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A limited first edition of 1000 (500 DVD/500 Blu-ray) with special packaging designed by Sonnenzimmer, featuring graphics from the original 1960s Hairy Who comic books.
Each package includes:
- DVD or Blu-ray disc of the film (105 mins, closed captioned, NTSC, open region)
- 2 flipbooks of excerpts from Lilli Carré’s original animations in the film (preview here)
- 1 of 3 Risograph posters (10" x 10") by Sonnenzimmer, featuring a quote from the film
- Essay by Robert Storr, artist, critic, and Dean of the Yale University School of Art
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The original soundtrack performed by Tomeka Reid & co. for the critically-acclaimed, feature-length 2014 documentary, "Hairy Who and The Chicago Imagists," directed by Leslie Buchbinder of Pentimenti Productions.
"Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists" is a lavishly-illustrated romp through Chicago's art history, and the first film to tell the Imagists’ whole story. The narrative begins with the artists' explosion onto the scene in the 1960s, follows their precipitous fade from prominence in the 1980s and '90s, and concludes with their 21st century resurgence in popularity. Over the last 50 years, the Imagists have influenced generations of artists, including contemporary figures like Jeff Koons, Chris Ware, Kerry James Marshall, Peter Doig, and Gary Panter. The Imagists' roller-coaster ride through art history is re-created in this film with a wealth of archival footage and photographs, and over forty interviews with the Imagists themselves, critics, curators, collectors, and contemporary artists.
Chicago-based cellist and composer Tomeka Reid, a mainstay on the Windy City scene and an important contemporary member of the A.A.C.M., was commissioned to create original music for the first documentary to chronicle the Imagists, Chicago’s hometown post-surrealists who exhibited together starting in the mid-1960s. Reid composed theme music for the film and made a wide range of multi-track improvisations based on moods, creating a tableau from which the film drew as it unwound the artists’ circuitous tale. For the CD, Reid returned to the studio to make new versions of some of the tracks and to transform the extant material into a fully realized suite of music. It retains a sense of light-heartedness and depth, whimsy and melancholy, adding voice and percussion to her indelible cello.
Released in collaboration with Corbett VS Dempsey. Design by Sonnenzimmer.
credits
released January 1, 2015
Tomeka Reid - Cello, vocals
Kiara Lamier - Vocals on tracks 12 and 19
Adam Vida - Percussion
Compositions by Tomeka Reid 2013 (ASCAP)
Improvisations by Tomeka Reid and Adam Vida 2014
Recorded May 2013, April-May 2014
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, IL
John Corbett - Musical Advisor
Sonnenzimmer - Design
supported by 12 fans who also own “Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists OST”
Mary Halvorson is a genius composer and guitarist who has developed her own musical language, and with Code Girl she has incorporated poetry into that language. Incredible compositions and lyricism (each track is a different kind of poem). Halvorson's playing is as great as usual, and all the other members of the band sound great. Robert Wyatt's singing in particular works extremely well in the tracks he's featured. Highly, highly recommend. rat
Brighton, UK duo craft soulful soundscapes influenced by the sweeping, romantic film soundtracks of the ’60s and ’70s. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 26, 2022
supported by 12 fans who also own “Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists OST”
This record has such a magical flow to it, it seems to capture so directly the ups and downs of life, the joy of music and dance, and it's just so damn catchy and fun to listen to as well. Giles