Sonic Mirror(2008)Dir:Mika Kaurismaki
Country:Finland
Sonic Mirror takes the audience on a personal journey through Billy Cobham world of music. From an appearance with the Finnish Espoo Big Band "and the trumpeter Randy Brecker first looks at Cobham family roots in New York. He meets his parents before he sets off in a Brazilian favela to Bahia, to the kids there with a samba-reggae troupe rediscover his African origins.
The trip reached its peak when making music Billy Cobham in his adopted country Switzerland with autism, while a deep, strongly affecting communication happens, the human language is far superior. Cobham Travel is via the music straight to the roots of personal and cultural identity. "SONIC MIRROR": This is Cobham for the inseparable connection between music and dance, music and awareness of rhythm and life.
In SONIC MIRROR says the deeply humane about musicians, with and through music, but the role played by the music itself it is that creates cohesion, it gives people strength and perspective, it gives the right to social justice and education, an expression and serves in an emotional finale autistic people as expression and communication. SONIC MIRROR is a thrilling and highly topical plea for sensual, cultural education and for the active use of music in general. The music reflects the humanity of different cultures and expands the meaning of the power of sound.
