Category: Doc’n Roll

Really interesting documentary about South Africa’s first multiracial punk band under apartheid, National Wake. In the late 70s, brought together by a shared love of music and as a fuck-you to apartheid, a bunch of students started living in a house together. By the very fact that some were Black and some were white, this…

Rewind and Play starts with a white tv presenter lounging over Thelonious Monk’s piano, delivering a monologue in French directly to the camera, while Thelonious himself sits, soaked in sweat, poised to begin playing, breathing in deep deliberate breaths. You are immediately struck to ask what has brought him to look so wrung out while…