CUFF 2022 - GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE - Tim Mackenzie-Smith (dir/prod)
Mark Davies interviews Tim Mackenzie-Smith (director/producer) about his documentary GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE which is featured as part of the 19th edition of the Calgary Underground FIlm Festival 2022.
Cymande are the unsung heroes of hip hop, disco and a host of other genres, whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain's shores and helped shape music for five decades. Long after they stopped playing, the music played on, so they returned to play some more.
In the racially turbulent UK of the early ‘70s, a group of black musicians came together in South London…
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