22 settembre 2025

 

C'è Evan Parker in bella evidenza, con Satoko Fujii, Gerry Hemingway, Isabelle Duthoit, Susana Santos Silva, Mat Maneri, Joëlle Léandre, Roberto Ottaviano, Raymond Boni, Benat Achiary assieme a molti altri musicisti di varia età e provenienza nel film di Christian Pouget incentrato sulla figura dell'improvvisatore solitario: Maelström for improvisers, pronto per la distribuzione in dvd a ottobre a cura di Films UtôpïK. Ce n'è un breve assaggio su YT.

After directing films about violin player Théo Ceccaldi (Corps à Cordes, 2018) and Joëlle Léandre (Affamée, 2019, and Duende, 2023), director Christian Pouget embarked on a two and half year project, involving 22 multi-generational musicians from Europe, America and Japan, displaying their art in solo situations and musing on life, music, creation, inspiration, the ghosts of Ayler, Cage, Coltrane, Scelsi, ancestral chant, Noh theater, racism, resistance, rebellion, subversion, and the search for freedom in improvisation. The sequences were shot in France, Spain and Italy, in unusual locations. There is no concert footage; everything was specifically staged for the film.

https://youtu.be/NKSW4K9WcoQ