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Les Blank, Christopher Tree (1967)
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Saturday Sep 19, 2009 (7:30pm)
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$5 w/ $10 food or drink minimum
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A 1968 short by Edward English, Spaceways percolates with the cosmic force of Sun Ra and his Arkestra. One of four musical portraits to screen tonight, it provides a chance to hear Ra's idiolect and to see footage of the era's protests alongside the band's run-through for Carnegie at his East 3rd Street space. Pete and Toshi Seeger become ethno-musicologists for The Singing Fishermen of Ghana and Les Blank gets a double feature with Cigarette Blues and Christopher Tree, the latter recording a virtuosic freestyle by an one-man orchestra out in the wilds.
