TONGUES ON FIRE, A tribute To The Black Panthers

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A musical project inspired by the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas, the brilliant draftsman and Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party.

PARIS (Feburary 6th 2010) – 3D Family & Sons d’hiver will present one of the most expected event of the beginning of this new decade : “ Tongues On Fire, A Tribute To The Black Panthers”. This Great event will not only display the revolutionnary art of Emory Douglas but will also highlight the efficacity of the visual, oratorical and musical arts as means of communicating ideas, involving hence great names of poetry and music to work in a close co-operation.
Taking their inspiration from the works of Emory Douglas, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole, the charismatic members of The Last Poets (www.myspace.com/thelastpoetsdotnet), have written 8 powerful poems reflecting in depth the past and today’s cultural and political agenda, as they engage to transcend the legacy of the past activism to the ‘today’s global generation’. As he reflected on these verses, David Murray (www.myspace.com/davidmurraymusic) has composed 7 melodies that will be used as the core basis on which the music will be built on and performed by the different bands collaborating on the project such as Living Colour (www.livingcolour.com) for this representation in Paris and The Roots (www.theroots.com) for a new performance in Paris (La Villette) then in London (Barbican Centre) in September 2010.
The show will also include a screening of 180 art works of Emory Douglas which will be graphically mixed by the video editor Doctor L (www.myspace.com/doctorlmind) accordingly to the mood of the performances on stage while creating in a cinematographic way, a narrative of Emory’s visuals.

This interaction between different forms of arts, inspired from one another, opens a new energetic vision of the legacy left by the African American activism by making visible the productivity of what has been created before.

Link for the video teaser : http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=60936508

For more information:
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