Shaman Tales: Aqua

Organic Family, Shakti Collective, and Neuromantix in cooperation with Henvey Inlet First Nation welcome all to Shaman Tales: Aqua, the first of four festivals of music, art and culture to happen annually as we carry forth into the unknown. Nestled within the magical lands along the coast of Lake Huron of the Aboriginal tribes, this great event will try to bring about a convergence between the ancient ways of the indigenous and the present day electronic culture by integrating various forms of healing, workshops, performances, visual delicacies, music and of course dance to take us deep into our very own beings in order to allow transformation. Powerful sound and shamanic rhythms will take us into the timeless journey and bring us closer to that which bonds all: the earthly with the cosmic, the physical with the spiritual, the mind with the beyond, from darkness to light.

http://www.shamantalesfestival.org/

Location:
Ontario, Canada

Line Up:

ENCEPHALOPATICYS – Parvati Records, Macedonia- Live
(http://www.myspace.com/encephalopaticys)
Encephalopaticys is the project of Vasko Velickovski. The name of the project sound mysterious, but that is how his music really is. He started Djing in 2001and after few years and more time spent with psychedelic music, he started to experiment with the psychedelic sounds.
The project Encephalopaticys is born 2003. It’s hard to find the right words to describe his music, some will say it’s powerful night trance, I’ll say its sound that came from one identity of one person, one mind – simply Encephalopaticys. In this project Vasko works on very powerful dark sound, with deep bass line, followed by psychedelic sounds and forest atmospheres, inspired by the high hills and surrounding spirits. “If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

MUBALI-Trishula Records , USA – Live
(http://www.myspace.com/mubalitrax)
Mubali is Greg Farley, from Monterey, California. He has been writing his own music since 2003. He comes from a background of classical music (violist for 7 years) and currently makes all of his music just for fun. His tracks tend to be on the darker side of full on, and his influences are Azax Syndrom, Xenomorph, Grapes of Wrath, Absolum, Twisted System, and Digital Talk.

SOUTHWILD/RASTALIENS – Pharsyde, Toronto- live
Jay is an electronic music producer from the south (wild) Black-Forest in Germany. Together with his friend Ralph (Braincell/Solar Spectrum) started the psychedelic trance project Rastaliens more than 10 years ago. Over the years of playing in clubs and festivals worldwide, Rastaliens became well known by many people for psytrance with a funny unique style. Southwild is the new project from Jay which could be named as a kind of funky morning psy, but generally you will not be able to put it in a “style” box. It’s music to have fun and make the body shake.

EKOPLEX – Ektoplazm, Toronto- Live
(http://www.myspace.com/ekoplexx)
Ekoplex is Ray Vincent, a multifaceted psychedelic trance producer from Toronto, Canada. With an arsenal of heavy rolling beats for the dead of night, ethereal offerings for sunrise, and slower grooves for afternoon or early evening, Ekoplex is comfortable performing at any time. Over the years, Ekoplex has developed a visually engaging live setup that features a MIDI-controlled guitar and keyboard combination, thus ensuring that every performance is unique. Ekoplex has been thrilling dance floors across North America for more than half a decade, playing at many major festivals and indoor events.

COSMIC ORGASM – Psykonexus, Montreal – Live
(http://www.myspace.com/cosmic-orgasm)
Cosmic orgasm is a duo project from Orbit and 1.61805. They started two years ago, sharing ideas and technique. By uniting computer and hardware generated music, they focused on doing an incredible and one-of-a-kind live act. From dark full on to pure psy-trance, their music is like rolling thunder on a vast and endless space field.

CQDX (Montreal) – live
Born in the hills of England in 1964, Simon leads a gypsy lifestyle with deep roots in electronic music. Being a professional musician and sound engineer, Simon has travelled the world, presenting his one of a kind live and DJ sets. Simon truly enjoys the psychedelic music scene and the life it brings… You may have encountered him dancing or playing at a Canadian summer festival, or heard him on CHUO.FM Fridays midnight till 6am… “MIND WARP to my set as I set to your mind warp” – CQDX

SINISTER WARLOCKS – Gelatinous beats, Guelph- live
(http://soundcloud.com/the-contraption)
The Sinister Warlocks strive to make complex music, psychedelic in nature and theatrical in its story telling. Though they try to inject personality and innovation into their tracks and live sets and performances. As a live act they bring a stunning improve performance oozing hard edged beats, twisted live synth action, live evolving atmospheric architecture and a dancefloor killing style.

DJ:
Pollyfonika (BomShanka,FrakaSound/Mexico)
Egbot vs Lauryn (Peak Records, Philadalphia/US)
Banjankri (digital nature, Toronto/Latvia) (http://soundcloud.com/banjankri)
Zitron (Trimurti rec, Russia) (http://soundcloud.com/pozitron-1/dj-zitron-winter-forest)
Anima (Fithy Crew/Oui-R1, MTL)
Ron Jon (OYA Collective,Ottawa)
Machine Elf (Timewave/OYA Collective, Toronto)
Shankar (Shakti Collective, Toronto)
Mythrophan (Toronto)
Rook (Shakti Collective, Toronto)
Plan b (Shakti Collective, Toronto)
Sidra (Gelatinous Beats, Guelph)
Mandelbrot (BLA, Toronto)
Sketi (BLA, Toronto)
Fever (OYA Collective, Peterborough)
Hans Ohm (Light,Architextures, Toronto)
T-Minus (BASSgators, Pocket Monkeys, Toronto)
dBOOM (Kistmet Collective, Toronto)
Kristian Sunflower (Suma Collective, Toronto)
Moxy (Toronto)
Solar Groove (Toronto)
Zaga (Glinzink/Toronto)
Reegan (UpBeat Connection,Ottawa)
Enerjex (UpBeat Connection, Toronto)

VJ:
Xibalba (Neuromantix)
Ivygrrl (Shakti Collective, Toronto)
Scott Guy (Shakti Collective, Toronto)

Deco:
Neuromantix – Canada (http://neuromantix.com/)

Tomasz Ciesla- Canada

UV Botanist & Petrix – TranceCarpathiArts (http://www.myspace.com/p_trix)

Canada’s First Nations

Nephilnine Deco (Loudmonitors) NYC
http://www.nephilnine.net/

Workshops:
Collective art workshop

Yoga

Reiki healing

Munay-ki healing with Angel Lanthier
http://www.raisingenergy.com/
You can sign up for the session before thew festival by e-mail
raisingenergy@yahoo.ca

Drum Healing

Lectures:
Beyond duality

The Meaning of Shamanism – Tamare White-Wolf Shaman Spiritualist, Pipe Carrier, Sweat Lodge Facilitator, Psychic and Esoteric Teacher/Healer 7 Owner of Earth and Sky Connection, Barrie, Ontario
In this group we will discuss the origins and depths of Shamanism, Animal Symbology, Crystal Healing, The Herbal Connection, Sacred Medicine Tools ie the Medicine Wheel, negative and positive energy and various types of healing styles used in shamanism will be touched on! There will be a question and answer period included as part of the discussion!

http://www.earthandskyconnection.com/tamare.htm

2012 and the Shamanic initiation

The moment, the only reality

Native Teachings:

- 4 primal directions, colors, animals
- 4 sacred plants (Tobacco, Sage, Sweet grass, Cedar)

Also:
Children Playground
Tea shop
Juice bar
Kitchen
Boat ride to Georgian Bay ($35 round trip) 1.5 Hrs
Night Cinema
Native Food and crafts vendors
Food bank for native community

Tickets:
50 $ – April – May 10th
60 $ – May 11th – July 1st
80 $ – At the door
Shanti Baba, 546 Queen ST W Toronto
Out of GTA contact organizers

Location:
Henvey Inlet First Nations
3 hrs on 400/69 north of Toronto
Detailed map coming soon

Transportation:
Bus Shuttle Toronto – Shaman Tales festival
Contact: bustoshamantales@gmail.com for ticket details

• No alcohol will be sold or served on the Festival arena.
• STRICTLY PROHIBITED to carry weapons, drugs at Festival.
• Leave no trace, no glass allowed on the land.

http://shamantalesfestival.org/
e-mail: orgs@shamantalesfestival.org