Soul Power-Music Concert Documentary- Trailer

A documentary on the legendary soul music concert staged in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974.
Another legendary 1970s-era concert sees the light of day through the miracle of technology in the joyously funky docu "Soul Power." The untold story of the three-day lineup of soul and world talent that preceded 1974's Muhammad Ali-George Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" fight in Zaire and toplined James Brown, pic is an instant DVD classic, with prior theatrical and tube action in the cards a la 2003 rediscovery "Festival Express."

Editor-producer-helmer Jeffrey Levy-Hinte worked on the 1995 docu "When We Were Kings," about the Ali-Foreman fight proper. Drawn to the unedited backstage and concert footage that had languished in the vault, he has sculpted it into a fast-paced overview of the event that showcases both Ali and Brown at the pinnacle of their powers.
Concert proper kicks in about a third of the way through. The Spinners glide through "One of a Kind (Love Affair)," Makeba does her novelty hit "The Click Song," and Brown, whose "Soul Power" opens pic, returns for spirited, sweaty renditions of "Payback," "Cold Sweat," "I Can't Stand Myself" and "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)." In all, pic sports some 14 numbers from nine acts, most of them mercifully complete.

Tech package is as clean as could be expected from 30-year-old 16mm stock. HD transfer gives the authentic grain a velvety feel that's perfectly in keeping with the contempo aesthetic. Sound mix is full and muscular. Pic, of which 35mm prints will be struck, is "in memory of" nine participants or influences who have since passed away. Levy-Hinte promises the entire concert on DVD, "but that," he writes in the press notes, "is another mountain." Bring it on.


Release date: 10 June 2009 (France)
USA June 2009 (Los Angeles Film Festival)
USA 19 June 2009 (Silverdocs Film Festival)
USA 10 July 2009 (limited)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Music
• Soul
• James
• Brown
• Spinners
• Ali
• Forman
• BB
• King
• concerts
• Zaire
• Story
• JungleFestival
• Backstage
• Los
• Angeles
• Film
• Festival

[figthersdreams]

Can somebody upload this documentary?

[kax61]

Wow! Can't wait for this DVD next July....yeah