February Tour Dates!
Three shows in Austin TX next week
2/10 Austin Hookahdome event @ Copa
2/11 Sabaya Dance Company Event @ Copa
2/12 Dj set (venue TBA)
2 weeks in Hawaii!
2/17- 2/19 Source Festival Maui
2/22 Outdoor Electro/ acoustic set on private land (venue TBD) Kauai
2/24 Producer Master class Kauai
… 2/25 Dj set @ Casanova Maui
The NEW ALBUM is nearly complete! I am very pleased and excited to be releasing a full length album with Six Degrees Records in the Spring of 2012. Here is a teaser mini-mix for you to enjoy. Feel free to comment on my SoundCloud page.
A brand new Jef Stott remix “Behind the Mask-Jef Stott Embarka Mix will be available worldwide on 9/27/11.
Eccodek releases album #4, Remixtasy around the world September 27 on iTunes and Bandcamp. A 14-track tour de force, featuring remixes by a who’s who of global electronica – Jef Stott, Transglobal Underground, Adham Shaikh, Four80East, EarthRise SoundSystem, Dubmatix and more. Watch Eccodek’s Facebook page for track giveaways, & sneak peeks!
I am super happy to be part of this amazing remix comp and in such good company.
Check out my track “Behind the Mask- Jef Stott/Embarka remix” -it’s the album opener!
Recently, our dear friend and musical pioneer Cheb i Sabbah was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer at San Francisco General Hospital. He was advised that the cancer was spreading to his liver and left lung. Without immediate and proper treatment, the prognosis given is very grim. The phrase “weeks maybe months” was repeated to a devastated group of close friends and family who were there to support him as he received the heartbreaking news.
Like many Americans, “Chebiji” — as he is affectionately known — does not have health insurance. Private health insurance is astronomically expensive and public state funded health insurance barely provides the most basic treatment — and it does so only if you qualify. Due to his weak health condition, Chebiji found himself having to cancel live shows, meaning his income stream has come to a complete halt, with mounting medical bills and future medical costs ahead.
Upon learning of his condition, a few close friends and artists have come together to rally around Chebiji and assist him with his fight. Devastated by the news and outraged that an artist of Chebiji’s caliber cannot afford to care for himself and receive the proper urgent medical treatment needed, we have set up a fund to help.
Please help by donating and spreading the word to your communities. With our financial support, love and healing thoughts let’s help Chebiji receive proper medical care and beat this cancer.
We would prefer PayPal payments as the donated funds are immediately available, thank you.
“El SIRAAJ 2” – A Bass & Groove Journey to the Playa featuring: Desert Freakstep, Oriental Electro, Breaks, House & Dub and East-Meets-Bass…Come on out and keep the dome smokin’!!!
A wickedly whumpin’ night featuring the bonafied and playafied sounds of the HOOKAHDOME heartbeat featuring:
DOORS: 9:00PM
TICKET PRICES: $10.00 before 10PM – $15 after 10PM
Hookahdome’s second in a series of events at Hopmonk Tavern, Saraaj 2 is a benefit for Hookahdome Burning Man 2011. If you loved Hookahdome on the Playa come out and support us! We need your to help make Hookahdome 2011 the best ever!!
Join us at Hopmonk for a beautiful summer night and be surrounded by sounds of Desert Freakstep, Oriental Electro, Breaks, House, Dub, sensual bellydancers, hookahs and our familar opulent decor. Be transported back to your favorite spot in the desert and get inspired for the experiences to come. So, bring your vibe, your spirit and your dancing slippers and we’ll see you on July 2nd.
Hookadome has emerged as a premiere music and arts camp on the Burning Man Playa and beyond, providing sensory delights to visitors in the Dome and stellar music and fire performances on our stage at night. Born of the sand and dust of the Black Rock Desert, Hookahdome emerges each year out of the western wind to delight your senses in the most plush and seductive chill spot on the playa.
I will be performing on a variety of stages at the Harmony Festival this year – June 10-12, 2011. Come hear me at the Tea Lounge stage for acoustic traditional and fusion music and the Deep Green/Hookahdome stage for ambient downtempo sessions.
I have launched a very ambitious new project that will be sending me to Egypt this summer to collaborate with Arabic musicians, singers and artists who took part in the democratic uprising there.
The project is the Cairo Rising Recording Project and we need your support. Financial contributions are being accepted through the Kickstarter website. Please take a moment the check out the project and contribute whatever amount you can manage. This is a very important project and it deserves your support!
I spent the last week in Los Angeles as part of the Women’s Voices Now film festival where I performed twice as part of the the Festivals gala opening events. The festival was very successful and I hope to continue building on this collaboration. Check out more info @ http://womensvoicesnow.org
Well friends, here is it is. I have been sitting on this track for a little while. Natacha Atlas covering Nick Drake as remixed by yours truely is a perilously beautiful rendition of the evocative romantic classic.