**UPDATE**
DUE TO MANUFACTURING DELAYS WE HAVE HAD TO PUSH THE RELEASE DATE BACK TO MAY, BUT WE WILL BE SHIPPING THIS PRODUCT FROM EARLY APRIL, THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT.
'Collaboration is stimulating, it's in my blood.' Thus speaks Brian Jackson and his philosophy for making music and it's indeed collaboration that runs through this amazing album of reimagined and revisited songs from his artistic past. Featuring artists such as Black Thought, Rahsaan Patterson, Josh Milan, Moodymann, Omar, J. Ivy and others and being produced by Masters At Work, ‘Now More Than Ever’ takes the enduring classic tracks that Brian Jackson made with Gil Scott-Heron and places them in the now over nineteen tracks and across a triple vinyl LP, Double CD and digital release.
Songs such as Lady Day & John Coltrane, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Home Is Where The Hatred Is, Winter In America, The Bottle and more soundtracked a generational movement of Black Consciousness in the 70s and 80s. As Brian says, 'This album is one way to connect to what we were about in the 70s; we were about change and this is part of the lineage of resistance. These tracks mark a period of time when resistance was essential and now a younger generation has picked them up.'
'As young men in their twenties, we (Brian and Gil) just wrote about what we saw and were feeling and people interpreted these songs in ways we never thought about but as Sly stone said the song comes from me but it's for you.' This statement from Brian perfectly sums up the collaborative nature of Now More Than Ever and the relevance of these songs in a contemporary perspective can be perfectly summed up by the songs themselves.
The formidable stable of artists contributing to each track and the excellent production from Louie Vega and Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez make this album an event in itself. However, these songs are there to be enjoyed as a canon or as individual masterpieces, whether on the dancefloor or on a home system.
Available as a high res. digital release, Double CD and a Triple Vinyl LP ‘Now More Than Ever’ just has to be in everybody's music collection.
- 1. Poetic Sands (Interlude) (Featuring Wes Felton
- 2. It's Your World (Featuring Raheem DeVaughn, J Ivy
- 3. We Almost Lost Detroit (Featuring Moodymann)
- 4. The Bottle (Featuring Omar)
- 5. Peace Go With You, Brother (Featuring Raheem DeVaughn)
- 6. Beautiful Dame (Featuring Raquel Ra Brown)
- 7. Lady Day & John Coltrane (Featuring Rahsaan Patterson)
- 8. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Featuring Black Thought)
- 9. Addiction (Interlude) (Featuring Raquel Ra Brown)
- 10. Home is Where The Hatred Is (main) (Featuring Lisa Fischer)
- 11. Madison Avenue (Featuring Raheem DeVaughn)
- 12. Is That Jazz? (Rahsaan Patterson)
- 13. More Than Ever (Interlude) (Featuring Raquel Ra Brown)
- 14. Now More Than Ever
- 15. Home is Where The Hatred Is
- 16. Moonshine (Live) (Featuring Carl Cornwell)
- 17. Racetrack in France (Featuring Josh Milan, J Ivy, Moodymann)
- 18. Winter in America (Featuring Rich Medina)
- 19. New York City (Featuring Cindy Mizelle, Dawn Tallman, Ramona Dunlap)
