ...

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Jan13

The Whitefield Brothers – Earthology (Review)

The Whitefield Brothers

Earthology

Released by Now-Again Records


Boasting an illustrious roster of artists ranging from Edan, Quantic, MED & Percee P (on the very fitting “Reverse”), The Whitefield Brothers (previously known as the Poets of Rhythm) have engineered a masterpiece of mutated psychedelic funk through their sophomore effort Earthology.

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