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Sonic Bloom 2016

July 12, 2016 By FreioMusic

    Sonic Bloom 2016 has a stacked lineup producing incredible performances too numerous to describe here.  It is safe to say, “SonicBloom has become one of the best electronic music festivals in North America!”  It is worth noting the international talent attracted to the base of the Colorado Rockies to share their vision, talent and art.  To see the full lineup click here.  

     The mindfulness and vision to attract the top talent from across the globe, must be recognized and commended.  The three official stages vibrated with historic house music. This festival is the nexus of the Colorado electronic music scene.  The location is perched atop a beautiful space of land with the foothills of the Rockies to the west and windmill filled fields that go on to meet the eastern horizon.  The festival has succeeded at curating a fertile ground for the world-wide cutting edge of musical maneuvering. 

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      The sound systems are tuned to the valley and can bump through the entire festival grounds.  The security is appropriately staffed and energetically aligned.  The friendly faces can be found throughout the campgrounds, stages, in swinging hammocks, in high fiveing security guards, or the dancing chefs who happily serve nourishing food at reasonable prices.  The ice, in high demand in the hot sun is the only noticeably overpriced product at $1/lb.  The showers run at full capacity as people line up for their chance to clean off that layer of accumulated dust and dirt that is kicked up from all of the movement.  The sunny and beautiful weather also brings with it the dryness enabling the dirt to turn to dust.   The wind is welcome and the stream is an oasis for people looking to take a dip and cool off. 

Photo by M.Morahan © Freio Music 2016
Photo by M.Morahan © Freio Music 2016

     The unofficial or ‘renegade’ stages include tipis and camp sites stacked with speakers and subs.  The colorful crowd and the apex of art have arrived to create an immersive experience that people are willing to dedicate four days to.  Some of the crowd has traveled from across the continent to enjoy the this dreamed up reality. 

      This festival has become a small close nit group of people who are looking out for one another to form a utopic village for just under a week.  The production continues after the last set as everything needs to return to its original order; stages must come down, lasers, lights, projectors, sound & lighting boards, 1,000’s of yards of electric wiring, speakers, microphones, instruments, and framework to name a few.  The thankless work of setting up all of the stages and hauling in the gear was executed with time to spare and enough technology to entertain even the most avid of festival goers. 

      People in their ‘A-Game’ costumes come energetically into the festival entrance in groups.  Everyone has made 10+ new friends and friendly neighbors.   The exchange of ideas, paints, music and visual art permeate the mind of every attendee.  One cannot help but be inspired by something of unique beauty.   


Day in the Life; at Sonic Bloom:

Winds whip down the hills and across the plains. Dust moves in a hurried Eastwood direction. Every walk of electronic culture strolls through the grounds interacting with experiences, sonic vibrations and frequencies across the perceptible spectrum. Cars have been rolling in for over 12 hours at a steady pace filling up the campgrounds. The lucky and wise are nestled among the 6′ shrubbery whose neighbors are bushes and trees. My neighbors on the other hand-made the pilgrimage to SonicBloom from Louisiana. A tightly packed vehicle of four young energetic and enthusiastic beautiful artistic human beings.  As a group, it does not seem possible to gather so many like-minded humans in a place to enjoy and thrive in a collaborative environment.

Friendly staff greet the goers. The hippy chicks and the electric glowers.

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      From the lighting to the sound, from the stages to the camp ground, there are smiles to go around. With the hammocks from Yammocks, and the beats from the peeps the festi is full of fun-loving music geeks.

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      Three stages of stacked sets featuring some of the top electronic acts from around the world.  American electronic music lovers treat this event as an annual pilgrimage to discover and reunite with the music, people and source of creative energy that is the foundation of a festival.  Creativity flows from the ornately decorated stages and sublimely composed tracks that suddenly take hold of the listeners and create a simultaneous bodily expression of enjoyment including but not limited to twerking, spinning, jumping, dropping, exploding or floating.

         The breeze kicked up into a howl for Nightmares on Wax’s last song featuring one of the most recognizable guitar riffs around.  The high energy Bonobo set was filled with masterfully woven bass lines pulsing through the night.  The crowd can be heard cheering for miles. 

Photo by M.Morahan
Photo by M.Morahan

      The late night stages rage like there is no finality to human diurnality. The artists continue to stoke the flaming crowd into the next adventure and from one set to the next. The solitude of night embraced with the warmth of bass and faces.With the evolution of the performances, the pulse of the festival was amplified and magnified by the exemplified beat technique. The audible entertainment abruptly ended, with a slow retreating high pass filter that faded out for 15 min or more notifying the audience that the silent disco was starting. With headphones on, the party rolls on…

The nexus of Colorado electronic music counter-culture is here; at Sonic Bloom, on the beautiful property at Humming Bird Ranch.  

Filed Under: Break Beat, Colorado, Concert Reports, Deep House, Digital Instruments, Drum Pad, Drum-&-Bass, Drums Set (acoustic), Dubstep, EARTH, EDM, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Festival, Genre, Horns, House, Hummingbird Ranch, Instrumental, Instrumentation, Jamtronic, Jamtronica, Keyboard, Language, Laptop, Live Music, Lo-Fi, Loop Pedal, Minimal, New Music, North America, Percussion, Sax, Sonic Bloom, Sonic Bloom 2016, Soul, Stand-Up-Bass, Techno, Trance, Trip Hop, Trumpet, Venues, Violin, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals, World Tagged With: 2016, Bird, Bloom, Colorado, Featured, fest, Festival, freio, fresh, Humming, Music, Music Festival, Ranch, Rye, Sonic, Sonic Bloom Music Festival, sonicbloom, SonicBloom16

Arise 2014 Video

October 14, 2014 By FreioMusic Leave a Comment

Official FreioMusic Arise Festival 2014 Video

Arise Festival 2014 in Loveland, Colorado. Freio Music’s talented team captures the cultural gathering with energy with style. Arise Festival features artists from across the musical spectrum. Share it. Enjoy it. See you next year!

Credits:
Produced by Freio Music

Directed by Joe Morahan & Daniel “Buddy” Thomas

DP by Daniel “Buddy” Thomas
Editing by Daniel “Buddy” Thomas

Time-Lapse Photography by
Melissa Harrison, Isaiah ‘Scott’ Brown, & Michael Morahan

Music by
Polish Ambassador

Arise Festival At SunRise Ranch

Filed Under: 12 String Guitar, Acoustic, AfroBeat, Alternative, Ambient, Arise 2014, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Bluegrass, Blues, Break Beat, Cello, Colorado, Concert Reports, Deep House, Digital Instruments, Djembe, Drum Pad, Drum-&-Bass, Drums Set (acoustic), Dub, Dubstep, EARTH, Easy Listening, EDM, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Experimental, Festival, Folk, Funk, Genre, Glitch, Glitch-hop, Guitar, Gypsy, Hip Hop, Horns, House, Instrumental, Instrumentation, Jamtronic, Jamtronica, Jazz, Keyboard, Laptop, Latin Jazz, Live Music, Loop Pedal, Mandolin, Minimal, NewGrass, Percussion, Political, Reggae, Sax, Slide Guitar, Stand-Up-Bass, Techno, Trance, Tribal, Trip Hop, Trumpet, Venues, Violin, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals, World, xylophone Tagged With: Arise, arise2014, colorad0, Festival, freio, FreioMusic, morahan visuals, Music, party time, sober raver, Video

Arise Festival 2014 in Photos

September 7, 2014 By Sober_Raver Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Abstract, Acoustic, AfroBeat, Ambient, Arise 2014, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Bluegrass, Cello, Colorado, Concert Reports, Digital Instruments, Djembe, Drum Pad, Drums Set (acoustic), EARTH, Easy Listening, EDM, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Experimental, Festival, Folk, Free Style, Funk, Genre, Glitch-hop, Guitar, Gypsy, Hip Hop, Horns, House, Instrumental, Instrumentation, Jamtronic, Jazz, Keyboard, Language, Laptop, Latin Jazz, Live Music, Loop Pedal, Loveland, Mandolin, New Music, North America, Percussion, Political, Reggae, Sax, Slide Guitar, Spanish, Stand-Up-Bass, Sunrise Ranch, Techno, Trance, Tribal, Trip Hop, Trumpet, USA, Venues, Violin, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals, World, xylophone Tagged With: 2014, Arise, arise 2014, Arise Festival 2014, Arise Photos 2014, Co, Colorado, Festival, FreioMusic, FreioMusic Photography, fresh, Infrared, Loveland, Photo, Photography, Photos, SunRise Ranch

Arise 2014

August 24, 2014 By FreioMusic Leave a Comment

The 2nd Annual Arise Music Festival:

By the time the gates were finally open, the energy began to pick up.  With the people came art, laughter, color and flavor.  As the camping area began to fill up it was clear that this year was much larger than last.  The same beautiful location shared by thousands of new attendees.  With ‘dualing stages’, two stages set up right next to each other intended to minimize musical downtime, the music continued and the crowd stayed close.  The electronic stage, Souls Rising, had a stacked lineup of talented young and established acts.  The energy by Souls Rising stage kept a steady group of dancing bass faces content.  While the Souls Rising stage was considerably smaller than the other two main musical stages, it was the destination for many festival goers and it delivered.  The stage and surrounding area was decorated ornately from the lasers beaming around the ground to the CDs hanging reflectively from the trees.

 

Photo taken by Molly ‘Mojo’ Buckiewicz

 

This year’s attendance appeared to be at least double, possibly triple, the previous year’s attendance.  The festival was prepared and there was ample water, food, and portable toilets.   The vender village was one of a kind with an array of smells coming from the food stands, and an array of colors coming from the vender stands.  Artists are now migrating to Arise festival from all over the USA, contributing to its colorful diversity.  Arise is Colorado’s best and most diverse music festival.

Once again SunRise Ranch played the role of the gracious host and one can only hope that they received the support and recognition they deserve for sharing the incredible valley to all of us who attend.  With out the support of SunRise Ranch this event would not be possible in its current form.  The artists also deserve a huge shoutout for making the experience what it was, and sharing ideas, thoughts, and emotions through their sound and visions. Equally the fan, the festival goer, the music lover, the ‘escape the 9-5 artist’, anyone who attended a festival, deserves a huge thank you.  With out listeners how could music work?  It is you who make this possible and for that all of us here at FreioMusic, Thank You!

 

 

 

Filed Under: 12 String Guitar, Acoustic, AfroBeat, Arise 2014, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Bluegrass, Break Beat, Colorado, Digital Instruments, Djembe, Drum Pad, Drum-&-Bass, Drums Set (acoustic), Dub, EARTH, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Experimental, Festival, Folk, Genre, Guitar, Hip Hop, Horns, House, Instrumental, Jamtronic, Jamtronica, Jazz, Keyboard, Language, Laptop, Live Music, Loop Pedal, Loveland, Mandolin, New Music, NewGrass, North America, Percussion, Reggae, Sax, Singer-Songwriter, Slide Guitar, Stand-Up-Bass, Sunrise Ranch, Trip Hop, Trumpet, USA, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals, World Tagged With: Arise, arise 2014, Art, Discover, Festival, freio, live music, Music, Play, promote

Sonic Bloom 2014

June 29, 2014 By Molly Buckiewicz 1 Comment

 The Unified Field

 

The 9th annual Sonic Bloom music festival took place over the weekend of July 19-22nd in the airy high desert of South Park, Colorado. The site, fully encompassed by the Rocky Mountains, created a beautiful backdrop of breathtaking sunrises and sunsets that lit up the numerous stages.

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As usual, Bloom offered a plethora of experiences for every attendee. Music was continuously playing at various stages with the highest quality of sound. Workshops covering hooping, massage, dance, yoga, and many others were available and well attended. Outstanding visuals met the eye everywhere you looked, ready to be soaked in and admired, whether it be a performance, installation, or projection.

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 The weekend had much to offer, but you would have to have been a super human to experience it all!

Here are some highlights from throughout the weekend.

1. TWO nights of Tipper!! (not enough)
2. The Three Stages
–The Bloom Stage with the Funktion-One sound system and the massive LED screen backdrop.
–The Hummingbird Stage with the spinning woodcut mandala and unique handcrafted details.
–The CO Dome with its intimate feel and psychedelic projections by Illuminated Dimensions.
3.Surprise sunrise set by Kalya Scintilla and Kaminanda with an epic pink sunrise.
4. OPIOU.
5. Whitebear making everything so dark and weird at only 7PM, when the sun was still shining.
6. Kaminanda playing guitar live for the first and only time in Colorado, then busting out a cover of Grateful Dead-Shakedown Street.
7. The captivating “flower-dance-presentations” by Anthony Ward all weekend.
8. The Gong Experience that vibrates into your soul.
9. Quixotic’s unbelievably talented performers.
10. Looking around and realizing you love everyone and everything you are surrounded by!

Filed Under: Abstract, Acoustic, Alternative, Ambient, Bass Guitar, Blues, Break Beat, Colorado, Concert Reports, Deep House, Drum-&-Bass, Dub, Dubstep, EARTH, Easy Listening, EDM, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Experimental, Festival, Free Style, Funk, gallery, Genre, Glitch, Glitch-hop, Gypsy, Hip Hop, Horns, House, Instrumental, Instrumentation, Jamtronic, Jamtronica, Keyboard, Language, Live Music, New Music, North America, Orchestral, Rap, Sax, Singer-Songwriter, Sitar, Techno, Trance, Tribal, Trip Hop, USA, World Tagged With: #SONICBLOOM2014, 2014, Colorado, Festival, freio, FreioMusic, sonicbloom, spotlight

Immerse Yourself – Arise Festival – Loveland, CO

June 15, 2013 By Sober_Raver Leave a Comment

ARISE FESTIVAL 2013

“The music is like the fire …. and we all gather around it to warm our souls”

~ Paul Bassis, Producer of ARISE ~

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A new festival has emerged onto the Colorado scene this summer. Backdropped by the serene beauty of the Rocky Mountains, Arise Festival has set its sights on being the very essence of a festival –  co-creation, music, art, yoga, and community. Sunrise Ranch, an hour north of Denver, will provide the magical space for festival goers to explore and re-connect with nature and one another. The atmosphere is looking to come together seamlessly, complete with Hemp Village, Kids Village, Organic Food and Beverage Village, and hey, my fellow beer lovers, a Craft Beer and Wine Village!

The festival will also feature a selection of independent films including – Bidder 70, Chasing Water, Arise, and The Bloom. If that doesn’t expand your mind enough – check out the healing space, Temple of the Heart, on site. It will encompass activities like yoga, kirtan, meditation, and a healers tent to completely rejuvinate you- mind, body, and soul.

THE BASICS

WHAT TO BRING: face paint, headlamp, re-fillable water bottle, warm clothes for the CO nights

Festival Info

Complete Lineup 

Camping & Lodging

Aside from the perks… the music lineup is stacking up quite nicely to create an incredibly diverse world sound to fill up those Colorado mountains.

So who is playing you ask?

Freio Favorites:

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We are very excited to be apart of this melding of art and community. Not convinced yet? Check out the music below…

But just you wait… the complete lineup so far includes:

poster arise

 

STAY TUNED FOR THE ARISE FESTIVAL CONTEST

FOR 2 FREE TICKETS!!

Filed Under: 12 String Guitar, Abstract, AfroBeat, Arise 2013, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Bluegrass, Colorado, didgeridoo, Digital Instruments, Djembe, Drums Set (acoustic), Dubstep, EARTH, Easy Listening, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Guitar, Hip Hop, Horns, Jamtronic, Keyboard, Laptop, Loop Pedal, Loveland, North America, Percussion, Rap, Singer-Songwriter, Sitar, Techno, Trance, Trip Hop, USA, Violin, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals, World Tagged With: Arise, Arise festival, Arise2013, Art, Artist, bluegrass, Colorado, dance, didgeridoo, Dubstep, Electro, electronic, Festival, FreeMusic, freio, FreioMusic, Hip Hop, Loveland, Mountain, Music, New Music, spotlight, USA, World Music

Human Nature – LineUp & Ekim

July 2, 2012 By Michael 1 Comment

Explore thy Environment

 

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The Nature Stage –

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A mystery set in the woods at nature stage, by Ekim. With the backdrop of an incredible Oregonian rainforest scene (see above Picture).  Ekim could throw it down to amuse and confuse the crowd simultaneously.  Ekim also knew how to change it up, and he would do so at will, not according to the set list but by what people were getting down to.  With heavy wobbles and Super-Sound speakers taller than the average taller person.  The variety of sound was great and the noise selection was very thought-out and carefully placed in space.

His style was new to me but I almost instantly became a fan and had to dance.   Please contact us on facebook or twitter or e-mail us if you can help us find Ekim’s Music, e-mail, or profile Anywhere, can someone help us!?  Ekim from Human Nature, hello? Where are you on the internet, come find us!

Line Up:

Prindel Creek Stage (Live)

Line Up:

Reactor Stage (main)

Line Up:

We posted some recordings from the concert throughout the event.   Stay Tuned~ next (Tribal Spectrum)

Filed Under: Break Beat, Concert Reports, Deep House, Dub, Dubstep, EARTH, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Festival, Glitch, Guitar, Horns, House, Human Nature, Jamtronica, Keyboard, Language, Laptop, Live Music, North America, Oregon, Techno, Tidewater, Tidewater Falls, Trance, Trip Hop, USA, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals, World Tagged With: Ekim, electronic, freio, FreioMusic, Human, Journal, Medium, Nature, Opening, Oregon, Party, Rave, Renaissance Raven, Spectrum, spotlight, Stage, Tribal, Troy, USA

Euforquestra

February 12, 2012 By Sober_Raver 2 Comments

Euforquestra from Fort Collins, Colorado

“Euforquestra planted their Euphoric Vibration on the West Coast!”

 

The seven member band, Eufórquestra, now hailing from Fort Collins, CO, is a funky, reggae infused, soul party not to be missed. Their music, steeped in a hot saxophone sound, invokes serious get down on the dance floor. Combining influences from Cuba, Brazil, and West Africa, the smooth rhythm is impossible not to groove to. The sound is original, an incredible display of musical creativity and freedom. Not limited to one genre, this band has a little bit of something to offer for everyone. At their performance last weekend in Portland, Oregon, the audience was all smiles, cheers-ing to good music and getting their funky dance on. If you find yourself the Colorado way, the band with be joining Kyle Hollingsworth Band (keyboardist of String Cheese Incident) this March for his BrewSki Tour. This is a jam sesh not to be missed my friends.

05 – Euforquestra – Called You

Personal favorite song at the moment…”Called You”

 

Euforquestra has a NEW ALBUM out and its FREE!!

U heard it first HEAR @freioMusic

 

For More info check out:

Euforquestra.com

On twitter: @euforquestra

Buy music & apparel    HERE  

Support and share the artists you love!

Filed Under: AfroBeat, Bass Guitar, Concert Reports, EARTH, Easy Listening, Fort Collins, Funk, Guitar, Horns, Instrumental, Keyboard, Laptop, Latin Jazz, New Music, North America, Oregon, Percussion, Portland, USA, Vocals Tagged With: Band, breaking, Colorado Native, Concert Review, Euforquestra, Fort Collins, Free Download, Free Tunes, Funk, Oregon, Portland, Rising Artist, Rising Band, Tallent

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