CINEMA SOLORIENS〜 太陽が招く宇宙のドラマ 〜

& THE COSMO DRAMA
Live: James Harrar, Marshall Allen (of the SUN RA ARKESTRA), RE Mahoney
Special Guests: Daisuke Fuwa (Shibusa Shirazu) + Takashi Ueno (Tenniscoats) DUO, Akikazu Nakamura
Experimental films by James Harrar and special screening of unreleased films featuring Sun Ra and His Arkestra PLUS live musical accompaniment by Marshall Allen, Leader of The Sun Ra Arkestra and James Harrar. This not to be missed special film program consists of experimental shorts by Harrar and a very rare public screening of classic films featuring Sun Ra and His Arkestra from the late 60's and early 70's, restored and preserved by Harrar.
Major Financial Support: US Embassy
Technical Support: Seiko Epson Corporation
Support: NPO Arts Initiative Tokyo, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Tama Art University, Metro (Kyoto), Tokuzo (Nagoya), Uplink (Tokyo), Tetsuya Nagato
Production Cooperation: Sol de Espana Co, Ltd
Planning: Super Deluxe

CINEMA SOLORIENS & THE COSMO DRAMA
2006/6/22 (THU) SUPER DELUXE
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Open: 19:00 / Start 19:30
Adv: 4,300yen / Door 4,800yen (+ drink)
Ticket PIA P-code: 229-311 (on sale 5/12)
For reservations, mail to info@super-deluxe.com.
Please include "6/22 CINEMA SOLORIENS & THE COSMO DRAMA RES" as the subject, and include your name, phone number, and the number of tickets you would like in the message body. You can also reserve via FAX (03-5412-0516).
Reservation deadline: 6/21, 18:00.
Experimental Films by James Harrar and special screening of unreleased films featuring Sun Ra and His Arkestra PLUS live musical accompaniment by Marshall Allen, Leader of The Sun Ra Arkestra and James Harrar. This not to be missed special film program consists of experimental shorts by Harrar and a very rare public screening of classic films featuring Sun Ra and His Arkestra from the late 60's and early 70's, restored and preserved by Harrar.
Live:
JAMES HARRAR - Video, Bamboo Sax & Flute, Percussion
MARSHALL ALLEN (of the SUN RA ARKESTRA) - Alto Sax, Flute, EVI, Clarinet
R.E. MAHONEY - Guitar & effects
Special Guests:
Daisuke Fuwa (bass) + Takashi Ueno (guitar) DUO,
Akikazu Nakamura (shakuhachi) SOLO
>>> Artist Info & Bios below!
OTHER CITIES & DATES !!!
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2006/6/15 (THU) Shibuya - UPLINK
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Open: 19:00 / Start: 19:30 (limited: 80 people)
Adv: 2,800yen / Door: 3,300yen (+ drink)
UPLINK Tel: 03-6825-5502
Special Feature: Screening of "Sun Ra: A JOYFUL NOISE" and public interview with Manabu Yuasa
2006/6/16 (FRI) Nagoya - TOKUZO
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Open: 18:00 / Start 19:00
Adv: 3,500yen / Door 4,000yen (+ drink)
TOKUZO Tel: 052-733-3709
Ticket PIA P-code: 229-530 (on sale 5/1)
2006/6/17 (SAT) Kyoto - METRO
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Open: 17:30 / Start 18:00
Adv: 3,500yen / Door 4,000yen (+ drink)
METRO Tel: 075-752-4765
* Special Guest: Yamamoto Seiichi (solo)
Ticket PIA P-code: 229-601 (on sale 4/29)
2006/6/18 (SUN) Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
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Open: 19:00 / Start 19:30
Adv/Door: 2,000yen
* Special Guest: Yamamoto Seiichi (solo)
Ticket LAWSON L-code: 61464 (on sale 5/27)
YCAM ticket information: 083-920-6111
ARTIST INFORMATION:
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James Harrar (Filmmaker) :
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James Harrar has been crafting densely lyrical film-poems since the late 1980’s exhibiting at prestigious venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, and The Andy Warhol Museum to name a few.
His films are personal in a very direct and explicit sense. In a intimate form, Harrar attempts to imprint thoughts, dreams and conceptual ideas onto the open-minded viewer while examining the possibilities of perception. Throughout his career, Harrar has tried to give the viewer new visual experiences while challenging fixed notions of filmic language and individual seeing.
Since 1998 James has been collaborating with Marshall Allen, creating live music to Harrar’s silent films. Marshall Allen explores sound in much the same manner that Harrar attempts to explore the moving image. Together they complete a creative cycle similar in tradition with the 17th century alchemical opus.
Marshall Allen (Musician/Composer/Arranger/Multi-instrumentalist)
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Born, May 25, 1924 in Louisville Kentucky, Marshall Allen started clarinet lessons at age 10. At age 18 he enlisted in the US Army's 92 Infantry (renown as the Buffalo Soldiers), playing clarinet and Alto sax in the 17 Div. Special Service Band. Stationed in Paris during WW II, Marshall played with pianist Art Simmons, Don Byas and toured and recorded with James Moody during the late 40's. Upon honorable discharge, Marshall enrolled in the Paris Conservatory of Music studying clarinet with Delacluse. Returning to the States in 1951 Marshall settled in Chicago where he lead his own bands playing the clubs and dance halls while writing his own music and arrangements.
During the mid 50's Marshall met Sun Ra becoming a pupil of Sun Ra's precepts, Marshall joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1958 and lead Sun Ra's formidable reed section for over 40 years (a role akin the position of Johnny Hodges in the Duke Ellington Orchestra). Marshall along with John Gilmore and later June Tyson and James (Jac) Jacson lived, rehearsed, toured and recorded with Sun Ra almost exclusively for much of his musical career, leading the reed section during the time that the Sun Ra Arkestra won the Downbeat polls as number one Big Band in 1988 ad 1989. As a featured soloist with the Sun Ra Arkestra Marshall pioneered the avant-garde style of saxophone improvisation expanding a style rooted in Hodges and Byas.
With Sun Ra, Marshall Allen was instrumental in developing the avant-garde jazz movement of the early sixties influencing all of the leading avant-garde saxophonists. During this time Marshall invented a woodwind instrument he called the 'morrow' which utilized a saxophone mouthpiece attached to an open-hole wooden body. (This instrument is currently being marketed under another name, as Marshall never secured a patent on his invention). Marshall Allen was one of the first Jazz Musicians to play traditional African music and what is now being called 'world music', working frequently with Olutunji and his drums of Passion. In fact, Marshall is most likely the solitary Jazz musician that builds and plays the Kora (a popular West African multi-stringed instrument.) and has been a major factor in its introduction the American audience as well as the world at large.
Marshall is featured on over 200 Sun Ra releases as well as appearances with such diverse groups as NRBQ, Phish, Sonic Youth. Diggable Planets, Terry Adams , Medeski, Martin & Wood, and Japan’s world renown Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra to name a few with whom Marshall as been featured as a guest soloist in recordings and/or performances.
Perhaps most significantly, Marshall Allen assumed the helm of the Sun RA Arkestra in 1995, after the ascension of Sun Ra (1993) and John Gilmore (1995). To date Marshall resides at the Sun RA Residence in Philadelphia, composing, writing and arranging for the Arkestra much like his mentor, totally committed to a life of 'Discipline' centered totally on the study, research, and further development of Sun Ra's Musical precepts. Marshall maintains the Sun Ra residence as a living museum dedicated to the compilation, restoration and preservation of Sun Ra's Music, memorabilia and artifacts. Marshall has launched the Sun Ra Arkestra into a dimension beyond that of mere 'ghost' band by writing fresh arrangements of Sun Ra's music as well as composing new music for the Arkestra. Marshall works unceasingly to keep the Big Band tradition alive through the Sun Ra Arkestra reworking arrangements of the Music of Fletcher Henderson, Jimmy Lunceford as well as American Standard songs.
Marshall Allen is recognized all over the world as the premier avant-garde saxophonist, appearing in solo concert in London in 1995, Duet with Terry Adams in 1997 in Canada and featured in articles in the leading Jazz and Alternative in Jazz Times 12/02, Signal to Noise and innumerable other music magazines, radio and TV interviews. Marshall is frequently called upon to give Master Classes, lectures and demonstrations of Sun Ra's Musical precepts and keeps himself accessible to all who have interest in Sun Ra's legacy.
R. E. Mahoney (Musician, guitarist)
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R. E. Mahoney is an emerging figure of new music and media arts in the Philadelphia area. He has produced numerous works for sound and video, including live performances, CD and DVD projects.
In the early 1990's, while attending Temple University, Mahoney joined RECLINER, a pop/rock outfit that defined the burgeoning indie music scene. RECLINER released two albums produced and engineered by Jason Cox of the infamous, Studio Red. Studio Red also produced albums for seminal Philadelphia bands, Bardo Pond, Versus and Helium.
His deep appreciation for experimental/personal cinema, improvised music and the avant-garde led him to collaborations with filmmaker, James Harrar and musician, Marshall Allen, leader of The Sun Ra Arkestra in 2002.
Most recently, Mahoney has served as Production Manager on the film "Head Trauma", the latest psychological thriller from Writer/Director, Lance Weiler, best known for his film "The Last Broadcast".
Mahoney's home recording studio, in Nockamixon, PA, is the also the current creative base of BROTHER EYE, who are completing their forthcoming album.