Unifant Carnival Festival Feb 18th, 2023--- Travancinha, Portugal

 

This was a really fun and cool evening and amazing temperatures for this time of year. It was mostly cloudy until the end of the day and then it all cleared up for a beautiful 10C evening.   The local crew (Nick, Mad, Larry, Will, and others) who set the place up did a great job. Mike managed to get a really good sound in the room.  It was just really great. Larry had 3 projectors and it all worked fine to create a great party atmosphere!

Local DJ, Carlos Geometri, started things off at 20 with a 2 hr set of ethnic inspired music which gradually developed into trance techno and he really had the 40 or so people dancing and smiling. 

Next up was the Polish duo, IKARVS, who happen to be staying with me the last month and helping to work on the land. We got on both personally but also musically so they invited me to join them for the set.. Alexandra does improvised vocals with a lot of effects, some of the lyrics are planned. Pryz plays guitar, runs the computer stuff and also some vocals.  A lot of the music is improvised.  It was a hr long journey.... Great fun. I mixed my space sounds in here and there.. Audience really loved it but only about 25-30 people were inside watching the show. Most were outside around the fire etc..

Carlos Geometri

Racubah, also known as Steve, is a big vinyl collector of world music and he records his fave stuff from the vinyl lps and then mixes this with beats... He played stuff from Africa, Haiti, Carribean, etc.... They turned up the volume a lot as he was LOUD..  People were digging it... 

We did not stay to see the local Seia, DJ, Bernas... some more Portuguese people were just arriving to see him when we were leaving at 0030.... It was a very fun party..

Ikarvs soundcheck

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