Graeme Mathieson & Chris Flanagan's excellent documentary series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae In A Foreign Land screens on TVO on Sunday at 9 pm.
Sounds & Pressure: Reggae In A Foreign Land
At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland behind to shine their light in an unlikely hub of Caribbean creativity: Toronto. Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land is a captivating five-part anthology series that chronicles the musical and geographical journeys of Nana McLean, Johnny Osbourne, Leroy Sibbles, Jerry Brown and duo Roy Panton and Yvonne Harrison. Through rare archives, electrifying needle drops and lively interviews with the artists themselves, directors Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan take you from Kingston to Kensington Market to see and hear how reggae made roots in Canada against all odds.
Watch the Sounds & Pressure trailer and the five episodes below.
Two decades after his Vinyl documentary, Alan Zweig's back with his follow-up Records which airs tonight on TVO at 9 pm.
If you miss TVO's premiere screening of Alan Zweig's 'Records' on Tuesday (December 7) you can catch it on Saturday (December 11) at 9 pm Eastern or Sunday (December 12) at 10:30 pm Eastern.
You can also stream it via TVO.org, YouTube and Roku.
The 1980 performance of Hamilton's Teenage Head at Heatwave will be in TVO's Picture My Face doc November 3 at 9 pm.
Here's the scoop from Teenage Head...
"We always knew there was a film crew shooting the Heatwave Festival, but what happened to the footage? Apparently the majority of the bands declined to be filmed, or never agreed to participate in a movie about the festival, so the film they did have sat in a warehouse collecting dust. Our good friend Mr. Zero from the Kings had acquired all those film canisters several years ago, as Teenage Head and The Kings were the only bands left on film. That film ended up in the hands of FELTFILM director Douglas Arrowsmith, who has just wrapped up production on our upcoming feature documentary appropriatley titled "Picture My Face". Along with Doug McClement's pristine audio capture, the results are stunning. In fact that's how the documentary starts, which will air later this fall on TVO's Original Series with tons of never before seen footage. It only took 40 years, but from what we've seen it was worth the wait."
Watch the trailer for Picture My Face followed by an interview with Teenage Head bassist Steve Mahon on the Daily Derringer podcast and The New Music's coverage of Heatwave below.
Watch J.D. Roberts' coverage of Heatwave for The New Music in 1980
Steve Paikin is keen to find out what the attraction was to this "head-banging crap" from Tomorrow Is Too Late co-authors Shawn Chirrey & Simon Harvey.
