Keyboard Fantasies
The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story screening with an opening set by Kafari! (7pm. the film will start at 8pm).
As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realised far before its time.
Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou and more, the music had finally found its audience two generations down the line.
“There is something essential and centering about Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music.” The New York Times
“Beverly Glenn-Copeland is a synth-folk pioneer and transgender icon.” Pitchfork
“This film, this artist, this music, this story: all rare gems — see this film.” Film Thread
“Beverly Glenn-Copeland is a synth-folk pioneer and transgender icon.” Pitchfork
“This film, this artist, this music, this story: all rare gems — see this film.” Film Thread
Hosted by Space and co-hosted by WMPG’s Jazz at the Movies
Space Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland, ME Dec 8th 2021 7pm