- This event has passed.
Salt for Svanetia with Moishie’s Bagel
2 October, 2015 @ 8:30 pm
£10
Moishe’s Bagel bring their exhilarating blend of jazz inflected Eastern European and klezmer music to create a new score for Mikhail Kalatozov’s remarkable 1930 Soviet propaganda silent film Salt for Svanetia which recently took centre stage at the Bo’Ness Hippfest.
“Moishe’s Bagel’s new live soundtrack has an ultimately upbeat, dancing vigour…and impresses with bitingly melodic and richly textured music matching the film’s mighty scenic grandeur.”
**** Scotsman
Kalatozov’s visually striking and at times disturbing film originally promoted Soviet measures to modernise the isolated Svan people of the Caucasus Mountains in north-west Georgia and is a dramatic combination of ethnographic history and socialist realism. The evening will feature a full set from the band followed by the film screening after the interval.
Moishe’s Bagel are Phil Alexander (keyboards), Greg Lawson (violin), Mario Caribe (bass) Pete Garnett (accordion), and Guy Nicolson (percussion). Formed in 2003 and including musicians from Salsa Celtica, BBC SSO and SNJO, the band merges klezmer, folk, jazz and latin music into a thrilling edge-of-the-seat sound.
Salt For Svanetia, Dir. Mikhai Kalatozov/USSR/1930/1hr/Recommended PG.
Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema 2015 Tour. Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland. Screening material courtesy of Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films Collection.