Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story [2019] | Documentary | 1hr 3min - 5.1 / Stereo Mix

Emerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, a time-travelling, transgender musical genius finally finds his place in the world.

As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realised far before its time.
Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a re-issue of Keyboard Fantasies and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou and more, the music had finally found its audience two generations down the line.
Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, tells the time-travelling tale of this mystical musician and vocalist, as the present finally catches up with him and he embarks on his first international tour at the age of 74.

“How could music that beautiful have been forgotten for so long?” Caribou
"When I heard Keyboard Fantasies the impact was instant... It was truly healing to listen to. I’m thrilled to see Glenn tell his story." Robyn
"We have to go to the record store, find a new tag ‘medicinal’ and put Keyboard Fantasies under there." Devendra Banhart


World Premiere: November 2nd, Barbican, London w/ artist Q+A. Tickets here
US Premiere: December 8th, NYC (TBA)

Director: Posy Dixon
Supervising Sound Editor: John Cohen
Re-recording mixer: Rob Szeliga