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Bikôkô is set on propelling soul and R'n'B into a new era. Discover all the freshness of this Barcelona-born Londoner at the ARTE Concert Festival 2024.

Filmed at Hamburgs Dock venue on the 1993 "Melodic Metal" Tour in support of their "The Missing Link" album, this was one of the last ever performances by this particular Rage line-up.

"Heavy Metal in your veins, Fury in your brain !"

The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect uses the interviewer/interviewee format in which Todd Rundgren answers numerous questions about his life, his music and his philosophy using his explanations spliced with large portions of his songs.

Rare music documentary chronicling the 80s New Wave scene in Berlin, Germany. Features performances from PVC, Z, Ideal, Insisters and Tempo.

Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriend’s father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver and then revealing his newly transplanted member to the two of them. This story, which for LaBruce “serves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,” is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenberg’s melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like “A cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!”

In celebration of the release of Sparks’ 28th album, ‘MAD!’, Ron and Russell Mael will join actor, presenter and comedian Rob Brydon for an in-person evening that promises to be insightful and illuminating, containing fresh perspectives on a career that has spanned in excess of five decades. “I still have the cassette of Propaganda, a present on my ninth birthday. Since then Sparks have held a very special place in my heart. They are the epitome of creativity and musicality. I am so looking forward to meeting them and having a MAD! discussion.” - Rob Brydon. “As we’ve never had the honor of meeting British Royalty, we are extremely excited to be in discussion with Rob Brydon, MBE and, incidentally, one of the funniest people alive.” - Ron Mael and Russell Mael.

Preserving and perpetuating traditions... Seun Kuti, the youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, is keen to preserve- and perpetuate- traditions. He was just 12 when he joined his father's group Egypt 80. Since Fela's death in 1997, Seun has kept the flame of this militant and musical heritage alive by putting it in today's context.

The story of Roger Daltrey (vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums): The Who, one of the most original, creative and relevant British bands of the sixties and of the entire history of pop music.

The tour was in support of the group's second greatest hits album, 'Ten' (2012), and saw them perform tracks including 'Sound of the Underground', 'Love Machine', 'Jump', 'Biology' and 'The Promise'. Following the completion of the tour, the group announced that they had split.

The compelling story of a group of young Argentine musicians racing against time to learn and preserve the elegant and nuanced music played by the legendary Golden Age tango orchestras of Buenos Aires in the 40's and 50's.

Inspiral Carpets Live, Recorded at Manchester G-Mex Arena 21st July 1990.

Unable to cope with grief, Raoul arrives in Marseille, the city of his lost daughter. He finds her old friends, her music band, and even her dealer. But where will this much too intimate quest lead him? And what if music was a scream that could light up his heart?

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Mayol, who was then filmed "lip singing". Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.

When dark pop meets bombastic metal: the Hamburg-based band, led by frontman Chris Harms, have cast off all constraints to shatter the boundaries between genres. In their music, old-school productions played with raw emotion sit alongside a fragile melancholy. As if it were nothing, Lord Of The Lost strike that subtle balance between vocals of rare harshness, raw industrial guitars and sombre beauty.

Under the baton of Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra performs works by Lili Boulanger, Romualdas Gražinis and Anton Bruckner.

Post-Rock band Explosions in the Sky perform at Pitchfork Music Festival 2016 on October 28th 2016

A study of the shape of music.

In a time of curfew, no freedom of expression and an official culture that fostered simpleton and absurd pop, young people in various places in Chile caused a spontaneous cry of disgust to germinate. The protest music against the dictatorship was monopolized by the Canto Nuevo groups until punk broke out. With interviews with members of Fiskales ad-hok, Dadá, Pinochet Boys and Políticos Muertos, among others, Pank responds to the need to recreate an aspect of our recent history, whose precariousness and effervescence prevented it from being documented at the time.

Whilst doing their last concert before the Christmas Holidays, Busted find that their guitars have all disappeared mysteriously. With their only clue to there where-abouts being a mysterious note signed by 'Sinister Santa' the band take on London in hopes of finding their Guitars but learn the true meaning of Christmas along the way.

A modern fairy tale: Young beauty meets the three musketeers and experiences her own "adventures".

That year, the American ethno-jazz group became legendary with their performance at the Berliner Jazztage. Navigating between jazz, classical, world music, and folk, the four musicians forged their own musical universe. The recording of this extraordinary evening shows Oregon at the peak of their art.

Ye-ye boy loves his ye-ye girl so much that he quits his band and gets a job to show her pops that he'll be a responsible husband. The rest of the movie outlines the progress of his complete capitulation to bourgie values.

The story of Josephine Baker takes us on a fascinating tour of 20th-century race relations on both sides of the Atlantic, yet it leads to no conclusion, and black girls in search of a role-model tend to look elsewhere. Part of her appeal is her startlingly unique appearance. Simply nobody has ever looked or acted like her. She fits no black stereotype. Nor does she look like any recognizable strain of Afro-American. I'd always heard she was half-white, but it seems that her paternity is unknown, and her contradictory claims on the subject don't do much to enlighten us. (We are tempted to imagine quite an exotic mix.) Her origins in sharply-segregated St. Louis, where she is said to have witnessed a lynching, do not seem to have left her embittered. Perhaps she had too much to give. There is a special innocence about that smile, and when she performs her cross-eyed gag, we are lifted into a strange pixie-world, all its own.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright responds to the coronavirus crisis with an intimate live concert. Without an audience and specially arranged for a small string section, Wainwright performs his new album "Unfollow the Rules" for the TV cameras only. Recorded in the ballroom of the Paramour Mansion, a historic residence in Los Angeles, the musician shows that good songs work even under difficult circumstances.

Performance recorded in April 30, 2011 at club GEBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, closing the presentation tour of the album "Confía".

With four incredible performances at the legendary Montreux Music Festival to his name to date, legendary bluesman Otis Rush offers a memorable look at just how it all began in this release of the 1986 performance that started it all. In addition to memorable appearances by Eric Clapton and Luther Allison, Rush and company offer thirteen rousing blues hits including "Gambler's Blues", "Lonely Man", "Mean Old World", and "Right Place, Wrong Time". Tracklist: Tops [6:22] I Wonder Why (Will My Man Be Home Tonight) [7:15] Lonely Man [4:48] Gambler's Blues [9:40] Natural Ball [5:33] Right Place, Wrong Time [6:35] Mean Old World [5:52] You Don't Love Me [3:52] Crosscut Saw [8:25] Double Trouble [5:32] All Your Love (I Miss Loving) [7:53] Every Day I Have the Blues [10:00] If I Had Any Sense, I'd Go Back Home [6:51] INFO: DVD 9 ENG PAL Region 0 4:3 Screen Format DTS + Dolby Surround 5.1 + PCM Stereo

This documentary tells the story of the bachata, Dominican Republic’s blues. It centers on the figure of singer, guitarrist, and songwriter Luis Vargas. It is also a tribute to the unknown heroes that transformed the bachata from a rejected music of the cabaret and whorehouses to a national pride and Dominican youth’s prefered urban music.

This short documentary marks the awakening of singer-songwriter King Krule from hibernation. Paired with a 208-page art book and 12-song soundtrack, the project follows Krule (aka Archy Marshall) and his brother Jack through a few south London postcodes.

The members of Third World -- one of the best-selling and most inspirational reggae bands of all time -- shine in this 1993 televised concert, captured live at the HR-Hessische Rundfunk in Germany. A memorable set list of songs includes "Hooked on Love," "I Don't Wanna Lose This Feelin'," "Sense of Purpose," "You've Got the Power," "Forbidden Love," "Reggae Ambassador," "Committed" and "Now That We've Found Love."

Héctor "El Father" performs some of his best-loved songs for an enthusiastic audience in this 2007 concert filmed live in the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, Puerto Rico. A renowned reggaeton star, Héctor has also become one of the most successful producers in the Latin American music industry since rising to fame as a member of the duo Héctor y Tito. Songs include "Rumor de Guerra," "Maldades," "Noche de Travesuras," "Mayor Que Yo," "Hello Mama," "En Busca de Ti" and many more. Featurings: Wisin, Yandel, Jowell, Randy, Yomo, Polaco, among others.

The BRIT-nominated All I Ever Asked singer takes to the New Music Stage.

A documentary celebrating the men whose vocal stylings have carried the torch for soul across six decades.. Featuring footage of Brenton Wood performing Gimme Little Sign and Curtis Mayfield singing Keep On Keeping On, as well as appearances by Billy Preston, Bill Withers, Billy Ocean, Alexander O'Neal, Barry White, Bobby Womack and many more.

'Whispering' Bob Harris journeys to America's country music capital to reveal why Nashville became Music City USA. From the beginnings of the Grand Ole Opry on commercial radio, through the threatening onset of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, right up to the modern mainstream hits of Music Row, this is the story of how music has shaped Nashville and why today it's a place of pilgrimage for musicians from all over the world.

An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.

Dulac’s three 1929 "abstract" films, Record 957, Αrabesques, and Themes and Variations, were the results of a long period of reflection by the filmmaker, who sought to create a "pure" or "integral" cinema that would capture the essence of the new medium and owe nothing to the other arts. Each of these three studies was designed to be played silent. The first one, Record 957, is conceived of as a "visual impression […] in listening to Frédéric Chopin's Preludes n. 5 and 6." Its title and its opening shot of lightplay on a spinning record not only announce the film's dominant cyclical motif, but also evoke one of the filmmaker’s major sources of inspiration in Loie Fuller's serpentine dances.

This documentary focuses on the Elvis Presley phenomenon, whose voice and style captivated America in the 50s, renewing the codes of seduction of conformist post-war society.