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Stan Douglas: Channeling Miles Davis
Stan Douglas picks up where Miles Davis left off by creating the epic six-hour video “Luanda-Kinshasa” (2013). Inspired by his experience making pause-button mixtapes in the early 1980s, Douglas imagined a recording that combined elements of Davis’s last studio album from the 1970s, “On the Corner,” with Manu Dibango-inspired Afrobeat. “This is a very tenuous…