Tag: music
Follow My Voice: With The Music of Hedwig
Back in 2003 Chris Slusarenko a record producer had the idea of getting some cutting-edge musicians to record a tribute album consisting of all the songs from ‘Hedwig and The Angry Inch’. And all the proceeds from the sales of the album would go towards helping fund the Harvey Milk School for gay, bisexual and transgendered kids in NY just as…
Bob Wilson’s Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
The acclaimed avant-garde theater and opera director Robert Wilson was passing through New York one day when he received an urgent phone call from his friend Marina Abramovic, the celebrated performance artist, demanding that he should see her immediately. When he protested that he was busy the whole day, she didn’t let up. ‘I NEED…
TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
Up until the 1960’s singing stars on TV and Records were supported by very wholesome and rather genteel white female singers. They were known by other musicians as ‘readers’ as they came in and sang exactly what was on their music scores without any deviation. And then the first African/American girls started getting gigs backing…
Searching For Sugarman
Back in 1969 an unknown singer-songwriter called Rodriguez was discovered performing in a dive bar in Detroit and was immediately offered a deal to record two albums. His music bore more than a passing resemblance to that of Bob Dylan, but his first album ‘Cold Fact’ received critical acclaim but only zero sales, and when…
JOSEPHINE BAKER : BLACK DIVA IN A WHITE MAN'S WORLD
Ask anyone today what they know about the great Josephine Baker and they will inevitably trot out the fact that she scandalized tout Paris in the 1920’s by dancing wearing nothing more than a bunch of bananas. In this (far too short) film on her life we learn there was so much more to this…
