music documentaries?

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http://documentaryheaven.com/ try this website its got loads of them.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249171/ <- must see

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478209/ <- if you love metal!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1658487/ <- if you love synth

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Let's Get Lost - The Chet Baker Story

Tried posting a link, but it's not working. You can find the whole doc on Youtube.

This a film that I have to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEojGEN9MFo

Better Than Something: Jay Reatard (Trailer)

Well here are some of the documentaries I like (with some trailers):

Anvil! The Story of Anvil ( In fact I don´t like the music they do that much - but if you have a heart, this documentary will touch you) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF4H8lB2Y_o&hd=1

Metal - A Headbanger's Journey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfaqTx0bjg

Iron Maiden - Flight 666 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOsMoBJLAys&hd=1

Metallica - Some Kind Of Monster http://youtu.be/jCtRwt30cd0

Frank Zappa - Biography http://youtu.be/CQH1T9LMpug
and generally everything documentary about Frank Zappa ;)

Anvil! The Story of Anvil - Official Trailer

"Touch The Sound" - if you're interested in Sound/Percussion/Acoustic Ecology - focuses on Evelyn Glennie.
Ditto Fred Frith's "Step Across The Border"

I don't think you need to be invested in classical music to enjoy "Knowledge Is the Beginning (2005)," about the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra -- music bridging the Israeli/Palestinian divide.

"El Sistema" Another German documentary (they get around!) on Jose Abreu's socially reformative music education program. Read more about The System and Abreu at the wiki. He's perhaps my favourite living human.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sistema

The Music Instinct (2009) - If you're interested in the psychology of music/neurology/music cognition.
/Excellent round-up, with the clever application of Bobby McFerrin. Some of the epiphanies are devalued, but it's worth watching in lieu of the two-hour talks available elsewhere. There's so much left to discover./

"All Tomorrow's Parties" (2009) is wonderful, 'though perhaps more of a concert film.

Sigur Ros' "Heima," naturally (cf, again)

"Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" (1993) Is an objectively excellent film.

+1 to 30 Century Man (Scott Walker)

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I'd be interested in hearing opinions on the 1 Giant Leap (2002) film(s?).
Can't wait to see "Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise"

I realise this is verging on spam, but here's a transcript of the La Monte Young interview from "The World According to John Coltrane."

In the documentary The World According to John Coltrane, narrator Ed Wheeler remarks:

"In 1960, Coltrane left Miles [Davis] and formed his own quartet to further explore modal playing, freer directions, and a growing Indian influence. They transformed "My Favorite Things", the cheerful populist song from 'The Sound of Music,' into a hypnotic eastern dervish dance. The recording was a hit and became Coltrane's most requested tune—and a bridge to broad public acceptance."


(La Monte Young)
"[JC] was using what were like elements of minimalism in his playing, when he would take a fixed constellation of tones and do these very interesting mathematical permutations on them. It's not unlike what you would hear Lester Young doing in Blues. But, he had refined the process because of his exposure to Indian classical music and other Eastern traditions of modalism. You can hear it tied into his Blues legacy and brought into a new level of refinement and understanding."

(Narrator)
"In the Eastern and African cultures Coltrane turned to for inspiration, music is a means to enlightenment, not an end in itself.
His drive to expand his musical horizons increasingly became a process of spiritual development. His playing and composing - a probing of soul and spirit with his audience as active participants rather than passive witnesses.
A friendship with Ravi Shankar that began in the late 1950s--with informal discussions and jam sessions--became an education in an ancient Science of sound; in which musical structures map specific states of consciousness."

(La Monte Young)
"One of the really important things about modal music is that you have a set of frequency relationships that are repeated over and over. Because of the emphasis on intonation in Indian classical music, this set of frequency relationships is very much in exactly the same place, so that each frequency comes right back at the same place. This sets up a series of patterns in the mechanism of the nervous system of the listener, so that a psychological state is created.
If you believe the Universe is composed of vibrations, then you can understand how a study of sound--which is the most concrete form of vibrations that the human mechanism can immediately assimilate--can be an introduction to the understanding of universal structure."

Insurgentes - Steven Wilson , Lasse Hoile
For all fans of Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, Blackfield, No Man..etc.
And also for those who are curious about what it's like in a brilliant 21st century musicians head :P

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but I thought the Bob Moog documentary was pretty interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7VGkhknT9E

Moog Trailer