Director KATHI VON KOERBER:
Kathi von Koerber Director, Filmmaker and Dancer.
Born in South Africa to German parents, Kathi has been a global nomad right from the start. Raised in Africa and Europe she also lived in China studying mandarin and oriental painting, and later studied film in New York. Currently she lives between Colombia and New York.
Her projects are achieved by collaborating with people from all over the world in all mediums of expression. By drawing inspiration from the world's constant evolution, and by challenging the boundaries of film and dance, she approaches the deep wells of our subconscious behavior, and attempt to expose our species destiny through ritual, performances or films. The trance and intuitive movements of these rituals become a matter of fact.
Kathi is the director of the company Kiahkeya productions ( www.kiahkeya.com) founded in 2004, which serves to inform and disseminate art, creativity and spirituality for the purpose of cross cultural and environmental equality and tolerance. Kathi has worked on projects with the Bushmen tribe of Southern Africa, and the Xawante and Fulnio who live in Brazil, The Tamashek Nomads of the Sahara, the Zulu and San ( Bushmen) of Southern Africa, the Lakota of the US, etc. Kathi searched to explore the universality of dance as an art form, and our connection to the earth. Kiahkeya projects are efforts to support the environment and its inhabitants,preserve indigenous wisdom, music, and dance in this modern day and age.
Upcoming projects for release in 2010 include a short documentary on the San/Bushmen of Southern Africa and a feature length environmentally conscious Butoh dance film named “Ridden by Nature”. The film is a tribute to the elements that compose the earth, bringing to the forefront the currently strained relationship of humanity with the earth’s ecology in hopes to inspire state and community action in response to the current environmental crisis. ‘Ridden by Nature’ witnesses the immense power of the earth’s biosphere through the art of film, dance and music, revealing the fierce and sacred existence of these visually stunning environments.
Kathi is starting an awareness project on the power and importance of Water, which will be implemented by an informational Website and a Movie in 2011; called Moving Waters.
All of Kathis projects, are related to communicating through vibrations of sound, light and essence. Kathi believes that true education is deep understanding of life.
Producer Joshua Jacobs:
Joshua Jacobs, a practicing yogi for 15 years, produces remix compilations as form of connecting the wisdom of indigenous people with the electronic dance culture. Joshua has been producing conscious high vibration events for over a decade in SF, LA, & NY. Some past projects produced include the Natural High Lifestyle compilation, Caravan of Light soundtrack, and Jamtse: An Offering for the Tibet Fund. Forthcoming on EarthSync Recordings, A New Day: Laya Project Remix.
About Synaptic Fusion Entertainment (SFE)
SFE is a production company, founded in 1998 by Joshua Jacobs, focused on “Fusing Future Technology with Ancient Awareness.” Its mission is to connect the wisdom of the past with new forms of technology and distribution that are available to us and ever changing.
Ambient Groove is an online source for yoga music, chillout, trancedance, and remix compilations. Joshua is currently in production on a feature length documentary film on Sound Healing and a compilation of mantra remixes.
www.ambientgroove.com
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Remixer Bios
dimmSummer
The founder of the long-running ethnotechno.com. He has compiled two compilations curating exotic electronica from around the globe on High Chai Recordings and provides web production via his company ETD: ethnotechno.net.
http://www.ethnotechno.com - http://www.highchairecordings.com
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Kaya Project
Currently based in the UK, Kaya Project is the newest musical incarnation of Seb Taylor who has also achieved notable success with his other projects over the past 10 years including Digitalis, Angel Tears, and Shakta. As a proficient and skilled musician Seb also plays guitar, cello and flute on many of his tracks as well as adeptly handling the programming and production. Along with additional acoustic support from his partner Natasha Chamberlain, Momi Ochon and a wide variety of accompanying musicians scattered across the planet, Kaya Project is decidedly one of the more collaborative and innovative acts on the cutting edge of the world electronic scene.
http://www.kayaproject.com - http://www.interchill.com
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Eastern Spirit
Eastern Spirit are Ran Salman & Nir Azilov, They started working together on 1997 dealing with House and Trance and djing in a few local clubs in the holy city playing House music and became a part of Radio Jerusalem in a few programs, playing sets once in a while.Their music was played inightclubs by the leading djs in Israel. Ran was playing the guitar in his youth while Nir had been a piano man. By the time they were 15 they started working on Electronic music separately (with a few synthesizers & a sequencer) and met each other at Radio Jerusalem, they decided to unite. On 2001 they joined the Chillout scene, involving trance elements with jazz and ambient sounds and containing ethnic and oriental elements and percussions creating a wide angle soundscape which suits the term Eastern Spirit.
http://www.es-music.com - http://www.myspace.com/easternspirit
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Rara Avis
With over 15 years of multi-genre musical study with an intuitive understanding of modern technology. His classical training partnered with his passion for electronic dance music, results in original lush downtempo compositions fuelled with psychedelic guitar, vocals, and a healthy dose of improvisation rooted in jazz.
http://www.raraavismusic.com/ - http://www.desertdwellers.org
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Jef Stott
Has been deftly navigating the realms of the global remix for over a decade, where he has consistently been at the forefront of the International Global Electronica movement. Currently signed to Six Degrees records, Jef is releasing SARACEN, his full length debut solo album in Spring 2008. His sound is a powerful fusion of the traditions of the Middle East with breaks, dub and electro.
As a producer performer and composer, he has released albums with Stellamara, Lumin, the debut from young Arabic rock/electronica sensation MC RAI as well as several remixes including Azam Ali, Cemali, Atash, among others. He toured extensively with appearances in Japan, Canada Turkey, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.
http://www.jefstott.com - http://www.embarkarecords.com/
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EarthRise SoundSystem
The Artistic and Live team of DJ/Writer/Yogi Derek Beres and Producer/Percussionist Duke Mushroom. Blending Duke's Award nominated production style (Bole 2 Harlem) and Derek's expansive vision of Global Beat Fusion, this duo has paired up to explore common cultural and sonic ground and create unique soundscapes, equally at home in the yoga studio or club and lounge.
Derek Beres is one of the leading figures in international music in America, active in numerous facets of the industry, from journalist and DJ to producer and presenter. Duke Mushroom is a platinum-selling producer, writer, and versatile musician. Duke has written and produced with artists as varied as the Baha Men, Carole King, Cooler Kids, Nile Rogers and Chic, Donna Summer, Cyndi Lauper, and Micheal Tolcher, before recording his groundbreaking foray into Global Sound, "BOLE 2 HARLEM."
http://www.earthrisesoundsystem.com
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Chris Zippel
Wrote with the Pet Shop Boys, co-produced and remixed with Robbie Williams, Schiller and Snap and with his very own project Genuine he launched the Nu Ambient Scene. The Berliner Chris Zippel (born 5 November 1967) has now occupied his own sweet-sounding enviroment on the island Ibiza, where he is working on a new Genuine Album and different Film Scores.
http://www.chriszippel.de
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Mashti
(Real name: Mads Nordheim) is a Norwegian composer, producer and DJ, based and workning out of Copenhagen in Denmark. Over the last decades he has been workning with electronic music and combinding the electronic style with the acustic and old traditional music from different parts of the world such as India, Iran and Turkey.
Mashti is the one half of the electronic / persian sufi fusion groupBahramji and Mashti: Sufiyan CD by Bahramji and Mashti is Eastern and Sufi world music with ambient, world fusion, and electronic sounds, Working with Danish producer and musician Mashti, Sufiyan is a special combination between the ancient and traditional, connecting it with the modern and electronical.
http://www.myspace.com/bahramjiandmashti
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Reality Engine
The project of producers and DJs, Luis Campos and Matyas Kelemen. Together the NYC based duo compose an articulate blend of original music and synchronized videos, drawing upon a diverse pallet of influences and styles. A unique experience where visuals can be heard and sounds can be seen. Utilizing state of the art technology, Reality Engine brings a one of a kind, epic dance floor journey, ready to set new standards in the electronic music industry.
Luis Campos a music producer and incessant dance music veteran was born and raised in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he began his career in 1985. Throughout the years he has been developing / re-creating his sound in dance music including trance, techno, house and electro. Matyas Kelemen was born in Transylvania and grew up NYC, within a production studio environment from an early age. He started experimenting with multi media art and Audio-Visual installations at the age of 15. Soon after, he began his career as a promoter, DJ and VJ, which lead to a full-time position at the famous Tunnel nightclub.
http://www.realityengine.tv
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Adham Shaikh
A composer, record producer and sound designer living near Nelson, B.C..
His present 15-year history with music began by exploring synthesizers in the early 1980s, which ushered in a whole new frontier of musical experiments and explorations. In the early 1990s, Shaikh found the electronic music scene full of innovative and explorative sounds. This environment created an opportunity for him to present his compositions to an audience already embracing electronic music. Shaikh furthered his electro acoustic composition at Queen's University and has continued making music resulting in his present diverse discography.
Shaikh's music is a blend of many different styles and techniques. It is a world groove blend of fusion, dub, world beat, tech house, ambient, and jazz. From growing up listening to Indian ragas and Western classical 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.
http://www.sonicturtle.com
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Cheb i Sabbah
A world renowned artist, composer and producer. Cheb i Sabbah left his native Algeria in the 1960s, and has made a career out of blending music from all over the world into kaleidoscopic, dance-floor mixes ever since.
The Algerian-born musical mystic got his start spinning American soul in mid-1960s Paris as a scrubby 17-year-old. But his outernational obsession didn't really take hold until 1980, when he launched a Parisian monthly club featuring Brazilian, North African, and Indian sounds, along with accompanying dancers and visuals.
His approach to music reflects a passion for bringing people together. "Dance music can only grow bigger, because it's one way all people [can] have some sort of communion that's not present in Western society."
http://www.chebisabbah.com
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Bombay Dub Orchestra
Step inside the sound of 3 Cities, Bombay Dub Orchestra's sophomore release, and experience the crossroads where Mumbai, Chennai, and London musically meet. Since the release of their self-titled debut, the name Bombay Dub Orchestra (consisting of composer/producers Garry Hughes and Andrew T. Mackay) has built quite a reputation. From main-stage performances at the UK's Big Chill Festival and Djing across the globe, scoring feature films to remixing such world-renowned artists as Bob Marley, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Bebel Gilberto, fans and critics have been eagerly awaiting their next album. For 3 Cities, both Hughes and Mackay traveled to Mumbai and Chennai to record with the cities' premier musicians and vocalists before returning to London to mix the album. 3 Cities is where their cinematic soundscapes meet Indian Classical and electronica featuring a huge cast of over 75 musicians.
http://www.bombaydub.com - http://www.myspace.com/bombayduborchestra
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Nickodemus has been part of the NYC Music & Dance scene for over 10 years intersecting the Urban & Organic sounds from around the World into his own unique blend for the dancefloor. He's also working with many non-profits & touring the World as a DJ & producer. His latest album Sun People is out now.
http://www.nickodemus.com - http://www.turntablesonthehudson.com - http://www.myspace.com/nickodemusnyc
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Solar Lion
http://www.solarlion.com - http://www.myspace.com/solarlion
