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:-
Join in with the Worldwide Exclusive Launch Party for the new album from SCREEN. An explosive combination of Dr. Alex Paterson (The Orb), Gaudi (Digital Dubmeister) & Chester (Brilliant) coming together for the first time to produce a new long player. The multi levelled realities encased in their debit is an ear-popping mix of electro dub, glitch rock, and ambient punk (!!) cooked up in typical London Dub stylee.
Our very own Jon Sangita is a Special Guest DJ on the night, spinning his usual blend of deep funky ambience and shamanic dub along with the ambient wizard himself, Alex Paterson, so even more reasons to be cheerful
Be sure to catch up with the funksters in person for a dubbalicious good night out.
WHERE : Inspiral Lounge, Camden Lock. Camden town
WHEN : 31st March 2012
COST : £7 Door. £5.50 adv.
While its ten tracks sport recognizable elements from previous signature sounds, the spirit of collaboration turns the album into a three-way odyssey leaving musical barriers as distant specks on the horizon, the afore-mentioned dub pulsing in the lower reaches or splintering vocals, which sometimes use vocoder effects to lend a cold, futuristic sheen to the messages.
After the swirling pulsations of ’15 minutes’ and intoxicating strings and contagious bongos of ‘Frog Time’, the album ventures into the orchestral dronescape of ‘Gone phishing’ before the sugar-rush monotone funked-up robo-rap of ‘Just outside’. The electronic wind effect of ’Perfect’ turns loose a slo-mo dub-funk behemoth, goosed by sinister narrative which continues as Giorgio Moroder operates from the Clockwork Orange chemical toilets on the post-apocalyptic city prowl of ‘Section by section’. (Kris Needs)
After a generation of duos, the power trio is back, hotwired into the 21st century in the startling new form of SCREEN. But, where the threesome lineup, first propagated in the mid-60s by the likes of Cream, used guitar, bass and drums to rattle the roof, Alex Paterson, Gaudi and Chestar have conjoined to tear down the walls, powered by mutual obsessions with dub’s bass-propelled dislocation of Read more
The All-India Sufi & Mystic Music Festival takes place in multiple cities across India each year. November & December 2011 will see 3 weekends of performances at Purana Qila, Delhi, the Horniman Circle Gardens , Mumbai and Tollygunge Club, Kolkata featuring a broad spectrum of International musicians.
We’ll be posting a review of the Mumbai shows later this month, but here is something to whet your mystic appetite in the form of the complete list of performances featured :-
NEW DELHI
19th November 2011, Purana Quila, Delhi Zikr-e-Rifayi – Fakirs (Andhra Pradesh)
Jikir-Jari – Hafiza Begum Choudhury & Group (Assam)
Baul Songs – Parvathy Baul (West Bengal)
Sema – Whirling Dervishes (Turkey)
Kabirbani – Mukhtiyar Ali & Group (Rajasthan)
Sufi Qawwali – Fareed Ayaz & Group (Pakistan)
Ashirvad / Noodreem & DJ Darren Sangita at Boom Festival 2010.
Boom Festival 2010 ,the epic multi-disciplinary psychedelic arts festival in Portugal play host to Sangita Sounds artists.
Ashirvad & Noodreem will be playing live sets in the Ambient Paradise and DJ Darren Sangita will be playing a 4 hour epic set. This illustrious festival has been going for a decade and is the foremost of its kind. With 25,000 cosmic spirits in attendace it will surely be an epic collective of high minds and light beings
The new album from Ashirvad, which will have a full release in September is to have a proper outing at the Boom. Featuring numerous classical musicians from India, tracks from this spiritually soaked epic electroacoustic album is sure to create transcendental waves for surfing into bliss! Noodreem will also be sharing his latest sonic excursions and ambient trance vibrations in exquisite sonic style, with his latest tracks being born in the Mystical town of Glastonbury.
DJ Darren Sangita will weave an exotic blend of mystical grooves, illuminating dubs and ethnospheric shimmers in his inimitable style. Join him to know the pleasures of sharing a sonic journey around the world and landing back just in time for tea! Expect to reach depths that touch the bottom of the Ocean and Highs that match any Himalayan vista.
Come and join us one and all. Sangita Sounds host another cosmic family gathering at the ever marvellous Inspiral Lounge this weekend. A chance to chill and chat, to gather and groove and share the delectable euphonic euphoria of the magic that is Sangita Sounds.
With original music from Haladhar, Experiemental Sound Project and Noodreem, with DJ sets from Jaya Jai and Darren Sangita this is sure to be another dip into the holographic magic of Love in Light.
(Special Thanks to Rahul Khatri for “Lotus Blossoms of the Mind” artwork)
So if Babylondon done get you down, come taste the Ital Vibrations with the Sangita Soundsystem an ting inna rub-a-dub stylee!!! We gonna tear down the veil of illision and set dem free. Big Up the Sangita Massive!
Time : 8pm till 2am
Venue : Inspiral Lounge. Camden High Street. London. UK
The eminent Indian Music and arts organisation, Darbar, have just announced their line up for this years impressive Darbar festival.
The festival encompasses North and South Indian music traditions, along with film exhibitions, free workshops and a chance to meet and discuss with some of the artists.
A veritable feast of Classical Indian Musicians will resonate their marvellous music in the city of London for the main body of the events, from 1st – 4th April 2010. No doubt the city is blessed to have such a dazzling array of stars in its midst and I heartily encourage anyone with an interest in the magic of music to attend any of these excellent performances.
With such esteemed heavyweight musicians such as as Shiv Kumar Sharma (Santoor), Anindo Chatterjee (Tabla) and the Gundecha Brothers (Dhrupad Vocal) the line up is drenched in promise. Lesser know but no less talented appearances from artists such as the Canartic vocal duo Ranjani & Gayatri are sure to captivate British audiences and leave them spellbound. The magical tones of Kaushal Das on Sitar are also sure to delight the listener and reveal nuances of music that will illuminate and enthrall. I have blogged many times about the great Indian Classical Music festivals such as Dover Lane Conference in Kolkata or Dhrupad Mela in Varanasi, but this really is the closet thing we are going to get this side of the Indian Ocean.
The line-up is listed here with more details below:-
Festival elements…
Carnatic vocal and instrumental | North Indian Hindustani vocal | Dhrupad | Western Operatic | Free Workshops | Audience with the artists | Films | Mini-concerts | Concerts throughout the day
The line-up…
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma | Patricia Rozario | Veena Sahasrabuddhe | Rohan de Saram | Dhruba Ghosh | Bhupinder Chaggar | Hari Sivanesan | T Pirashanna | Kousic Sen | Satyajit Talwalkar | Dharambir Singh | Sunil Kant Gupta | Shahbaz Hussain | Ranjani and Gayatri | Jyotsna Srikanth | H. S. Sudhindra | Sanju Sahai | Kushal Das | Pandit Anindo Chatterjee | Ravi Shankar Upadhay | A K Palanivel | Rajhesh Vaidhya | Arun Prakash | Anirudh Athreya | Pandit Venkatesh Kumar | Soumik Datta | Neyveli Venkatesh | Gundecha Brothers
Our pre-launch party is coming! This coming friday will see a cosmic ensemble of musicians, producers, friends and family gather together in the mystic melting pot of Inspiral Lounge.
SANGITA SOUNDS
Present
ASHIRVAD
(album launch)
LIVE
Ashirvad, E.S.P, Noodreem
DJ
Jaya Jay , Darren Sangita
VENUE : Inspiral Lounge, 250 Camden High Street, London
DATES : Friday 9th October 2009. 8pm – 1am.
ADMISSION : Free
Sangita Sounds present Ashirvad, a kaleidoscopic musical mandala of sonic nectar. Join us for a celebration in sound fusing and innovating in the traditions of Bengali dub, indian devotional & classical music, ambient raga and psychedelic electronica. The extended soundtrack to our journey will be provided by our hand picked selection of sonic sorcerers and musical magicians.
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