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Hipnautica ~ Tonight currently not available on any CD
planning to place on 4th CD in the Quadratic Series.
Hipnautica ~ Thistle available on our Thistle CD.
Hipnautica ~ Breathing In Your Love available on our Thistle CD.
Hipnautica ~ Exile available on our Exile CD.
Hipnautica ~ Deilver Us currently not available on any CD.
HIPNAUTICA - Fold Into Me (live Untervelt performance)
DESTINATION IS UNKNOWN ~ our first official music video ~ Released March 20 2009
Produced, Recorded and Edited by Sky of Hipnautica
Experiencing Hipnautica onstage is a total immersion event. This group of performers, comprised initially of Sky, Trick Appeal Galore, Jordan Jones, a
variety of dancers, singers and other artists and musicians blurs even their own lines
when on stage. Sky, the leader of this band of anything-but-followers began his
current journey just a few years ago after several false starts and detours. His initial
solo stylings drew interested performers to his flame, and this morphed into the everchanging
kaleidoscope that is Hipnautica today.
Sky will tell you that travel and accident (in the grimmest sense) brought him to
create the group and the music. From his beginnings as a solo performer, he has arched
his way into a leadership position for this creative melange and the World Music arena
is richer for it. Pixie and Erik actually came on board after Sky restarted the project
solo and after Inca and Predictus de Mortume. Their music is truly engaging. Some
songs are dark, moody, some whisper shades of Erik Satie or faint traces of Django
Rinehart in their style. One piece, “Dance of Infiniti”, clocks at over 16 minutes and
weirdly seems simultaneously both much shorter and mesmerizingly long.
Stretching far from the standard “a couple of guitars, a singer and probably
drums” format, Hipnautica is fluid and ever changing. This group is a melting pot and
an amoebic mosaic. In addition to Sky, other group members (if “members” is not too strong of a word -- possibly “participants” is more accurate, or “fellow-travellers”?) frequently include Pixie, an operatic vocalist, Erik Ryan (from Lust Murder Box) on bass and guitars, Blue on tribal and hybrid electronic drums, Predictus De Mortume a vocalist, lyricist, and dancer, Omid on Aboriginal didgeridoo and Native American Indian flute, Sarah Flo, vocalist, lyricist, didgiridoo and percussion, Roscine a Butoh, a performance artist, and Guymon Adams on heavy guitars, not to mention dark world Gypsies like Tinkr, Infiniti, and Miranda. Occasionally Hipnautica also includes Indrajit Banerjee on traditional Indian sitar and Gourisankar Kamakar on traditional Indian tabla. They even feature their own make up artist - Wendy Sanders of Blood and Glitter. Additional performers are constantly welcome and talents may or may not include dancers, poets, and other artists. Whew!
Hipnautica’s contributions to World Music range from “The Engagement”, which is “dedicated to the lost people of Southern Sudan” to “Aerial Oasis” which was “written for the KiteDemos.com demonstration of the Synergy Deca. A kite we use on occasion for Kite Performance all over the world.” Their myspace page also features “The ShadowedLands club remix” with the haunting lyrics: This melody has an air of almost Gregorian chant to it,
while the subtle beat and lyrics interweave rhythmically. Hypnotic indeed!
This group is not mated to any particular format, and has enough members to perform in a variety of venues easily. They performed for SxSW (South by Southwest) in Austin. They performed in a “pure Gothic Industrial showcase” at Elysium on March 13, and in more of a total performance mode, they were part of an official SXSW Interactive After Party on March 16 at the Palmer Event Center. This second did not classify as a concert but rather as performance art featuring music, dance, -- be ready to be amazed, engaged and delighted, but please check your preconceived notions at the door when you see them live. They have a gig scheduled on may 8th, 2009 on Dripping Springs, TX. at Thunder of the Gods.
It’s a great experience and the publisher recommends it.
[ Written by Rachel Matthews whom writes in Austin, Texas and cyberspace,
often simultaneously, thus proving that one can be in two places at the same time.
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