Jet
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Here’s another on Éliane Radigue, free to watch for another month or two.
Again, in French, but has English or German subs.
A weird reason to watch, but Francois J Bonnet makes music as Kassel Jaeger, has collaborated with Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, et al.
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mbutz
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My favorite part is the end when Pat Martino is jamming with his wife - but that said: the whole documentary is worthwhile to watch:
I highly recommend The Devil and Daniel Johnston. It’s available on Amazon Prime. He’s the guy that made the t-shirt Kurt Cobain wore a lot. His story is incredible, and shocking.
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Surprised the BBC documentary about Harry Partch isn’t already here.
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DoS
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I’ve had a DVD of this since it came out and have never got around to viewing it! It just returned from a decade or so in storage, so maybe I’ll actually watch it now.
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Not that I’d be really in love with the band, but the docu is ace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVl9wNdplOg
LC
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Geecen
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Derek Bailey - On the Edge.
This was a 4 part documentary series made for Channel 4 in the UK based on Derek Bailey’s book on improvisation. If you don’t know him, Bailey was one of the great British free jazz improvisors and pioneered a lot of extended technique stuff on guitar.
This is programme 1 of 4.
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this is a really great film!
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rstn
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I’m surprised this hasn’t been mentioned here yet - but I heartily recommend “Listening to Kenny G” by Penny Lane. Both profound and extremely entertaining. It gets at so many interesting ideas about listening, taste, the value of practice, authenticity in music, and even some aspects of electronic music and recording ethics.
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston is favorite doc of all time.
rstn, you are right - Listening to Kenny G is killer. Lot’s of interesting questions posed about music, musicianship, the cultural integration that music can have and what all of that can mean within the context of someone who seems to care more about perfection and practice than actually making music.
I actually report on documentary news on a weekly basis, work for a well known film festival and curate a film series.
Some notables I love that were not mentioned here previously:
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Just rented (the English language version of) Montreal New Wave.
Montreal New Wave is a feature documentary that explores the New Wave cultural current in Quebec in the 70’s and 80’s. The film documents and questions that unknown part of our recent cultural history. Through archives and interviews with key figures of the time, MONTREAL NEW WAVE wants to shed light on a defining current that still inspires the Quebec cultural scene today.
Apart from Men Without Hats this was all new to me. Really well made as well.
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Not a documentary, but really inspiring:
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https://archive.org/details/highlonesomesound
EDIT: this version is lower quality overall and it’s not quite a complete print, but the pitch of the audio is stable so it’s probably more watchable:
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston -
I got 10 minutes into this and realised it didn’t interest me in the slightest. oh well.
Yesterday i watched this -
Paul Morley suggests that Kraftwerk have become more influential than the beatles.
Today i watched this -
" Clocking in at around three hours, Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution is probably as comprehensive a history of late 20th-century German experimental music as you’re ever likely to need. The fact that the documentary only starts to get to the band that is supposed to be its main focus after almost an hour should tell you something about how gargantuan and glacially paced this movie is. I am holding out for a prequel that takes us back even further to the invention of the light bulb and the piano, because I’m not sure we’ve yet gotten enough of a foundation for where electronic music comes from."
In a bit I’m watching Tim Westwood: Abuse of Power, he’s been a very naughty boy apparently.
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Not out yet, but looks promising: Eno — Gary Hustwit
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Stoked this is finally streaming on the Criterion Channel - been waiting to see it since it was announced:
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