In August 2012, record label Infiné suggested a collaboration between French musician Don Niño and Mexican electronic musician and producer Cubenx. At the Infiné Workshop (La Carrière du Normandoux) the two musicians revealed a hypnotising first creation, wrapping ancestral sitar riffs into layers of keyboards and minimalist electronics. This first experience encouraged Don Niño and Cubenx to create the project WE:MANTRA in 2013, further enhanced by the addition of installation artist Antoine Schmitt.

WE:MANTRA is a performance combining music and video art. Musically it is centered around the Indian sitar and vintage analog keyboards laid out over electronic minimalist rhythms. The nine “Moods” of traditional Indian music are explored by the musicians during the concert (cosmic, heroic, erotic, fightening, wonderful…) within retro-futuristic mantras. Visually, Antoine Schmitt creates live a generative world of minimalism and ancestral forms.


THE STELLAR DONE

Musically We:Mantra is centered around the Indian sitar and vintage analog keyboards laid out over electronic minimalist rhythms. 

THE AWFUL

Musically it is centered around the Indian sitar and vintage analog keyboards laid out over electronic minimalist rhythms. 

WE:MANTRA

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