Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges, 1968-1974

Vinyl, 2 LP. 

This Various Artists compilation introduces a new direction for Now-Again Records and its owner, Egon. With the same detailed, no-stone-unturned approach he used for deep funk on The Funky 16 Corners and Cold Heat he tackles beat-heavy global psychedelia with Forge Your Own Chains.

Gatefold 2/LP includes liner notes.

First release in a trilogy with Tickets for Doomsday (2021) and Pale Shades of Grey (2024).

1. Top Drawer - Song Of A Sinner (8:39)
2. Sensational Saints - How Great Thou Art (3:28)
3. East of Underground - Smiling Faces Sometimes (6:22)
4. D.R. Hooker - Forge Your Own Chains (4:35)
5. Shin Jung Hyun and the Men feat. Jang Hyun - Twilight (5:36)
6. T. Zchiew and The Johnny - Let Yourself Be Free (3:39)
7. The Strangers - Two To Make A Pair (2:47)
8. Damon - Don't You Feel Me (2:30)
9. Ellison - Strawberry Rain (5:20)
10. Morley Grey - Who Can I Say You Are (3:40)
11. Shadrack Chameleon - Don't Let It Get You Down (4:39)
12. Ofege - It's Not Easy (4:20)
13. Ana Y Jaime - Nina Nana (3:16)
14. Kourosh Yaghmaei - Hajm-e Khaali (2:42)
15. Baby Grandmothers - Somebody's Calling My Name (9:11)