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New World Generation

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11 Tracks on 2LPs, classic soul/boogie.

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1.	Sunshine 06:00	buy track
2.	Curious Soul 05:53	buy track
3.	Dreamland 04:09	buy track
4.	One Of A Kind 06:13	buy track
5.	I'm Feeling Fine 04:52	buy track
6.	New World Generation 05:07	buy track
7.	Mystical Planet 06:11	buy track
8.	Celebrate 03:55	buy track
9.	Do What You Do 05:08	buy track
10.	Worry 02:46	buy track
11.	Free Your Mind 03:47	buy track
12.	How Do You Feel 04:33	buy track
13.	Orison (A Prayer) 05:16	buy track
14.	Sunshine (Alternative Mix) 05:48	buy track
15.	Curious Soul (Alternative Mix) 05:48	buy track
16.	Listen From Your Soul 03:04	buy track
17.	We'll Find A Way 05:45	buy track
18.	Loving You 06:42	buy track
19.	Someday The World Will Be As One 05:07	buy track

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We’re happy to present New World Generation’s self-titled anthology, a collection of rare and unreleased soul, disco and boogie by the cult New England ensemble. Presented as a 2CD and as a 2LP; both formats contain extensive liner notes with rare photographs and ephemera. Note: songs from CD disc two are not contained on the 2LP version of this album.

We first got a taste of the New World Generation when Phil Morrison, bassist for avant-garde, Boston-based jazzers Stark Reality, sent us a copy of New World Generation’s solitary recorded document: a five song EP that the band privately released in 1982. We heard echoes of the Roy Ayers produced RAMP sessions and the precise yet sensual vibes of the foundation known as Earth, Wind and Fire. We were intrigued, so we put in a call to New World Generation’s bandleader, Lekan Parsons and found that he had recorded more music in the years leading up to the New World Generation EP. But he’d recorded with different ensembles; finding the first threads of his musical tapestry would take time.

He promised to dig out his masters and send them to us for our consideration. It took years for him to collate the various components of the first phase of his recording career – which stretched from New York to Boston over the course of a decade – but when he did send the music, we were thrilled. The songs he’d recorded with the Universal Rhythms and Orison ensembles were harbingers of the sophisticated soul he’d proffer with New World Generation. They were winsome, hopeful songs – and their existence offered us the chance to present this album.

New World Generation references the faith that carried Parsons through the difficult and demoralizing times accomplished musicians like he and his friends experienced in a post-disco world.

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released August 28, 2023

This compilation produced and annotated by Eothen “Egon” Alapatt

Orison sessions produced by Lekan Parsons/Orison

Universal Rhythms sessions produced by Lekan Parsons/Universal Rhythms

New World Generation sessions produced by Stephen Bowden, Kingsley Swan, Suzanne Swan and Lekan Parsons

Art direction by Trevor Karma Gendron

Restoration and remastering by Dave Cooley for Elysian Masters.

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