Sublime Frequencies Films and DJ Victrola Favorites
Posted in on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 6:52 pm by CGT
Some Sublime Frequencies film screenings down South. Films by one of the Twins with intermission and ambiance provided by DJ Victrola Favorites. If you are in Chapel Hill, Asheville, or Atlanta…
Friday March 27th
Nightlight
405 1/2 West Rosemary St
Chapel Hill, NC
Saturday March 28th
Harvest Records
415 Haywood Rd # B
Asheville, NC
Sunday March 29th
Eyedrum Gallery
290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr S
Atlanta, GA
this is what’s on the bill…
INDIA AT 78rpm
Excerpt from a work in progress, 2009
An excerpt from a project about 78rpm records and the intersection of folk and classical musical traditions in India. Mostly filmed in 2008 in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu…
MY FRIEND RAIN
Sublime Frequencies, 2007.
Filmed on various trips through Southeast Asia by Robert Millis and Alan Bishop from 2002 to 2007, My Friend Rain is an impressionistic collage of musical segments and tropical ambiance. Decay and rebirth through the endless Asian monsoon cycle. Locations include: Myanmar (Burma), Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia.
PHI TA KHON: GHOSTS OF ISAN
Sublime Frequencies, 2006
Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan documents a traditional Buddhist “ghost festival” held yearly in Thailand’s Isan province that features beautiful handmade masks, outrageous wooden phalluses, ceremony, ritual, dancing, and endless live Thai mo lam music.
Intermission ambiance provided by DJ Victrola Favorites, playing scratchy old and mysterious music from the early days of recording, as well as field recordings and music from Asia and beyond…with some Cecil B DeMillis thrown in the mix for good measure…
