January 2019
It’s
January 2019, and See Hear starts its sixth year. With the world in strife,
what better time than now to talk about a man and an arts movement that embraced
the absurd.
Tim,
Bernard and myself are joined by musician and film director Skizz Cyzyk to talk
about his new film, Icepick To The Moon. It starts out being about obscure but
beloved singer, Reverend Fred Lane. It ends up being a lot more. It spends time
focusing on Dadaism, pataphysics, the Raudelunas arts collective, and how
dressing up as a vegetable or an appliance in a parade is seemingly strange but
dressing up as a bucket of KFC is mainstream!!! There’s also a focus on
adventurousness in music – big band swing, country, demon music boxes, and a
concerto for frogs.
Skizz
spent a long time putting this fantastic film together. Fred Lane (aka Tim
Reed) is a fascinating guy who kept company with other people who thought about
the arts in ways mainstream media don’t give a moment’s thought to – their
loss. We’re hugely grateful to Skizz for speaking to us about this wonderful
film. A great documentary is one that you will keep thinking about as well as
learning something new – the See Hear crew acknowledge Skizz has done both.
He’s
touring the film around the US, but it should be available on DVD and streaming
platforms later in 2019. We urge you to see Icepick To The Moon….more than once
if you can. Also our thanks to Mike White at The Projection Booth for putting
us in touch.
You
can follow up on details of the film and any future screenings (and DVD release
dates when available) at http://www.fredlanedoc.com.
Also, search for Skizz as a regular contributor at The Projection Booth
If
you’ve been enjoying the show, please give us a favourable review on iTunes and
let your friends know that our show exists.
You
can search for See Hear podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or the podcast app
of your choice.
Send
us feedback via email at seehearpodcast@gmail.com
Join
the Facebook group at http://facebook.com/groups/seehearpodcast
Download
episode 60 from here.
Proudly
part of the Pantheon Network of music podcasts.
No comments:
Post a Comment