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Thurs. April 19, 9:30pm

FOUNDATION & EMPIRE: ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION – A SUBJECTIVE PORTRAIT
UK-Switzerland/2004/52 min/Beta SP
LA Premiere

Director: Graham Geigenmuller
Cinematographer: Tibor Boros
Editor: Felix Balke
Music: Asian Dub Foundation
Sound Editor: Brian Betts
Featuring: Aniruddha Das, John Ashok Pandit, Steve Chandra Savale, Prithpal Rajput, Rocky Singh, Spex MC, MC Aktarvatar, Louis Beckett, Sonia Mehta

Founded as a “sound system” of tutors and students in an east London community workshop, the Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) has grown into a worldwide phenomenon, touring around the world for more than 10 years with their hybrid blend of rock, reggae, punk, hip-hop, traditional Indian classical music, and other world music sounds. Along with a unique sound, ADF helped to combat negative stereotypes of Asian youth in Britain by creating a new image of them as creative, musically skilled, and “hip”. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE introduces the ADF and its members, their arsenal of instruments, their community educational foundation and political outlook to an audience hungry for music that inspires dance, thought and action.

English

Presented by KPFK

Print Source:
Graham Geigenmueller
Zweierstrasse 182
Zürich 8003
Switzerland
Ph: 41 79 261 9769
shapeshifter@fastmail.fm

 

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