Maine-native, Oakland-based singer/songwriter Rachel Efron writes edgy but deeply felt piano driven alt-pop, nuanced by a forever love for improvised jazz and impressionistic classical music. Her songs call to mind her longtime influences The Beatles, Elton John, and Tom Waits, as well as fresh dialogues with such artists as Ben Folds and Feist. But always there is an undercurrent of the jazz and classical sensibilities that are her artistic roots… the melodic gestures of Grieg and Chopin, and the chord extensions of Bill Evans and Brad Mehldau.   

She has recorded three full-length albums and one EP, worked with the best musicians in the Bay Area and New England, played some of the country’s premier listening rooms such as Freight and Salvage (Berkeley), Yoshi’s (Oakland), The Independent (San Francisco), Club Passim (Cambridge), The Living Room (NYC), and Tin Angel (Philidelphia), had the honor of opening for such acts as Sara Bareilles, Vienna Teng, Jill Sobule, and Spencer Day, and has had her music played on radio stations across the United States and Europe, time and again establishing herself as a singer/songwriter with that most precious quality of a unique artistic voice.

She is currently at work on her fifth studio project, a twelve song album to be released early this year. Produced by Jon Evans (Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan) and also featuring drummer Matthias Bossi (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) and trumpet player / horn arranger Erik Jekabson (Electric Squeezebox Orchestra), it is alternately mischievous, irreverent, and poignant, but always pointed in the direction of unflinching if poetic honesty. Standouts include the delightfully saucy, “Little Bit Of Bad” the can’t-look-away disturbing “Demeter’s Dream” and “Last Goodbye (Persephone’s Dream), and the loving and languid, “Hold Me In The Dark.”

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Robot Heart is a collective of doers and dreamers, artists and entrepreneurs. Our home is in the desert dust of Burning Man, and the streets of New York City, Detroit, Bay Area and Hong Kong. Home is wherever the Heart is.

Robot Heart is a community and a family, and our events are an extension and celebration of that community, bound together by shared values of inclusion, giving, environmental responsibility and mutual respect.

Music is our first language, and our mission is to bring love and beats to the world. We work with and support artists, technologists and visionaries of all types in order to create incredible experiences and connected moments. To create love and beats, for you.

+biri is a house+techno+hip hop DJ from the Southside of Chicago, USA, and currently lives in San Fransisco/Bay Area, California.

+biri is also co-founder of Hyde & Sikh, a production collective and BurningMan sound camp.

+biri believes in shaping sounds for the dance floor with conviction around mood-setting and stories for the dancers. Constantly learning and digging for music, he has a wide range in styles and is at ease curating tracks across various genres. 

Originally from India, his early dance music influences come from collecting disco vinyl in the 70s in Sydney, Australia. +biri also performed traditional Punjabi bhangra as a teen in India and thrived on early hip hop and the local house music scene on the South Side of Chicago in the 80s. In college, he curated and produced radio shows and experienced the techno, trance, and electronica rave scene around the US and Europe in the 90s.

+biri has been lucky to open for and play alongside artists like Atish, Doc Martin, Eva-Be, John Tejada, Monolink, Nico Stojan, Luca Bacchetti, and Spesh.  He has played at the Brooklyn Mirage (NYC), Burning Man-Black Rock City, Qool Happy Hour (SFO) and Listed PLAY (SFO/NYC) parties, as well as clubs in Atlanta, Berlin (Watergate), Las Vegas (Light), SFO (PublicWorks/Harlot), and Stockholm.

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