Ein neuer Film von Dietmar Post und Lucia Palacios, der endlich auch einem größeren Publikum zugänglich gemacht wird.  Es handelt sich dabei um eine neue Serie, die das kleine Film- und Plattenstudio/label play loud! bald in aller Regelmäßigkeit herausbringen wird. Die Serie möchte die Idee der John Peel  Sessions für die BBC mit einem dokumentarischen Charakter, der sich bewußt auf die Musikfilme der 60er (Newport, Monterey, Gimmie Shelter) bezieht, vereinen. Musik soll wieder in aller Ruhe für sich selbst sprechen dürfen. "Nichts wirkt gestellt, geschönt oder für die Kamera inszeniert", schreibt die Spex über die Musikfilme von Post/Palacios.  Filme aus der "play loud! (live) music series": pl(l)ms 001 A Summer Evening with Floating di Morel (2009) pl(l)ms 002 Doc Schoko – Oktopus im Pentagramm (2009) pl(l)ms 003 FM Einheit + Irmler – Live at Berghain (2011) pl(l)ms 004 Faust – Live at Klangbad Festival (2010) Hier jetzt der mögliche Dow...

monks - the transatlantic feedback (German version) monks - the transatlantic feedback (English version) OR BUY DVD HERE THE DVD INCLUDES LOTS OF EXTRA MATERIAL PRESS QUOTES: “More than simply a music documentary, The Transatlantic Feedback is an affecting account of the journey of a group of friends through one of the strangest trips of the 20th century.” Wire Magazine (10/10) “A loving and penetrating documentary film.” The Hollywood Reporter (7/06) "Excellent pic. The filmmakers do a vivid job etching the creatively fervid times, with an editing style whose dynamism echoes that of Monk music." Variety (2/07) "A fascinating documentary film!" Der Spiegel (2/07) “A magnificent film” Die Zeit (9/06) "A wonderful documentary film - a long overdue history lesson. Go and watch it!" Rolling Stone (10/06) “This absorbing documentary tells the Monks’ story with precision and flair. (...) It’s the witty and unsentimenta...

Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping (English with German subtitles) Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping (Original English without subtitles) Press quotes: "A highly entertaining documentary film" Boston Globe "Fine piece of cinéma vérité" University of California "The film is a must for all people who believe that Michael Moore went mainstream" Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival "Which American TV will have the guts to show this film?" Albert Maysles, Documentary Filmmaker, New York "A documentary about the Messiah of Stop Shopping" El País, Spain "The most hilarious and pointed political theater in New York" New York Times Official Movie Webpage

Faust – Live at Klangbad Festival/Various Artists – Avant-Garde in the Meadows Play Loud! Although this DVD was released in late 2010, the footage – shot at the second annual festival held in Scheer, southern Germany- dates from 2005. Scheer is a small provincial town that since the late 90s has been the headquarters of  Faust (or rather one of the two Faust factions, this being the one grouped around keyboardist  Jochen Irmler  and the  Klangbad  label). There are actually two films on the disc- a 70 minute record of Faust’s performance at the event, and a slightly longer film titled  Avant-Garde in the Meadows  which gives an overview of the festival’s three days. Lobdell, inscrutable behind dark glasses and a forest of hair and beard, scrubs at his guitar, emitting a hail of fire and lifting his bandmates’ dirge-like improvisations into molten psych-fuzz territory The Faust performance features the aforementioned Jochen Irmler and one other figure f...

play loud! productions is proud to announce that the documentary film  REVEREND BILLY & THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING (by Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios, USA, SPAIN, GER 2002)  will be playing as a loop at Galerie Axel Obiger.  Opening February 25th at 7 PM Exhibition February 26th - March 19th 2011 Watch the trailer to the documentary film here: DVD copies will be for sale at the gallery. http://www.playloud.org/revbilly.html More info at Galerie Axel Obiger Brunnenstraße 29 D-10119 Berlin +49 30 / 76 23 63 76 +49 178 / 60 72 216 www.axelobiger.com

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http://soundsxp.com/artman2/publish/special/Monks_DVD_Transatlantic_feedback.shtml Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback  A Film By Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios Article written by  Kev O  - Dec 19, 2010 monks: The Transatlantic Feedback In 1966 five former-GIs living in Germany walked into a recording studio in Köln and produced a record that was a true ‘one-off’, music that seemed to come out of nowhere and which still has resonance today: it was ‘Black Monk Time’ by Monks. ‘The Transatlantic Feedback’ – now available for the first time in the UK as an official release (although it was originally released in 2008, when it won the Adolf Grimme Award) - tells the story of Monks, in their own words, with clips from the time: from their genesis, to revelation, to diaspora and the second coming. It’s a very human story – funny, sad, and triumphant – about how five ordinary guys came to make, albeit briefly, extraordinary music, far away and unheard of in their hom...

Die Beatles sind was für Großmütter, die Rolling Stones gehören ins Museum! Mit dieser Ansage mischten The Monks 1965 den deutschen Musikmarkt auf. Fünf amerikanische GIs verkleidet als Mönche, gecastet von Werbern, sollten den Sound der Zukunft kreieren. Der Plan ging auf - doch die Band scheiterte.  Von Benjamin Maack Die Teenager schauen verunsichert in Richtung Bühne. Eigentlich sind sie hier, um sich zur Musik zu bewegen, um im "Beat Club", der ersten Musiksendung für Jugendliche im deutschen Fernsehen, ausgelassene Disco-Atmosphäre für die TV-Kameras zu verbreiten. Doch das Quintett, das da am 16. Juli 1966 aufspielt, ist anders als alles, was sie kennen. Wie Hühner auf der Stange stehen die Musiker nebeneinander am Bühnenrand - selbst der Drummer, der bei normalen Bands im Hintergrund sein Instrument bedient. Und der Sänger, der damals in den meisten Musikgruppen der Star war? Steht hier rechts am Rand. So als wäre er kein bisschen bedeutender als die anderen, als w...