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.
Korla Pandit
self (archival)
Scott Alexander
self
Harry Edwards
self
Booker T. Jones
self
Marty Pasetta
self
Carlos Santana
self
Ben Fong-Torres
self
ČST v Měšťanské besedě
Pět let televise
Disney: Through the Looking Glass
Anne-Marie
Tikimentary: In Search of the Lost Paradise
Bosko and the Rebirth of Tiki
Fred the Film
Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World
The Birth of Television
The Imposter
La face cachée de la Résistance
The Bannfoot Ferry
