New DK 25th ANV T- Shirts & CD's & Immersion Festival Map

Courtesy of a 2 month trip around the world via UPS and French Customs, we are just now able to release our 25th ANV T-Shirts and remastered and repackaged 2 CD Set "Beginner's Guide to Djam Karet". The 25th ANV T-Shirts are available in both brown and black in the following sizes: medium, large, x-large and 2x-large. For info and pictures, please go here. The new 2 CD set is a great retrospective of our studio work and has been completely remastered and repackaged. For info and picutures, please go here. Both items are now featured in the DK Store.

The Immersion Festival is this weekend and will be 8 hours of live music from Steve Roach, Loren Nerell, and ourselves. What follows is a general musical map to the festival:

Subject to Slight Changes Due To Atmospheric Conditions...

4:00 to 5:00: Steve Roach - Opening the Space
5:00 to 5:30: Loren Nerell - Indonesian Terraforming
5:30 to 7:00: Djam Karet - Swimming In The Big Sky

7:00 to 8:00: Dinner Break - Slow Boil in the Land Of The Loops

8:00 to 9:00: Steve Roach - After the Afterlight....
9:00 to 9:30: Loren Nerell - Temple Gong Dreaming....
9:30 to 10:30: Djam Karet - Burning Through The Hard City......
10:30 to 11:30: Steve Roach - Some Kind of Fever Dream...
11:30 to Midnight: Open for Possibilities

Complete info about this free festival can be found here. More news after the show.

September 28, 2009

Immersion Festival Info & Website

All information concerning the Immersion Festival can be found here at this website: www.immersionfestival.com

This free show will be taking place on Saturday October 17, 2009 and will be the last Djam Karet live performance for the year in celebration of our 25th anniversary. It is going to be quite an event as we will be performing songs throughout our career as well as collaborating and improvising with our friends Steve Roach and Loren Nerell throughout this 8 hour event of interwoven musical performances. Hope to see you there.

September 2, 2009

Asecnsion CD Re-Released & More!

We are back from France! A big thanks to Sebastian and all at Crescendo, and everyone who traveled to see us at both the France and Claremont, California gigs. It was great to meet many of you and we felt really good about our performances and our energy as a live 5 piece. We will be posting pics, sound clips, and such from these gigs over the next couple of weeks up on the site.

Our previously out of print Ascension CD from 2001 has been re-released on CD in a Japanese Mini-LP format. It now comes in a beautiful paper cover and CD pic disc package in the DK store.

Details on the next live gig, The Immersion Festival - Sat 10/17/2009, as well as new Djam Karet 25th ANV T-Shirts and CD package will be posted by mid month.

August 2, 2009

New Djam Karet Music Up on the Site

The band has posted app 25 minutes of music in 5 downloadable MP3's from live rehearsals for their upcoming shows. If you want to hear what Djam Karet sounds like as a live 5 piece in 2009, please go here

July 23, 2009

1st Los Angeles DK 25th Anniversary Live Show Announced

Djam Karet with Ukab Maerd
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 @ 8:00pm
Hip Kitty Jazz and Fondue Lounge
www.HipKittyJazz.com
502 West First St.
Claremont, CA. 91711
909-447-6700
Admission is Free.
2 Drink Minimum

Djam Karet 2 hour show will start at 9pm sharp with electronic soundscapes by Ukab Maerd both before and after the DK performance. The Hip Kitty is located in The Packing House which was the studio home of the band for almost 10 years in the late 80's and 90's.

Djam Karet Heads to France

Djam Karet
The Crescendo Festival
www.festival-crescendo.com
Saint-Palais Sur Mer
France
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 @ 9:30pm
Free

This is a three-day Progressive Rock festival held for the past 10 years on the beach of the beautiful west coast of France. We are honored and very excited to be performing here.

COMING In October...The Immersion Festival

This will be an all day and evening multi media melting meeting of the tribes event with friends like Steve Roach, Loren Nerell, and others to be held at the DA Gallery in downtown Pomona. Many more details forthcoming in early September, but mark your calendar for Saturday October 17.

New Music From Gayle Ellett & Fernwood

Following on the heels of their widely heralded debut release "Almeria", this 12-track offering greatly expands upon their previous work. Utilizing an expanded palette of world instruments, Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet) and Todd Montgomery create music that is both familiar and exotic, lush and melodic, warm and inspirational. They create contemporary acoustic music that is beautiful and elegant, with a strong cinematic and pan-cultural feel. By playing traditional World instruments in new and interesting ways, they have created a new hybrid style that is uniquely their own. And it is these qualities that make the music of Fernwood the perfect antidote for our modern, stress-filled lives.

On "Sangita", the group combines many apparently disparate concepts into a unified whole. They've tried to infuse the music with many seemingly diverse qualities such as: traditional and modern, Americana and World, familiar and exotic, simple and complex, rural and urban, etc, and they've succeeded at this very difficult task. And although the music sometimes has a frail and delicate sound, at other times it is extremely rich and dense, with as many as 50 instruments being used in a single composition, giving "Sangita" an almost orchestral sound. There is also no compression or other digital effects or manipulations used on the recording (except for reverb) so "Sangita" has a very fresh, lively and organic sound.

Check out sound samples and it is available for $11.99 NOW!

March 21, 2009

DJAM KARET 25th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2009

The award-winning instrumental music group Djam Karet will be performing a few select live performances this year, both in the United States and in Europe, to celebrate their 25th anniversary together. These will be their first performances in seven years.

On August 22nd 2009 Djam Karet will be the headliner at a 3-day Progressive music festival called the Crescendo Festival, located on the beautiful west coast of France. For more then 10 years, this great festival has been held every August in the picturesque seaside town of Saint Palais sur Mer. Djam Karet feels very honored to be this year's headliner at this important European festival. Djam Karet will also be performing at a few Los Angeles area events in the weeks prior to the French show, the details of which are still being worked out. Updated information on these performances will be available soon, including times and locations.

Formed in 1984, they have released 15 albums so far. The group will be performing music from throughout their long career, much of which has never been performed live before. They will also be debuting some brand new tunes as well. These shows are a rare opportunity to see a group that ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN Magazine said "Rivals the glory days of Pink Floyd". These will be the first live shows by Djam Karet since they performed at NEARfest with Porcupine Tree in 2001, and at ProgDay with Happy The Man in 2002.

Working in their private studio, Djam Karet has been able to create a full and massive live sound by adding an additional player to their live performances. For these performances the line up is: Gayle Ellett (keyboards & guitar), Mike Henderson (guitar), Aaron Kenyon (bass), Chuck Oken, Jr. (drums & electronic percussion) Mike Murray (guitar).

New music and new arrangements of older tunes, are the main focus. There are also some new CD projects nearing completion,with more information to be announced later.