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MVD 7882DVD
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"Jajouka, a small village in the Rif mountains of northern Morocco. For over 2,000 years, magic fertility rites have been performed there, the rites of Pan, akin to the Roman Lupercales, along with unique music played by a brotherhood of musicians called The Master Musicians of Jajouka. When Brion Gysin, inventor of the Dreamachine, discovered the village in the 50s, he described them as heirs of the great 12th-century Persian poet, Farid Al-Din Attar, au- thor of the initiatory poem 'The Conference of the Birds,' a key work in the Sufi spiritual tradition. An entire fringe group of artists, musicians and writers, in the wake of Paul Bowles and Brion Gysin, were drawn to Jajouka: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones who recorded their first album; Ornette Coleman, founder of free jazz; William S. Burroughs; LSD guru Timothy Leary; and more recently musicians such as Genesis P-Orridge or Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Eric and Marc Hurtado, founders of the group Etant Donnés, set out to film these Pan devotees, musicians who use their music for miraculous healing rituals held at the tomb of the village saint, Sidi Ahmed Sheikh. The film is polarized by the attraction between Bou Jeloud (the Father of Skins/Pan) and Aïsha Kandisha, woman-demoness, goddess of the night and springs. He is gold, she is silver... A child runs like the wind, chased and whipped by Bou Jeloud's olive switches... Aïsha hears and stands vigil... She waits for Bou Jeloud near nocturnal rivers... She is dangerous, he is the Father of Fear. A film of violent poetry that treads the line between documentary and fiction (but legends can be fiction?), whose action is rooted in the trance of the ritual and its musical madness, to be reflected in a child's tear, a flame, an eternal women's chant addressed to men and the heaven." Please note: seems like there is format confusion on this release, it is European PAL format only.
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MVD 1968DVD
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"Alan Vega and Martin Rev are two of the greatest artists on the New York music scene. In solo or with Suicide, they were at the origin of contemporary musical styles like electro and punk. Without them, no Nine Inch Nails, New Order, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Aphex Twin or Daft Punk. Rolling Stone Magazine ranks Suicide's first album in its list of the 500 greatest records of all time. Alan Vega 'One of the great revolutionary voices in rock & roll' --Bruce Springsteen. Marc Hurtado is a French director, the only one to have been able to follow and film Alan Vega for years. As a musician, he played with Christophe, Genesis P-Orridge, Gaby Deldago (DAF), Lydia Lunch. He also produced one of Vega's latest albums: Sniper. This boxset presents the entirety of these 5 unreleased films. It is accompanied by a 32-page booklet, including texts by Marc Hurtado and Alexandre Breton (France Culture) as well as 16 paintings by Sébastien Vitré. Films short descriptions: The Infinite Mercy Film - 16' (2009) A portrait of Alan Vega as a painter, drawer and sculptor of light Saturn Drive Duplex - 6' (2011) Music video of a song from the album Sniper by Marc Hurtado and Alan Vega Saturn Drive Duplex Redux - 4' (2014) Music video from an alternative version of 'Saturn Drive Duplex' Infinite Dreamers - 82' (2016) A hallucinatory trip in the mysterious apocalyptic Suicide visions of Alan Vega & Martin Rev Saturn Drive- 5' (2016) A poignant testimony of Alan Vega filmed in a New York Hospital." NTSC all region.
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MVD 1651DVD
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"DVD 1: Looking For Ornette - a film by jacques goldstein, 2016, 61', stereo. Jacques Goldstein goes on a quest for a spectre, a spectre that haunts Jazz. Who was Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist and composer whom we owe the invention of Free Jazz to... If his seminal body of work is now -- rightfully so -- fully recognized, the man remained deliberately mysterious and enigmatic. The director makes attempts to approach him. He visits and interviews musicians who owe him a lot. A portrait of Ornette takes shape as these sketches gradually unfold, the man who thought that beauty was a rare thing. DVD 2: Ornette - Apparitions a film by stéphane jourdain, 2016, 56', stereo, 5.1. From his career debut within the ONJ (french National Jazz Orchestra) to his duet Grand Bazar with Eve Ris- ser, Antonin-Tri Hoang's music is reminiscent of the late Ornette Coleman, with its florid lyricism and a similar taste for controlled skidding. Commissioned by Banlieues Bleues, Ornette - Apparitions aims at summoning the spirit of the free jazz godfather. Antonin-Tri Hoang offers dreams, wanderings, evocative bridges. Not a revival, but a survival. His Novembre quartet, joined by its many guests, masters the art of zapping and collage between eras and references. The film is the story of this creation and of these apparitions." NTSC format.
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LAH 032DVD
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2012 release. "Featured Artists: John Cage, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Gavin Bryars, Richie Hawtin. From John Cage to techno, through minimalism and post-modernism. This film was inspired by the itinerary of a oegap-bridger: Daniel Caux, a musicologist, essayist and radio producer, who made endless discoveries in the fields of experimental, minimalist, repetitive, postmodern and techno music. His contribution is all the more important in that these past four decades have been particularly rich in terms of creations, inventions and experimentation. His recent passing has reversed the roles, since many of the very musicians that he ardently supported wished to be present in this film. This film embraces a significant part of 20th century musical creation as seen from this "Daniel Caux belvedere" and bears witness to the music that these major figures are inextricably associated with, as well as their on-going creativity. The bonus to this film is based on the passionate opinions of Daniel Caux, musicologist, essayist, activist and radio producer, promoter and friend to all of the musicians present in the film." NTSC all region.
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