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2x Vinyl LP Album Reissue
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Nov 25, 2022
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The Stark Reality Funk Jazz Reissue Now Again Records Vinyl Record album LP music black friday
Definitive reissue of the album Mojo Magazine called “one of the most prized 'funk’ artifacts of all time... a project that allies Hendrix-stoned guitars, heavily-fuzzed vibraphone and Bitches Brew rhythms…"
"The music of the Stark Reality is as playful as it is wild… as fantastic as it is frazzled.” - Rolling Stone
Lacquered by Bernie Grundman in an all-analog transfer directly from the master tapes. Contains an extensive, oversized booklet with rare photos, liner notes and annotation.
The story of The Stark Reality’s Discovers The Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop begins in Boston the late 1960s, with a wild jazz – as psychedelic as they were modal, as funky as they were swinging - band based in Boston landing a deal with Ahmad Jamal’s nascent AJP imprint after the legendary jazz pianist heard their demo recordings.
They had been tasked by the great American songsmith Hoagy Carmichael’s son, Hoagy Bix Carmichael, to create interpretations of the elder Carmichael’s children songs for a Mr. Rogers-themed show that the younger Carmichael was producing for local PBS affiliate WGBH.
The quartet - Monty Stark on vibes, Phil Morrison on bass, Vinnie Johnson on drums and a very young John Abercrombie on fuzz guitar – recorded an album that flopped upon its initial release and went on to become one of – as Mojo Magazine noted - “the most prized 'funk’ artifacts of all time... a project that allies Hendrix-stoned guitars, heavily-fuzzed vibraphone and Bitches Brew rhythms…”
For RSD Black Friday, Now-Again Records, who has kept the Stark Reality’s music in print since 2002, presents the definitive reissue of The Stark Reality’s Discovers The Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop. Lacquered by Bernie Grundman in an all-analog transfer directly from the master tapes maintained by the Stark Reality’s photographer Jim Bourne, it’s presented in a replica gatefold sleeve, and contains an extensive, oversized page booklet with rare photos, liner notes and annotation.
*Taxes included, shipping price excluded
A1
Merry Go Round
A2
Junkman's Song
A3
Thirty Days Hath September
A4
The Whale
A5
The Old Prospector
B1
Grandfather Clock
B2
Cooking
B3
Shooting Stars
B4
Rocket Ship
C1
Dreams
C2
Blue Pillow
C3
Swing High
C4
Clouds
C5
Traveling
D1
Bustin' Out Of Doors
D2
Comrades
D3
All You Need To Make Music
Wax Museum Records
250 Flinders St (downstairs)
Melbourne Vic 3000
+61451216310