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Looking for an Extreme Musical Experience? Looking for Something Even More Relevant Then Burningman?
The Laser & Percussion
Orchestra at the 
The Year we hope to attend
and play at the Festival in the Desert, a gathering of the Tuareg
people, a semi-nomadic tribal people who ride to the Festival on
their camels. The Music Festival is held in Essakane, 50 km from
Timbuktu, a historic city in the desert country in Mail, West
Africa. The dates for next year's Festival are January
10-13, 2008.
Working with musicians from Guinea, West Africa, we'll be forming an orchestra of Dunns and Djembes; and
some lark-voiced Griots.
If you are in the West Coast
Tribe ~ which means you are addicted to dancing and playing West
African drums, (and beyond,) or spin fire or CD's to a fast World
Beat ~ and are looking for an extreme vacation musical gig life
changing experience of a lifetime, start saving your money.
We'll be taking some smaller lasers and a lot of LEDs and Electric
Wire with us to Essakane. They say that when Columbus discovered the
Caribbean Islands of the New World, only the tribal shaman
could see the boat. The rest of the tribe simply had no visual
experience or memory patterns for the shape of Columbus' sailing
ship. Do you think the Tuareg people will see our lights?
The
Tuareg are called the "Blue People" for a number of reasons. They
are fond of wearing blue turbans and indigo dyed cloth as cover
against the desert sun, and warmth for the desert night. The dye
sometimes runs down their sweaty skin to color it blue-black.
If you're a Burningman-type drummer or a serious student of the
Djembe and Dunns looking for the playing experience of a lifetime,
this project could be for you.
We'll meet in Bamako, Mali, the first week of January, 2008, to
rehearse and acclimatize. We hope to visit Timbuktu and Dogon ruins
as part of the Festival experience. Please watch this site for
further information, and, it is not too early or too late for you to
begin dialoging with us about the possibilities.
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