A Joyful Noise (DVD)
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Sun Ra
A Joyful Noise (DVD)
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Release Date: Friday 26 February 2016
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Robert Mugge's definitive documentary portrait of jazz visionary Sun Ra and his Arkestra. In 2008, Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise was named one of the 50 Greatest Music Films Ever by Time Out.
Decades ahead of his time, composer, keyboard player, bandleader, singer, poet, and philosopher Sun Ra coupled sci-fi images of outer space with those of ancient Egypt, acoustic instruments with electronic ones, and modern American musical genres (jazz, soul, gospel, blues, swing) with traditional sounds of Africa and the Caribbean. He also combined his music with dance, poetry, colourful costumes and backdrops, and pure theatricality, influencing other innovative musical groups as divers as the Art Ensemble of Chicago, George Clinton's Parliament and Zappa's Mothers of Invention.
For this doco, Mugge and his crew spent two years (1978-1980) shooting Sun Ra and members of his Arkestra at various locations in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC.
In 2015 the film was transferred to HD from the original 16mm master and lovingly restored.
Bonus feature:
Extended audio versions of performances from the film
