Mahadev Cometo Solo Sitar Electronica
Boom Festival 2018
Sound Journey on BEING FIELDS

• July 25, 2018 @ 21:00 CHILL OUT GARDENS / featuring K-Soul
• July 26, 2018 Sound Journey on BEING FIELDS (time to be confirmed) solo sitar electronica
• July 27, 2018 @ 22:00 SACRED FIRE / featuring Master Margherita

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BEING FIELDS

WHAT BEGAN AS A SMALL-SCALE PROJECT IS TODAY ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER AREAS OF THE FESTIVAL. FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE HEALING AREA, THE BEING FIELDS ARE LIKE STEPPING INTO A FESTIVAL WITHIN A FESTIVAL. THIS IS THE SPIRITUAL EPICENTER OF BOOM THAT RADIATES TO THE WHOLE BOOMLAND.

boomfestival.org/boom2018/program/being-fields/group-activities/mahadev

[Program Boom Festival 2018:]
As a member of The Young Gods for more than 20 years, Alain ‘Al Comet’ has been a defining influence on the industrial sound of the 80s. Leaving the Gods in 2014, he decides to turn his energies to his own evolution. Having broken through the sound-barriers of sampling, he alights on the pure ancestral sound of the Indian sitar under the name of Mahadev Cometo and offers us an entirely new sound experience:

Cometo has tamed the electric fairies that play on the small keyboards hidden inside samplers, as much as the 20 strings of a sitar. Performing on his instrument, he fuses the traditional sitar into his own universe and blends it gradually with his electronic sounds. And with visionary and expressive powers, like Orpheus on his lyre, he connects them to the soul of the world and reaches out to restore concord, harmony and symphony between the seven spheres of the cosmos.

In 2011, Al Comet (The Young Gods) travels to India to be initiated into the art of the sitar by a Benares master on the banks of the Ganges. Al Comet becomes Mahadev Cometo and starts blending the technology of his dreamy machines with the spiritual swirls of the ancestral Indian sitar. In combining his knowledge of both, he develops a new musical experience between tradition and modernity. The sound universe of the sitar reconnects us, via inspiration, with the timeless arch of History – which is love of music, respect and affection for our elders and teachers and the principle of reminiscence.

More: boomfestival.org/…/being-fields/group-activities/mahadev/

Boom Festival
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Have a look at Mahadev Cometo’s first concerts @ the Boom, back in 2014