Unfortunaly,

it seems there was never a release of Sam Waymon´s score.

moenter.melle, December 14, 2005; 10:05 PM

I heard from a reliable source that Sam Waymon & Sony music is planning on releasing the score on vinyl in 2016/2017.

http://www.samwaymonmusic.com/

www.discogs.com/artist/533290-Sam-Waymon

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winterii2003, July 21, 2016; 3:30 AM

Ganja & Hess - soundtrack/score is coming soon.
Sam Waymon’s evocative 1973 masterpiece had a change of hands when it came to labels
but now it looks like it’ll be out in 2018.

winterii2003, January 30, 2018; 1:57 AM

Sam Waymon - Ganja & Hess (Original 1973 Motion Picture Soundtrack)

SD-006LP
April 2018
LP
Strange Disc Records proudly presents the original soundtrack to one of THE
groundbreaking films of African American cinema, Ganja & Hess (1973).

Ganja & Hess is a seminal work of African American cinema, flirting with the conventions of
blaxploitation and horror cinema, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film is a highly
stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Starring
Duane Jones (Night Of The Living Dead) & Marlene Clark (Midnight Cowboy, Enter The
Dragon) as the leading roles.

Ganja & Hess was honored as one of the ten best American films of its decade by the
Cannes Film Festival but was barely distributed to American audiences. Commissioned at a
time when ‘blaxploitation’ movies like ‘Shaft’ played as blockbusters in African American
neighborhoods, it was suppressed in the United States because it did not turn out to be the
Hollywood genre film the producers intended, so Ganja & Hess was withdrawn when Gunn
went beyond the vampire genre and turned in an original product.

The original cut was donated to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) whose restoration work
& screenings helped build the film’s reputation as a neglected classic of independent African
American cinema. The restored version later received a superior DVD & Blu Ray release
through Kino Lorber and in 2014 the film was remade by Spike Lee as ‘Da Sweet Blood of
Jesus’.

The soundtrack to this exceptional film was composed Sam Waymon, a creative legend who
has contributed to local, national and world culture. Born in North Carolina, Sam Waymon
began his musical odyssey playing along with his sister, Eunice. His sister left North Carolina
in the ’50s and traveled north to pursue her career. Along the way she dropped her given
name and became one of music’s most influential and independent musicians, known as
Nina Simone.

Sam performed with and wrote music for his sister for over ten years but finally broke away
to develop a style of his own that combines gospel, R&B, blues and jazz. Sam went on to
record for record labels like: RCA, Polygram, and his own label Resolution records. He has
worked side by side with legendary artists such as Miles Davis, Donnie Hathaway, Roberta
Flack, The 5th dimension, and the list goes on and on.

Even more haunting than the film is its music, Sam Waymon created an innovative, ahead-
of-its-time mixture of soul, tribal chants, gospel and trippy, dissonant experimental cues
that makes for the strangest score for a vampire film.

Now, for the FIRST TIME ON VINYL (or on any format) Strange Disc records proudly
presents a deluxe color vinyl edition (with insert containing exclusive liner notes & rare
photographic materials) exclusively for Record Store Day 2018. Curated and supervised by
composer Sam Waymon himself, this release is strictly limited to 1000 copies worldwide &
available in participating stores on 4/21.

winterii2003, March 7, 2018; 2:20 AM