Music
Random Rab
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Emerging from his own distinct corner of the West Coast electronic music scene, Random Rab offers a powerful, timeless contribution to sonic exploration. Rab is a master of manipulating our temporal awareness, leading us into seemingly ancient worlds, where to our amazement, we find visible shreds of the future. Allow his sound to catalyze your travels into haunting ecstasy, and you will not return to your same beginning.
Playing only his own originally produced music live, the depth and craftsmanship of this offering is remarkable. With an array of drum machines, samplers, sequencers, and instruments, it is a clear devotion to expression and perfection. The beats are smooth, bold, and overwhelming. The original vocals, melodies and hitting bass merge seamlessly into a tapestry of unique and unexpected journeys.
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Love + Light
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Comprised of the musical talents of Matt Madonna and Ryan Anderson, Love and Light hails from the high desert region of the Reno/Tahoe Basin.Creating music that will touch your heart and elevate your soul, the duo’s primary focus is the uplifting of people across the world through pure intention, melodic synth lines, complex chord structure, intricate rhythms, and funky, chunky bass lines. With a strong focus on midtempo bass music, and producing talents that span into the realms of melodic dubstep, half-time drum and bass, moombahton, and four-on-the-floor bangers, Love and Light deliver a multi-genre live set spiced with an onmitempo evolution that will be sure to keep your body moving. Combine the duo’s unique production style with their high-energy stage presence, add a set full of original music with a sprinkle with quality remixes, and the product is a sub-sonic experience that brings people together and leaves you with prolific feelings of connectedness. loveandlightmusic.com |
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David Starfire
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David Starfire is a producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. His production style is eclectic, fusing world music with dance, hip hop and everything in between. He’s developed quite a following and his unique sound is catching the ears of music fans across the globe. David is signed with the internationally known label Six Degrees Records, home to artists such as The Orb, Bebel Gilberto, Cheb i Sabbah, Karsh Kale, Midival Punditz, Michael Franti, Natacha Atlas, DJ Spooky and many others. He’s released 2 records, “Bollyhood Bass” in 2010 and “Bombay Beatz” in 2007. His tunes have been played on BBC, NPR, National Geographic, XM radio and various stations around the world. He is also a main member of the Dub Kirtan All Stars project with FreQ Nasty and performs audio/visual shows with VJ Culture under the name StarCulture. davidstarfire.com |
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William & The Earth Harp
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The Earth Harp is the longest stringed instrument in the world, with strings that extend up to 1,000 feet in length, and was invented in 1999 by artist/musician, William Close. The Earth Harp uses architecture and landscape as part of the instrument. The architecture becomes the instrument. Its first installation featured the resonating chamber mounted on one side of a valley with the strings stretched out nearly 1,000 ft to the other side. It turned the valley into a giant harp! How does the Earth Harp work? The Earth Harp is played using violin resin on cotton gloves and musical bows. The performer’s hands are run along the strings to created beautiful cello like tones. The act of rubbing the strings creates a longitudinal compression wave. This vibration is similar to the vibration patterns that produce tones when you run your finger around the edge of a wine glass. It is also similar to the vibration patterns created while playing singing bowls. |
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Heyoka
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Heyoka AKA Andrei Olenev is a cosmic auditory scientist found in the Bay Area noosphere, who has been blowing minds with his sonic manipulations. Muti Music first released Heyoka’s “Space Case EP” in 2008 and included him on their growing roster of talented artists. His albums ‘Whomp Gland & Pineal Dub’, ‘Gate Code’ and the all new ‘Marklar’ album in 2010 have shown that he is a producer consistently evolving his musical style while managing to maintain a signature sound that is distinctively ‘Heyoka’. His early influences in Downtempo, Dub and IDM combined with midtempo dancefloor genres have helped create a very unique sound that combines relentless basslines, hip hop rhythms, dub vibes, and musicality and melody, all within an atmosphere of heavy psychedelia and alien dimensions.The response to his emergence so far has been overwhelming with Heyoka developing audiences and playing festivals from US to Canada and Australia. For a mind bending experience in dub inspired heyokamusic.com |
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Govinda
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Govinda is the alter-ego of Austin based producer/composer Shane Madden. He began studying violin and composition at the age of eight and went on to study classical violin at the University of Texas where he fell in love with electronic music production. It was in Madden’s pursuit of his gypsy roots that he opened his ears to music from around the world. From experiences learning violin with mysterious masters on his journeys across the globe and his passion for modern design and technology, the current sound of Govinda was born. Govinda has played with Thievery Corporation, Tipper, Bassnectar, Shpongle, Cheb I Sabbah, STS9 and many more and been featured on over 25 compilations such as Buddha Bar II, Asian Travels II, and Nirvana Lounge selling a combined 400,000 copies. Govinda has played at numerous festivals throughout North America including Coachella, Lightning in a Bottle, Sea of Dreams, SXSW and more. Govinda’s music has been licensed on shows like “Roswell” WB, “Road Rules” MTV, and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” Bravo as well as many independent films. The Govinda live show is truly a multi-sensory experience that features professional dancers, live projections, resonating vocals and a sonical sound-scape. His live experience is full of vibrant energy that plays to its crowd. Govinda performs on Ableton Live accompanied by classical violin. Govinda is currently touring in support of his album “Universal On Switch” which was released independently earlier this year. govindamusic.com |
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Phutureprimitive
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Phutureprimitive music is singular and unique in its approach: Lush melodies drift across intricate rhythms, groove heavy beats and warm, fuzzy bass lines. Often exploring a dark and dense palette, his music also manages to convey a sense of tranquility and beauty, engaging the listener into hypnotic movement and often escalating toward a full kinetic experience.Conceived and produced in a digital environment, his music manages to convey more humanity and organic warmth then typically found in an often cold and sterile genre. Shimmering with cinematic qualities, his music ultimately speaks to both the mind and the body. Simply put: Vibration for the imagination.phutureprimitive.com |
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Gladkill
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Refusing to stick to the comfort of making one style of music, Boris Gladkikh aka gladkill.com |
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Russ Liquid
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Set apart from other up-and-coming West Coast bass music producers by his extensive world-touring history and performance experience, Russ Liquid brings a much needed injection of melody and emotion to the thriving dance floor community. Classically trained on the piano, trumpet, saxophone and flute, Russ Liquid applies the colorful tones of instrumental music to the realm of beats with dance floor-rocking results. This talented producer has found an entirely new palette to “paint” with, and now he seeks to bridge the gap between classical and modern music with new electronic technology and sonic possibilities. russliquid.com |
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Birds of Paradise
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Birds of Paradise is California-based producers Torin Goodnight (Bird of Prey) and Tyler Gibson (Gibson). Each has a decade of experience behind them, and have been steadily making waves in the electronic music scene. Having a similar aesthetic but still maintaining individual approach, they combine forces in a new symbiotic project to work towards a common vision and master the art of collaboration. The duo plays to their strengths— patience, beauty, and depth to offer a truly original sound of rolling percussive breakbeats, progressive melodies, incredible sound design and twisted psychedelic layers. Their fusion of elements, both natural and synthetic, create an engaging bio-digital landscape that leaves little to the imagination. It will take your ears only a moment to realize that you have uncovered something special. soundcloud.com/bird-of-prey |
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Akara
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Created by Joshua Penman, a conservatory-trained classical composer turned electronica producer, Akara’s mystical dance-floor symphonies are songs of the luminous extra-dimensional beings, sung across the veil of reality. Filigreed and beautiful and immersive, there is nothing like Akara.Delicately fusing an enormously wide palette of musical influences, and intricately scored for a real orchestra of classical musicians who join them for larger shows, Akara brings together the exotic harmonies of Ravel and Indian classical music, the pulsating minimalism of Steve Reich and Balinese gamelan, the psychedelic production of Shpongle and Ott, and the powerful rhythms of West Coast bass music. Combined with the channeled-language light-being vocals of Femke Weidema, Akara is a deep, mystical journey into another world, a half-remembered fragment of a strange and beautiful dream… akaraproject.com |
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Karim So
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Karim So is addicted to bass and musical movement, and he always has the dancer in mind… he has rocked shows across the US with some of the most talented and forward thinking acts that electronic music has to offer… Through his Luvstep series of mixes he crosses many musical borders, moving many … but he is also known for rocking the dancefloor with his bassed out blend of breakbeat, dubstep, hip-hop, crunk rock, IDM, and anything else that sounds good. Karim keeps his sound fresh, and you will never hear the same set from him twice. He is equally in his element, whether pushing warm sunrise vibes or setting off the dance.
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Thriftworks
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This Berkeley, California based electronic music producer offers a delightful alternative to the popular heavy hitting bass music of today’s society. Informed by the spirits and inspired by the night, Thriftworks’ beats take on mysterious powers and secrets of healing frequencies. Lush but dimly lit ancient worlds become evident in every contact with the agile and imaginative works, thriftily sourced and carefully realized. Using an eclectic melding of atmospheric, downtempo hip hop, and danceable textured bass, Thriftworks creates brand new, musical worlds out of seemingly nothingness.
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Nico Luminous
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Los Angeles based musical artist Nicoluminous is on a mission…This multi-faceted artist takes a soulful approach to creating electronic music while fusing melodic progressions, futuristic sound design and organic elements into dirty bass drops. His Dj sets are geared to the sexier side of Dubstep and Glitch Hop with a psychedelic twist. As a Beatboxer/MC, Nico uses his custom effects pedal belt to live loop his beatboxing and vocals like you’ve never seen or heard before. Stay tuned to soundcloud.com/nicoluminous for free tracks and mixes. soundcloud.com/nicoluminous |
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MiHKal
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MiHKAL (Symbiosis / Street Ritual) Perfecting the art of audio alchemy, Oakland based DJ/producer Michael Anderson Lapp aka MiHKAL is quite possibly one of the westcoast’s best kept secrets. Notorious for his emotionally charged, melodically driven, bass heavy mixes, remixes & live performances, he provides dancers & listeners a sonic vehicle of transformation from which their own creative expressions can emerge. Equipped with an ear for euphonic pleasure & the ability to seamlessly weave, poly-tempo, multi-genre sound tapestries on the fly, MiHKAL can provide the soundtrack of the moment. The intention he puts behind every show shines through, providing a personable unique experience to every live performance. Since his debut in 2008, he has been gaining wide recognition in the EDM community & has been seen performing alongside the likes of: MiM0SA, PANTyRAiD, Heyoka, Random Rab, and countless others. With no signs of slowing down in 2012, catch him elevating dancefloors from SF to Burning Man…Pushing buttons & audio boundaries with sexy soundscapes, high energy performances & unconditional bass love. soundcloud.com/mihkal |
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Cu The Dynamic (Eliot Lipp)
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Steve Bryant (aka Cru the Dynamic) is a drummer and producer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Although trained in jazz performance, his production and playing styles are deeply rooted in hip-hop & drum&bass. While studying jazz in college, steve was given the nickname Cru Jones, due to his love of the movie Rad. It was also here in college that young Cru was introduced to music production and started making beats on his friend’s Roland MC-303. Although trained in jazz performance, Steve’s production and playing styles are now more deeply rooted in hip-hop & drum&bass. In addition to releasing and performing music as a solo artist, Steve is also the drummer for many notable acts including electronic beatsmith Eliot Lipp, Michna & Raw Paw (ghostly international), legendary New York hip-hop group Dujeous, the jazz/electronica collective Boomclique, and indie-tronica phenom Little Star Dweller. cruthedynamic.bandcamp.com |
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Kai
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Kai’s sensitivity to sound is apparent in his intuitive “reading” of the audience. A true lover of dance-floor spirituality, Kai brings deep driving bass into his mixes and tastefully twists it together with the rhythms and ragas of the ecstatics, often incorporating a variety of Eastern sounds with the likes of the best-coast bass music culture, along with big-band funk, electro break-beat and dance hall. You never know what you’ll get Kai, but you’ll always be glad you got some. thinkin3d.net/music |
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Yogi Prateado
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Yogi Prateado skillfully travels the noosphere with the Hang, percussion, electronics, and other devices to woo harmonious realization. The Hang, a ufo looking instrument, was created in 2000, by Felix and Sabina, the Hang makers, in Bern, Switzerland. This remarkable instrument sounds like the celestial orbs, a harp, or what have you. As the primary instrument of sonic creation for Prateado, collaboration with some of the top live and electronic artists on the west coast bring an array of listening and movement experiences. yogiprateado.com |
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iTom Lab
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iTom will be performing with masterful hang player Yogi Prateado.iTom ‘s style is a galactic journey into the stars with sonic vibrational compositions of electronic music hybrid with organic sounds. Somewhat psy-dub spiritual ambient mesh and just straight cool grooving patterns that feel like portals are opening. The evolving arts of Electronic Shamanism is his mission, whether it be on the dance floor, sacred ceremony, desert parties or festivals.itomlab.bandcamp.com |
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Evan Fraser
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Masterful multi-instrumentalist Evan Fraser has performed wtih, and recorded on albums for Beats Antique, Hamsa Lila, Akara Project, as well as many other well-known music artists from around the world. Evan tastefully triumphs the ears of audience members by massaging their minds with jaw-dripping jaw harp skills, mbira, berimbauz, ngoni (similar to African kora), many styles of flute and world percussion. Always a heart-opening experience to be in the presence of Evan’s music offerings. myspace.com/evanfraser |
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Cello Joe
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CelloJoe is an anomaly in the world of cellists. By combining cello with beatboxing, he has created a unique genre: Classical Hip-Hop. Looped and layered beatboxing beats (vocal percussion) and funky cello form a rich soundscape for intelligent lyrics; CelloJoe spreads joy, laughter and consciousness raising vibrations. CelloJoe rides his bicycle with his cello and has traveled over 10,000 miles from San Francisco, California to the bottom of Mexico; from Portland, OR to Vancouver, BC; from Logan to Provo, Utah; and in England, Holland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, France, and Spain with the Pleasant Revolution and SHAKE YOUR PEACE!. cellojoe.com |
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Scott Huckabay
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Scott Huckabay creates a contemporary, shamanistic musical style, inspiring trance states resonant with the heart chakra, creating sounds at 528 Hz, an ancient frequency that induces feelings of love and healing. His act is reminiscent of transcended master Michael Hedges meets Jimi Hendrix meets Ravi Shankar. He takes the audience by surprise, leading them through dancing and joyous celebration into the realm of his celestial worship – the courtyard of the Divine. Various guitar tools assist in the journey of this vision caster from the land of Mu and his six stringed instrument of divination. Scott is rapidly gaining widespread recognition as the “Universal Guitarist for the Spiritual Renaissance.” He never played guitar before a motorcycle accident left him partially paralyzed. His life dramatically changed after making a pact with God the moment before he hit the highway crashing at high speed. He woke up from being unconscious with a guitar mysteriously laid by his feet. His performance slowly brings the audience into his swirling, celebrating dance. And then he takes them to new heights - his love and adoration of the Great Spirit. scotthuckabay.com |
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Jonah Kai &
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Along with producing and managing the main stage for Lucidity, Jonah Kai is the founder and live-improv conductor of Shamanic Sound Ceremony, an ever-evolving world music sound-healing “ecstatic dance” band featuring CELLO JOE, EVAN FRASER, YOGI PRATEADO, KRIKOR (Audiafauna), NIGEL WOLOVIK (Shimshai) + special guests. The group both closed Lightning in a Bottle festival 2008, and opened Symbiosis Gathering 2009. Jonah Kai is a certified practitioner of several energy healing modalities and channels healing frequencies through the music to the audience at all times. Specializing in Sound Healing Therapy, he is also an expert of Didgeridoo, 5-String Bass Guitar, Native American Style Flute, Throat Singing, Human Beat Box, Tuning Forks and multiple instruments of Percussion. Together, the group weaves songs as beautiful prayers with clear healing intention. Shamanic Sound Ceremony often begins and ends their channeled live music sessions with prayers for group healing and fun! myspace.com/vibrationalhealing |
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Durian Sex Cult
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A side-segment arrangement of Jonah Kai & Shamanic Sound Ceremony, 10 beautifully wild durian-wielding women will feed this luscious fruit to willing participants, accompanied by beat box, cello, didgeridoo, saxaphone, duduk, and, well, whatever the moment calls for!
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Scuzzy
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Scuzzy’s joyous, funky take on West Coast dance music has been winning hearts and moving dancefloors all over. An L.A.-based artist, Scuzzy first made news by winning the 2010 Emrg-N-See Festival remix contest, performing a triumphant set there that quickly became Oregon legend. Scuzzy (aka Rafi Benjamin), who grew up as a songwriter and classically-trained pianist, loves to incorporate live vocals and instrumentation into his sets, remixing tracks on the fly, always delivering a unique live offering. His global heritage, with roots in South America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, shines through as he delivers multi-lingual raps and world-melding tropical bass. |
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Dr. Toast
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Dr. Toast is a stealthy producer of deep, abstract, hypnotic beats. His influences run the gamut from ambient to breaks to hip hop to IDM to psychill - which are layered together into lush washes of otherworldly sound, and always with a deep, thumping, head-nodding foundation. As a longtime member of the False Profit crew, he has been performing original material live on his laptop at underground parties in San Francisco since 2003, and has been known to make appearances on soundsystems from New York City to Black Rock City. When he needs a break from laptop sorcery, he can be found in clubs scratching vinyl alongside local breaks DJs. drtoast.com |
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Mama Crow
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Carmen Gutierrez aka MAMA CROW is a New York born, Bay Area based musician, healer, activist and singer/songwriter. With a unique fusion of funky rhythmic guitar picking, lyrical story-telling through a profoundly large and soulful voice, MAMA CROW can capture any audience. She has performed with many artists/bands throughout the nation such as LUMINARIES, Fantuzzi, Chris Berry Trio, Band of Mystics, Zahira Ma, SARATONE, Kings of Spade, Mistik, Fun Young Moon, Lila Rose, Antioquia, 2Adam12, Izabella & more. She has opened for GODDESS ALCHEMY PROJECT, LYNX & JANOVER, YOUSSOUPHA SIDIBE, SAMBADA, ANTIOQUIA, JAH LEVI, KARSH KALE+more. :::As a sola artista and vixen vocalist, she sings from a deep soul level with a lyrical style all her own. Her gospel, soulful and funky voice partnered with rhythmic acoustic finger picking creates a wash of sound that tugs on heart strings. |
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Tropo
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An Architect, a Violinist, a Hula Hooper, a Poet, and an Egyptian Shaman make TROPO. They bring you Tronic vibrations, a myriad of emotionally charged dance tunes, live programming of electronic beats, and crunchy bass oscillations, intent on raising the energy, sweat, and bliss in space! Tyson Leonard records and layers catchy violin and vocal melodies over driving beats by Ahmed Fahmy and Jeff Schneider. Grant Leonard and cousin, Ryan Johnson accompany, creating spectral pads and psychedelic soundscapes completing the grabbing reflections of modern social order and human dreams that is TROPO. tropo.bandcamp.com |
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Audiafauna
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Audiafauna is the result of a true collaboration of minds and hearts. What they’ve created is arrestingly genuine – combining the genres of indie-folk, pop, electronica, and soul to name a few – and can be likened to the powerhouse vocals of Florence & the Machine, the impassioned hunger of Cat Power, and the curiosity of Cocorosie. What they’ve created is uniquely their own however, and the striking sincerity with which it’s delivered transcends whatever personal preference listeners might cling to. Front-woman Kelly Koval is enrapturing, and her heartfelt words are matched by the powerful sound that springs forth from her lips.
The band provides a dynamic canvas for Kelly’s magic. Violin and cello deliver rich melodies and chunky chops, upright bass solidly fuses melody and groove, reverb-drenched keys and gritty guitar flush out the sound, while a motley mix of drums and electronics flow as a single instrument. The resulting sound is uncharted yet nostalgically familiar; speaking directly to our human experience, and arriving like a long-awaited breath of fresh air. audiafauna.com |
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Serena, aka dj Kali Devi, is an earthly goddess, translating the language of the divine through her music. Planting her seeds in Central California, her roots grow deep and her branches reach high. She awakens the spirit though the language of the unconscious mind, music and mantra. Her sounds stimulate the soul’s transition from the material plane to the astral plane, helping lead the listener to complete cosmic consciousness. With tribal percussion, kirtan chanting, and sitar melodies, you are transcended beyond a higher realm of existence. Her unique musical style and magical performances captivate an unforgettable presence of the shakti energy. She unifies the people as one with the power of sound healing, creating a strong connection between the music, her crowd, herself and the cosmos. At the young age of 13, Serena was introduced to electronic dance music. By age 15, she was spinning vinyl and producing her own beats. Originally beginning her career as Jungle and Drum n Bass dj, she soon broadened her horizons, now playing everything from Moombahton to Psytrance. Only 20 years old, she travels up and down the West Coast, spreading love and light through music, purifying her listeners and deepening her hopes of traveling the world to share her sounds. soundcloud.com/kalidevi |
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Rook
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Santa Barbara homegrown and Bay area transplant Rook brings an eclectic mix of glitch hop, dubstep, and other funky, groovy, heavy, and fun spacebass of all shapes and sizes. soundcloud.com/rook |
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Lyricist Ize
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Lyricist Ize is a performer, dancer, lyricist, drummer, musician, visionary and all around elevated spirit that is currently gaining much acclaim and recognition for being one of the best freestyle artists of our time. When he isn’t in the studio creating new tracks intended to “awaken” the masses, he is busy spreading love, peace, unity and positive influences live at clubs and major festivals throughout the US.
Born and raised in Santa Barbara, California, Ize takes much of his inspiration from nature and tries to give back through the messages in his music. His set includes a variety of performers from aerialists, dancers and other cirque inspired treats to create an epic feast for the senses. Ize is a revolutionary musician, speaking out against injustice, encouraging love and having fun with a positive style that only he can emit.
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Krystaal Rain
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Since 2008, “Fly Girl” Miss Krystaal Rain has graced audiences with her powerful presence. Her aerial cirque performances include the use of multiple apparatuses, mainly tissue (silk), lyra ( Hoop), and pole. Her performance style is an artful alchemy of strength, flexibility, personality, and sparkle. A truly “gal-activated” being, delivering mega doses of sensory glitter in her aerial pursuits. One thing is certain, Krystaal leaves her audience wanting more. flygirlaerial.com |
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Jesse Noemind
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Jesse Noemind is an upcoming artist who is transmitting the light everywhere he goes. His visionary approach to a dream with in a dream provokes higher states of consciousness. The intention behind his creations is calling forth unconditional love, healing energy, and restoration of all imbalances on this planet, and all dimensions everywhere. The surreal / healing / shamanic / visionary art of noemind has been featured in the Temple of Visions (Los Angeles, CA) and Tribe 13 Gallery (Ukiah, CA), and many festivals and events around the world. Since November 2011, noemind has been on tour sharing his art and creating live at events. A deeper understand of reality and the balance of energy, intention is noemind’s most powerful brush. noemind: A mind not fixed or occupied by thought or emotion and thus open to everything. All Heart = noemind. When thinking stops, BEING takes over. noemind.com |
