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Korla (2015)

Directed by John Turner

Documentary · 1h 18m

Organist Korla Pandit was an alluring enigma, a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music. He never spoke a word on 900 episodes of his groundbreaking 1950s TV program but captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives with his soulful, hypnotic gaze and theatrical performance of popular tunes and East Indian compositions on the newly developed Hammond B3 organ. In the ’90s he resurfaced as a cult figure with the tiki/lounge music aficionados and ended up immortalized in the film Ed Wood. Often pegged as a “man of mystery,” Korla lived up to that billing when he took an amazing secret with him to his grave in 1998—one that is finally revealed in KORLA.

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Cast

Korla Pandit self (archival) Scott Alexander self Harry Edwards self Booker T. Jones self
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Marty Pasetta self Carlos Santana self Ben Fong-Torres self

Crew

Director
John Turner

Details

Release date
2015-09-29
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN