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Sonic Bloom Photo Recap 2018

September 2, 2018 By Michael Morahan Leave a Comment

Sonic Bloom 2018 Photo Recap

This year at Sonic Bloom the music was on fire as usual.  Three main stages running until 2am and one stage running until sun-rise with music until 6am.  The workshops begin at 8 am so there is really only two hours of 'off-time' per day all four days of the festival.  The music and grooves transitioned seamlessly as different artists plugged in while others finished out their set.  The main stage has a 'tween' stage, which if you are not familiar with the term is a small stage right next to the main stage and features short usually under 30min performances while the main stage undergoes a set change.  This is the optimal way to transition on a large stage while maintaining the audience's attention and attendance.

With thee stages going simultaneously for 8 hours (with three stages that is actually 24 hours of live performances compressed in time and space within walking distance), which provides an opportunity for more musicians to be heard and benefit from the cross-pollination of musical audiences.   The river ran dry but the music and shaded hammocks at the hummingbird stage provided a welcome mid day napping location.  There is no shortage of amazing talent and the careful curation of musical acts that preform ensure a high threshold and a healthy diversity while still being true to the festivals electronic roots.

Photos will never capture sound so seek out good listen to new music.  Click here to listen to live tracks from Sonic Bloom 2018.

Some more music the official Sonic Bloom Playlist on Spotify:

Filed Under: Colorado, Dubstep, EARTH, EDM, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Festival, Glitch, House, Hummingbird Ranch, Language, Lo-Fi, Sonic Bloom, Sonic Bloom 2018, Trip Hop, USA, West Tagged With: 2018, Bloom, Colorado, Concert, electronic, Festival, Festival Photography, freio, Live, Music, Photography, Photos, review, Sonic, sonicbloom

Sonic Bloom Lineup Pt 1

February 4, 2017 By Michael

The 12th Annual SONIC BLOOM Announces First Wave of Artists

SONIC BLOOM, the nation’s premier boutique electronic music festival returning to Hummingbird Ranch in Spanish Peaks Country, CO, announces the first wave of the 2017 lineup.

This year’s headliners include: Gigantic Cheese Biscuit, a unique lineup never before assembled featuring members of 3 pioneering live electronic bands coming together for a one-time very special set of music: Dominic Lalli, Jeremy Salken (Big Gigantic), Michael Kang, Michael Travis, Jason Hann (The String Cheese Incident / EOTO), Marc Brownstein, Aron Magner (The Disco Biscuits), along with The Polish Ambassador, The Floozies, Claude VonStroke, Ott, Haywyre, Minnesota, Random Rab,The Funk Hunters with Chali 2na and many more.

Melding the world’s most talented musicians, performers, visionaries and artists, SONIC BLOOM, is an inspiring showcase of the best of Colorado’s vibrant live and electronic music scene and is at the forefront of the transformative festival movement. SONIC BLOOM is known for booking and discovering fresh, progressive electronic acts with styles that span the musical spectrum; from the highly celebrated to the relatively unknown.

The music isn’t all there is to be excited about. SONIC BLOOM also engages with participants by offering world class artists and a full art gallery, active workshops, visual arts, learning experiences and yoga with much attention paid to the stunning environment that is created to indulge all the senses of the festival attendees. And with the addition of the SONIC BLOOM Academy last year, people now have the chance to enhance their educational experience leading into the 4-day festival with a 3-day deep dive into several intensive full-day workshops making for an incredible full-week experience.

4-Day General Passes include entry into the festival on Thursday, free on-site camping and free drinking water. VIP 4-Day Passes, parking passes, limited car camping passes and RV passes are also now on sale. For more information on SONIC BLOOM, please visit the official website: sonicbloomfestival.com

SONIC BLOOM’S Network:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sonicbloom
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sonic_bloom
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/sonicbloomfestival
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sonicbloomfestival
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonic_bloom_

Ticket Link: http://ticketf.ly/1O7NtSa

Filed Under: Colorado, Deep House, EDM, Electronic, Electronica, Experimental, Festival, Genre, Glitch, House, Jamtronic, Jamtronica, Live Music, Sonic Bloom, Sonic Bloom 2017 Tagged With: #MICHAEL TRAVIS, #THE POLISH AMBASSADOR, 2017, Aron Magner, Bloom, Chali 2na, Claude VonStroke, Dominic Lalli, electronic, Festival, freio, FreioMusic, fresh, Haywyre, Jason Hann, Jeremy Salken, Marc Brownstein, Michael Kang, Minnesota, Music, Ott, Random Rab, Sonic, sonicbloom, The Floozies, the funk hunters

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

Sonic Bloom 2016 LineUp

May 9, 2016 By FreioMusic

Sonic Bloom Announces Headliners

 

Once again Sonic Bloom displays their taste for cutting edge producers and artistic performers by attracting some of the best talent.  Artists will travel from around the world to gather for a celebratory event known as Sonic Bloom.  This year, Sonic Bloom’s lineup includes local artists from here in Colorado, talent scattered across North America and will even feature select international acts including a gifted Kiwi headliner.

 

SonicBloom 2016 Music Lineup - FreioMusic
FreioMusic reveals Sonic Bloom’s 2016 Lineup: International Talent and Headliners that will Sufficiently Supply your Face with Bass

 

The 11th Annual SONIC BLOOM will once again be held during the Summer Solstice, the weekend of June 16-19, 2016, in Colorado (location TBA).

 

SONIC BLOOM has a reputation for and history of finding and helping bring to light some of the best and brightest stars.  Previously featured acts include The Glitch Mob, Beats Antique, Big Gigantic and Pretty Lights. 

 

4-Day General Passes include entry into the festival on Thursday, free on-site camping and free drinking water. VIP 4-Day Passes, parking passes, limited car camping passes and RV passes are also on sale.

SONIC BLOOM’S Network:

Website: SonicBloomFestival.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sonicbloom

Twitter: http://twitter.com/sonic_bloom

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/sonicbloomfestival

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sonicbloomfestival

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonic_bloom_

 


Other Articles about SonicBloom on FreioMusic:

Sonic Bloom 2014 – Author: Hari

Sonic Bloom 2014  – Author:  Molly 

Sonic Bloom 2015 – Authors: Molly & Greg

 

 


 

 

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Sonic Bloom 2015 – Festival Review & Photos

July 6, 2015 By Molly Buckiewicz Leave a Comment

 A Solstice Shakedown

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Sonic Bloom continues to push the boundaries of sound and artistic expression, growing each year into something larger and more meaningful.

For the past few years Sonic Bloom has been a leading name in transformational, music and arts festivals. This being its 10 year reunion, organizers and artists alike went above and beyond to make it the best year yet.  Reuniting crowd favorites and introducing new talent, the musical lineup was stacked, head to toe with must see performances.  With yoga/movement classes, quirky workshops and live visuals, this event is just as much about the art and culture as it is about the music.

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This years venue at Hummingbird Ranch was a refreshing new atmosphere of shady trees and creek side camping.  The forested labyrinth created great space for exploration between stages.  Hundreds of hammocks hung from the canopy above.  Art installations and hidden gems could be found behind every corner.  Yoga domes, gravity rock sculptures, and a large metal owl on fire were just a few sightings as you walked the grounds.  With larger stages and a multitude of vendors, it was great to see how fast this event is growing while at the same time keeping its small festival charm.

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Some musical highlights of the festival included: Desert Dweller’s live performance with aerial acrobatics by Tammy FireFly and live vocals by Meagan Chandler. Crowd pleaser STS9 played a four hour set on the main stage, mixing new tunes with old classics. The Funk Hunters brought the heat with a high energy set featuring Chali 2Na. His smooth, hip-hop vocals were a great addition to the duos funk influenced beats. The Submission stage became the place to be Sunday night with a musical journey from Kaminanda during sunset. Later in the night, Kayla Scintilla seemed to conjure a storm with his tribal sounds, while Eve Olution’s elaborate costume blew in the wind. Concluding the long weekend of incredible talent, no Sonic Bloom would be complete without a feel good set from Random Rab.

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With such a great lineup it was almost hard work to catch all the action.  Each stage had it’s own special ambiance and unique features to set them apart.  Geometric installations overhead provided shade during the warmer parts of the day.  At night LED backdrops and visuals illuminated the performers.  Each night offered a fresh palette of musical influences, from deep funk to the ultra psychedelic.  Sonic Bloom is truly a platform for refined music production and a cultivated cultural underground. With a sold out festival and a promising new venue the unified field may have finally found it’s home at Hummingbird Ranch.

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Written by: Greg Powell

Photography by: Molly Buckiewicz

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Filed Under: Colorado, English (US), Festival, Live Music, New Music, Sonic Bloom, Sonic Bloom 2015 Tagged With: 2015, Bloom, Buckiewicz, Colorado, Festival, freio, fresh, Greg, Molly, Music, Powell, review, Sonic, sonicbloom

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

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