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The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra (2025)

Melkweg, Wednesday, November 25 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

Together with Amsterdam music platform we will go back to the early years of Sun Ra. Before the world (and the cosmos) came to know him as the Afrofuturist pioneer of "space jazz", he was born Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham, deep in the heart of Alabama. The Belgian documentary The Magic City - Birmingham According to Sun Ra sheds light on how this often-overlooked yet magical music city helped shape the enigmatic visionary in his formative years. Filmmakers Guillaume Maupin and Pablo Guarise closely involved the city and its residents in telling not just Sun Ra's story, but that of their community. Inevitably, that story is marked by a legacy of slavery, segregation, and racism. Yet Sun Ra's gaze remained fixed on a more harmonious future. As he says at the start of the film: "My story is not part of history. Because history repeats itself, but my story is endless."

Melkweg often hosts different types of programmes at the same time, such as concerts, club nights and films. Please note that there may occasionally be some noise pollution from other programmes during the screening.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-magic-city-birmingham-according-to-sun-ra-2025

Kameelah Janan Rasheed, “and, Black?”, 2017, archival inkjet print, 24 × 18 inches ★ USA ★ https://kameelahr.com #KameelahJananRasheed #KameelahRasheed #contemporaryart #contemporarygraphics #scanography #blackandwhite #andblack #afrofuturism #2010s

@KitMuse @bookstodon not a book but a movie (though it was conceived as a graphic novel) Neptune Frost is absolutely mind-blowing!!

#blackcinema #gender #afrofuturism
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/2/23059928/neptune-frost-movie-interview-saul-williams-anisia-uzeyman

#AlternateFridayMusic
May 12 2023
The word is Jam

#Funkadelic “Get Off Your Ass and Jam” from “Let’s Take It To The Stage,” 1975

I’m sorry, do you need me to explain this to you? Check your pulse.

Sure sure, go read about #GeorgeClinton’s time as a #TinPanAlley songwriter, the seasoned session musicians that he joined with his old #BarberShop’s #DooWop group, the #Parliaments, psychedelicized by dropping massive amounts of #acid, funkafied à la #JamesBrown, to form Funkadelic. and how, possibly with a dose of #SunRa, definitely with a big hit of #StarTrek, he helped define what we now call #Afrofuturism —
but I find it more telling that a very rock/punk guy I knew who used to put on dorm parties would put this track at the end of every party mix. Twice.

Because, as #Parliament, the other incarnation of Clinton’s band, would soon proclaim: WE WANT THE #FUNK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1i35T5yAk

#70s #70sMusic

The Institute of Spectra Sonic Sound was kind enough to play a song off of SUPINE by NEW INJURIES
Go give this mix a listen and then swing by the Histamine Tapes bandcamp and grab a tape.

#newinjuries #hiphop #ambienthiphop #triphop #spacemusic #afrofuturism #techno #beats #electronicmusic #electronica #dronemusic #ambientmusic #avantgarde #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #abstract #undergroundcassette #histaminetapes #portland

https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-2423/

The Institute of Spectra Sonic Sound was kind enough to play a song off of SUPINE by NEW INJURIES
Go give this mix a listen and then swing by the Histamine Tapes bandcamp and grab a tape.

#newinjuries #hiphop #ambienthiphop #triphop #spacemusic #afrofuturism #techno #beats #electronicmusic #electronica #dronemusic #ambientmusic #avantgarde #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #abstract #undergroundcassette #histaminetapes #portland

https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-2423/

The Institute of Spectra Sonic Sound was kind enough to play a song off of SUPINE by NEW INJURIES
Go give this mix a listen and then swing by the Histamine Tapes bandcamp and grab a tape.

#newinjuries #hiphop #ambienthiphop #triphop #spacemusic #afrofuturism #techno #beats #electronicmusic #electronica #dronemusic #ambientmusic #avantgarde #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #abstract #undergroundcassette #histaminetapes #portland

https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-2423/

The Institute of Spectra Sonic Sound was kind enough to play a song off of SUPINE by NEW INJURIES
Go give this mix a listen and then swing by the Histamine Tapes bandcamp and grab a tape.

#newinjuries #hiphop #ambienthiphop #triphop #spacemusic #afrofuturism #techno #beats #electronicmusic #electronica #dronemusic #ambientmusic #avantgarde #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #abstract #undergroundcassette #histaminetapes #portland

https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-2423/