Des Eaux is a collaborative sink-in Sound Experience & venture between producer guitarist Steve McCormick (Studebaker, Love Me in the Dark), master Guinean Kora player Prince Diabaté and renowned percussionist Greg Ellis. It is a cross-pollination of Africa and the blues, akin to Ry Cooder’s Talking Timbuktu project with Ali Farka Toure.
Heather Donovan will open the performance with a crystal bowl sound healing, and add her vocals to Des Eaux.
The music is hypnotic and healing and the entire experience will be transportive. Attendees will be encouraged to sit on the many Moroccan rugs and Corazon’s pillows, close their eyes and let the music take them.
-Steve McCormick - Guitars
-Prince Diabate - Kora and Kamalen Ngoni
-Greg Ellis - Hand Drums and Percussion
-Heather Donavon - Crystal Bowls and Voice
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:
Steve McCormick
Known for his songwriting and guitar playing, Steve McCormick is also quietly establishing a reputation for producing independent artists and helping to bring their music to fruition. With more than 30 albums under his belt, including Topanga faves like Tim O’Gara, Amilia K Spicer and Old Bull, seven full length albums of his own, and recent offerings by The Wholesome (July 2023)and Mark Joseph (Nov 2023), McCormick’s work is steadily and beautifully unfolding.
On his newest project, a collaboration born with percussionist Greg Ellis, McCormick is venturing into world music. Since bringing on the master Kora player Prince Diabaté, the music has taken on an authentic African sound, but with McCormick’s recording and production acumen, a truly extraordinary thing is happening.
For this “Des Eaux” event, Corazon Performing Arts will be treated to a rare presentation of this music. The three key members of the project will explore making this music live in front of your eyes and ears.
Prince Diabaté
Prince Diabaté hails from a prominent Malinké family from Guinea, West Africa. He learned his art from his father, Djéli Sori Diabaté. Breaking with tradition, his father also taught Prince's mother, Hadja Djéli Sira Cissoko, to play kora. ’
Considered to be one of the leading kora players of his generation, Prince Diabaté brings not only total mastery over his ancestral tradition, but a commitment to renew it through fresh ideas and exchanges with musicians from many cultures. His years in the USA produced collaborations with artists and groups as diverse as The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Adam del Monte (Flamenco), Grammy winner, Ozomatli (Hip-Hop/Latin rock)and Grammy nominee, Michael Brook. The musically adventurous griot has incorporated reggae, rap and blues into his work occasionally punctuated by the funky use of the wah-wah pedal. Lately he has adapted the music of the Wassolou to his repertoire, which he plays, self-taught on the kamelen n'goni. The result is entirely his own creation: a fresh, powerful brand of twenty first century Manden music, which remains strongly rooted in traditional codes and references.
Prince Diabate also maintains an active schedule as a lecturer on aspects of Mandinka music. He is also sought after for film and television projects in Hollywood including previous work with Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer & Grammy Award winner Heitor Pereira.
GREG ELLIS
Recognized as one of the more innovative and versatile drummers in the world Greg Ellis has performed around the world and recorded with musical artists from over 30 countries including Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, KODO, Bickram Ghosh, Mahsa Vahdat, Tord Gustavsen, Yungchen Lhamo, Chiwoniso Mairaire, Sugizo, Juno Reactor, Billy Idol and many more.
Ellis has released many critically acclaimed albums with his groups Vas and Biomusique as well as his solo album Kala Rupa. His drumming can be heard on more than 150 film, television and video game scores, including 300, Argo, The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, Iron Man, Body of Lies, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Downsizing, Salem, Samurai Jack, Far Cry 4 and God of War: Ascension.
He has composed music for numerous international film and television projects including the award winning documentaries Chasing Niagara and The Road to Fallujah.
HEATHER DONAVON
Heather Donavon is a unique crystal bowl practitioner who combines the “healing” aspects of crystal alchemy singing bowls with her singing skills to produce a calming and ethereal musical experience.
Widely known as a session singer and live performer (Melody Gardot, Keb’Mo’, Ben Harper), and one half of the musical group Love Me in the Dark, Donovan has an incomparable vocal gift. Her voice has been described as “dusky,”a mezzo-soprano, with an earthy soulful quality and wide range.
Corazon Performing Arts is a performance space located in Topanga, California, that showcases a variety of live music and dance performances, especially Flamenco and World Music.
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In this video, I discuss both the powerful annular solar eclipse/new moon on February 17th, which is also the Lunar New Year in Chinese astrology and the start of the year of the Fire Horse. This is followed three days later by the powerful conjunction of Neptune and Saturn at 0 degrees of Aries. This is a profound time of transition and metamorphosis for us as humanity.
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FIRST RESPONDER TRIBUTE SERIES: Ventura Fire Marshall, Joe Morelli, speaks with Sandra Siepak to honor Heather Ellis, EMS Coordinator for the Ventura Fire Department, for her efforts helping the community.
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Welcome to Ubuntu: One Woman’s Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa at Virtual Overland Expo Summer! Renowned motorcycle adventurer tells her story of crossing Africa in the 90's.
The idea to ride a motorcycle across Africa came to Heather Ellis while working at a remote mine in northern Australia. Even though she had never done any long-distance motorcycle travel before, the idea felt just right. What unfolded as she rode her Yamaha TT600 from south to north Africa for 42,000 kilometers over 15 months, was a journey not only filled with survival-against-the-odds adventures, but also a deeply spiritual experience of personal growth where she finds ubuntu, the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one. Heather’s travels took her to the dizzying heights of Mt Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori Mountains, to the deserts of northern Kenya where she was befriended by armed bandits, to a voyage on a ‘floating village’ on the mighty Zaire River. Everywhere she went Heather was aided by locals and travelers alike, who took her into their homes and hearts, helping her to truly understand the spirit of ubuntu—a Bantu word meaning ‘I am because we are’.
Australian motorcycle adventurer and author, Heather Ellis has traveled across Africa, Europe and Central Asia on her Yamaha TT600. She learned to ride motorcycles while living on a sheep station in outback Australia, the same riding conditions she encountered twenty years later in Africa. After Africa, Heather worked as a London motorcycle courier (it was all part of the journey), then packed her TT600 to ride the ancient Silk Roads of Central Asia to Vietnam. Heather Ellis is the author of Ubuntu: One Woman’s Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa and Timeless On The Silk Road. She and her three teenage boys live near Melbourne, Australia, in the Yarra Ranges where some of the world’s best motorcycling roads are on her
doorstep. While writing her next book, Heather works in communications and is often seen riding her Triumph Thruxton through the ‘twisties’. And as for her trusty Yamaha TT600? He waits patiently in her garage for their next adventure: the Americas.
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