Date: November 30, 2004
Subject: Philly event INSANITY
Sorry to pop in with Philadelphia-only info, I do my best to make mailings more global, but this week in Philly is MADNESS. Full details at www.beleza-music.org/events, but here's the run down.
Tue: Worship Recordings Heavy Tuesdays with special guest Ivan Ross
International man of mystery and wicked dj/producer Ivan Ross joins the 100% pure vibes of the Worship Crew tonight @ Soma, 33 S. 3rd St.
Wed: Screening of "Maestro" at International House, 3701 Chestnut St, 7pm
"Maestro" offers rare insight into the dance music underground of the 1970s and the DJs who dominated the urban nightlife of the era. Afterparty at Fluid with King Britt and Dozia. Film $6/$5 members/students/seniors, party $3 with Maestro stub. Check the I-House website for all I-House film events, including the excellent Cinema Tropical series.
Wed: Bahia Revisited Film Festival
7:00pm - 11:00pm; Wednesday, December 1, 2004
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street. University City, Philadelphia
Philadelphia premier showing of "Besouro Preto"
Q & A Session with Salim Rollins, Director of "Besouro Preto"
Screening of Brazilian epic "Quilombo"
Raffle Drawing (All proceeds will be used in support of the International Capoeira Angola Foundation (a non-profit organization)
Tickets: $5.00
Website: http://www.icafphilly.org/film_fest.htm
Email: comments@icafphilly.org
Phone: 215.242.6599
Wed: Grandmaster Flash and Biz Markie @ The Five Spot
A Holiday Spectacular
Grandmaster Flash and Biz Markie with tatik and Mike Nyce
The Five Spot, 1 S. Bank Street, Philadelphia
No cover, sponsored by Scion
Thur: Music on Film: Space is the Place, International House, 7pm
dir. John Coney, USA, 1974, 35mm, 82 mins, color
Sci-fi, blaxploitation, cosmic free jazz and radical race politics combine when Sun Ra returns to Earth in his music-powered space ship to battle for the future of the black race. Created as an homage to the low-budget science fiction films of the 50s and 60s, Space is the Place became a visual embodiment of Sun Ra's Afro-Egyptian myth of salvation in outer space.
Thur: Ars Nova Workshop presents: Charles Gayle Trio
St. Mary's at Penn (Sanctuary), 3916 Locust Walk, 9pm
Alto saxophonist and free jazz legend Charles Gayle has a hyper-kinetic free expressionism drawing on the stylistic devices pioneered in the '60s by the late free jazz icon Albert Ayler. Like Ayler, Gayle employs a huge tone which, more often than not, he splits into its individual harmonic components. His improvisations feature long, vibrating, free-gospel melodies, full of huge intervallic leaps, screaming multiphonics, and a density of line that evidences a remarkable dexterity in all registers of his horn. Capable of great lyricism, Gayle is imbued with the same bracing intensity present in his high-energy work.
Fri: Hip Hop Lives @ Tri-Tone
E-City Entertainment presents Hip Hop Lives
with Scandal, Electric City, Smash Brothers (live hip hop band) and DJ Skipmode
Somehow I slept on this event until stumbling across it last month, and the vibe is TRUE. Thick energy, great crowd, and some pretty fancy free-styling.
www.hip-hoplives.com
I don't even know what's going on this weekend. I'm not sure I want to know. My head is going to explode. Don't say I never gave you any fantastic date ideas. Get out there and get some cultcha, people!!
Oh! Right, don't forget, Signal at Fluid Thursday Dec 16 with Ultraviolet (Ladies Love Hip Hop), Sezy (www.djsezy.com), Jneiro Jarel (www.jneirojarel.com) and myself, 99 (www.beleza-music.org), and Moonstarr and Dialect @ Aqua Lounge Thursday Dec 9. Back soon with more Jackson Pollock-style musical buckshot. Till then, breathe deep and enjoy these ludicrous times. Maluca beleza, for sure.
