My Name Is Albert Ayler
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Sun 29 April 2007 // 20:00
(Sun 29th / 8pm / £4/3)
(Kasper Collin / Sweden / 2005 / 35mm / 79 mins / Cert 15)
The prophetic free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who today is seen as one of the most important innovators in jazz, was obsessed with his radical music and by the thought that people one day would understand it. In 1962 he recorded his first album in Sweden. Eight years later he was found dead in New York's East River, aged 34. This new documentary follows the trail of Ayler from his native town of Cleveland by way of Sweden to New York, meeting family, friends and close colleagues. Ayler himself guides us with his voice and music. Seven years in the making, the film includes newly discovered footage of Ayler and band.
www.mynameisalbertayler.com
PLUS LIVE PERFORMANCE: Primordial Undermind
A blur of indefinite energy, invisible not for transparency but for speed. The first esoteric wonder of California mingled with psychic residue of an imaginal Tangiers. An ecstatic dance dissolving the corrupted fabric of causality, invoking singularity, bleeding at the edges. Radiant spectral photon flux detonated by revelation of the physical plane as pharmacopial fantasy. Primal metabolism accelerated by innervating feedback; resonant vibration within the primitive emotions inducing moiré visions of coherent light via sympathetic stimulation of the optic nerve. Labyrinthine mirrored corridors of abstraction lighted by the fires of irrationality. Amplified homeostatic hum transmuted into an oscillating neurochemical ouroboros. A shattering collision with the cosmic bacchanalia unloading total volume onto a worldwide receiving grid. Six thousand cycles of harmonic saturation feeding the crescendo of standing wave drone flooding through each molecular bond in the corporeal manifestation of collected nonconscious anxiety. Keepers of the akashic library stunned into permanent alpha wave trance.
"PU have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special" - Edwin Pouncey (Savage Pencil), the Wire
"this kind of underworldy free-rock music should be available on prescription to all those poetic souls suffering from an overload of city dweller background noise. The Undermind is a kind of direct descendant of the big late ‘60s electronics-powered post-psychedelic ensembles such as Fifty Foot Hose, but much much better " - Julian Cope, Headheritage
"dark, spiritual, yin-and-yang paisley... These aren't just burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. They're paranoid burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. Behold the swirling madness and tranquility" - Doug Kubert, Zeen
"more than enough gnarl to satisfy the goriest of heads" - David Keenan, the Wire
http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind
(Kasper Collin / Sweden / 2005 / 35mm / 79 mins / Cert 15)
The prophetic free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who today is seen as one of the most important innovators in jazz, was obsessed with his radical music and by the thought that people one day would understand it. In 1962 he recorded his first album in Sweden. Eight years later he was found dead in New York's East River, aged 34. This new documentary follows the trail of Ayler from his native town of Cleveland by way of Sweden to New York, meeting family, friends and close colleagues. Ayler himself guides us with his voice and music. Seven years in the making, the film includes newly discovered footage of Ayler and band.
www.mynameisalbertayler.com
PLUS LIVE PERFORMANCE: Primordial Undermind
A blur of indefinite energy, invisible not for transparency but for speed. The first esoteric wonder of California mingled with psychic residue of an imaginal Tangiers. An ecstatic dance dissolving the corrupted fabric of causality, invoking singularity, bleeding at the edges. Radiant spectral photon flux detonated by revelation of the physical plane as pharmacopial fantasy. Primal metabolism accelerated by innervating feedback; resonant vibration within the primitive emotions inducing moiré visions of coherent light via sympathetic stimulation of the optic nerve. Labyrinthine mirrored corridors of abstraction lighted by the fires of irrationality. Amplified homeostatic hum transmuted into an oscillating neurochemical ouroboros. A shattering collision with the cosmic bacchanalia unloading total volume onto a worldwide receiving grid. Six thousand cycles of harmonic saturation feeding the crescendo of standing wave drone flooding through each molecular bond in the corporeal manifestation of collected nonconscious anxiety. Keepers of the akashic library stunned into permanent alpha wave trance.
"PU have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special" - Edwin Pouncey (Savage Pencil), the Wire
"this kind of underworldy free-rock music should be available on prescription to all those poetic souls suffering from an overload of city dweller background noise. The Undermind is a kind of direct descendant of the big late ‘60s electronics-powered post-psychedelic ensembles such as Fifty Foot Hose, but much much better " - Julian Cope, Headheritage
"dark, spiritual, yin-and-yang paisley... These aren't just burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. They're paranoid burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. Behold the swirling madness and tranquility" - Doug Kubert, Zeen
"more than enough gnarl to satisfy the goriest of heads" - David Keenan, the Wire
http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind