Beats Antique is set to grace the stage of Northampton’s Calvin Theater this weekend as it presents their unique musical blend of electronica and experiment world fusion.
Lynx will also be on tour with them that evening, displaying a creative blend of electronic, fold and indie pop.
The tour is a celebration of Beat Antique’s upcoming album Contraption Vol. 2, “a new cinematic, orchestral, and seductively bass heavy EP,” according to the band’s website.
Beats Antique is composed of three pivotal members: David Satori, Tommy “Sidecar Tommy” Cappel and Zoe Jakes. Together, they create an elaborate stage presence while performing their primal and animalistic show. The combined musical talent of David Satori and Sidecar Tommy, along with the exotic belly dancing of Zoe Jakes invokes a sultry blend of the incendiary, spiritual and the artistic while still staying true to the muses of class and beauty.
“The tour, ‘Animale Mechanique,’” will cover 35 locations in North America and end with a 36th once-in-a lifetime show in front of The (Great) Pyramids in Egypt on the Winter Solstice,” according to Beats Antique’s website.
The band never fails to entrance its audience at each of its performances, some of which have been at such famed events as Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Coachella and Red Rocks.
While taking new strides in the field of electronic world fusion, the troupe has also been known to put on elaborate stage shows. Those in the audience are certainly in for a show as Beats Antique reveals the mechanical animal inside.
“Beats Antique’s live performances blend electro-acoustic breakbeats set to a Bollywood bass-circus stage show, with the sophistication of top hats receding to a sea of animal masks and wild feather headdresses” said Beats Antique on their stage presence while performing.
Satori and Cappel both trained classically and then later in Bali, West Africa, Serbia and numerous other locations; all culminating into a vast knowledge of worldly music that can be seen in their live performances and numerous albums.
Beats Antique has four albums along with a large amount of singles and EP’s. Their full albums include “Tribal Derivations,” “Collide,” “Blind Threshold,” “Elektrafone,” “Contraption Vol. 1” and “Contraption Vol. 2.” On these albums are many guest artists that all collaborate to create a new style of world music and bass heavy electronica.
Beats Antique use a variety of different instruments to create its unique sound. David Satori plays the banjo, viola, mandolin and the percussion.
Sidecar Tommy plays the drums, piano and percussion as well. Other instruments include double bass, goblet drum, tambourine, drums, ghatam and baglama.
All these together create a mystical, tribal sound that is very heavily electronic. The music and the live belly dance performance by Zoe Jakes takes hold and hypnotizes all those in attendance.
Beats Antique is always reinventing itself and changing with the times to adapt to a new world, by combining the roots of the old world with the sounds of the new electronica realm.
Tickets for their event are still on sale for $15 in advance or $17 at the door.
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