Sunrise Off-Grid 2009

Music

MUSIC

2 Solar Powered Venues in association with...

Freedome : Solarquest : Zia Solar

Los Albertos * Seize The Day * Kangaroo Moon * Nila Raja * Ten Ton Tongue * Green Angels * Laienda * Wriggles of Nen * Dan Arborise * Al'gernon
* Badly Housebound Girl * Josi Nightingale & Gente * Avalon Roots
* Prana Ji (Bindu Babas) *The Awakening * Tim Hall * Sam Welbourne
* Sudha * Sarah Curtis * khantara * Glowglobes * Mark Mandala

 

 

Los Albertos

Since their formation Los Albertos have been creating a frenzy upon the dance floors and grassy fields of Europe with their inimitable foot-stompin', brass-blarin', and rip snortin' high energy blend of ska, punk, funk, dub and original beats. Drawing upon a peculiarly twisted English humour (where The Comic Strip meets League of Gentlemen) this six-piece throw in some dynamite horn, guitar and drum action and invariably you end up with a band firing on all cylinders. It's dance music, Jim, but not as we know it…"A band to make you smile and keep you bouncing all night long, this is original happy ska with a sound something akin to The Specials, with a modern-day flavour" - BBC Southern Counties
www.myspace.com/losalbertos

Seize The Day

Seize The Day

We sing songs about how life feels to us today; from love of this amazing planet Earth to analysis of the war on terror, civil protest, big brother surveillance, liberties and the plunder of nature. We support localization, ecological sustainability and human dignity with powerful words and passionate songs.. We're funny, sometimes sad but real. All our new friends are very very welcome .... Thank you all for your amazing support and please come and see us play! **apologies if we don't write personally to everyone - let the music do the talking and so here's a cheers to all power that helps life and love!

www.seizetheday.org

kangeroo moon

Kangaroo Moon

Kangaroo Moon weave many strands from world, rock, folk and dance, with acoustic and electronic influences into a funky, psychedelic, heart-lifting wall of sound. Trancy, richly melodic and dancey, listeners experience a sound which unites the body and soul in deep, joyful psychedelia and elemental dance. Kangaroo Moon have their roots in the music people play and the music people dance with .They've played and danced their way through more than a few permutations of global sound.

www.kangaroomoon.com

Nila Raja

Nila Raja

"Nila's fluid voice and compositional ambition absorb a range of influences from Arabic folk and jazz traditions to contemporary chillout and Indian classical flavours. Always surprising and restless by nature, Nila's work is endlessly inventive and can shift seamlessly between genres and cultural traditions with an individuality devoid of fear or contrivance. "Wandering leaf" is at times reminiscent of Joni Mitchell or Led Zeppelin (check "Battle of Evermore") where the title track "Unattached to Desire" is forged from the technical drive of a fledgling Shakti. Through a voice overflowing with nimble agility, wistful innocence and grace, Nila's debut weaves a very appealing spell. Inspired." NITIN SAWHNEY

www.myspace.com/nilaraja

Ten Ton Tongue

10 Ton Tongue put on one high-output performance, which has been described variously as 'Neo Victorian Forest Grunge' and a 'Gothic folk circus with boots on...' The music is a theatrical rampage. Ridiculously dextrous guitar work, steeped in migrating flamenco and suffering blues, is backed with heavy riddling rhythms and fronted with intense 10 Ton Tongue-twisting lyrics. Think Rodrigo y Gabriela meeting System of a Down, delivered with a kiss on the cheek. It is a dizzying performance that leaves you nowhere to hide.


www.myspace.com/10tontongue

Dan Arborise

Described as "John Martyn meets Nick Drake for the 21st century"- The Fly , Dan Arborise juggles evocative songs and never-ending multi-layered acoustic guitar instrumentals, whilst wandering from sea cliff to deep valley… His atmospheric debut album 'Around in Circles' was released in 2006 on Just Music to great acclaim. Live, Dan's tender and haunting voice is the perfect match for his intense,emotive and rhythmic guitar-picking. Expect unusual open tunings, songs that develop into tunes, and tunes that grow into songs, and a beautiful guitar sound that is transformed but never compromised by some amazing electronic guitar effects.


www.myspace.com/arborise

Laienda

Laienda describe themselves as Gypsy Folk, drawing from folk traditions from around the world they blend Spanish Flamenco, English folk, Latin Madrigals and Balkan dances into what has been described as a "tiny whirlwind". Beautiful melodies and highly dancable tunes - guaranteed to please.


www.myspace.com/laienda

Wriggles of Nen


www.myspace.com/steviepea23

Badly Housebound Girl


www.myspace.com/badlyhouseboundgirl1

Vicky Grebezs

Mystoria


www.myspace.com/mystoria

Green Angels

Glastonbury based Breton dance band, with bagpipes, horns and a knack to get your feet moving.


www.myspace.com/4greenangels

Tim Hall

Tim is one of Glastonbury's Bards, having held the Bardic Chair of Ynys Witrin (Glastonbury) from 2005 to 2007. His music is a magical melting-pot of UK Festival Psychedelia and British Folk, woven in with traditional vocal harmonies, left-field jazz-folk, speed funk and heads down, no nonsense mindful space boogie. Tim's lyrics betray a beautiful intelligence, a mixture of deep emotional, intuitive, other-dimensional and mental understanding and tenderness melded together with the power to reach in and move anyone and enchantingly transport them to another plane. He is best known for his work with bardic folk band Silver on the Tree and founding the Avalonian Free State Choir as part of his vision to perform restored pagan carols.

www.myspace.com/timflatus

Sarah Curtis

Colombian Multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthar Kharana brings the stunning richness and power of his Colombian Roots mixed with Arabic and Gypsy influences.
Anthar has mastered different vocal techniques developing a wide range of expression sounding sometimes as mellow as a female voice but also as deep as mongolian throat singing.
His new five piece band uses Traditional Colombian sounds of Gaitas and ‘Tambores’, or drums, with Bouzouki, cajon and Traverse flute.
Enjoy the rhythms and powerful soundscapes that will transport you to a land of joy and moves but keeping a sacred connection to the ancient Colombian wisdom.

www.khantara.com

Ben Ferri


Ben Ferri is an exceptionally gifted singer song-writer who sounds like he was born with a guitar in his hand. He has a diverse and eclectic repetoire and is as comfortable playing funky spanish grooves, deep and soulful blues or upbeat reggae. Find out more here

Al'gernon


Charismatic singer/song-writer, Al’Gernon, is a multi-instrumentalist, equally at home with improvisations and sound-scapes as he is with bardic songs of travellers tales. Mysterious and compelling, his music evokes a timelessness that transports you to a world beyond borders.

www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomabehrens

Mandala Mark

Mandala Mark has been working in the electronic music scene since the tender age of 16. During the 1990's Mark worked in the underground house scene around the southcoast and in London. Playing regularly alongside now big international dj's such as Terry Francis, Mr C, Evil Eddie Richards and countless others. During this time mark had 12 records realeasd on 5 diffrent labels. Nowadays Mark has changed style and plays a phat selection of break hip-hop, dubstep and electronica and is currently in the studio with Pimpernel Jones working on sonic magikal weaponry for this years festival sets. Expect phat funky beats with a mischevious sense of humour. www.myspace.com/radiosonictemple

Sam Welbourne

Off-Grid music of the Spanish Guitar.
- Get an Organic, Free-Range Serenade!
Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic & Modern.
Style: More Andrés Segovia than Göran Söllscher.
Fom: Spain, England, Germany, Italy, Paraguay, Brazil
www.myspace.com/samwelbourne

The Awakening

www.awakeningmusic.co.uk

Josi Nightingale & Gente

Josi Nightingale is an innovative vocalist, writer and performer,drawing influence from her roots - (an inner city, 70's multicultural environment), life, her ancestral roots and all roots people of the world. Inspired by life, and the depths of experience life brings, Josi sings with a collective of world class musicians, each an artist in their own right. The music is "of the people", "for the people", "by the people" A funky roots experience....... GENTE-FOLK-PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.

Sidha

With devotional chants and songs Sudha transports her audience into a place of magic and bliss. Her repertoire covers Sanskrit mantras, Hawaiian, Native American and Sufi chants as well as groovy and uplifting songs.

www.myspace.com/sudhasong

Avalon Roots

Green Iri!

www.myspace.com/avalonrootsmusic

Prana ji

Lead singer from the wonderful Bindu Babas

'Don't Critise' song

Sarah Curtis

Sarah inhabits that precious melancholic realm known to the poets of old. Her songs ask the kind of existential questions that many of the World's creative dreamers will find disconcertingly familiar. Hers is a pleasantly jazz tinged variety of intense soul searching.
With sparkling vocal twinkles and twirls of yearning soprano trills along with some fine guitar work, the quality of her performance brings forth goosebumps - a heady mix of sentiment with an infectious skippy rhythm.

www.myspace.com/starsofar

Glowglobes

We are two musical humans. We are corner of the room gypsies united in sound. We are the marriage of vocal harmony and the twang of our acoustical instruments. We have come to return romance to the world. Join us! We are following a path of inspiration to where ever it may take us. It has a life force of it's own, we are mearly the vehicles. Vehicles of light. Glowglobes.

www.myspace.com/glowglobes


plus more to be announced

 

 

 

 

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