The Milky Play
September 09, 2020

'John Was Trying To Contact Aliens' - a docu about a guy who played music to the extraterrestrials

American John Shepherd devoted nearly 30 years of his life to beaming records into space from his grandparents' home crammed with a mountain of electronic equipment. The records Shepherd transmitted were from a collection of 4,000 LPs, including Can, Harmonia, Fela Kuti, Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, K. Leimer... 16 minute 'John Was Trying To Contact Aliens' is now available on Netflix.