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Showing posts with label clips. Show all posts
1.18.2007
10.14.2006
Brother from Another Planet
"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth" -- Sun Ra
Today l saw Don Letts' great documentary " Brother from another planet : Sun Ra " (2005). Nothing about this mystic man can be called average. Celebrating his profound creativeness for over 6 decades through music, perfomance, poetry and film, mr. Ra has influenced countless musicians and touched many hearts with his unearthly presence.
Watch " Brother From Another Planet " on YouTube :
• Pt 1 • • Pt 2 •
• Pt 3 • • Pt 4 •
His Sun Ra Arkestra being more of a commune, bringing their eccentric music through their out of this world live shows. Many members (John Gilmore, Marshall Allen) devotedly following Ra's every move. June Tyson, loyal soulmate to Sun Ra and vocalist and dancer in the Arkestra once said that when she was on stage singing Sun Ra's lyrics, she thought of herself as a celestial being.
On his selfmade label 'Saturn' Ra released hundreds of records with all kinds of oddities, handmade artwork, titleless sleeves, wrong credits or no covers at all. The oddity of the label probably being a collectors' ultimate dream... (or worst nightmare)
Even when you get passed the weird costumes, the wild perfomances and the far-out-ness of this mysticus, you must feel the honesty. Sun Ra was the embodiement of a mysterious cosmic spirituality which probably only he understood. It can't be explained and it probably is crazy but it can definitely be heard when you listen to his music.
He once said: "I'm a spirit master. I've been to a zone where there is no air, no light, no sound, no life, no death, nothing. There's five billion people on this planet, all out of tune. I've got to raise their consciousness, tell them about the wonderful potential to bypass death."
We ain't never gonna see another phenomenon like Sun Ra again;
in this world that is...
-Excerpt from "Space is The Place" (1974)-
Sun Ra Links:
• • Official website of the Sun Ra Arkestra under direction of Marshall Allen • •
• • " Space is the Place : The Lives and Times of Sun Ra " • •
>> Review of the biography by J.F. Szwed
• • " Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation " • •
>> Prose & Poetry by Sun Ra
• • Sun Ra Arkive • •
>> Magazine dedicated to The Sun Ra Arkestra
• • Astro Black • •
>> Devoted to the music of Sun Ra (with extensive discography)
• • Saturn Web • •
>> On Sun Ra, the Arkestra & Free Jazz
• • Sun Ra Photographs • •
• • Sun Ra on YouTube • •
• • Sun Ra on IMDB • •
• • More • •2.03.2006
Jaan Pehechaan Ho !!!!
Remember the exhilarating Ghost World opening? Jaan Pehechaan Ho!!! Masked dancers go bezerk dancing to a high energy gogo-like song by Bollywood legend Mohammed Rafi. Ghost World's Enid just goes along dancing the crazy dance wich is highley contagious, I'm sure you'll find as well. 
Jaan Pehechaan Ho comes from Bollywoods' first "horror thriller", Raja Nawathe's Gumnaam (1965). The story is completely hilarious though, involving a very funny drunken showgirl, a planecrash on a spooky island, a mysterious book and naturally a murdermysterie and a lovestory.
Topping it all off with drunken duets, extravagant beachparties and more psychedelic dancemania. If you ever get the chance: Watch It!!
Now, thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog I finally have the complete clip, instead of just the Ghost World excerpt. Much obliged, WFMU's Brian & others!!!
< Take it here >
Just watching it makes you wanna join! Please do so! Throw back your head, close your eyes and shake yourself to the ecstatic Jaan Pehechaan Ho!
12.19.2005
Kid Beyond
He's got the music!
Beatboxer, vocalist, singer, one man band...
Live looping and multitracking his own voice Kid Beyond creates
his own multilayered music. If you watch the clip,
he'll explain a little bit of how he works.
It's just one voice, but he creates complete songs with it.
Watch the clip here, read more here
Beatboxer, vocalist, singer, one man band...
Live looping and multitracking his own voice Kid Beyond creates
his own multilayered music. If you watch the clip,
he'll explain a little bit of how he works.
It's just one voice, but he creates complete songs with it.
Watch the clip here, read more here
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