L.A. Carnival - Would Like To Pose A QuestionWould 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

Poet Joshua Idehen's vocals on the opener are reminiscent of another brilliant British artist from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora

In part emulating the selection of tracks on the 1997 CD-only compilation

the group hadn‰۪t played together since the early 90‰۪s but got together to curate a night at the legendary All Tomorrow‰۪s Parties festival at Camber Sands

Like many of their suburban kith

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Lane Steinberg

Like The Way I Know

transcendent grooves and enveloping atmospherics

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with gauzy layers of male and female voices moving beguilingly amongst each other

Leonora Russo (who Basinski affectionately calls “the true Sicilian Sparkle Division

they float like a flag