ETHIOPIQUES: REVOLT OF THE SOUL
Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul, screening at DOXA Film Festival on Friday, May 4 at 8:30 p.m. at Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour St.) and Sunday, May 13 at 4:15 p.m. at SFU-GCA (149 W Hastings St.). Check out “Enkèn yèlélèbesh,” from the album “Mistakes on Purpose” by Girma Bèyènè & Akalé Wubé, released on the Ethiopiques Series, Volume 30.
AMINA FIGAROVA
The Amina Figarova Sextet performs Saturday, May 5 at Frankie’s Jazz Club in Vancouver. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets $25.
The elegiac first section of the September Suite, “Numb,” by Amina Figarova, features Figarova on piano, Bart Platteau - Flutes; Kurt van Herck - tenorsax; Nico Schepers - trumpet; Wiro Mahieu - bass; and Chris Strik - drums. Released by Munich Records in 2005. Thomas Conrad of Stereophile Magazine writes about the Azerbaijan-born, New York-based pianist/composer “…Many of the strongest composer/arranger/orchestra leaders in jazz are women. Think Toshiko Akiyoshi, Carla Bley, Maria Schneider. Amina Figarova has a chance to join their company. All she needs is an orchestra. Figarova’s compositions for small ensemble have been brilliant since at least 2005, when she released September Suite, still the deepest, most powerful jazz response to the events of 9/11…”
KENDRICK LAMAR/SZA
“All the Stars” from Black Panther soundtrack. SZA joins Kendrick Lamar tonight at Rogers Arena with ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, SiR and Lance Skiiwalker.
MARYZE
Out this week electronic pop musician Maryze releases her debut single “B.O.Y.” produced by L.A.’s BrotherNature.
STEPHANIE NILLES
Stephanie Nilles, a Chicago-born jazz/punk/barrelhouse musician, finishes off a two-night stand tonight in the Studio Theatre at Kay Meek Centre. Tickets $29/$38. She recorded ‘Like a Stone Cast Out to Sea’ a few weeks ago with Thomas Deakin on trumpet in a “rough and tumble style at Shtrunk and Drumble Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana.”
REQUIEM FOR A LOST GIRL
Onalea Gilbertson’s Requiem for a Lost Girl: A Chamber Musical about Homelessness premieres tonight at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts as part of the Vancouver Opera Festival.
KID KOALA
Kid Koala The Vinyl Vaudeville Show Floor Kids Edition with guests tonight at VENUE. Doors at 7 p.m. (early show) / 19+. Kid Koala talked about some of his favourite records with RPM.
WENDY & LISA
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman (briefly known as Girl Bros.) began working with Prince in the early 1980s and were part of his band The Revolution, including the Purple Rain era, before branching out on their own. They will perform with the reformed Revolution at the Phillips Backyard Weekender in Victoria B.C. the weekend of July 20-22. Melvoin’s guitar presence on Prince’s “Kiss” is in the pantheon of iconic pop moments. Wendy & Lisa performed “Are You My Baby?” on the Soul Train TV show in 1988. They also did “Lolly Lolly” on the broadcast.
MARLENE DIETRICH/JOSEF VON STERNBERG
On May 10, Turner Classic Movies goes deep into the vault to broadcast almost every film Josef von Sternberg made with Marlene Dietrich starting with The Blue Angel from 1930. Wikipedia: “The film was shot simultaneously in German- and English-language versions, although the latter version was thought lost for many years. The German version is considered to be “obviously superior”; it is longer and not marred by actors struggling with their English pronunciation." Dietrich did a screen test for von Sternberg to get the part of Lola Lola.
GREIL MARCUS/MAI 68
American cultural critic Greil Marcus is in Paris this week to commemorate the events of Mai ‘68 with a series of appearances including a Conversation with filmmaker Olivier Assayas at the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil tonight as well as a concert tomorrow night at the same venue. “Through several of his works including Lipstick Traces, the American rock essayist and critic Greil Marcus has traced protest movements from Dada to the present day, taking in May 68 along the way. Some extracts of his work will be set to music by Sylvain Cartigny to create a kind of musical pathway through the history of twentieth century revolts.”
