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Brothers Hypnotic

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 3119588 | KanopyPublisher: Factory 25, 2013Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Summary: For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South Side on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black Consciousness. Family band practice began at 6 AM.. Now grown, as they raise eight brass horns to the sky, they make music that is indescribably radiant, unremittingly exciting, and undeniably together. But as the brothers try to make their own way—while playing in the streets of New York City, negotiating with record labels, or collaborating with Mos Def, Damon Albarn, and Prince—they find the values their father bred into them constantly tested. They must decide whether his principles really are their own.. “Lively, funny… philosophical... an intriguing microcosm of the tensions between the hip-hop generation and its civil-rights-era forebears.” - Variety. “Beautiful to behold” - LA Times
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For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South Side on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black Consciousness. Family band practice began at 6 AM.. Now grown, as they raise eight brass horns to the sky, they make music that is indescribably radiant, unremittingly exciting, and undeniably together. But as the brothers try to make their own way—while playing in the streets of New York City, negotiating with record labels, or collaborating with Mos Def, Damon Albarn, and Prince—they find the values their father bred into them constantly tested. They must decide whether his principles really are their own.. “Lively, funny… philosophical... an intriguing microcosm of the tensions between the hip-hop generation and its civil-rights-era forebears.” - Variety. “Beautiful to behold” - LA Times

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