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1LP - NOW AGAIN
2018

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1LP - JAZZ IS DEAD

PREORDER 2020 09 18
LIMITED CLEAR 1LP - TIDAL WAVES

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2020 08 28
1LP - P-VINE

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5LP - NOW AGAIN
2020 09 11

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12INCH - P-VINE
2020 10 02

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1LP - P-VINE
2020 11 06

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1LP - P-VINE
2020 10 16

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CLEAR - 1LP - TIDAL WAVES MUSIC
2020 10 09

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2020 09 11
CLEAR - 1LP - WE WANT SOUND

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7 INCH - VAMPISOUL
2020

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CLEAR
LIMITED - 1LP - TIDAL WAVES MUSIC
2021 02 19

IN STOCK
7 INCH - TRAMP RECORDS
2020

IN STOCK
7 INCH - ROCAFORT
2020 11 06

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
LIMITED BLUE COLORED - 1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
1973 => 2020 11 27

BIS => 2025 05 02
2LP - NOW-AGAIN
2014

TRACKLIST
A1 Introduction
A2 Push Na Ya
A3 El Gusto
A4 Transition >S<
A5 Karadeniz
A6 The Spirit Of Gine
B1 Transition >T<
B2 Girma's Lament
B3 Sharpville Massacre
B4 Samai Thaqil
C1 Jo Nibunga
C2 Omebele (Makossa)
C3 M'Hammad
C4 Transition >A<
C5 Who's Foolin' Who?
C6 Transition >C<
D1 Hymnin S
D2 Bring It On Down
D3 Mission Control
D4 Kaifa Part 1+2

DESCRIPTION
Karl Hector aka the German producer and guitarist JJ Whitefield, Whitefield is the visionary behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, the ensembles whose rough analog sound and return to the funk archetypes of the late 60s to early 70s paved the way for labels like Daptone, Truth & Soul, Timmion. Whitefield, along with Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founded Karl Hector and The Malcouns in the early 2000s. Their debut, Sahara Swing, saw release on Now-Again in 2008. The album swung with influences from across the African diaspora and set the stage for a cult, but influential following. Festival promoters intrigued by the possibility of resurrecting the careers of once forgotten African mavericks from Ghana's Ebo Taylor to the progenitors of Zambia's Zamrock scene brought Hector and crew across Europe playing festivals for ecstatic fans. A grueling tour schedule made recording a follow up album to Sahara Swing quite the challenge, and as a result, the band opted to release limited edition, hand-silkscreened EP's, which continued to show their deft handling of musics from Eastern and Northern Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk. Whitefield gave himself 2013 to finish the album that would become Unstraight Ahead, which will see release on Now-Again this summer. Unstraight Ahead finds the band exploring territories even outside of the expansive scope of Sahara Swing. On this album, the West African sounds of Ghana and Mali meet the East African sounds of Mulatu Astatke's Ethiopian jazz and are tied together with the groove heavy experimentalism of The Malcouns' 70s Krautrock godfathers: Can, of course, but also more obscure and equally adventurous groups like Agitation Free, Ibliss and Tomorrow's Gift. We look to Middle Eastern funk and psychedelic fusions, and to various ethnic records for sound and phrasing, Whitefield states. We're trying to combine the global experimentalism of Krautrock with the backbeat of funk. This explains how songs in uneven meters 5/4, 7/8 always sound so accessible and natural on Unstraight Ahead. It's mainly an instrumental affair, but guest artists appear throughout, from across the African diaspora to those from the worldly Krautrock forebears of their German fatherland: it's Marja, daughter of Embryo founder Christian Burchard, whose vocals open the album. It's an album out of time, one that couldn't have been made in the era its aural aesthetics reference, as its scope is so broad. But it's an album focused by funk and an ambition to expand funk's reaches. The Malcouns including Poets of Rhythm songwriter and vocalist Bo Baral - created their own instruments to fashion an album that stands alongside the great albums of its progenitors but charges Unstraight Ahead into a curious musical future.

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1LP - MUTUAL INTENTIONS
2021 01 08

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LIMITED CLEAR
1LP - TIDAL WAVES MUSIC
2021 01 22

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7 INCH - OUTTA SIGHT SOUL ESSENTIALS
2020 11 27

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1LP - MUSIC TAKE ME UP
2020 10 07

1LP - ALTERCAT
2021 01 15

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1LP - TAMBOURINE PARTY
2021

IN STOCK
1LP - SONORAMA
2019

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2LP - ANALOG AFRICA
2008

BIS => 2022 02 04
CLEAR WITH BLUE & PURPLE SPLATTER
1LP - SHIP TO SHORE
2021 12 03

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RED
3LP - COLEMINE
2020 04 13

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - KENT
2017

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - ACE RECORDS
2020

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CLEAR
1LP - TIDAL WAVES MUSIC
2021

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1LP - 8TH RECORDS
2021 04 30

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DROP 2 - RSD 2021
7 INCH x 5 BOX SET - SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
2021 07 17

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DROP 1 - RSD 2021
1LP - SOUL BROTHER RECORDS
2021 06 12
2021 07 23

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DROP 1 - RSD 2021
7 INCH - EXPANSION
2021 06 12

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DROP 1 - RSD 2021
1LP - EXPANSION
2021 06 12

DROP 2 - RSD 2021
7 INCH - HMV RECORD SHOP
2021 08 27

IN STOCK
7 INCH - SKYLINE RECORDS
2021 06 18

1CD - FUTURE DAYS
2019
2021 09 03

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1LP - P-VINE
2021 11 19

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1LP - P-VINE
2021 11 19

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7 INCH - P-VINE
2021 11 05

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7 INCH - P-VINE
2022 01 07

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COKE BOTTLE CLEAR
1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2021 11 19

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
GOLD
K7 - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2021

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
RED COLORED
1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2020 10 16

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
1974 => 2007

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CLEAR WITH BLUE & PURPLE SPLATTER
1LP - SHIP TO SHORE
2021 12 03

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BLUE VINYL
1LP - ALOHA GOT SOUL
2022 04 08

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DROP 1 - RSD 2021
SILVER
1LP - MR BONGO
2021 06 12

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1LP - P-VINE
2021 10 08

BIS => 2022 02 04
BLUE
1LP - ALOHA GOT SOUL
2021 08 06

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1LP - TOKUMA JAPAN COMMUNICATIONS
2022 01 14

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VIOLET
1LP - FAT POSSUM RECORDS
RSD 2021 - DROP 2
1969 => 2021

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7 INCH - MR BONGO
2018

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1LP - MAD ABOUT RECORDS
2021 04 30

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GREEN
LIMITED - 2LP - MR BONGO
2021 04 30

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RSD 2020 08 29
2LP - WE WANT SOUND
2020

BIS => 2022 09 23
LIMITED
7INCH x 2 - DYNAMITE CUTS
2020

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1LP - PMG
2016

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - DYNAMITE CUTS
2020

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1LP - BE WITH RECORDS
2021 03 12

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7 INCH - UBIIQUIYT
2020

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1LP - PMG
2016

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1LP - GLITTERBEAT

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2022 11 18

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
8-TRACK - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2020 10 16

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
K7 - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2007

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
K7 - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2022 11 18

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
8-TRACK - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2022 11 18

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
CLEAR
1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2022 11 18

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
GOLD
1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2022 11 18

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1CD - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2022 11 18

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
K7 - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2022 11 18

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
8-TRACK - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2022 11 18

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PINK
1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2020

SOLD OUT
1 LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2021 07 02

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CLEAR
1LP - LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
2021 11 19

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1LP - 8TH RECORDS
2017

BIS => 2022 09 30
7 INCH - WE JAZZ
2021

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
12 INCH x 2 - BBE
2022

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - RECORD KICKS
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - P-VINE
1978 => 2022

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - P-VINE
1979 => 2022

PRE ORDER => 2023 10 27
1LP + 7 INCH - P-VINE
1974 => 2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
3LP - BBE
BLUE VINYL
2022 => 2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
2LP - BBE
1978 => 2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - PANGEA INTERNATIONAL RECORDING
2023

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7 INCH - VAMPISOUL
2022

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7 INCH - VAMPISOUL
2021 04 16

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1LP - VAMPISOUL
2020 12 04

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1LP - VAMPISOUL
2017

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1LP - VAMPISOUL
2019

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2LP - VAMPISOUL
2005

SOLD OUT
1LP - VAMPISOUL
2020

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LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL PRESSING 
1LP - NOW AGAIN
2020 => 2023

BIS => 2023 12 01
7 INCH - MR BONGO RECORDS
2023

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
2LP - RCA RECORDS LABEL
2015

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - FAT BEATS RECORDS
2020

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
7 INCH - AUSTIN BOOGIE CREW
2017

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - AUSTIN BOOGIE CREW
2018

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
PIC SLEEVE
7 INCH - AUSTIN BOOGIE CREW
2019