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Category: VIDEO

  • American and Cuban Jazz Meet on “Ninety Miles” Documentary

    Stefon Harris, David Sanchez & Christian Scott will perform at their album release party at S.O.B.’s in NYC on June 21.

    Opening Tuesday, June 21 – S.O.B.’s, NYC – Win Tickets

    Hear ‘Ninety Miles’ In Its Entirety

    All distance is relative, especially where geopolitical borders and ideologies are involved. We speak one language, they speak another. We follow our system, they follow theirs. When we focus on the differences, a relatively short stretch of land or water starts to look like a yawning chasm. But when we look at each other as individuals and focus on the similarities, that “chasm” is actually a very short distance. Less than a hundred miles.

    Musicians – especially jazz musicians, whose craft is in many ways an improvised form of communication – understand this principle inherently, perhaps better than any politician or diplomat could ever hope to. Vibraphonist Stefon Harris, saxophonist David Sánchez and trumpeter Christian Scott cross that divide in Ninety Miles.

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  • Vieux Farka Touré Video For “All The Same (Featuring Dave Matthews)”

    Vieux Farka Touré premiered his new video for “All The Same” featuring Dave Matthews on PopMatters, which is directed by Sam Bathrick and produced by Adam Barton of Native Resonance.

    Vieux is hot on the heels of the release of his third studio album, The Secret (Six Degrees Records), which has already entered the Billboard World Charts top 3 and Billboard Indie Chart top 200.  The album is produced by guitarist Eric Krasno (of Soulive fame) also features Dave Matthews, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Ivan Neville and Vieux’s final collaboration with his legendary father, Ali Farka Toure.

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  • Favela Rising Documentary Streaming Free at LinkTV

    Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.

    At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson’s grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.

    Watch it at LINKTV

    Favela Rising official film website

     

  • Unsound Festival Video: In Search of the Unsound

    Guide to Unsound New York Festival 2011

  • The Greg Foat Group ‘Hello Old Friend’

    Like floating down a lazy river… taken from the forthcoming album ‘The Greg Foat Group’ on Jazzman Recording.

  • Submotion Orchestra — ‘All Yours’

  • Belleruche Video for “3 Amp Fuse”

    Belleruche – ‘3 amp fuse’, Official Video, third single from the album 270 Stories.

    Read MundoVibe’s interview with Kathrin de Boer

  • Nostalgia 77 Release ‘Simmerdown’ Ahead of Full-length, “The Sleepwalking Society”

    Nostalgia 77 aka Ben Lamdin has created a beautiful new album called The Sleepwalking Society (out March 22nd). The album features vocals from the lovely Josa Peit. The single, Simmerdown will be out on a limited edition 7″, as well as digitally on February 14th. Full video at the jump.

  • Grande Hotel Documentary

    In the 1950s, a majestic Grande Hotel was built in Beira in the former Portuguese colony Mozambique, as if it were the Côte d´Azur. It was doomed from the start and has now been stripped of everything of value: this film is a portrait of a skeleton and of some of the 3500 people who live there now.

    It was once a five-star hotel with 110 spacious rooms, an Olympic swimming pool and a luxury restaurant. It was a Grande Hotel designed as an undulating cake, situated in Beira on the coast of Mozambique and, in all its pomp and circumstance, it represented the haughtiness of colonialism.

    Today it is a grey ruin. Over 3500 Mozambiquans have sought refuge between the wide corridors and imposing staircases. Everything of value in the building has been demolished and sold; only the concrete frame remains. Without water or electricity, the inhabitants make the best of the situation. Small enterprises blossom, but there’s also violence and danger.
    Lotte Stoops portrayed several of the present inhabitants of the Grande Hotel and in Portugal visited a former guest who still has fond memories of her time in Mozambique. A harrowing yet also fascinating and impressive story of a dream that was doomed to become a nightmare.

    Grand Hotel is screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

  • Eyes Wide Open Documentary

    “Eyes Wide Open” Documentary on south america’s awakening Now streaming for free at Link TV.

    After 500 years of exploitation and repression, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of socialist leaders has come to power. Can they satisfy their peoples’ hunger for change?

    view it at Link TV