Mark Dery is a cultural critic. Time magazine called him one of “the smartest people we know.” (Praise so staggeringly over-the-top that even the Smartest Kid in the World would collapse under the strain of trying to live up to it!) Bruce Sterling wrote, “He may be the best cultural critic alive.” Dery writes about [...]
“The residency of the Sun Ra Arkestra at the ZXZW festival,sounds great,as a comprehensive look at Sun Ra’s, and the Arkestra’s,contributions to Jazz, Spirituality,and life in general. I want to attend, but I live in the United States, I do not have the money to go there right now. But my heart is with you. [...]
Woohoo, everybody here in the office is really happy!
Phill Niblock would like to visit our festival and even play a set )
This is really cool news and we’re really honoured!
For the fans: this is a great site full of Sun Ra pictures.
this is pretty cool!
There are some amazing simularities between former Agent Steel frontman John Cyriis and Sun Ra. Read this interview and be amazed…
We can’t get enough of the Ra. During ZXZW we will bring Tapestries from an Asteroid: Arkestra Art & Design 1956-1975. These works have never been shown in Europe before. It will showcase a diverse, brilliant, provocative and by-and-large never seen range of materials related to pianist, bandleader, mystic, philosopher and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra. Most of [...]
You can find the excellent blaxplatation free jazz cult movie Space Is The Place by Sun Ra at Youtube. Please check it, cause you’ve never seen something like this before.
We’re on the right track and already booked 80 of the more than 200 artists performing on ZXZW.
Some special announcement will be on this blog soon!
Here are the latest additions:
Tapage
http://www.myspace.com/odakim
Ebola
http://www.myspace.com/ebolawrongmusic
Koonda Holaa (with Iggy and The Stooges member Steve MacKay)
http://www.myspace.com/koondaholaakamilsky
Religious Knives
http://www.myspace.com/religi0usknives
Gala Drop
http://www.myspace.com/galadrop
The full line-up ’till now:
Pelican, Sun Ra, Paint It Black, Watain, Torche, FFF, [...]
A Joyful Noise is a Sun Ra documentary. You can find it at Youtube.
