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.

Top Drawer - Song Of A Sinner
Sensational Saints - How Great Thou Art 
East of Underground - Smiling Faces Sometimes 
D.R. Hooker - Forge Your Own Chains 
Shin Jung Hyun and the Men feat. Jang Hyun - Twilight 
T. Zchiew and The Johnny - Let Yourself Be Free 
The Strangers - Two To Make A Pair 
Damon - Don't You Feel Me 
Ellison - Strawberry Rain 
Morley Grey - Who Can I Say You Are 
Shadrack Chameleon - Don't Let It Get You Down 
Ofege - It's Not Easy 
Ana Y Jaime - Nina Nana 
Kourosh Yaghmaei - Hajm-e Khaali
Baby Grandmothers - Somebody's Calling My Name