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 By Patrick Connolly The Devil Music Ensemble scored the classic martial arts film “Red Heroine” as part of ArtsUnion in Union Square Sunday night. At 8 p.m., about 150 people sat in front of the Independent bar, watching the three-piece play traditional Chinese folk music, while the film projected on a 20-by-30 screen. “Red Heroine,” the story of a kidnapping, includes a flying ninja girl, a bearded man on a donkey, poor dental hygiene and more concubines than you can count. “It's a silent film from 1929, from China,” musician Jonah Rapino said. “It's the only martial arts film from that era that still survives in it's entirety today.” The Devil Music Ensemble, based in Jamaica Plain, includes multi-instrumentalist Jonah Rapino, percussionist Tim Nylander and guitarist Brendon Wood. The band's name is an interesting choice. “The name comes from a George Crumb piece, who was a composer in the 60s, but it also comes from Brendan's grandma telling him, 'turn down that devil music,'” Nylander said. The group mixed traditional Chinese instruments with guitars, violins, keyboards and percussion. “There's an erhu, a two-stringed violin, that Jonah plays,” said Nylander, a Somerville resident. “That's the most traditional outside of the gongs. There's the big orchestra gong and the opera gong, which goes down in pitch. Then various Chinese cymbals and tuned bells.” In it's fourth year, ArtsUnion, a project of the Somerville Arts Council, ... |
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