This is a 2022 reissue vinyl LP pressing of A Message from the Tribe by Wendell Harrison & Phil Ranelin. The Tribe founders’ collaborative debut was released in 1974, remixed from the original multi-track master tapes under the direction of its creators and lacquered by Bernie Grundman. The Tribe label, one of the brightest lights of America’s 1970s jazz underground, receives the Now-Again reissue treatment. This is your chance to indulge in the music and story of one of the most meaningful, local movements of the 20th Century Black American experience, one that expanded outwards towards the cosmos. In the words of the collective themselves, “Music is the healing force of the universe.”

Included in an extensive, oversized booklet, Larry Gabriel and Jeff “Chairman” Mao take us through the history of the Tribe, in a compelling story that delves not just into the history of the label and its principals, but into the story of Black American empowerment in the latter half of the 20th Century.

Label: Now Again

Release Year: 2022

Track List: 

1. What We Need
2. Angela's Dilemma
3. How Do We End All of This Madness
4. Wife
5. Merciful
6. Benificent