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Artist:	HECTOR & THE MALCOUNS, KARL
Title:	Sahara Swing
Label:	NOW-AGAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NA 5035CD

"Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics' percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany. Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7", from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now-defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich-based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has traveled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not 'world music' -- but an album that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on 'the one.'"

Artist:	HECTOR & THE MALCOUNS, KARL
Title:	Tamanrasset
Label:	NOW-AGAIN
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	NA 5076LP

"For all intents and purposes, Karl Hector might as well be another nom-de-plume of Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers) who, along with Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founded Karl Hector and The Malcouns in the early 2000s. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich-based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija crafted nearly twenty tracks for their debut, Sahara Swing, an album that swung with influences from across the African diaspora. The trio will now release a series of vinyl-only EPs -- of which Tamanrasset is the first -- that will culminate in their second album. Tamanrasset 's five songs demonstrate The Malcouns' deft handling of musics from Eastern and Northern Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk; the song 'Girma's Lament' - its title an homage to the great Ethiopian pianist, arranger and vocalist Girma Beyene - is a great representation." Silkscreened sleeve; limited edition of 1000 copies.

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