Telesma

Shows

• Sat

  Jun 8

  8X10 Club
  Baltimore, MD, US | 8:00pm
  8X10 Club
  Baltimore, MD, US

  Sat Jun 08 8:00pm
  

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  Sat June 8th The 8x10 Club 10 E Cross St Baltimore, MD 21230 A night of other worldly music featuring... TELESMA www.telesmaband.com CONSIDER THE SOURCE www.considerthesourcemusic.com GROOVANANDA (Wynne Paris/Dorianne Aillery) Also featuring bellydancing by Leyla Fahada Doors 8pm/ Showtime 9pm $12 at door Online tickets at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15004A6823EA8020 ALL AGES! TELESMA: The Telesma experience is an ecstatic trans-cultural phenomenon with a highly infectious and danceable beat. Exploding on the Baltimore music scene in 2002, it soon developed a loyal local fan base and then shook the underground festival scene from coast to coast. Telesma’s live show blurs the line between performer and audience, attracting the most creative VJs, dancers, visual artists and body artists to its shows. Every Telesma show is a vortex of creativity; a celebration of body, mind and spirit. The didgeridoo and manDrum too. Telesma’s vast arsenal of musical finery includes instruments as divergent as the didgeridoo, kubing (bamboo mouth harp from the Philippines), to electronic and tribal drums and the manDrum, one of the inventions of Telesma’s guitarist, as well as bass, keyboards, drum kit and the human voice. Hard to describe. Dancing is mandatory. Telesma’s sound has been sometimes described as “psychedelic tribal modern world dance music, “ with diverse sounds ranging from intense polyrhythmic rock to the trance-like pulses of modern electronic dance/groove music. “Dead Can Dance… with Teeth” — Telesma has been compared to Dead Can Dance, Pink Floyd, Tabla Beat Science, Amon Tobin, King Crimson, Ravi Shankar, Krishna Das, Afro-Celt Soundsystem, Bob Marley, Sun Ra Arkestra, Thievery Corporation, Tool, Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum, and Peter Gabriel, to name a few. Telesma has performed with artists such as Shpongle, Beats Antique, EOTO, Tipper, ArcheDream For Human-Kind, Delhi2Dublin, Woodland, Bernie Worrell, See-I (featuring members of Thievery Corporation), Faun, Elliot Lip, Jim Donavan (Rusted Root), The Gypsy Nomads, HuDost and many other artists from around the world. CONSIDER THE SOURCE: NYC trio Consider the Source defy easy description. If intergalactic beings of pure energy, after initiation into an order of whirling dervishes, built some kind of pan-dimensional booty-shaking engine, powered by psychedelics and abstract math, it’d probably just sound like a CTS tribute band. Drawing from progressive rock, fusion and jazz, with alien sounds soaked in Indian and Middle Eastern styles, CTS blends disparate parts into a striking, utterly original whole. Dubbed “Sci-Fi Middle Eastern Fusion”, the band’s music strikes a rare balance between cerebral and emotional, intellectual and primal. A relentless touring schedule has won the band a fervent following from California to Israel, with fans ranging from jam-band hippies and jazz cats to corpse-painted headbangers and prog geeks. Formed in 2004, Consider the Source features Gabriel Marin on fretless double-neck guitar, bassist John Ferrara, and drummer/percussionist Jeff Mann. Called “the guiding light for his generation of six-stringers”, Marin channels the mystical fury of McLaughlin and Coltrane into wailing melodies, kaleidoscopic soundscapes and boneshaking riffs. With a background in classical musics both Eurpoean and Indian, and an instinct for avant-jazz and destructive metal, Marin’s hypnotic fusion of styles is ever unpredictable. Ferrara’s propulsive, percussive attack, equally suited to simple grooves and impossible chords, can ground the music or launch it into space. His madcap gumbo of slap bass, Indian rhythms, earthy minimalism and complex tapping constantly pushes into strange new worlds, whilst still dropping thick booty-clap beats. Underneath them lies Mann’s rolling thunder; dense rhythmic architecture built from pure swagger and bounce. Half double-bass prog-metal, half crackle-pop Buddy Rich swing, with African and Balkan swirls, Mann’s muscular, freewheeling polyrhythms are the engine fuel for Consider’s multiversal mischief. Even when not improvising, Consider’s music is always a conversation, a roiling stew of dynamic interplay. Each member of Consider the Source alternately leads and follows, spars and assists; in any single song, alliances are made and broken, bargains struck and divorces finalized. Touring from coast to coast, as well as Europe and the Middle East, has not only earned the band thousands of fans, but has allowed them to perform with a wide variety of well-known artists, including Victor Wooten, Wayne Krantz, King Crimson Projekt, Kris Myers (Umphrey’s McGee), Wyclef Jean, Andy Statman, Matt Darriau (Paradox Trio), Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Dumpstaphunk, Keller Williams, George Porter, Jr., Jeff Sipe, Panzerballet (Germany), Eatliz (Israel), Freak Kitchen (Sweden), Morglbl (France), and many others. They have performed at numerous festivals and events, including Burning Man, the NYC Fretless Guitar Festival, Catskill Chill, The Big Up, Sun Seekers Ball (Canada), Aura Music & Arts Festival (Florida), Jazz Fest (New Orleans), Head For The Hills Festival & SXSW (Texas), Rootwire (Ohio), and the NYC Gypsy Festival. The band’s latest release, “F**k It! We’ll Do It Live – Volume I” (2012) is available at considerthesourcemusic.bandcamp.com. GROOVANANDA: Taking kirtan into the modern world of music! Dorianne Aillery is the Trifecta of yoga and music. She weaves her skills as a great singer, dancer and hatha yoga teacher into an experience that is not to be missed. Known as one of the shining stars of the Baltimore yoga and music community, she is now taking her first steps as a national touring artist. Wynne has been playing kirtan since 1994 and has performed w/ luminaries like Amma ( the hugging saint ), Krishna Das, Sharon Gannon and David Life and many more. He presents sacred music in a way thats open to all traditions and draws on more than 20 years of musical, spiritual and devotional experience and adventures.

• Sat

  Jun 15

  Tropocalia
  Washington, DC, US | 7:00pm
  Tropocalia
  Washington, DC, US

  Sat Jun 15 7:00pm
  

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  Tropicalia presents A Night of Tribal Psychedelica, House & Funk Saturday June 15th, 2013 with TELESMA "Taste The Color of Sound" - Baltimore http://telesmaband.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesma https://twitter.com/TELESMABAND HOUSE OF SOUL Six piece live house music band - DC http://www.houseofsouldc.com/ https://www.facebook.com/houseofsouldc http://www.twitter.com/houseofsouldc Early Show 7-10:30 21 & Up Only $10 Cover Charge 7pm - Doors 8pm - House of Soul 9pm - Telesma To be followed by "Sao Funky Saturdays" late nite DJ party until 3am!!!! Fort Knox Five and Friends http://www.fortknoxfive.com/ http://www.souncloud.com/fortknoxfive at TROPICALIA (lower level at corner of 14th & U Streets) 2001 14th St NW DC http://www.tropicaliadc.com/ http://www.twitter.com/tropicaliadc

• Fri

  Jun 28

  Midsummer Night's Dream…
  Harpursville NY, 13787, US | 8:55pm
  Midsummer Night's Dream ...
  Harpursville NY, 13787, US

  Fri Jun 28 8:55pm
  

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  MUSIC, Art, faeries.... Elfin & Sylvan Folk, Wood Sprites & Faerie Folk, and All you Humans who still Believe in Magic... Join Us in the Rolling Hills and Hollows of Rural New York for Central New York's Faerie Festival! A time of Escape from ordinary Reality... into Magical Play!

• Sat

  Aug 10

  Metropolitan Lounge
  Annapolis, MD, US | 8:00pm
  Metropolitan Lounge
  Annapolis, MD, US

  Sat Aug 10 8:00pm
  

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