The Invisible Hands, an excellent documentary by Marina Gioti and Georges Salameh, explores the unlikely collaboration between American musical provocateur Alan Bishop and a group of young Egyptian musicians whose lives were upended by the Arab Spring. The film's international premiere is occuring this month at Berlinale. The Asian premiere is at Tokyo's Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, which also takes place this month. In the late '70s, Alan Bishop (aka Alvarius B.), Richard Bishop and Charles Gocher formed the avant-rock band Sun City Girls. The group mixed punk, improv, ethnic music, glossolalia and whatever else into a singular genre-bending sound (e.g. listen to the group's album Torch of the Mystics). After Gocher's death in 2007, the group disbanded and the songs,...
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- 2/19/2018
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