Alan Lomax's lost footage meets punk chaos—this is musical archaeology with zero academic dust.
A film, music and aural presentation by Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records, Portland, USA. Featuring archival film, images & stories spanning 1890 to the present day, illustrating Eric's own special history of underground music movements and bonafide individuals. The live footage performances are culled from rarely seen film shot during Alan Lomax's North American travels between 1978 to 1985 and Mississippi Record's own enormous library of folk blues, gospel, esoteric, international & punk music.
Direction
Isaacson's narration feels like a possessed tour guide.
Cinematography
Lomax's 1978-85 footage: raw, unguarded, irreplaceable.
Editing
Seamless century-hopping from 1890 wax cylinders to punk basements.
Director
Eric Isaacson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alan Lomax shot over 5,000 hours of footage; most sat in Library of Congress vaults until this project. Isaacson had to petition for access with a proposal written on a napkin—allegedly.
Mississippi Records operates on a radical model: no barcodes, no digital, no represses. Isaacson literally destroys master tapes after limited runs to enforce scarcity—this film is one of the few permanent documents of his philosophy.
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