Description

For Now 1 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 second album in the For Now Series was released the same year, simply entitled For Now 2. (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 featured on the back of the LP sleeve]

What if the songs of Christian folk pioneers like Ray Repp, Peter Scholtes and others had their melodies re-written, then arranged and recorded in the hard-rocking style of Rare Earth? That’s exactly what the band Indelible Inc. (identified only on the back cover notes) delivers on this intriguing Lutheran production. These guys deliver a solid commercial rocking mix of soulful male lead and backup vocals, backed by sturdy rhythm guitar, lead electric guitar, bangin’ piano, bass and drums. «Thank You» is one the loudest tracks, raw guitars cranking it out in heavy «I Just Wanna Celebrate» fashion. Ditto for «What Will I Do?» which interjects some funky clavinet amidst the mean guitars. «They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love», «Go For Me» and «Clap Your Hands» all follow suit, while «Sons Of God» and «Song Maybe For Teenage Christians» show the softer melodic side of the group. Also an cool interpretation of Sydney Carter’s «Lord Of The Dance». Closes with a piano-backed recitation of the Nicene Creed. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Let Us Break Bread Together” – 2:38
A2. “Thank You” – 3:39
A3. “Lord Of The Dance” – 3:21
A4. “What Will I Do?” – 2:41
A5. “Sons Of God” – 2:25

Side Two
B1. “They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love” – 2:41
B2. “Song Maybe For Teenage Christians” – 3:18
B3. “Go For Me” – 3:42
B4. “Clap Your Hands” – 4:16
B5. “Nicene Creed” – 2:22