Oregon ~ August 15th - 17th

Cheb i Sabbah

Musical adventurer, global spiritualist and producer extraordinaire has returned to the Indian subcontinent for Devotion, his seventh album on Six Degrees. Hundreds of artists...have come and gone like bottle rockets, but Cheb i Sabbah's light keeps burning and it is his bhakti (devotion) to the spiritual essence of music, and to truth and humanity, that is responsible for his longevity.


Devotion (his most recent album) was produced in the past year or so but has been in the making for at least nine years. With each journey [to India] he has excavated an aspect of its culture and spirituality, with respect and taste, to produce sublime albums...considered gold standards by classical music purists and casual listeners alike, and remixes from these projects are club staples around the world. In the past, Cheb i Sabbah produced trippy and mellifluous prayers to the Hindu goddess Durga and sung beatific stories of Lord Krishna, but with this fantastic new record he gets to the center of the universe itself and investigates the nature of devotion.

chebisabbah.com


Adham Shaikh

First ever US appearance! Growing up listening to Indian ragas and classical western music, he developed an ear for a fusion of sounds from around the world. This musical blend of styles and traditions inspire his compositions. The 21st century rituals of dance and chill-out have drawn Shaikh to explore the trance phenomenon that these different expressions of music create and allow. Recording a wide variety of world instrumentation, he has woven the sounds of India, Bali, Australia, Africa, Jamaica, the Middle East , Slovakia, Scandinavia, Turkey and North America into all aspects of his production.


Adham Brings the sensibility of the global village to the stage as both a solo performer and alongside a collective of world musicians. Fusing together soundscapes of the ancient the immediate with the tribal dub groove, his renowned sets bridge the gap between the organic and the electronic. He has performed at festivals and gatherings all over the world, including Canada, UK, Greece, Japan, Australia, and Holland.
watch video | video 2 | sonicturtle.ca


Everyone Orchestra (Conducted by Matt Butler)

Devotional Jam with Members of Hamsa Lila, Zilla & Lost at Last
Everyone Orchestra performances are designed to create space for each performer’s musical personality to shine, engage the audience as participants in the jam and to facilitate a massive celebratory coming together featuring a conductor directing both musicians and audience alike in interactive, lively, and highly danceable movements.


The EO has performed its shows nationally featuring members of The Grateful Dead, Phish, ALO, Disco Biscuits, The Derek Trucks Band, Fishbone, Poi Dog Pondering, String Cheese Incident, and Steve Kimock, G. Love, painters, dancers, hula hoopers, firespinners, stiltwalkers, activists, presidential candidates, storytellers and hundreds of others

everyoneorchestra.com.


Obo Addy and Okropong

Obo Addy, the son of a Wonche medicine man in Ghana West Africa, was designated a "master drummer" at the age of six. African musical history comes to life when master drummer Obo Addy steps on stage. As a prominent member of the first generation of African musicians to bring their traditional and popular music to Europe and America, this versatile magician of the drums embodies the past, present and future of Ghana's musical culture. His band, Okropong is dedicated to preserving and presenting the traditional tribal music and dance of Ghana.


Addy has a thirty-year presence on the international performing arts scene and, as one of the key originators of the musical movement now known as "Worldbeat," has become known for his ability to celebrate past traditions while expanding to embrace new ideas and foreign influences.

In 1996, Obo Addy was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship Award by the National Endowment for the Arts. This is the highest honor a traditional artist can receive in this country. Obo is the first African born artist to ever receive the award.

oboaddy.com


Gaudi

Recently nominated for the “World Music Award 2008” with his landmark Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan remix album ‘Dub Qawwali’, Gaudi’s organic fusion of Dub, Electronica and Worldbeat is rarely off the playlists and is regularly being performed live all over the world. A classically trained pianist and Theremin player, Gaudi is widely known as a top remixer and has remixed some of the most important names in the business, most notably: Bob Marley, Simple Minds, Fatboy Slim, Scissor Sisters, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 1 Giant Leap, Lamb, Trilok Gurtu, Ojos de Brujo, Artful Dodger, The Orb, Zion train, Africa Bambaataa, Shpongle, among others. Studio works with reggae legends such as Lee Scratch Perry, Horace Andy and Dennis Bovell, and "hip-hop pioneer" Grandmaster Flash, have further confirmed the talent of this fearless electronic producer.
watch video | gaudimusic.com


Eliyahu Sills & Qadim

Qadim is a word found in both Arabic and Hebrew meaning 'ancient' as well as 'that which will come.' The group specializes in music inspired by traditional music of the Near East. Since first forming in 2006, the group has quickly built a standing room only following throughout the Bay Area and beyond. 


Their repertoire includes Arabic, Jewish-Yemenite, Indian, Iranian, Moroccan and Turkish music, celebrating the common musical and spiritual heritage of the now troubled region's ancient cultures. Members of the ensemble have trained extensively with great musical masters all over the world.

qadimmusic.com



Fanna fi Allah

As the torch-bearers of the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan lineage, Fanna Fi Allah masterfully and ecstatically sing the verses of the Sufi mystics in Urdu, Farsi, Hindi & Punjabi. Each song embodies the mood of the poetry through sophisticated ragas combined with passionate spontaneity. Their youthful mastery has been granted through devoted study with extraordinary teachers.


The booming Pakistani tablas, six voices, tampuras & harmoniums of Fanna Fi Allah have left audiences up and down the west coast and in Pakistan, Bali and Hawaii in either tears or ecstacy, or both. Fanna Fi Allah has recently returned from their fourth pilgrammage to study with their teachers in Pakistan.
fanna-fi-allah.com


Riffat Sultana & Party

Riffat Sultana channels the musical wisdom of 500 years and eleven generations of master musicians in her family in India and Pakistan. But in all those years, she is the first woman in her family to sing in public. Perhaps one reason her performances today have such overwhelming emotional power is that she sings for all the woman in her distinguished family who never had that chance before. For Riffat, it took coming to America to free her musical soul, but now that she has, her amazing voice is being heard around the world.


Where doors were always closed to her, now they are opening everywhere, and Riffat has collaborated with singers and songwriters from all over the world. At last free to create and perform as she pleases, Riffat now leads a unique, intimate acoustic ensemble featuring tabla, world percussion, and her husband Richard Michos on guitar. The Party, as she calls it, is the perfect vehicle to showcase one of the most passionate and exciting new voices in world music.

watch video | riffatsultana.com


Rena Jones

A multitalented composer, producer, audio engineer, sound designer, violinist, cellist, and vocalist, Rena Jones has been described as "the revered daughter of San Francisco's electronic music scene" Rena Jones' third and most recent release "Driftwood" (2006) weaves cello, violin, woodwinds, electronics and rhodes through unique instrumentation. "Driftwood" was given the honor of the sixth most essential album of 2006 on NPR Echoes Radio. Rena's live sets are a potent sonic session. She orchestrates her cello and violin over hand crafted beats melding the organic with the electronic. Her performance is a sophisticated example of the modern movement in electronic dance and ambient music.


Multiple tours around North America and Europe have lead Rena to perform at some of the worlds most established cutting edge electronic music festivals; The Glade Festival (UK), Shambhala Music Festival (Canada) and Burning Man (USA). As an adept and proficient sound engineer plus "sage" of stringed instruments, her work is in high demand. Rena has worked with many influential international artists from a myriad of genres.

renamusic.com


Phutureprimitive

Deep, Dark and downright MASSIVE tribal dub. The fusion of organic and synthetic elements and sounds was the primary idea; the origins of Phutureprimitive. Phutureprimitive has since become a top artist in the Downtempo/Psy-chill/Phuture-dub/Ethnic Breaks music scene, performing in cities and countries throughout the United States, and Europe.


Musically ranging from atmospheric downbeat with bass ladened grooves, to Drum n Bass patterns, and ethnic breaks drenched with synthetic manipulations, organic sensability, and a cinematic quality. The music it’s self is less about a style and more about capturing a mood and giving it sonic shape and texture.

phutureprimitive.com


Rik Masterson

Devoted student, performer & teacher of North Indian music, Rik began his formal studies in 1979 with Uma Roy, foremost sitarist of Nepal. In 1983 he sought guidance from and became a disciple of master vocalist Pandit Pran Nath.


He has studied, taught and performed in America, India, Germany and France with some of the most highly respected artists in the field including composer/singers Pandit Pran Nath, Terry Riley and La Monte Young, tabla maestros Ustad Zakir Hussein and Pandit Samir Chatterjee, sarangi master Ustad Hafizullah Khan & many others.

kiranawest.com


Michael Stirling

Michael began the study of North Indian (Hindustani) singing with Pandit Pran Nath in 1983 and subsequently traveled with him to India and became his disciple.


In his continuous devotion to study and performance, he has appeared onstage with Terry Riley, Ustad Hafizullah Khan, Sri Karunamayee, Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, Lakshmi Shankar, Steve Gorn, The Gundecha Brothers and many others. His "Sound is God" classes, workshops and performances have now inspired and transformed hundreds.


David Starfire

Classically trained multi-instrumentalist/producer/composer/ DJ, who has performed all over the world, recently signed to international label Six Degrees Records, home to artists such as Bebel Gilberto, Cheb i Sabbah, Karsh Kale, Midival Punditz, Michael Franti, Gaudi, The Orb, DJ Spooky and others. The digital EP "Bombay Beatz", merges hip-hop, breakbeat and traditional Middle Eastern instruments to create an exciting new, eclectic sound.


By 19, David was in a signed band and touring the states with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Filter and Skinny Puppy. After years of experimentation in his home studio, he mastered the art of mixing and recording electronic music and traditional instruments together. His interest [eventually] shifted towards world music; he started studying artists from the Middle East and incorporating these rich, textured sounds into electronic music.

davidstarfire.com


Jamie Janover

Jamie Janover is recognized as a true innovator with the percussion stringed instrument called the hammered dulcimer. He is influencing how the hammered dulcimer is played by applying techniques acquired from over 20 years experience playing many other percussion instruments including: drum kit, the mini-kit (which he invented), multi-percussion, tabla, congas, bongos, timbales, tongue drum, and udu.


Since moving to Boulder, Colorado in 1995, Jamie has toured with a diverse group of bands and solo artists including: ZILLA, SPORQUE, Zuvuya, The Everyone Orchestra, Rena Jones, The Motet, The Zambiland Orchestra, and his own band, Jamie Janover and Friends, among others.

jamiejanover.com



Jef Stott

Six Degrees Recording Artist Jef Stott has been deftly navigating the realms of the global remix for over a decade. As a producer, he has founded the projects LUMIN, and STELLAMARA, produced releases for for MC RAI, and SOM'MA. He has released many tracks and remixes for the Six Degrees Label as well as written tracks for the popular Sims Video Games, and composed for several modern dance, Tribal Bellydance and theater productions.


As a musical anthropologist, he has studied with master musicians from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Iran and Turkey which led him to become accomplished on several traditional stringed and percussion instruments of the Middle East. These instruments figure prominently in his composition and production work as well as inform his sensibility about cultural relativism and issues of appropriation.

His work has been released on several record labels including Universal, EMI, Six Degrees, Hearts of Space, Triloka and City of Tribes. He has performed at festivals and concerts in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Istanbul, Edinburgh, London, and Mexico. 

watch video | jeffstott.com


Anahata Sound

Music producer, multi-voiced singer, celestial song healer, highly accomplished sound engineer, voice over talent, bells and whistles wig, transmission channel, performing fARTist, puppeteer, dancer and fun time maker... anahata sound creates soundscapes of heartfelt eclectica. Drawing from influences as diverse as jazz, gypsy, avant-garde, electro-acoustic, bosa nova, underground hip-hop, a’capella, opera and experimental... From recording in Hawaiian caves, Native American ruins, jungles in Costa Rica to gettin’ down in her studio in Oakland and playing shows all over the world. anahata is continually influenced by the Universe, Earth, Humanity and our connection to harmonizing them through sound, smiles and artfully moving the body!


In addition to anahata sounds solo project she is also a member of The Funginears and has mixed sound for the Yard Dogs Road Show, Has been the established front of house sound engineer for The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival for the last six years, mixing artists such as Roy Hargrove, Benny Green, Grammy award winner John Clayton, and Christian McBride. Anahata is currently involved in the community by collaborating creatively with other artists, volunteering with at risk youth and teaching qi gong, she is currently finishing up her album, Scores of Silence and will release it soon.

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Jaya Lakshmi

Inspired by the deep devotional mood of Indian singing and music, Jaya Lakshmi began leading kirtan with harmonium and 12 string guitar and writing her own devotional songs over 15 years ago on the island of Hawaii, shortly after receiving harinam initiation from Srila Govinda Maharaj, a great Vaisnava saint. Her ecstatic singing and kirtan leading, often accompanied by master musician Deva Priyo on sarod and Spanish guitar, and other talented artists, has had a powerful effect amongst various communities in the islands of Hawaii, the West Coast, and Europe, always creating a deep sense of intimacy with the divine.


She has a unique style that blends beauty, power and purity to create a truly transcendental sound driven by her fiery devotion and love for God. Because of her pure mood, deep sincerity, passion for God and great musical talent, Jaya Lakshmi is rapidly becoming well known and loved as one of the few touring female kirtan leaders in the West.

jayalakshmi.net


MJ Greenmountain

MJ is a vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Combining contemporary and traditional song structures as well as trance-chant styles, MJ's music is heavily influenced by roots music of the African diaspora, drawing especially from Yoruba, Wagogo, Reggae, Afro-Brazil, and Gnawa, as well as music of India and the Middle East.  MJ is also a founding member, lead vocalist and percussionist for the band Hamsa Lila.


For the past 15 years, MJ has traveled extensively, studied sacred songs, root rhythms and chants from around the globe, participating also in sacred ceremonies with indigenous tribes from India, Indonesia, Australia, Africa, and the Americas. He has recorded and played with notables such as Ozomatli, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Babatunde Olatunji, Hassan Hakmoun,Prince Diabate, Jai Uttal, Shimshai, Ras Michael, Stanley Jordan, Steve Kimmock, STS9, Joanne Shenendoah and many others.


Shabava

Shabava is a trio with members trained in Iran, Morocco and India. They combine their backgrounds in classical Persian, Arabic and Hindustani music to deliver fresh presentations of traditional pieces and create original compositions with a unique voice. Shabava features Bobak Salehi on Persian kamancheh, sehtar and vocals, Nat Hulskamp on Arabic oud and Chaz Hastings on Indian tabla. Members of Shabava will take the audience on an introspective journey of discovery, as they travel back in time to visit the great poetry of Rumi along with translations, accompanied by music from around the world. 


This series of performances focuses not only on Rumi, but also on the works of other Sufi poets like Hafiz, and Omar Khayyam.  Shabava's performance has consistently been described as spiritual, soulful, and even trance-inducing.  Their selections and arrangements never stray from their basic principle which is best described by Rumi: "...play gently, to recall life back to the body of the lifeless."

shabava.com

 
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