Official Trailer for ‘Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande’ Music Doc

Official Trailer for ‘Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande’ Music Doc

by Alex Billington
March 3, 2024
Source: YouTube

“We wanted to be a band that stood for something!” “Our story is of success.” Abramorama has revealed an official trailer for Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, a UK music documentary finally getting released this year. It originally premiered back in 2022 at the SXSW Film Festival and London Film Festival, and is getting a proper UK and US theatrical debut this year coinciding with the band Cymande going back on tour. A music doc about a band you’ve probably never heard of! But won’t ever forget after watching this. “They are the unsung heroes 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 support of the film, Cymande will go on a worldwide tour in 2024 and is currently working on new music to be released this year as well. Glad they’re back! “We are delighted to be partnering up with Abramorama to bring the film to a global audience… They immediately understood how it important was that we spread the message of Cymande far & wide, and we cannot wait to get started.”

Official trailer for Tim MacKenzie-Smith’s doc Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, on YouTube:

Cymande are the greatest band you’ve likely never heard of and this is their incredible untold story. Formed in south London by musicians who came to the UK from the Carribean as part of the Windrush generation and led by Patrick Patterson (guitar) and Steve Scipio (bass), they combined jazz, funk, soul and Caribbean grooves to create a new sound. Despite finding success in the US with their first three brilliant albums they faced indifference through prejudice at home, became disillusioned and disbanded in 1975. But their music lived on as new generations of artists, in the UK and the US discovered, sampled and reworked their pioneering sounds, taking their music to new audiences. Illustrated with archival footage, the story of these unsung heroes is told on screen through new interviews with the original band members filmed over two years. Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande is directed by filmmaker Tim MacKenzie-Smith, director of the doc films Keane & Vieira: Best of Enemies, Rooney: The Man Behind the Goals, and Anthony Joshua: The Road to Klitschko previously. Produced by Tim MacKenzie-Smith and Matt Wyllie. This initially premiered at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival a few years ago. Abramorama will debut Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande in select US theaters in late April coming soon this spring. Who’s interested?

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