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10 YEARS TO LISTEN
The Listen Project began in 2010 as an experimental cable tv series in Japan. 10 years and 30 countries later, the vault of sights and sounds is overflowing with performance gems in some of the most evocative locations imaginable.
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23: Heartbeat
23: Heartbeat
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean brought us instantly in contact with two distinct differences to the sounds of Central Asian and Europe. That…
Garry Bassin
Jan 8, 2022
22: New Things I Learned Today — The Garifuna Story
22: New Things I Learned Today — The Garifuna Story
Every day on this job is an adventure. Whether it be the research, location scout, artist search or the actual shoot, we learn something…
Garry Bassin
Oct 14, 2021
21: Farther North
21: Farther North
We continued our trip north beyond Salta, to San Salvador de Jujuy and then further towards the Bolivian border. Searching for music here…
Garry Bassin
Oct 8, 2021
20: Oozing Coolness
20: Oozing Coolness
The gaucho’s importance as an important folk hero cannot be underestimated. From the mid 18th century their ballads and legends became an…
Garry Bassin
Oct 4, 2021
19: The Incessant Wind
19: The Incessant Wind
It was time for us to travel across the Atlantic the same way hundreds of years previous Europeans had made the passage to a “new” land…
Garry Bassin
Sep 28, 2021
18: Fiercely Independent
18: Fiercely Independent
After an almost totally unsuccessful research trip to southern Turkey, Tomoko, Attila and I decided to take the boat to Lesbos in Greece…
Garry Bassin
Sep 22, 2021
17: Two Generations
17: Two Generations
“I didn’t know you could play trumpet that way” — Miles Davis (when attending the Guča Festival as a visitor)
Garry Bassin
Sep 16, 2021
16: The Bridge Between
16: The Bridge Between
The first time I went to Turkey was in the 1970’s, I was alone and about to enter Asia for the first time. Istanbul, and the bridge across…
Garry Bassin
Sep 10, 2021
15: Cameras Big and Small
15: Cameras Big and Small
Pointing a camera, (or maybe three or four), at someone who isn’t used to it, will almost definitely scare them. I have a terrible time…
Garry Bassin
Sep 5, 2021
14: A Voice From My Past
14: A Voice From My Past
In the mid 1980’s early 1990’s I had heard some music from a Hungarian band called “Muzsikás”. The albums featured a female singer /…
Garry Bassin
Aug 30, 2021
13: The Family Lakatos
13: The Family Lakatos
Undoubtably the most famous musical family in Hungary is the Lakatos Family. I have no idea how many musicians there are with the surname…
Garry Bassin
Aug 24, 2021
12: Whole Village People Party
12: Whole Village People Party
A Renewed Faith in Humanity
Garry Bassin
Aug 18, 2021
11: The Long Road West
11: The Long Road West
There is 1993 French film from director Tony Gatlif called Latcho Drom, and with just music and dance, it follows the Romani people’s…
Garry Bassin
Aug 14, 2021
10: My First Teacher Was The Rain
10: My First Teacher Was The Rain
In the 1960’s Victor Kopatchinskaja was the most famous cimbalom player in the Soviet Union. He was known to have the fastest hands of any…
Garry Bassin
Aug 12, 2021
09: Short Trip South Of The Border
09: Short Trip South Of The Border
The Austro-Hungarian Empire, which existed from 1867 until 1918, encompassed all or parts of what now is Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia…
Garry Bassin
Aug 8, 2021
08: Finding Turan
08: Finding Turan
Tomoko arrived to Hungary some time before I did in order to attend the Kurultáj Festival. I set her up with a translator and a video…
Garry Bassin
Aug 2, 2021
07: An Intimate Moment Needs No Microphones
07: An Intimate Moment Needs No Microphones
Knowing we were about to start shooting people we had to come up with some plan for how to do it.
Garry Bassin
Jul 27, 2021
06: Horses Of The Morning Sun
06: Horses Of The Morning Sun
“The horse moved like a dancer, which is not surprising. A horse is a beautiful animal, but he is perhaps most remarkable because he moves…
Garry Bassin
Jul 23, 2021
05: A Place From Where To Start
05: A Place From Where To Start
It was dark and depressing when I arrived in Soviet controlled Budapest in the summer of 1978. As a friend and I walked down the streets in…
Garry Bassin
Jul 21, 2021
04: Navigating the Way Through Production
04: Navigating the Way Through Production
Tomoko and I have very different taste on many different levels, but when we both agree on something it is usually the right way to go…
Garry Bassin
Jul 15, 2021
03: Search For The Core Members
03: Search For The Core Members
Tomoko and I met in January of 2000 on a commercial shoot when she was the actor and I was the director. We became friends and later the…
Garry Bassin
Jul 12, 2021
02: Start with Akkadian, End with Wu
02: Start with Akkadian, End with Wu
In 1977 when the two Voyager spacecrafts blasted into space, they each took with them a phonograph record, a 12-inch gold-plated copper…
Garry Bassin
Jul 9, 2021
About The Listen Project
About The Listen Project
The Listen Project started in 2010 as an experimental show on a little viewed cable network in Japan. Over a ten year period The Listen…
Garry Bassin
Jul 8, 2021
01: The Amazing Film Project You’ve Never Seen
01: The Amazing Film Project You’ve Never Seen
An Introduction
Garry Bassin
Jul 7, 2021
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