CALLE 54
A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene.
Fernando Trueba
<a href="https://youtu.be/PP4BTplIhXE">LINK TO TRAILER</a>
Home Screen
2000
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Dutch, French
DOC.CAL
POINTS ON A SPACE AGE
<p>total duration: 32' </p>
<p>[ not 60' as the backcover inclines ]</p>
USA
Ephraim Asili
<a href="https://exclaim.ca/music/article/sun_ra_arkestra-points_on_space_age">LINK TO INFO PAGE</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/The-Sun-Ra-Arkestra-Points-On-A-Space-Age/release/6549902">LINK TO DISCOGS + VIDEO FOOTAGE</a>
MVD Visual – MVDV4774
2009
Marshall Allen, Sun Ra Arkestra
Language: American English
Subtitles: none
DOC . POI
Music of Group Ongaku
Electronic, experimental Jazz
"Group ONGAKU, founded mainly by students at Tokyo National University of Fine Art & Music, was the 1st collective musical improvisation group. The group began their activities in 1958, & from the naming of the group in 1960 onward continued until somewhere around 1962. They attempted to create acoustics corresponding to actual time & space by means of collective improvisation. Although methodically different, the music that they pursued incidentally shared common directions with contemporaries such as John Cage & other involved in the avant-garde artist collective of Fluxus." - Takako Okamoto, taken from original liner notes. "Three wild & woolly scrambling tracks that melt nodes. Dished are dropped, vacuum cleaners get fried, saxes, organs & cellos howl, Group Ongaku were doing it all when the only other cosmic acolyte on the scene was Alan Watts. And these recordings-laid down a couple of years AHEAD of Big Als acid jabber- make This Is It sound like the lysergic soundtrack to Hello Dolly! by comparison. Concurrently, these primal articulations bear the distinction of sounding like the COMPLETE Nurse With Wound List playing at once.. And when you realize that said posse includes Airway, Cromagnon, Don Bradshaw Leather & Throbbing Gristle among its formidable ranks, then one must understand that what is passing between their ears is an aural Excalibur of avant/experimental freakdom that almost no one knew existed. A staggering & crucial lost piece to the ever burgeoning puzzle of the weird." - Phinneas Barbital, author, Cracks Inside Planet Brain (forthcoming, 2011). "Those familiar w/Julian Copes seminal Japrocksampler will recognize the name Group Ongaku as the cornerstone of the 32 page entry, "Experimental Japan. Simply put, this collective was edenic as the foundation of fusing avant classical input with organic,improvisational output, thus forging a singular Minimalist sound on par w/similar, radical outre composition that was taking place in the West at the same time (Cage & Stockhausens work in particular). That members of Group Ongaku would later be instrumental in founding Japans Fluxus movement as well as form the legendary Taj Mahal Travellers seems almost elementary.And while to some these recording might sound archaic, their importance can never be understated or denied. Recorded in 1960 & 61 respectively, these 3 tracks were original 1st released on CD in a small edition in 1996. Long thought to be impossible to replicate onto vinyl due to time constraints (side 1 is practically 35 minutes in length), new technology in Japanese audio restoration has made it possible for Music Of Group Ongaku to finally see a proper LP release. And the sound is most exhilarating. Personnel is as follows; Takehisa Kosugi (violin, sax, tape), Chieko Shiomi (piano), Mikio Tojima (cello), Yasunao Tone (sax, tape), Genichi Tsuge (guitar), Shukou Mizuno (cello, drums tape). Japanese import, includes English language insert, edition of 300." - SEER Sound Archive. We were thoroughly stunned hearing this after nabbing a few of the CDs way back when - ahead of its time to say the least. Very highly recommended!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.soundohm.com/product/music-of-group-ongaku/pid/16484/">/blurb from here\</a>
Tracklist:
Side A:
- Automatism, 1960, 26:20' minutes
- Object, 1960, 7:34' minutes
Side B:
- Metaplasm 9-15, 1961
- part one : 14:16'
- part two: 11:26'
Ongaku Group
Originally recorded on May 8th 1960 and September 15th 1961.
Seer Sound Archive
2011
Takehisa Kosugi, Chieko Shiomi, Yumiko Tanno, Mikio Tojima, Yasanao Tone, Shukou Mizuno, Geniche Tsuge
<a href="https://www.discogs.com/Group-Ongaku-Music-Of-Group-Ongaku/release/2665420">diskcogs</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bleakbliss.blogspot.nl/2016/06/group-ongaku-music-of-group-ongaku.html">bleak bliss</a>
59:35' minutes total duration
Japanese
Electronic, Jazz, Experimental
WCLP0011
Japan
In Praise of Learning
Jazz, Art Rock, Avant-Garde
Henry Cow's third album, originally released in 1975, found them expanded to an eight-piece ensemble after a guest session on another group's record. Henry Cow absorbed Slapp Happy into their lineup after appearing on Slapp Happy's Desperate Straights album. It was a tenuous relationship (lasting only long enough for this release, and with Slapp Happy crumbling after Dagmar Krause decided to stay on with Henry Cow), but one that produced some stunning results. Anthony Moore and Peter Blegvad's "War" has enormous proportion and power that would have been beyond the scope of a relatively quiet trio. The sheer ambition of this work is bracing. Intricately composed and arranged pieces, rife with lyrics that meld poetry with politics, give way to extended improvisations. While that had always been the Henry Cow recipe, it was never given such dramatic sweep. No one has ever, before or since, sounded like this incarnation of Henry Cow.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/in-praise-of-learning-mw0000067090">/blurb\</a>
tracklist:
Side A :
War - 2:24'
Living in the Heart of the Beast - 15:18'
Beginning: The Long March - 6:20'
Beautiful as the Moon, Terrible as an Army with Banners - 6:55'
Morning Star - 6:02
Henry Cow
Originally recorded in 1975
ReR Megacorp – RER VHC3
2011
Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, Lindsay Cooper, Anthony Moore, John Greaves and Dagmar Krause.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVbYmx9UVU">full album</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.discogs.com/Henry-Cow-Slapp-Happy-In-Praise-Of-Learning/master/66004">diskcog</a>
37 minutes duration
English
One of the key groups in European experimental rock
WCLP0007
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
SONIC MIRROR
Switzerland
total duration: 79'
Mika Kaurismaki
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467490/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_q_sonic%2520mirror">FILM INFO</a>
2009
legendary jazz drummer and composer Billy Cobham
Language: English, Swiss
Subtitles: Dutch
DOC . SON
SHADOWS
USA
97'
John Cassavetes
1958
Language: English
HOR.SHA