RED SEED
RED SEED Pan Global Mystic Music
Hop on for a musical magical flying carpet ride that may deposit you anywhere, from the
Silk Road of the caravans to the Vedic Temples of India, to lush tropical jungles, gamelans
in the rain forest or primordial red earth caves. Our Pan Global Nu World Music is an exotic
out of town experience - no passport needed!
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
RED SEED Mystic Music is comprised of passionate and professional performers
who have been long time leading edge contributors to the Bay Area music and
cultural creative forefront. World Beat Percussion, Didjeridu, Kalimba, Gongs &
Crystal Bowls combine to create enthralling, original and dancable World Fusion
music, Sound Healing, and Harmonic Soundscapes. Through spontaneous sustained
tonal layering, these sources merge to form resonant, expansive and heart-opening
sonic environments that imbue each event with its own unique magic. From slowly
shifting elemental journeys for meditation and sound healing, to pulsing world beat
percussion for all-out dancing, the rich sonic tapestry they weave is perfect for
concerts, moving flow Yoga meditations, rituals, ceremonies, movement facilitation,
conscious dancing, workshops, dance performances, parties, fire circles and community
gatherings of all types.
Members:
Sondra Slade (aka Auntie Matter) - Founder/Producer/Trance Percussion:
Doumbek, D'jembe, Klong Yaw, Talking Drum, Gongs, Shakers, Kalimba.
Sondra is a Percussionist, Ritualist, Writer, Teacher, Event Producer and
Herbalist. Her intuitive, organic percussion and shamanic sound “happenings”
have been enjoyed as a mainstay in the World Beat and Conscious Dance
community for over ten years. She studied New Music with John Cage and
Bill Russo, Classical North Indian music with Ali Akbar Khan and Shankar Ghosh
at Ali Akbar College of Music, and Middle Eastern Music at the Center for World
Music, where she first became involved in Sacred Sound as a spiritual path and
began journeying the mystical road of Trance Drumming as an integral part of
her practice of Kundalini, Bhakti and Anahata-Nad Yoga. She served as Adjunct
Instructor of Spirituality at Holy Names College, and on the faculty at GAIA Arts
Institute where she taught Sacred Sound for Transformation. She has produced
and performed with a variety of ensembles from World Fusion, Sacred Sound and
Spoken Word to Acid Jazz. She has just written "The Little Book of Odes & Inovations",
produces world music events, performs, teaches World Beat Trance Drumming, and
facilitates rituals and drum circles in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kitty Wells - Crystal Bowls and Sound Healing
Divinely restorative, quartz crystal singing bowls create exotic, rich mystical tones,
and are excellent tools for meditation, energy and sound healing work. Kitty founded
the Sound Healing Studio of Silicon Valley and is accredited in Sound Healing from the
Globe Psychoacoustics and Sound Healing Institute of San Francisco, where she studied
with master teachers including Don Estes, Steve Halpren, Randy Masters, Richard Feather
Anderson, Joshua Leeds and Jan Cercone. She also studied with Dr. Jeffrey Thompson at
the Center for Neuroacoustic Research. 20 years ago she obtained her first Crystal Bowl,
using it mainly in meditation and calming practice while working in the high-stress pace
of Silicon Valley. Years later she was called to explore this personal treasure in more depth,
collecting 20 more bowls and delving into the beauty and mystery of these therapeutic
sound instruments.
GUEST PERFORMERS may be added, such as Didgeridu,
additional percussion, flute, oud, guitar, cello.
Your musical influences
Sound Healing, Sacred Sound, World Music, World Beat, Middle Eastern, Indian, Gamelan, Groove, Trance, Trip-Hop, World Fusion, Ethno-Ambient, Experimental, Conscious Dance
Anything else?
We are available for booking for all types of Performances & Special Events:
Concerts, celebrations, rituals, parties, weddings, workshops, seminars,
festivals, conferences, corporate events, dance performances, dancehalls,
fire circles, satsangs, Yoga classes and flow dance, and intentional community
gatherings of all kinds.
We are also TEACHERS: (available for workshops and at events)
Booking Contact:
Auntie Matter - axismundi@jps.net
415-826-8644 - after 3pm and evenings
Watch on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OVWQo0L-90&feature=email
