DISASTER PASSPORT Plays Koyaanisqatsi – Sat., February 23, 2019 – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI

It takes both nerve and talent to take on composing a film score and performing live. Timing must be perfect. It takes even more to re-score a film where the soundtrack is so integral, and the original score by Phillip Glass is almost iconic.

Disaster Passport has taken on this feat and will be performing their new, original score to a live screening of the 1982 documentary “Koyaanisqatsi.” I saw Disaster Passport premier this at Communication a couple months ago and really loved it. Highly Recommended!

If you’ve not seen the film. It was directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio, and the title comes from the Hopi Indian phrase “life out of balance.” Reggio and his cinematographer Ron Fricke set out to show the tension between humans and the environments they inhabit. The film has no dialogue. It’s an amazing film to begin with.

Disaster Passport features two banjos played through effects and delay. Andy Moore plays one of the five strings in a straight Appalachian style. Colin Crowley, who recently moved his family to Madison from Kenya, overlays an African-pop technique with his banjo. Karl Christenson (Cribshitter) plays Omnichord and electric baritone guitar, fretted and with slide. The band is rounded out by Luke Bassuener (ASUMAYA, Faux Fawn) who loops and plays stirring African percussion.

Note that this is a 2:00pm showing! Doors will open at 1:30pm.