Composer. Producer. 

Looping 6-string electric cello. Weaving raw beats and haunting melodies into something raw, cinematic, and vital.

Come you late-night wanderers, ritual dancers, and beautifully undone. Connect and reprogram. 🎧

🔮 New worlds coming soon.

Contemporary folk songs. Soundcloud for demos. Full recordings on Bandcamp here... 
https://jimcareyconnell.bandcamp.com/

Born in Queenstown, Eastern cape South Africa Lanfranco aka Chronic Mentoor was sort of born into music. His grandfather used to play the organ at church and he had one at home. So constant sounds of that and then the sounds of the 60-80' on a daily at home. Lanfranco took an interest in music when Tupac dropped all eye's on me in 95 and has been hooked ever since. In 2002 him and some friends at school formed a rap group and started participating in talent shows. By 2004 Chronic started making his own beats as a lack of finding any or onse that talk to him at that certain moment. He became involved with the Twisters hip hop scene which had open mic sessions on Saturdays and recorded 2 mixtapes with them. Some of the guys separated and formed the 9th cloud which Chronic was also part of. Now living in Johannesburg Chronic had studied digital music production and released and featured on allot of singles. He is now part of the hip hop collective Die Broederbond and has already been on 2 of there projects. Allot more music to come from chronic. 

Kymatica (Jonatan Liljedahl) is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, influenced by noise, minimal, drone and stochastic music. The process of synthesis is his main passion, in which he explores the aural results of algorithmic symmetry and chaos, in many ways connecting to the inner structures of nature.

A Melting pot of cultures that explores the beautiful, devious and carnal sides of the human psyche. 

The history of Base Mosquito…  
The brainchild of Bulgarian-born music producer Ret Alex, Base Mosquito’s Live  Electronica effortlessly glides through fusions of trip-hop, rap, house, trap and alternative music. 
“Floating in warm with Hip-hop elements featuring spacious synths and female lead  vocals that create a slick, soothing, confident and chic mood” (Musync) - Music  Supervisors hub for big US TV networks!   
Influences include: Groove Armada, James Blake, Bonobo and Quincy Jones and  rappers like Drake Jay Z Kendrick Lamar. 
Base Mosquito’s core message is to bring people together to find their purpose  and to shine a positive light in this turbulent world. 
  
For twelve years, Base Mosquito has performed all over the world and enjoyed  regular successes on the London club scene playing at Area Vauxhall and Scala  Kings Cross.  Base Mosquito was delighted to receive support from elite club DJ’s  Groove Armada, Erick Morillo, Roger Sanchez, Ferry Corsten and Mike Pickering  while signed to an independent record label.  
  
At the UK’s “Live and Unsigned” competition, Base Mosquito were voted in the top  five bands of the season.   
“Great mix of sounds matched by an interesting, fun, visual impact. Full on  impressive performance and amazing female vocals. Great original tunes, they have  their own unique sound” (Live & Unsigned/Radio 1 representatives) 
  
What now?  
Since joining forces with performing artist Gabriela Eva, Base Mosquito and  Gabriela have spent an intense three years in the studio and are now eager to share  their cohesive fresh material with the world.  
More exciting artists such as Antarma, Cotton, Marina Avetisian, rappers  
Kwazi Cort, Luc Skyz, Shauna O’Brian and the rising alternative star Amy  Montgomery join the adventure to create a truly global project.  
Base Mosquito’s new exciting double album JANUS and their live show 
EVOLution offers the ultimate celebration of human spirit.  Releasing in April/May  2021.  
Base Mosquito’s music demonstrates the human capacity for connection through  deep lyrical content and collaborative musical composition.  
Early video releases include Tonight (Feat. Gabriela Eva) and Fighter (Feat. Kwazi  Kort) with many more planned.  Check out the album here!   A special double vinyl Special Edition release is also scheduled to kickstart the  new 2021 
Check out some of our home studio sessions on Facebook – our videos have been  watched and appreciated by over twenty thousand fans and our facebook  community is growing rapidly.   
I look forward to hearing from you soon.  
With appreciation 
Ret Alex | Base Mosquito

4Beat Yoga mixes and music by Marcus Veda. 
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Flow Thyself,
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Experimental, Indian, Classical, Dub, Sound Art.

Jake Charkey is an acclaimed cellist with a strong background in both Western classical music and Hindustani music. 
 
Building from his solid classical and orchestral training, he is an eclectic improviser, drawing from eastern and western musical traditions.
 
He is a sought after studio recording artist in the film, television and music industry in both India and USA.  A disciple of the renowned violinist Padmabhushan Dr. N. Rajam in the rare Gayaki Ang style, Jake is one of the few cellists in the world performing Indian music on the cello.

About
Jake Charkey started playing violin at the age of 6.  After a year of suffering the scratchy cacaphony of beginning violin, his father mercifully gave him a cello to try, and and he took it up like an old friend.
 
After completing his conservatory training at the Shepherd School of Music in Houston, TX and seeking to broaden his musical skills and vocabulary, he took an interest in Hindustani music.  His studies began in Toronto with the sarangi player, Aruna Narayan, who urged him to adapt Hindustani music to cello rather than learn an Indian instrument.  He continued in Los Angeles where he took up intensive training with Jagan Ramamoorthy, a senior disciple of the violin virtuoso Padmabushan Dr. N. Rajam.  He completed his M.F.A. at CalArts in Hindustani music under the guidance of Aashish Khan and Swapan Chaudury.  While at Cal-Arts he also incorporated other modalities of improvisation into his playing with Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, and Charlie Haden.
 
After grad school Jake moved to Montreal, where continued to perform Hindustani music, both as a soloist and accompanist for Kathak dance and was a occasional collaborator with tUnEyArds.  In 2010 he travelled to India with an arts fellowship from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute to support formal study under Padmabushan Dr. N. Rajam with whom he continued to learn for the 6 years he stayed there.  
 
In India he recorded and performed with many of the most celebrated musicians in Bollywood.  His unique sound can be heard on season 2 of MTV's Coke Studio, multiple episodes of MTV Unplugged, and in a number of Bollywood soundtracks.  

Since returning to the USA in 2016 Jake has joined the Slipstream Ensemble at Marlboro College, a composer/performer ensemble in residence and performs with Layale Chaker and Sarafand.  He also performs with Adam Rudolph’s GO Organic Orchestra and is a frequent collaborator with the Brooklyn Raga Massive.  He has been an advocate for new music for solo cello which he programs in recital alongside Hindustani music.  He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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