With Dhrupad Mela 2013 soon taking place on the occasion of Shivratri in Varanasi, we wanted to make an update to Our Report on Dhrupad Mela 2012 with a selection of clips from which we filmed last season. Special thanks to Dom for his great cameraworks. Wishing we were going to be there on 9th March..!
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Sangita Sounds artists invited to appear at Boom Festival 2012.
We are delighted to have been invited to share the music of Sangita Sounds at Boom 2012. Ashirvad have been invited to play on the Ambient Source stage and Noodreem will be playing on the Sacred Fire stage. Both spaces are world class performance arenas with the detail of the decoration and production being second to none.
It will be the first time Ashirvad have played live and we are very excited at the possibility of having our Indian musician freinds join us onstage. Darren Sangita has been preparing a subtle sonic vista of electroacoustic ambience that will provide the perfect, Raga-esqe digital datastream for our world class Classical musicians to… read more
We are pleased to share a small selection of video clips captured at the Dhrupad Mela 2012 & Shivratri Program near Durga Mandir in Benares by our intrepid all-night team, Dominic, Darren Sangita, Baba Jeff and Devnath. We kept an all night vigil during the four nights of programs in order to enjoy and hopefully share something of the magic of Dhrupad and Indian Classical Music.
Here are some of our humble offerings. Blessings to the many performers that give their time for these programs.
The UK’s foremost Electronic music festival returns one again in the lush environs of Houghton Hall. The idyllic greenery of Englands finest will play host to a plethora of stages and sounds that would keep any techno bunny or psychedelic rainbow warrior indulged in his sonic selections of choice for a whole weekend.
Our very own Darren Sangita (aka Noodreem / Ashirvad) & Jon Sangita (aka E.S.P) have been invited to share their sounds, playing a mix of favoured selections from their stashbag of aural delights in the worlds of dub, ambient electronica and world fusion, blended seamlessly with their own compositions.
Having played at many GLADE festivals in previous years, we can say with certainty that this will be a gathering of the tribes to remember. The promise of great things looms large on the horizon. Prepare for a Cosmic Lift off of epic proportions!!! Shanti Aum.
Here is a full line up of Artists to appear at the GLADE FESTIVAL 2012:-
