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Upcoming Sacred Art & Music Events

Art Spirit Now

Two Illuminating Evenings

of Art, Music, Dance & Spirit

Friday, May 22nd

&

Saturday, May 30th

2410 N. Mississippi

Portland, OR 97217

Times: 8:00PM to dawn, 5/22/09 & 5/30/09; scroll down for rough schedule... all times are subject to change.

Ages: 21 and over (please bring valid ID).

Tickets: Available online now and at Chance of Rain Cafe (1522 SE 32nd Ave, Portland) and both Yoga Shala locations (3808 N Williams and 3249 SE Division; 503-963-YOGA). Tickets for 5/22 will be available online until 12:00 AM on Friday, May 22nd. They will be available in stores on the 22nd until close for $30. Tickets will also be available at the door for $30. Please arrive early to avoid a wait. Box office opens at 7:00PM.

    Friday May 22nd: $23 advance; $30 door (if available).

    Saturday, May 30th: $15 advance; $20 door.

    Full Event passes: $33 advance for both events

Venue: '2410' transformed into a Sacred Art Temple. Map to venue

Lineup & Schedule: Scroll down to view music bios and schedules.

Visual Artist Bios: See www.artspiritnow.org

Heavyweight Dub Champion

Created in the mountains of Colorado in 1997, Heavyweight Dub Champion is a musical entity here to reclaim sacred space through ritualistic performance and sonic alchemy. HDC communes with Warrior Spirits in the creation, production and performance of their vibrational healing aural mandalas.

Their debut album, "Survival Guide For the End of Time" won numerous awards in the State of Colorado, including Westword Magazine's Colorado Album of the Year. Their upcoming release features multiple tracks with KRS ONE, Killah Priest, Dr. Israel, Apostle, Stero Lion, Elf Tranzporter, Wailer B, Lady K, and others. All music falls under a specific credo described in the Last Champion Manifesto, included in "Survival Guide." The mission of Heavyweight Dub Champion and Champion Nation is the Unconditional Liberation of the Human Race. All music is created from scratch by the sonic shamanistic alchemists: Resurrector, Patch, and Totter Todd.

watch video | link to heavyweightdubchampion.com

Ganga Giri

Ganga Giri mixes red natural elements with fat tribal beats and dirty funky bass lines to create a unique tribal-technological deep earth dance experience. Explosive and pulsating, at times ambient and flowing, the music is a pumping percussive multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound. Ganga himself is a rhythmic didjeridu virtuoso and percussionist-- an inspired music creator who's passion brings people together in celebration of nowness in newness, a modern day corroboree for all!

Representing key elements and inspirations of Australia now, the shows are a modern/primitive multi-cultural celebration, a ‘melting pot’ unifying many musical genres and cultures, bringing audiences world-wide a reflection of today’s multicultural Australia. Ganga Giri's music has been widely & wildly appreciated by music lovers in many countries across the globe including Australia, Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States, igniting audiences in clubs, world music festivals and outdoor dance events. Carving a niche in the DJ dominated world of dance music, Ganga Giri is an energetic, innovative and incredibly live act.

watch video | link to gangagiri.com

Medicine Drum

Fusing the latest cutting edge styles of progressive electronic dance music with foundations of deep tribal rhythms and live vocals, MEDICINE DRUM are recognized as one of the early music pioneers to cross the boundaries of electronica, where organic meets digital. Founded in London in 1994 by percussionist and Earthdance founder Chris Deckker, their music is a rich hybrid of styles and textures. Not quite psy-trance, not quite techno and not quite future-dub, Medicine Drum blend all these styles while interlacing them with driving, earthy tribal percussion and world music influences.

Medicine Drum's sound and style has always been individual and mystical. The band has supported some of the biggest names in dance music including Moby, The Chemical Brothers, The Orb, Juno Reactor and Sound Tribe Sector 9 - and has played all over the world including Japan, Morocco, South Africa, Canada, London, Glastonbury Festival UK, Australia, Israel, Mexico, Europe, and the USA. Medicine Drum are back with a new all star line up featuring Greg Ellis on drums (Juno Reactor, The Matrix), Rara Avis on electronics, Lisbeth Scott on vocals (Peter Gabriel's "Last Temptation", Narnia) and special guests MC Wisdom and MC Dakini Star (The Goddess Alchemy Project). Medicine Drum continue to stretch the boundaries of electronica with their dynamic live shows which often include ritual dance theatre and performances by indigenous artists such as Native American drummers, African musicians and dancers. Their cutting edge sound and visually stunning stage presence continues to draw critical acclaim from around the world.

link to medicinedrum.com

LYNX & Janover

LYNX and Jamie Janover create a diversified harmonic blend of all original hip-hop and down-tempo electronica grooves with folk style song writing, guitar playing, beat boxing, rhyming, amplified mini-kit percussion and the sounds of the hammered dulcimer. 

Together they have achieved the elusive perfect balance between the acoustic and the electronic, using today’s most advanced technologies mixed with ancient live instrumentation to create a unified sound reflective of the polarized nature of our times.

watch video | link to myspace page

Jujuba (featuring Nojeem Lassisi)

Jujuba features Nojeem Lasisi from Igbo Ora, Oyo State, in Nigeria.  He ranks among the world’s elite talking drum players.  Nojeem was given his first drum at age four by his father, also a master drummer, who handed down to Nojeem its powerful language.  As a member of Nigerian superstar King Sunny Ade's group, the African Beats, Nojeem toured the world and appears on numerous recordings with King Sunny, including "Seven Degrees North" and "Odu”.

Nojeem has settled in the Northwest and assembled Jujuba from local musicians who all share a true love for Nigerian music.  Their diverse experiences in a wide range of styles propel the project into new directions based on Afrobeat, Juju and traditional Nigerian folk music.  Nojeem Lasisi and Jujuba have created a unique blend of African and Western music they hope is enjoyable to all.

link to jujuba.org

Heyoka

Heyoka AKA Andrei Olenev is fast becoming one of San Francisco’s hottest new producer / performers on the scene. His early influences in Downtempo, Dub and IDM combined with more recent midtempo dancefloor genres from the likes of Bassnectar, Glitch Mob and An-ten-nae have helped create a very unique sound that combines relentless basslines, hip hop and dub rhythms with a lot of musicality and melody. Picture a throbbing dancefloor of sexy alien robots puking many beautiful colors.

Heyokas’ earlier works were identifiable by their crushing basslines and ‘spacey’ blips and glitches, ‘Pineal Dub’ shows progression from Heyoka as a producer with greater use of negative space and ethereal melodies that can only be heard as melancholy or wickedly cheerful. The response to his emergence so far has been overwhelming with Heyoka opening nights for Tipper, Benga & Skream, and a host of other internationally known producers.

link to myspace.com

Desert Dwellers

Desert Dwellers' roots lie in a thriving community of provocative artists, creative thinkers, and progressive-minded individuals based on the West Coast. Since the early 90s, our extended family has assembled regularly, forming a sacred space where people can relax, tune in and bliss out to chillout, ambient and downtempo music produced by a loosely-knit collective of DJs and producers. These gatherings have extended the frontier of electronic dance music and today form the epicenter of the techno-tribal renaissance movement.

DownTemple--in addition to being the title for this new music series--is also the theme for some of these downtempo events, where a vision of promoting a conscious way to walk peacefully in the world is shared by all. This is the intent written into their music: that it may contribute to the overall well being of the people living on this planet. Music is our key to healing. Music is our key to finding fellow travelers during these intense times, and it is our key to understanding the great depths of human emotion, and our potential to soar. ------- DOWNTEMPLE DUB: WAVES is Rara Avis and Amani Friend's first full-length album together. Born less than 48 hours apart in the year of the Dragon, these longtime friends share many cosmological connections, animal totems and spiritual practices, and an uninhibited passion for the musical diversity of the Universe and the healing properties of sound and vibration.

link to desertdwellers.org

Anahata Sound

Music producer, multi-voiced singer, celestial song healer, 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. In addition to anahata sounds solo project she is also a member of The Funginears and has mixed FOH sound for the Yard Dogs Road Show and has extensive experience in live, theater and studio sound since the age of 15.

Ms. Sound is also very actively teaching, administrating and practicing Tian Gong, which is a Qi Gong practice & non-profit. Anahata sound began her Tian Gong practice in 2003 with lucid dream experiences before entering the classroom in 2007. With a strong background in Reiki, Qi Gong, yoga (Kundalini/ Ashtanga/ Iyengar/ Hatha), yoga mantra, Meditation, Shamanism, sound healing, intuitive healing and Ayurvedic, Western and Chinese herbs and whole foods healing, anahata quickly came to the fore as a Tian Gong Certified Instructor and core staff member in early 2008.

link to anahatasound.com

Tarran the Tailor

With a banjo in one hand and a beatbox in the other, like a strange arabian bluesman enticing a video game to dance, Tarran the tailor saunters a slow tango through a forest of scrickety scratches, coming out the other side, with a rose between his teeth.

On stage, he is a subtle madman, walking his neighborhood of songs blind, feeling each step, one word at a time. He seems to be not as concerned with the meaning of the word, more with the sound of it, leaving the lips slowly, squeezing each syllable for the drips of meaning. In between songs, instead of stories, he'll meander through voices and characters that seem alien and familiar, like a little gremlin thats been there all along, letting us see inside his strange musicbox, and the contraptions inside. Don't think that he is all about the odd parlor tricks, his music is also grounded with a deep root of human warmth; reaching through the ground slowly, to the center of this, simple, sensual, and thankful. His latest upcoming album, to be released Spring '09, is an Ocean Faery tale. The story of a boy leaving on the sea, to save the world from its industrial mess, and his return home after a dance with the siren queen.

link to tarran.ca

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