Arrows Into Infinity, a film by Dorothy Darr and Jeffery Morse, is a striking documentary portrait of Charles Lloyd. It chronicles the arc of an improviser’s still-unfolding life, moving through time with memories, archive footage and music, lots of music.
 

NTSC, 16:9, Disc type: 9, Region Code: 0 (world wide), Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0, Language: English, Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Total time: ~113 min.

Arrows Into Infinity, a film by Dorothy Darr and Jeffery Morse, is a striking documentary portrait of Charles Lloyd. It chronicles the arc of an improviser’s still-unfolding life, moving through time with memories, archive footage and music, lots of music.

NTSC, 16:9, Disc type: 9, Region Code: 0 (world wide), Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0, Language: English, Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Total time: ~113 min.

Lyle Mays: piano, synthesizer, organ, autoharp, Pat Metheny: guitars, baskytara, Nana Vasconcelos: berimbau, percussion, drums, vocal

John Taylor: piano; Palle Danielsson: double bass; Peter Erskine: drums

Cymin Samawatie: vocals; Benedikt Jahnel: piano; Ralf Schwarz: double-bass; Ketan Bhatti: drums, percussion

ECM debut for a young band already making waves internationally. Cyminology proposes a unique intercultural chamber jazz, by turns poetic, sensual, melancholic, dynamic and pulsating. Based in Berlin the band features a singer of Iranian descent, an Indian drummer, a French-born pianist and a German bassist. Leader Cymin Samawatie is not only a charismatic frontwoman but also the author of most of the band’s material. She writes texts in Farsi (Persian) and sets them to her own music, often developed through improvising. As well as her own lyrics, Cymin also sings classic Sufi texts from Rumi and Hafez, masters of Persian poetry, and 20th verse of Iranian proto-feminist Farough Farrokhzãd.

Louis Sclavis: clarinets
Dominique Pifarély: violin
Vincent Courtois: cello