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Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973)

kinostr — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:51:45 GMT

Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjmQkOOa9A

Takehisa Kosugi was a hippie become avantgarde composer. Born in Tokyo in 1938, and graduated in 1962 at the Tokyo University of Arts, Kosugi founded the Japanese equivalent of the Fluxus movement, called "Group Ongaku", a group devoted to improvisation and multi-media performances. In 1969 he formed the Taj Mahal Travellers, a psychedelic-rock group that played lengthy improvised jams that can be summarized in three principles: a Far-Eastern approach to music as a living organism, an intense electronic processing of instruments and voices, a semi-mathematical overlapping of frequencies. Basically: LaMonte Young on acid. Kosugi mainly played electric violin. The band acquired free-jazz improviser Seiji Nagai, Yukio Tsuchiya on tuba and vibraphone, Ryo Koike on santoor (a hammered dulcimer) and on a horizontal double-bass, Michihiro Kimura, who had begun as designer of LP sleeves and started playing percussion and "singing", and Tokio Hasegawa, another improvised singer, all of them much younger than him. Kosugi was on the road with this group between 1971 and 1972, traveling in a Volkswagen minibus from Holland to the Taj Mahal itself. Two albums were made out of that experience: Taj-Mahal Travellers (Sony, 1972), also known as July 15 1972 (reissued in 2002 by Drone Syndicate) and performed by a seven-unit line-up, and Taj Mahal Travellers (Denon, 1983), also known as August 1974 (reissued in 1998 by P-Vine), four tracks over two LPs performed by eight players, plus one side (two tracks) of the legendary double-LP bootleg Live At Oz (Oz, 1973 - OZ Days, 2001), which also includes live performances by obscure Japanese musicians Acid Seven, Minami Masato and Hadaka no Rallizes.

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Hex - Global Chaos (VHS, 1993)

kinostr — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:11:25 GMT

Hex - Global Chaos (VHS, 1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7iSW4yKU0

from archiveorg:

'Robert Pepperell founded Hex in 1990 along with Miles Visman and Coldcut members Matt Black and Jon More. We wanted to exploit the creative possibilities of personal computers especially exploring the convergence of distinct media such as music, video, animation and visuals. We developed a number of ground-breaking products in a wide variety of formats over the decade or so Hex was in existence.
Hex went throught many transformations and was finally wound up in 1999 after internal tensions came to a head. However, the name and spirit of Hex continues through its bastard off-spring Hexstatic and the legacy of its audio-visual experiments can be seen in the work of a number of digital artists and performers. Here follows a brief history of the Hex years.
...
In May 93 Hex released "Global Chaos" on vhs, a 1 hour sell-through Rave Video distributed by Imagine and featuring computer graphix so intense you may require shades to watch it! Soundtrax mixed by Coldcut. Global Chaos revolves around the story of the Alien Sphinx's trip to Earth to steal our resources for his own dead planet. On experiencing the Chaos which reigns on Earth and seeing how we have already nearly trashed our World, he realises that the only hope is to combine his psychic powers with the energy of Rave music in an attempt to prevent all-out destruction of everything by malignant Infoviruses and Fascist control freaks.'

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TV as a Fireplace (1968/69)

kinostr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:35:40 GMT

TV as a Fireplace (1968/69)
Director: Jan Dibbets
Duration: 23mins

On the last eight evenings of 1969, WDR 3 television marked the close of transmission by broadcasting in colour the picture of a burning coal fire. There was no mention of the artist or the art character of the broadcast. It represents perhaps the first example of the now commercialized ’TV fireplace.’

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Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship…

kinostr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:17:06 GMT

Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (short, 1906)
Original title: Le dirigeable fantastique
Director: Georges Méliès

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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Thanatopsis (short, 1962)

kinostr — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:07:34 GMT

Thanatopsis (short, 1962)
Director: Ed Emshwiller
Duration: 5mins

Introducing some innovative film techniques, Emshwiller won a Special Award at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival for this expression of internal anguish. He described the film as "The confrontation of a man and his torment. Juxtaposed against his external composure are images of a woman and lights in distortion, with tension heightened by the sounds of power saws and a heartbeat."

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The Life and Death of 9413,…

kinostr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:31:46 GMT

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (short, 1928)
Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich

A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.

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Free Fall (short, 1964)

kinostr — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:00:44 GMT

Free Fall (short, 1964)
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Duration: 10mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zd8NcYI9JA

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca)

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