Press release:
The Earth Heart Tour spends two nights at New Mountain Asheville on Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15, featuring performances from Desert Dwellers, Kalya Scintilla, Eve Olution and many more.
Saturday night will be all about the “Tribal Trance,” with an uptempo Desert Dwellers set flowing into a special performance by MerKaba & Eve Olution, with local support from Captain EZ aka Phil Rossi and Live Animals.
Night two’s focus is “Downtempo Devotion and Midtempo Magick,” with Desert Dwellers leading into Kalya Scintilla & Eve Olution and local support from Numatik and Antandra.
Desert Dwellers consists of Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe, each of whom began their careers as independent music producers and DJs in the deserts of New Mexico and California.
Their collaborative power has resulted in numerous full-length albums, remix projects for other artists, and EPs for labels like Black Swan, Twisted, and their own label Desert Trax, among many others. The result has been the prolific production of genre blending dance tracks and chill-out grooves that make for truly memorable listening experiences.
Saturday night’s lineup features Merkaba; bridging Earth with the cosmos and the ancient past with the present future, Australian native Merkaba delivers a fresh and balanced energy to the realm of trance. He guides the dance floor on a journey through shadow and light, mind and emotion, intention and direction, reflecting our empowered and divine nature to us through alchemical audio.
Merkaba’s unique and organic sound challenges us to awaken to the forgotten ancient tribal spirit hidden in our cellular memory and to the infinite power in all of us.
Kalya Scintilla headlines Sunday’s downtempo evening. World fusion beats manifest into visceral living archetypes that come to life before you, the pulsing vibrations cascade infinite ripples of geometric harmonies throughout the dance floor, and together we are danced into the nectar of celebrating life.
Performing alongside Merkaba on Saturday and Kalya Scintilla on Sunday is performance artist and visionary director, Eve Olution, infusing a unique style and frequency of intentional ritual through movement and myth. With her background in theatre, Eve has alchemized traditional and classical style with evolving themes of consciousness that are viscerally woven throughout her Performance Art.
Through the embodiment of archetypal energy, her devotion is in bringing forth these live vibrations to evoke healing, awakening, and transformation to the audience. After decades of wielding her passion and the manifestation of her evolutionary visions, Eve breathes tangible magick with every performance.
Saturday night’s lineup boasts local support from Captain EZ — keeping the Southeast chilled out and funky. Phil Rossi has been developing a unique sound under the downtempo funk umbrella with his distinctive blend of ghetto funk, glitch, glitch-hop, future bass, hip hop, funk, nu-funk, and chillout.
Live Animals will open the show with his genre-blending spacey bass music, exploring new soundscapes and expanding the consciousness of sound.
On Sunday night, Asheville’s own Numatik provides direct support to Desert Dwellers. Numatik enters your ears as deeply connected sonic landscapes, dripping with futuristic textures, emotionally interwoven with acoustic instrumentation from all around the world, and finished off with a special seasoning of the bootybumpin’ dirty south.
Opening up Sunday evening is Antandra — the future dub moniker of music producer and performer, Jacob Louis. His sound can best be described as bass infused rhythms with suspenseful atmospherics and etheric melodies.
Tickets for each night are $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
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