The music drew inspiration from the original but brought the band’s own unique take on it, complete with the film and all of its glory.. Our photographer Jon Bauer was at … Switzerland. What a pity. AUGUST 2017 ELBPHILHARMONIE GROSSER SAAL ELBPHILHARMONIE SOMMER GOGO United Kingdom. The musical style of GoGo Penguin lends itself categorically up to the task of Koyaanisqatsi with its minimalist, repetitive, hypnotic qualities. GoGo Penguin tour dates and tickets 2021-2022 near you. Live Review: Koyaanisqatsi live score by GoGo Penguin, Barbican Centre, London, 11/10/17. Evan Haga GoGo Penguin performs its original score for “Koyaanisqatsi” at the 2017 BRIC JazzFest (photo by David Andrako) To compose a new score to Koyaanisqatsi, the breathtaking 1982 experimental film directed by Godfrey Reggio, is in many ways to remake the Mona Lisa. music, GoGo Penguin Manchester-based leftfield piano trio GoGo Penguin are pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Rob Turner. The multiple sieges led to the widespread destruction of the city, and almost 100,000 people fled. While William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand, and the poet Rumi wrote that each person is not a drop in an ocean but rather the opposite, GoGo Penguin 's ever-expanding sonic world hints at similar multitudes yet to be experienced. © Piper Haywood, many rights shared. In 2015, GoGo Penguin wrote and performed their new score for the film as part of the opening season of Home – a new centre for international contemporary art, theatre and film in Manchester. To compose a new score to Koyaanisqatsi, the... On January 10, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Haiti, destroying much of its capital city, Port-au-Prince. Graffiti artists use it, and urban explorers try to have a poke around. GoGo Penguin is a charting, left-field jazz piano trio from Manchester, England. To see its glacial impressions of ancient rock, or its manic time-lapse footage of modern American cities, alongside Glass’ Möbius strips of melody is to witness techniques and sensibilities in filmmaking that were once revelatory but have long been subsumed into the general culture. GoGo Penguin released their fourth album, A Humdrum Star, in 2018. Field Notes: GoGo Penguin’s “Koyaanisqatsi” in Brooklyn, “The Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival: A Triumph in Haiti”, “Jazztopad Festival: From Poland, with Swing”, 5th Annual Ralph Pucci Jazz Set with Christian McBride and Wynton Marsalis, Year in Review: The Top 40 New Jazz Releases of 2020 (10-1), The Day Louis Armstrong Lost His Color: A Short Story, 10 Best Jazz Albums of the 1970s: Critics’ Picks, The Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival: A Triumph in Haiti, Jazztopad Festival: From Poland, with Swing. Originally scored by Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi is a remarkable cinematic masterpiece and a firm favourite of the band’s for it’s powerful fusion of music and image. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them. It doesn’t distract from, but rather compliments, the contrasting beauty and ugliness on screen, lulling its viewer/listener into the appropriate meditative state. Want to see GoGo Penguin in concert? They compose and arrange as a group. The five tracks draw inspiration from GGP’s celebrated live soundtrack for Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 cult doc Koyaanisqatsi – the band has performed their original score for the film internationally, including a final run of dates to come this autumn in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, London and back home in Manchester – they’ll also play the Austin City Limits Music Festival … How did it come about that you chose to re-score Koyaanisqatsi? GoGo Penguin have been internationally hailed as electrifying live performers, innovative soundtrack composers, and as a collective who channel electronic and club culture atmospheres alongside, minimalist jazz and rock influences to create music that pulses and flows from the dancefloor to meditative inner-worlds, transporting us into brand new realms. Koyaanisqatsi, to listen, In a powerful fusion of live music and film, GoGo Penguin present their original score to Godfrey Reggio’s cult film Koyaanisqatsi, which they will perform alongside a screening of the film at RNCM. There weren’t quite as many despairing moments as in Glass’s score, but the overall vibe was very similar. GoGo Penguin’s last release, Ocean in a Drop: Music for Film (2019), was a five-track EP of music the trio wrote to accompany recent screenings of … 14:20 12th October 2017. GoGo Penguin – the instrumental trio from Manchester, England – have fielded plaudits and rave reviews for inspiration and originality at every turn since 2013, when they settled on their dream line-up of Chris Illingworth (piano), Rob Turner (drums) and Nick Blacka (bass). The first and best-known installment in Reggio’s dialogue-less Qatsi trilogy, it offers an interdependence of images, by cinematographer Ron Fricke, and music, by Philip Glass, that deserves comparison to milestones by Kubrick and Coppola. Photolog, GoGo Penguin has been a regular visitor to Ireland in recent years, touring provincial venues in 2015 and playing Dublin in 2016 and 2017-the latter date to perform its original score to Godfrey Reggio's film Koyaanisqatsi (1982). Koyaanisqatsi surveys the beauty of the natural world through slow motion and time lapse footage, documenting nature’s uneasy relationship with modern technology. U.K. piano trio performs its original score for an experimental film masterpiece. Directed by Godfrey Reggio. The reception the album received confirmed – in case there was still any doubt – that they now sit at the pinnacle of the contemporary […] © 2021 Madavor Media, LLC. GoGo Penguin: Ocean In A Drop (Music For Film) (BlueNote 2019) So here’s the genesis of this album. Or is it? Often controversial, always entertaining, JazzTimes is a favorite of musicians and fans alike. 5, passage Louis … But somewhere along the way its cult has become largely confined to the generations that experienced its psychedelic allure the first time out. by Ferell Aubre. Prior to a recent performance of GoGo Penguin’s original score, at the BRIC JazzFest marathon in Brooklyn, I tried to talk about the film with several culturally adept friends under the age of 40, but none of them had seen it. I knew Gogo Penguin would be playing live, but I … By popular demand, the avant-garde English jazz trio of piano, drums, and bass decided to release this EP of some of the sections used in the performance. Much like Koyaanisqatsi, GoGo Penguin’s music is full of subtle shifts that allow its composers to shine equally. For more information about which services I use and how long data is retained, please see my privacy policy. Published since 1970, JazzTimes—“America’s Jazz Magazine”—provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the jazz scene. Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM UTC+02. It rarely sounds like "just" piano, bass and drums in these hands, and the scope of Ocean in a Drop doesn't feel limited by the brevity of its EP length. Ephemera, The photographer captured it in much better light than I, the photo hints at the building’s formerly mirrored, golden facade. GoGo Penguin, Koyaanisqatsi (photo: Jon Bauer) Manchester trio GoGo Penguin brought a unique show to SFJazz this week, performing a new score based on Philip Glass’ landmark score to the 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi. I searched everywhere online for pre-war photos of the tower but couldn’t find any, just this photo taken a few months after I was there. Find information on all of GoGo Penguin’s upcoming concerts, tour dates and ticket information for 2021-2022. Become a member and get exclusive access to articles, live sessions and more! to watch, Advertising surely looks and sounds different in a post-Koyaanisqatsi world, as do nature films and documentaries, and probably narrative movies as well. Hosted by Anteprima Productions, GoGo Penguin and Café De la Danse. The synchronisation of the rhythm and the visual was maybe not quite as intricate as the original but it was expertly handled, particularly for a live performance. To compose a new score to Koyaanisqatsi, the breathtaking 1982 experimental film directed by Godfrey Reggio, is in many ways to remake the Mona Lisa. In 2015 GoGo Penguin wrote and performed their new score for the film as part of the … Most of the time the pace was frenetic, frantic. The angular concrete structure loomed over the playground in Park Zrinjevac. Sync Your Spotify Account for Gig Alerts via Email Get gig alerts for your Spotify artists. war, architecture, Nederland. Ten years later, with two … Read More “The Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival: A Triumph in Haiti”, There’s no way to cover Winter Jazzfest in its entirety—11 days of performances, talks, and other events at 21 venues in two New York City … Read More “Winter Jazzfest 2020 in 30 Snapshots”, The Polish city of Wrocław—population 640,000—doesn’t have a very robust jazz scene, but for 10 days this past November it was transformed into one of … Read More “Jazztopad Festival: From Poland, with Swing”, Orvieto, in the dead center of the Italian peninsula, is a perfect oval hill town right out of central casting, perched majestically 1,000 feet above … Read More “Live Review: Umbria Jazz Winter #27”, America's jazz resource, delivered to your inbox. The second half of the film includes many clips of derelict housing projects and other buildings. Today, UK instrumental trio GoGo Penguin released “Kora,” the second single from their upcoming self-titled album. Do you know what that means?”, Current listening: “The Best of the Alessi Brothers”, Current listening: “Black Prince Fury//Jet Black Raider” by Anna Meredith, Current listening: “My Finest Work Yet” by Andrew Bird, Current listening: “Funkify Your Life” by The Meters. It still stands from what I gather, but the exterior structure has been removed and the entries have been blocked off. ⭐️. Café De la Danse. Published Mercury nominated, Blue Note Records signed acoustic-electronica trio GoGo Penguin present a special filmic preview of their latest project: a live sound + vision performance featuring their own newly composed soundtrack to Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 cult classic, ‘Koyaanisqatsi’, one of the most successful documentary films ever made. Originally released in 1982, Koyaanisqatsi uses slow motion and time lapse footage to capture the earth’s beauty. Portugal. Excavation, Once called the Ljubljanska Banka Tower, it’s now known to some as the Sniper’s Tower. Their album v2.0 (Gondwana Records) was named a Mercury Prize Album of the Year in 2014. Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio’s debut as a film director and producer, is the first and best known film of the Qatsi trilogy, followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002), depicting different aspects of relationships between humans, nature and technology. España. — Gogo Penguin + Koyaanisqatsi, and the memory of a tower in Bosnia and Herzegovina, “I’ve been hurt. Pretty impressive, both the execution and to … They seamlessly wed rock, post-bop jazz, and minimalist classical influences, to discoveries in electronic music and production by artists such as Aphex Twin and Four Tet. On balance, joyous man made extravagance. A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. With Edward Asner, Pat Benatar, Jerry Brown, Johnny Carson. Last Autumn, GoGo Penguin rescored the experimental film “Koyaanisqatsi” for several UK shows and while “A Humdrum Star” clearly takes a creative cue from this experience of live soundtracking, it also has a cosmic quality that might be traced to filmmakers like Tarkovsky and Nolan.