Description
For Now 2 is an album by the American combo Indelible Inc., released on Concordia in 1972. The album was produced by David Dister (Communico) and Victor Growcock (Concordia).
The first album in the For Now Series was released the same year, simply entitled For Now 1. (Concordia also released a third album entitled For Now 3, featuring The Coalition, “a friendly alliance of West Coast musicians.”)
This is the other album. When you add them all together you get two (yes, two) albums, “for now 1” and “for now 2,” appropriately enough. But that’s not really the whole title.
“Let’s name them after the books they’re taken from, “hymns for now I” and “hymns for now II,” we suggested, with a great deal of creativity on our collected part.
But. the Big Leader said “Oh, no,” as Big Leaders have a tendency to say. At some of the most inappropriate times.
Well, there was this big discussion. And we lost, which is quite obvious if you looked at the right side first.
So, “hymns” was cut. Now that’s a pretty big cut on our part, we mumbled one to another. After all, these are hymns. But then again. They’re not hymns of your average organ variety. (OK all you organ fans out there, read on.)
A hymn is, in the long run, a response to the reality (or unreality) of now. To yourself, your brothers, your others, our God. To their otherness, your bothness, our love. And you can’t respond to what is with what was when you weren’t. It doesn’t mean anything. To us, anyway. Now being now. Then being then.
That’s pretty much what it’s all about, isn’t it? After all, if it doesn’t mean, it doesn’t exist. Or, it shouldn’t.
That’s why we called on the chaps on the flip side, affectionately known as Indelible Inc. Professionally, too. The Indelible Inc. know how to mean it. They took the aforementioned books and improvised. Created their own arrangements. Created their own words – wherever there was a need for them. Words that make the music mean. Music that makes the words mean. More.
Hymns of hard rock and blue grass. Listen. You can taste them. Touch them. Smell them. Make them mean. They’re free and alive. That’s the beauty of the idiom. It makes these hymns hymns.
And it’s all for now folks. [Liner notes printed on the back of the LP sleeve]
Hard rock alert! Another consistent rockin’ LP from Indelible Inc delivering a solid Rare Earth and Three Dog Night brand of heaviness. Although the lyrics to the songs of Robert Edwin, Joe Wise, Jack Miffleton, Sydney Carter, and Ray Repp remain intact, the melodies have been entirely re-written into the hard rock format with blaring leads and some funky keyboards. Repp’s songs in particular get a serious jolt – «Come Away» sizzles with stinging fuzz guitar while «Here We Are» rocks ferociously at high speed. The lack of credits on either album makes me wonder if the group might have been a one-off assembly of studio musicians. Don’t confuse these LPs with the folk ones on the same label entitled Hymns For Now 1, 2, and 3. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “With Joy” – 2:42
A2. “Gonna Sing, My Lord” – 2:55
A3. “Well, It’s A New Day” – 2:35
A4. “Christ Is Changing Everything” – 2:31
A5. “Come, My Brothers” – 2:50
Side Two
B1. “Come Away” – 2:50
B2. “And God Said, Yes!” – 1:35
B3. “All My Trials” – 3:41
B4. “Here We Are” – 3:50
B5. “Come, Love, Caroling” – 3:15
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