Artist Credits >>> with Love & Gratitude to @angelique-kidjo-official @dirtwire @betelgeize @adam-port @tikkimasala @gowax @fadingsoul @mr-id-2 @nicolacruz @derrok @gallardomusica @huairaira @pasaje-universo @anna-rf @dj-yeahman @el-buho @borauzer @jeremysole @sheilachandra

ECSTATIC DANCE - A deep and ongoing personal Lovestory for me - a story in which I'm in co-creation sometimes as DJ and other times as dancer and in both cases it's all about unity in diversity and becoming ONE on a journey of joy & sadness, softness & wildness, vulnerability & ecstasy, discomfort & growth, insecurity & confidence, fear & love, embodiment & bliss and so much more...ultimately if distilled to its essence or me it really is : SOUL MEDICINE.

ECSTATIC DANCE

Dear Music & Dance Lovers

Here’s the Recording of last weekends Outdoor Ecstatic Dance for you to Dance & Listen >>> Anytime <-> Anywhere…Enjoy!

Artwork:
Mia Taninaka

Magic Forest Dance ॐ Live @ Ecstatic Dance Zurich, April 2021

❈ Aquanitah Ecstatic Dance ❈

This set is for the books, for us to rekindle that beautiful complex community moment full of sensual expression over and over again. Tantric Love was injected into this musical journey from start to finish to experience the many shades of you.

This was a temple night in its finest form. I can tell you how much i enjoyed creating the vibe that was already channeling through me through the Nature, the Seduction of Spirit and Transparent Expression of everyone there present. 
This was definitely one of my most memorable moments in my 16 month time spent in my home land of Nicaragua.

This dance has as pure intention to override any effects of the conditionings we all face to deconstruct.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane. But only them who danced were able to pierce through the insanity.

Listen to the Video

CACAO BASS Vol. 2 - Aquanitah

The Garifuna Collective is a group of musicians of African descent, living in central America and the Caribbean.

The song “Uraga (Story)”, off their 2019 'Aban' Album, blends guitar, Garifuna primero drums, turtle shells, and conch shells to create a steady, percussive beat.
I've chose to add both African and Latin elements to the remix to make it more dance-able.

More about the meaning of the song:

The oral history of Garifuna culture is kept with songs. Garifuna songs are most often telling a story, recounting a specific event that marked the songwriter. Sometimes however, there are more than one side to the story! In Uraga, the woman is responding to a story that was told about her. Early in the morning as a party is dying down, she tells people she wants to set the record straight. She is worried that her story will end, incomplete. The ending of the song explicitly highlights the tension felt within the oral culture when stories go untold, as the group vocal sings “this is where the story will end” while the lead vocal answers, “is this really the end?”

Here's the original version of the song:
garifunacollective.bandcamp.com/track/uraga-story

Dig into the beautiful music of The Garifuna Collective:
www.garifunacollective.com

Credits for the original song:

Marcela Aranda: Lead Vocals
Mohobub Flores: Lead Vocals and Turtle Shells
Desiree Diego: Vocals and Maracas
Sheldon Petillo: Vocals, Claps
Emilio Thomas: Vocals, Claps
Rolando “Chichiman” Sosa: Garifuna Primero Drum, Conch Shell, Clave
Denmark Flores: Garifuna Drums
Sam Harris: Electric Guitar
Guayo Cedeno: Lead Electric Guitar
Eli Levinson: Sampling and programming
Ivan Duran: Bass, Electric Guitar and Field Sounds
Al Ovando: Electric Guitar, Claps
Umalali Field Vocal Recording by Marcelina “Masagu” Fernandez Guity, Corozal, Honduras, circa 1997

Free Download

Uraga/Story (Nowananda Remix) by The Garifuna Collective (Free Download)

@bakurmusica


Shika Shika is very excited to announce the first in our new series Passages, a new series of mini EPs where we invite artists to tell their story of migration through music.

Passages will put the spotlight on one artist that migrated, for positive or negative reasons to find a new home far from their roots. This series is about earthly connections, borderless culture, new perspectives and multicultural souls. All of the Shika Shika team and many of our family of artists are migrants in one way or another, taking a lot of inspiration from this heady mix of our roots and the new cultures that we needed to get adapted to. This movement changed our minds and touched our souls and undoubtedly marked our creativity and musical vision.

For the first volume, we invited the up and coming Armenian producer and DJ Bakur who mixes the memories of the mountains of Vanadzor with his experiences that shaped his identity growing up in his beloved Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he moved at age of 12.

The three tracks on this EP mix Bakur’s beautiful futuristic deep, dub-electronica with hints of vocal and instrumental folk nostalgia from another time or another place. We embark on a journey by an artist beginning to carve out his own sound, mixing his own experience split
between these two worlds, languages and cultures and everything else in between.

Free Dwnld + Donate!

Bakur - Quiebre

Pre-order here : https://kaleema.bandcamp.com/album/velo-ep

Argentine composer Kaleema debuts on Earthly Measures with a new EP, 'Velo', to be released on June 24th of this year. In its name it anticipates a concrete and expansive work that marks times of change in which we suspend ourselves for listening.

Velo, opens the album signifying a mutation, a movement inspired by a breakthrough as personal as it is musical that joins the poetry it offers us. Heidi Lewandowski returns to her training as a violinist and composes with fragments of dub sound, echoes, layers of percussion and remarkable string arrangements. The narrative contains the initiatory force to reinvent ourselves from within and to break through to the other side: if I resonate/break the veil.

The track Cántaro contains the dynamics that showcase their signature percussion-driven sound and we recognize Kaleema and their previous evolving works. With global influences from the electronic music she often collaborates with, she leads us over the nuances provided by her distinctive voice: light and hypnotic. The versatility of this producer in search of sounds ranging from electronic music to the most complex composition makes her production increasingly enriching.

The third cut, Eclipse, produced in the key of slow dance track gives a twist to the aesthetics of 'Velo' turning the EP into a varied production.

The album has two remixes, the first collaboration of Velo is made by the producer Chancha Vía Circuito who appears with his particular sound generating a pleasant counterpoint in the album and reminds us of the remarkable and harmonious artistic dialogue of these two artists. Towards the end the second collaboration in the hands of Ecuadorian producer and DJ Joaquín Cornejo puts us in front of a rhythmic piece loaded with organic groove.

'Velo' is composed with the strength of an artist who has not stopped these years maintaining constant tours in America & Europe and is about to begin a long series of concerts in México, Spain, Germany, Greece & Portugal, with this soundtrack that anticipates her performances.

MUSIC BY KALEEMA Heidi Lewandowski
MIXED BY Andrés Oddone for Bugambilia Estudio
MASTERIZED BY Sebastián Cordovés
DISTRIBUTED BY Earthly Measures
ART Candelaria Aaset
PHOTOGRAPH Eli Portela
TEXTS BY Magui Dávila
2022

VELO

Kaleema - Velo

In 2014, I stepped into Ecstatic Dance Amsterdam at Club Lite, and my life changed.

So it is very meaningful for me to have played at the current club - the jungle - to this community and people i've known and danced with for so many years. 

I'm feeling gratitude and appreciation to so many people:

The Amsterdam and specifically the EDA community and the dancers who were there last Sunday morning.
Dide van der Veen for inviting me to play.
Leon Beckx for the ceremony.
The wonderful team.
My teachers, mentors and colleagues Esta Polyesta, Kareem Raihani, Caroline S'jegers, Donna Carrol, Shanto, Martijn, Iradi, Sandesh Psymbiosis, Shay Sunshay, Jonny Hey, Lotus Imane, Tom Goldhand, Nir Shraiber, and many others.
Aurore for hosting me for a week at her vintage place in Paris.
Esta for many years of support, mirroring, and specifically for guidance with this gig.

Featuring:

Baka Forest People
A.Hafiz
tetouze
Shimarúa
i.Ameni the BeatMan
Thornato
M.RUX ft Nina Simone
AmuAmu
DJ Flavya
Sono Rhizmo’ ft. Jorge Ben
Nowananda ft. The Garifuna Collective
DJ BX'TREME
Billie Eilish
Sofiane Pamart
adrian atma
Al Lindrum & Frederik Bohling
Palov meets A.Angelides
Ghetto Funk Allstars
Rage Against The Machine
Philip Glass
Jungle
The Jerusalem Youth Chorus
Olatunji
Treeboga
DJ Fresca, Black Motion, Tuna
Mr Raoul K & Manoo
Paul Jockey
Funk Sinatra ft. Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding, Booker T. & The M.G.'s & The Mar-Keys
Ìxtahuele
Bliss

Image : The legendary club lite, closed in 2018

#270

Nowananda ~ Ecstatic Dance Amsterdam 11.09.22

Ecstatic Cacao Dance ॐ Live @ Into Your Heart Retreat, June 2023

Dear Tribe

I'm feeling blessed to share this Journey I played at City Church Zurich offering Music as the Language of Love, uniting us in Sacred Movement and creating a Space of Unity in Diversity.

One Love,
ZEBA

Unity in Diversity ॐ Live @ Ecstatic Dance Zurich, December 2023

Embracing our Darkness and moving or going trough it is essential for our capacity to embrace the light. This Set is special to me because it came from a Place within me where I was able to feel a wide spectrum of feelings or colors of my soul all at once...I hope you can feel it while listening and embrace all that will be reflected for you.

With Gratitude & Love
ZEBA

Artwork:
Emma Kunz

Colors of Light & Darkness ॐ Live @ Ecstatic Dance Zurich, March 2024

Dear global family

This Journey is a prayer for humanity to rise together in love & peace. 
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu!

With deep gratitude & all my love!
ZEBA

Very special thanks to the incredible Rise Up Ladies Jelena & Mel for making this happen. You are inspiring, amazing & beautiful !!!

www.riseupmovement.info

TOGETHER WE RISE ॐ Ecstatic Dance @ RISE UP Summer Gathering, June 2025

Beloved global family

So many beautiful memories from my first Nowhere in Spain this year. 
Feeling at home and welcome from the first moment arriving in Here & Meow x ofKhorse camp meeting many olds friends and making many new ones... a profound personal journey purrrfected with the honour & pleasure of playing Here & Meows legendary Acid Friday Sunset Ecstatic Dance at the Playa!

With deep gratitude & all my love,
ZEBA

Acid Friday Sunset // Ecstatic Dance @ Here & Meow x ofKhorse // Nowhere, July 2025

Zero Casualties

The Second Reinassance

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Nocturne in Zero Gravity

Chamada Remixes – EP Get it here!! https://nomaderecords.bandcamp.com/

Praah -productor y lutier franco colombiano- en colaboración con Festival Nómade más ocho artistas europeos y latinoamericanos, han dado forma a “Chamada”, un EP de remixes del single del mismo nombre. Esta canción fue producida por Praah con la intención de unir varios continentes, integrando idiófonos (Sanza) por la parte africana, aerófonos japoneses (Hotchiku) y flautas y ocarinas por la parte de americana precolombina. 

“Chamada Remixes” avanza desde un sonido orgánico y suave, muy profundo, adquiriendo tintes electrónicos pulidos y progresivos. Evoluciona de manera natural, logrando generar nuevas texturas, gracias a las versiones de productores amigos con búsquedas sonoras complementarias. 

Así comienza a tomar forma concreta una familia musical fundada en el intercambio, el rescate y el downtempo. Chamada Remixes es la primera producción de una serie de trabajos colectivos que ya están empezando a gestarse y serán liberados de manera gratuita.

PrΛ.Λ.H - Chamada (Trippin Jaguar Remix)

Moon Release #96 [27.02.2021]

This February's Full Moon is brought to you by @andiandean.

Andi.Andean is a sonic entity created by the percussionist, producer, dj and human lover of nature Andres Aravena, born in Santiago, Chile. His journey in music began around the age of 14 exploring African rhythms while playing the drums in the hidden forests of the city at the same time that he became interested in electronic music and reggae. 

All this accompanied by a great interest in nature and an endless number of experiences in the Andes mountains that then led him to travel through South America exploring its sounds, humanities, ecosystems and settle down to live surrounded by volcanoes, lakes and nature in the South of Chile, spending time into his studio and giving birth to the “Andi.Andean” project.

He currently lives in Berlin where he continues the eternal exploration of rhythms and sounds.

February's Full Moon: Andi.Andean

Music is like Love - A uniting & universal Language beyond Words…

Co-Creative at SOUL⟡TRIBE, Echoes from Venus & Ecstatic Dance Zurich.

Booking & Contact:
sebastiandemaria.music@gmail.com

Magic Forest Dance ॐ Live @ Ecstatic Dance Zurich, April 2021

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