Hi all
We're showing the following two documentaries as part of DEAF. We think you'll enjoy!
We have 2 pairs of tickets to give away to each.
To win a pair for the Sun Ra film, please answer the following question: What is Sun Ra's real name?
Email your answer, name and mobile number to [email protected] no later than 5pm on Friday October 24 with Sun Ra/ Thumped in the subject box.
To win a pair of tickets for Rising Tones Cross, please answer the following question: Peter Brotzmann is a native of what country?
Email your answer, name and mobile number to [email protected] no later than 5pm on Friday October 24 with Rising Tones/ Thumped in the subject box.
For those of you who don't win the cinema is limited to 30 seats so advance booking is advisable. You can also pay on the door
Thanks
*Improvised Music Company present jazz documentaries at DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) *
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (1980)
A film by Robert Mugge
One of jazz music's most entertaining and eccentric figures is profiled in Robert Mugge's hourlong, 1980 profile of the late bandleader-keyboardist-composer Sun Ra. "I don't consider myself one of the humans," he once said. "I'm a spiritual being," who was reputed to eschew the usual jazzman's indulgences of drugs and sex and who, despite the weird trappings (he and his big band, the Intergalactic Omniverse Arkestra, usually performed in glittery costumes that combined African, alien, and thrift-shop styles), infused his music with a strong sense of discipline and precision. Here we see Ra and the band rehearsing and performing; their "joyful noise" is free, sometimes chaotic, but also clearly blues-based, somewhat reminiscent of Monk or Mingus (there's even a rendition of "'Round Midnight"). Ra is also interviewed surrounded by the Egyptian artifacts and antiquities that were an important element of his "mythocracy." He clearly loves having an audience--and how can you not enjoy listening to a guy who also chooses the White House as a backdrop for solemn pronouncements like "I'm not a part of history--I'm more a part of mystery, which is my story".
‘One of the best 50 music documentaries ever made’ – Time Out London’
Venue: Denzille Cinema (limited to 30 seats), 13 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2
Saturday, October 25th. 3.30pm
Tickets: On the door or tickets.ie
Price: €8
Rising Tones Cross (1984)
A jazz film by written and directed by Ebba Jahn
In 1984, before Tonic or CB's Lounge or even the Knitting Factory and Rudy Giuliani, New York City was a rough-and-tumble place filled with a wonderful array of musicians in a state of hyper-creativity.
Some of them had come out of the loft scene of the '70s or even earlier and were reconciling all the shades of the avant garde while others were creating entirely new vocabularies still being solidified today.
German filmmaker Ebba Jahn made “A Jazz Film” that year with interviews, musical performances and fascinating visuals of the city before it became sterilized. For the film's 20th anniversary last year, Jahn put the film onto DVD format, a nostalgia piece for some, a valuable historical document for others.
Many of the musicians featured are still active players: Charles Gayle, William Parker, John Zorn, Jemeel Moondoc, Irene Schweizer, Peter Brotzmann. The film captures many who have departed firmly in their element: Charles Tyler, Don Cherry, Denis Charles, Peter Kowald.
The two main voices of the film are Gayle and Kowald, an American and a German playing improvised music in basements and lofts and in the Sound Unity Festival, the precursor to today's Vision Festival.
The film is romantic. There is a certain appeal and charm to the images of a dirtier, grittier New York. The scene, always the scene, seemed to be more vibrant and the musicians less weighed down. And the music is wonderful, compelling stuff even for people jaded about improvised music. Rising Tones Cross provides some continuity, showing how jazz survived when pop and rap and heavy metal began to fully take over the public consciousness.
‘Ebba Jahn’s remarkable film Rising Tones Cross, a two hour document of New York jazz, filmed in 1984 but looking so ramshackle and magnificently unreconstructed as to resemble a down at heel scene from a good decade earlier’ – The Wire (reviewing Le Weekend Festival 2008)
Venue: Denzille Cinema (limited to 30 seats), 13 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2
Saturday, October 25th. 5.30pm
Tickets: On the door or tickets.ie
Price: €8
We're showing the following two documentaries as part of DEAF. We think you'll enjoy!
We have 2 pairs of tickets to give away to each.
To win a pair for the Sun Ra film, please answer the following question: What is Sun Ra's real name?
Email your answer, name and mobile number to [email protected] no later than 5pm on Friday October 24 with Sun Ra/ Thumped in the subject box.
To win a pair of tickets for Rising Tones Cross, please answer the following question: Peter Brotzmann is a native of what country?
Email your answer, name and mobile number to [email protected] no later than 5pm on Friday October 24 with Rising Tones/ Thumped in the subject box.
For those of you who don't win the cinema is limited to 30 seats so advance booking is advisable. You can also pay on the door
Thanks
*Improvised Music Company present jazz documentaries at DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) *
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (1980)
A film by Robert Mugge
One of jazz music's most entertaining and eccentric figures is profiled in Robert Mugge's hourlong, 1980 profile of the late bandleader-keyboardist-composer Sun Ra. "I don't consider myself one of the humans," he once said. "I'm a spiritual being," who was reputed to eschew the usual jazzman's indulgences of drugs and sex and who, despite the weird trappings (he and his big band, the Intergalactic Omniverse Arkestra, usually performed in glittery costumes that combined African, alien, and thrift-shop styles), infused his music with a strong sense of discipline and precision. Here we see Ra and the band rehearsing and performing; their "joyful noise" is free, sometimes chaotic, but also clearly blues-based, somewhat reminiscent of Monk or Mingus (there's even a rendition of "'Round Midnight"). Ra is also interviewed surrounded by the Egyptian artifacts and antiquities that were an important element of his "mythocracy." He clearly loves having an audience--and how can you not enjoy listening to a guy who also chooses the White House as a backdrop for solemn pronouncements like "I'm not a part of history--I'm more a part of mystery, which is my story".
‘One of the best 50 music documentaries ever made’ – Time Out London’
Venue: Denzille Cinema (limited to 30 seats), 13 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2
Saturday, October 25th. 3.30pm
Tickets: On the door or tickets.ie
Price: €8
Rising Tones Cross (1984)
A jazz film by written and directed by Ebba Jahn
In 1984, before Tonic or CB's Lounge or even the Knitting Factory and Rudy Giuliani, New York City was a rough-and-tumble place filled with a wonderful array of musicians in a state of hyper-creativity.
Some of them had come out of the loft scene of the '70s or even earlier and were reconciling all the shades of the avant garde while others were creating entirely new vocabularies still being solidified today.
German filmmaker Ebba Jahn made “A Jazz Film” that year with interviews, musical performances and fascinating visuals of the city before it became sterilized. For the film's 20th anniversary last year, Jahn put the film onto DVD format, a nostalgia piece for some, a valuable historical document for others.
Many of the musicians featured are still active players: Charles Gayle, William Parker, John Zorn, Jemeel Moondoc, Irene Schweizer, Peter Brotzmann. The film captures many who have departed firmly in their element: Charles Tyler, Don Cherry, Denis Charles, Peter Kowald.
The two main voices of the film are Gayle and Kowald, an American and a German playing improvised music in basements and lofts and in the Sound Unity Festival, the precursor to today's Vision Festival.
The film is romantic. There is a certain appeal and charm to the images of a dirtier, grittier New York. The scene, always the scene, seemed to be more vibrant and the musicians less weighed down. And the music is wonderful, compelling stuff even for people jaded about improvised music. Rising Tones Cross provides some continuity, showing how jazz survived when pop and rap and heavy metal began to fully take over the public consciousness.
‘Ebba Jahn’s remarkable film Rising Tones Cross, a two hour document of New York jazz, filmed in 1984 but looking so ramshackle and magnificently unreconstructed as to resemble a down at heel scene from a good decade earlier’ – The Wire (reviewing Le Weekend Festival 2008)
Venue: Denzille Cinema (limited to 30 seats), 13 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2
Saturday, October 25th. 5.30pm
Tickets: On the door or tickets.ie
Price: €8
