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All Tribes Dance; Films & Beats Gathering

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Butter Music Brazil presents All Tribes Dance; films and beats gathering featuring Laya Project (2009), short films from Post Modern Times and Dj Marjo Lak Friday, August 13, at Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St in Arcata. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Films start at 8 p.m. Cost is $15, $10 advanced from our website arcatatheatre.com and is 21 and over. Sponsored by Butter Music Brazil, The Threshold Project, Postmodern Times, Island Mountain Institute, The Daily Grind Café (Myers Flat), Cutting Edge Solutions and Manitu Handmade Belts in Brazil. All proceeds go to the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmother’s.

http://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/

PRESS: For more info or to interview please contact Marjo: marjoribeiro@gmail.com or/and Alegria alegria.sita@gmail.com
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http://www.myspace.com/alltribesdance

All Tribes Dance invites everyone for a full inspiring night at Arcata Lounge Theater. Once a month, a sequence of music, independent films and a dance gathering, for collective awareness. The night begins with a smooth downtempo-chillout set by DJ Marjo Lak, playing the movie’s soundtracks and other sonorities to relax and set the atmosphere. In the sequence comes the screening of independent films – short movies + 1 medium/long-feature movies - totalizing around 2 hours of screenings never before exhibited in Humboldt County.

After the screening the celebration begins: All Tribes Dance invites everybody for a modern tribal experience, striking up the dance floor with a long set of contemporary electronic sounds – Minimal, Electro, Techhouse Music. Synths, basslines, loops, a range of high, low and distorted frequencies, grooves and every element which compose the essence of electronic sounds brings a delightful dance healing experience. Much more than a screening’s party, the great idea behind the project is to bring social and ecological awareness to our community, besides raising funds for a great cause.

This project is the call for the urgent changes we need, in shape of an inspiring proposal, stimulating us all to recreate a new way of life that will bring the planet back into balance before it’s too late. In a world which is increasingly more distant and disconnected to the real values of life, All tribes dance gathering is a shout to bring us back to our true nature. All the profit gained with this project will be donated to the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come.

Laya Project’s  musicians are the people of coastal and surrounding communities in the 2004 tsunami affected regions of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar and India. The production is based on regional folk music traditions, recorded and brought back to the studio to create a composition that mixes and enhances the original recordings, and embarks on a visual and musical journey crossing borders, while preserving the music of the people. Some of these performances are rare, and are documented for the first time in this production. For the international team who came together for this production, Laya Project is a personal and collective tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, and is dedicated to the survivors of the 26th December 2004 Asian tsunami. The music in this production is of and by the people of the coastal communities, recorded and brought back to the studio to create a composition that mixes and enhances the original recordings, bringing out the essence of the countries and people.  “A spectacular cultural extravaganza” - The Times of India Newspaper

Marjo Lak  has roots in the Brazilian open-air partie’s story. Inspired by her immersions on the dance floor, connected with the dance and collective celebration, she developed a solid pathway through the universe of electronic culture. Lak is a renown event and party producer and is partly responsible for Butter Music Brazil. As an eclectic DJ, she has a vast sonorous research, striking up beautiful and energetic sets not only on the dance floor but also on the Chill Outs – always with a stage attitude of someone who enjoys your task. Her downbeat case is a complex walk through Popular Brazilian Music, Ethnic, Soul, Funk, Dub & Black… groove music! On the dance floor, her soundtrack is “greasy” in the essence, but with no definition: a hypnotic-minimalistic fusion of Minmal-Electro-Tech-House music, a good core of clear basslines, tubular textures with both vocal and tribal elements, always going for dynamic and diverse timbres, quasi-funny sounds: cabaret style. On the holy dance floor ground, Marjo understands everything and everybody as one, all tribes gathered by the same beat, vibrating in unison.

Postmodern Times  is a series of short animated info-snacks presenting new ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and ecological transformation and is a collaboration between Nikos and Joao, aimed to produce and create conscious creative media. Surfing the line of documentary and animation their work allows complex and confusing abstract concepts become accessible, while at the same time fun to watch.

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