Live Music & Ecstatic Dance
The Festival is hosting a selection of internationally acclaimed DJs and musicians.
Live music is an important part of a Tantra Festival. Whether you join a live music event to dance ecstatically, explore the earthy bound of Shamanism or deepen into your self, meditating with soft music or enjoy to watch a performance, musicians will undoubtedly contribute in enhancing your overhaul experience of the festival. Our friends/musicians are meditators themselves and will bring a rich and deep quality enjoyable to all!
Praful - Live Music
Praful is a sax & flute player, multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer, charismatic performer and pioneer in the world music community. He embraces Jazz, Soul, Dance, Indian and new world fusion with grace and passion. As he weaves his spell with his sax, or invites soul searching with his flute, or ignites you to dance to abandon, he is in each and every note, inviting you to journey towards that which is of the highest calibre within you. Eckhart Tolle has found his music «tremendously beautiful and deeply touching». Praful's 6 solo albums garnered great international success, US- Billboard Chart notations and the #1 US-radio hit "Sigh". He is a regular guest on many festivals and gatherings throughout the world, giving concerts solo, with his trio and with his dance project RED FULKA (w. Kareem Raihani). He is also world renowned for his work/performances with Deva Premal & Miten, Dave Koz, Carlos Nakai, Peruquois and many others.
“He plays… without meaning to announce he has heard and learnt from a world master, God of flute, Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia. He plays… like a global music artist would - merging swaras into breath, a full scream from the heart that sounds less like it comes from the west and more like any temperamental (Indian) vocalist…” S. Mehrishi, Daily Pioneer, New Delhi, India
Michel Roudnitska - Inner Suns Performance
Inner Suns
A video creation in 7 parts from shamanic and visionary inspiration, illustrated with nature pictures and computer graphics (fractals, particles, morphings...) combined with an original music score specially composed and synchronized on the images and a fragrance diffusion (100% natural essential oils) according to the energy of each chakra.
A multi sensorial and meditative immersion through powerful visuals, a genuine inner journey for consciousness expansion.
Creation in 2014
Images & Montage: Michel Roudnitska
Original Music: Sylvain Menoud
For many years, Michel Roudnitska has combined his creative passions for Images and Fragrances. Recognised as an olfactive shows’ pioneer, when in 1996, he presented the innovative ballet "Quintessence" during the « Festival of Avignon » in France. His work is based on the study of the subtle connection between sounds, colors, visual and olfactive shapes. For more than 20 years, he’s been co-leading 5 senses Tantric seminars with Paule Salomon while for the past 6 years he’s been concentrating on the spiritual and therapeutic dimension of the perfume using a training of Olfacto-therapist while working with Amerindian shamans.
Arun Ji - Ecstatic Dance
Arun Ji is a DJ with the soul of a musician. With more than 20 years of experience as a DJ, trained in emotional awareness and Tantra, passionate for Gabrielle Roth's teachings of the 5 Rhythms, Arun is a lover of dance, dance as an expression of the spirit. In his sessions Arun offers a wide spectrum of soundscapes and rhythms, inviting into a space of expression, exploration, a range of sensations and emotions, leading into a feeling of deep connection and
expansion. He offers Ecstatic Dance regularly in Madrid and Barcelona, and he collaborates with his music in different festivals and communities around the world, in various places like India, Ibiza, Sweden, Ukraine, Germany and France.
Marco & Beatrice - Bahvta Kirtan*
Marco & Beatrice, accompanied by Francisco on percussions will take you on a meditative and celebrative journey through a spectrum of classical and contemporary Sanskrit and English Bahjans and Mantras, intially in the shape of a classical Kirtan, before taking off into a full exploration of our souls, voice and emotions. By tuning to oursleves and each other while chanting, we also tune to Existence and its Mystery as a whole, and after only a few verses, already we shall all vibrate as one in the Universal Singularity.
With 9 years experience in circle singing and an innate sense of dynamics, tempo changes and improvisation, they will support the exploration of your own voice, heart and consciousness, entraining you into a deeply heart-opening and energy balancing practice.
We are ONE and we are ♡! :)
*Bahvta means "passion" in Sanskrit, and in Indian itself is regarded as a most important ingredient of a succesful Kirtan
Swan - Gong Bath / Group Meditation
With symphonic gongs and therapeutic Tibetan bowls.
The "Gong Bath" or "Sound Bath", group therapy meditation, is a very ancient technique from Asia, a complete sound bath that produces an amazing sense of well-being through the vibration of all the water within the body (our bodies are 80% water).
Gong Baths bring an intense sense of well-being and re-stabilize the balance of energies.
“If we accept that sound is vibration and we know that vibration touches every part of our physical being, then we understand that sound is heard not only through our ears but through every cell in our bodies.”
"Sound enters the healing equation from several directions: It may alter cellular functions through energetic effects; it may entrain biological systems to function more homeostatically; it may calm the mind and therefore the body; or it may have emotional effects, which influence neurotransmitters and neuropeptides, which in turn help to regulate the immune system–the healer within.”
www.zen-and-sounds.com
Rico Loop - Live Music
Internationally acclaimed Rico Loop explores the world of music in a passionate, devoted and improvising way. He records all his music in front of your ears and eyes, using all kind of different instruments like his voice, the bass guitar and keyboards. While his influences are wide and open he is using the electronic music as his main inspiration giving it a authentic organic touch which is hard to forget.
Rico Diessner was born in Dresden, East Germany on September 21, 1968. He grew up in both East and West Berlin and draws on his life experiences to create his expressive and worldly music, which can be heard and seen during his energetic performances. At a young age Rico gained much inspiration from his father, a bass guitarist for a well known band in East Germany. His early musical education started with piano lessons, but soon he was writing his own songs and at the age of fifteen joined a school band as a pianist. To him, music is the language of the heart, where ‘feeling’ an instrument and building intimacy and connection between the music and listeners is paramount. For ten years he lived an independent artistic life as a street musician, traveling across Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
In 2004 Rico discovered the LOOPSTATION and introduced his most recent project, ‘RICOLOOP’, which uses his talents as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and improviser to create unique musical compositions by himself. From there on Rico performed almost daily and had concerts around Europe, including the Roskilde Festival, Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Norway, Fusion Festival in Germany and many more. In Berlin he received much press coverage for his Sunday sessions at the Boxhagener Flea Market, where his street performances draw large crowds. He earned endorsements from Boss (Roland) and Native Instruments. Rico currently lives in Berlin, Ibiza and continues his pursuit of musical experimentation and learning.
