S T O N E O R G Y

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S T O N E O R G Y is a deconstructed club / experimental electronic music record produced in collaboration with musician Giek_1.


It is both a music record and series of ritual music-performances that was based on a research into paganism, druidry and the power of oral story telling in 2018 - 2021.


In the music record and in the live-performances, a speculative pagan climate-activism world is created, interlacing atmospheres of a music-gigs with storytelling of a seemingly ancient world, featuring sacred standing stones, cave clubs, and intimate encounters with a sacred substance called dirt.

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DIRTY
WOOSH
THE STONE
EARTHHURT
NERTHUS
SOLAR SYSTEM
WOOSHH

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"I realized that there was a great overlaps between contemporary nightclubs, music festivals, the pop-star, the MC or DJ, and the role the oratory druid or bard had in guiding ceremonies in the archaic world of groves and lake-side temples. My idea was to sing and get people moving and dancing, performing experimental electronic pop music that would fuse the character of the druid with that of a pop-singer. To sing about soil, earth, rocks, and finding a place in the cosmos. To embody, together. To get excited about that matriarchal revival. "

It was my first time singing and co-producing a record.

The full final EP is not yet released.
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• ^{Songs from the record were performed live at "S T O N E O R G Y" Garage Rotterdam (2019), "S T O N E O R G Y x DEEPSOIL" at MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven (2020), "Enter the Grove" at IMPAKT Festival Utrecht (2020) LeGuessWho? Festival [COVID cancellation] (2020), "Music for the Earth" at Dat Bolwerck Zutphen (2022) and "EARTHRAVE" (2022).}
• ^{COVID-19 impeded with the finalizing of the record and the planned release and full tour.}
• ^{In 2021, the essay SPELLBOUND: Grove is in the Heart by Georgia Kareola was published in Kunstlicht, analyzing the performance.}
• ^{The music video for DIRTY was shown at EARTHSHRINE (2022), Dat Bolwerck (2022) and Rupert Vilnius, LT (2023).}
• ^{The music video for EARTHHURT was shown at RE_NATURE (2021), MELKWEG Amsterdam (2022), EARTHSHRINE (2022), Dat Bolwerck (2022), OPYUM festival Paris (2022) and Rupert Vilnius, LT (2023).}
• ^{Some parts of several songs were used as supportive soundtracks for the MU Hybrid Arthouse Podcast Have we Met?}

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