CURATION | ISSUE SIX
A/V Corner Vol. 3
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Curated by THE EDITORS | Fall 2015
Welcome to Nat. Brut's A/V Corner, where your editors pluck bits of sound and film from public domain archives! For this issue, we've paired Georges Méliés's 1906 film The 400 Tricks of the Devil with 2 blues tracks from the early twentieth century by Kansas Joe McCoy & Sippie Wallace. The animated film is silent, so we've provided plenty of soundtrack material to go along with it!
PLAY THE FILM AND CHOOSE A SONG!
Kansas Joe Mccoy - Evil Devil Woman Blues (1934)
Sippie Wallace - Devil Dance Blues (1925)
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Georges Méliés (b. 1861; d. 1938) was a French illusionist and filmmaker during the earliest days of cinema. He was a prolific innovator of visual and special effects, and made over 500 films between 1896 and 1912, only about 200 of which remain extant. |
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Kansas Joe Mccoy (b. 1905; d. 1950) was an American musician and songwriter. During the early 1930s, he was married to influential blues musician Memphis Minnie, and the two were a staple of the Chicago blues scene. |
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Sippie Wallace (b. 1898; d. 1986) was an American singer-songwriter who ranked among the top blues vocalists of the 1920s. In 1929, she abandoned show business to become a church organist and singer in Detroit before returning to her career in the mid-sixties. |
Nat. Brut Issue Six
Issue Six is our second in print, and features work by Cristina de Middel, Afabwaje Kurian, Chitra Ganesh, Jayson Musson, and more! Issue Six also comes with limited edition supplements: All of Them Witches, a 32-page risograph-printed comic re-interpreting 1950s Harvey Horror comics, plus volume four of our comics section, Early Edition!
