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NA 5009LP
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2022 repress. "Would Like To Pose A Question is one of the first previously-unreleased funk and soul albums issued by Now-Again, and it still sounds amazing today. Well, it would have to: it's the brainchild of bandleader/drummer/singer/songwriter Lester Abrams (the L.A. in L.A. Carnival). Abrams helped create hit singles like 'Minute by Minute' and 'What A Fool Believes' for the Doobie Brothers and played with artists such as B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Peabo Bryson, Manfred Mann, Quincy Jones and many more. Before all that -- in early '70s while still in Omaha -- he brought a multi-racial band into the Pacific Avenue studio to cut an album's worth of material. Only one single -- 'Color' b/w 'Blink Man' -- was ever issued, and this album sat on master tapes in Abrams' closet. That is until Now-Again's Eothen Alapatt intervened in the early 2000s and Would You Like To Pose A Question was at last given a proper full length release."
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NA 5009CD
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"A full length, unreleased album -- recorded and shelved over thirty years ago. To be released on Stones Throw's reissue subsidiary, Now-Again, L.A. Carnival's Pose A Question LP runs the gamut from superb, psychedelic soul to backbeat-grounded, heavy funk (by way of syncopation and horn arrangements that hint at Fela Kuti influenced Afro-Beat and a politically charged nature that heralds Sly and The Family Stone's groundbreaking early 70s albums). Perhaps the most fully realized unreleased funk album released to date, the Pose A Question anthology has been lovingly restored and mastered, packaged with a 20-page full color booklet, chock full of liner notes, period pictures of the band, and full annotation."
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