A group of musicians connects through wild music ideas and the existence of the Tascam Portastudio 424. The year is 1985. The band Now is being created by Eric Forsmark, Peter Danielsson and Ulf Kjell Gür. With lots of help and inspiration from close friends. Later, some serious recordings are being done at Dan Katz studio Gangaloo in Stockholm, Sweden. Two tracks are featured on the compilation album Nordic sounds (Joker records 1988).

Nothing much happens with the Now project for many years.

Spring 2007. Eric, Peter and Ulf meet to make music. Riff raff room  is the result. And there’s plenty more to come. Music and words are streaming back and forth between the home studios of Eric (Giovinazzo, Italy) and Peter (Nockeby, Sweden). New songs are produced. Old ones, like Film Noir and The best of the bible, are being recreated and remixed. Many friends and allies help out.

Summer 2009. A Now meeting in Giovinazzo, Italy. A video, “Everyone I know”… is made by Lorenzo Scaraggi at the AFP, Acciaierie e Ferriere Pugliesi, an ironworks factory that collapsed in 1984. Now becoming the Now playground.

Fall 2009. Now becomes NOWlab. A lab re-creation of the late Screamin’ Jay Hawkins classic, I put a spell on you, is produced.

Spring 2010. The NOWlab album is released. The rest is future.