East of Underground: 3LP vinyl box set

• November 09, 2011

IN THE STORE:
EAST OF UNDERGROUND - HELL BELOW

Vinyl now in stock: 3LP, 2 gatefold sets, poster, book

Now-Again Records reissue: Soul, funk and rock recorded by US Army servicemen during the height of the Vietnam War and released as recruitment tools by the US Army.

We now have the vinyl in stock for Now-Again Records reissue of Hell Below, three albums released by US Army’s funk band in the early 1970s.

East of Underground, SOAP, The Black Seeds and The Sound Trek were bands comprised of soldiers stationed in bases across Western Germany during the height of the Vietnam War. While little is known about the bands, the players, and the milieu they came from was pieced together from a handful of photos and documents found in a box in the New York Public Library.
 
Each of the two double-billed albums contained in this box set is presented as an exact reproduction of the original United States Army issue. The extensive, full-color booklet features essays, annotation and a collection of Army ephemera from the creation of these albums. Also included is a full-color, exact reproduction of East Of Underground’s 1971 tour poster.