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January 29, 2010
SHPONGLE ANNOUNCES US TOUR IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM
Shpongle, pioneers of modern musical psychedelia, will be on tour in the US from 4-16-10 to
5-8-10 to promote their new album, Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland.
Having recently released their long-awaited and much anticipated 4th studio album, Ineffable Mysteries
from Shpongleland, the UK-based DJ/Producer Simon Posford (who, together with Raja Ram on flute,
makes up Shpongle) will tour the United States from coast to coast this April and May, making stops in all
four corners of the country along the way. With the release of this album and subsequent tour, the
internationally acclaimed electronica project have returned from what many fans feared was a void after
the release of their 3rd album in the summer of 2005. Posford, the producer, multi-instrumentalist and
driving force behind Shpongle’s exploratory odyssey and sonic oddity, will delight fans new and old with
tonal textures that break boundaries of convention while at the same time harnessing the primal energy of
sound. Coupled with the richly evocative flute musings of Raja Ram, the Shpongle experience is one of
both worldly and otherworldly roots.
Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland contains languages of harmonic and melodic construction that
long-time fans will know and love, while taking massive leaps forward in terms of production techniques,
structure and direction. With influences drawn from Steve Reich to Big Brother TV shows and beyond,
Shpongle continues to evolve and inspire. All out Shpongle-mania has ensued for this album’s release,
clearly demonstrated in October when the London launch party sold out and a second night had to be
added.
For portions of this tour, Shpongle will be accompanied by a smorgasbord of artists including fellow
Twisted Records alumni, Prometheus (Benji Vaughan, who, together with Posford constitute the group,
Younger Brother), world-renowned digital media artist, VJ Zebbler and ArcheDream for HUMANKIND, an
international theater company that merges ancient ritual with modern technology to unite, uplift and
empower. The experience is sure to enchant audiences with a visceral dance of psychedelic sensory
information that can only be described as “…a strange hybrid of electronic manipulation and shamanic
midgets with frozen digits squeezing the envelope and crawling through the doors of perception…”
There are 20 appearances scheduled:
04.13.10 | Charleston Pour House | Charleston, SC
04.14.10 | New Earth Music Hall | Athens, GA
04.15.10 | The Vallarium | Knoxville, TN
04.16.10 | Limelight | Nashville, TN
04.17.10 | The Fillmore | New York, NY
04.20.10 | The Granada | Lawrence, KS
04.21.10 | Bourbon Theater | Lincoln, NB
04.22.10 | Aggie Theater | Fort Collins, CO
04.23.10 | The Fox Theatre | Boulder, CO
04.24.10 | The Fox Theatre | Boulder, CO
04.28.10 | The Roxy Theatre | Los Angeles, CA
04.29.10 | Arcata Theatre and Lounge | Arcata, CA
04.30.10 | The Regency Ballroom | San Francisco , CA
05.01.10 | La Zona Rosa | Austin, TX
05.02.10 | Trees | Dallas, TX
05.05.10 | Pantages Theater | Minneapolis, MN
05.06.10 | Kinetic Playground | Chicago, IL
05.07.10 | Crystal Ballroom | Portland, OR
05.08.10 | Showbox | Seattle, WA
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This is awesome news! I wish they would come back to Arizona though.... Its either California or Colorado for me. All statements made by Once have no basis in reality, if reality even exists.
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This is really good news I have them for three nights in my area. Can't wait I'm super excited to see this show! A great deal of meditation is required
Fear the Journey not the cops
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THOSE OF YOU COMING TO THE L.A. SHOW: PM me and we will try to meet up. my friend simon is one of the members of shpongle and if we can all get together beforehand, i can introduce you guys to one amazingly cool cat. ...not to mention it would be sweet to meet members of my righteous nexus family myself!! LOVE AND GRATITUDE!! "Rise above the illusion of time and you will have tomorrow's
wisdom today."
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Sweeeet! Anyone who wants to go to the Athens, GA or Charleston, SC concert can PM me. We'll meet up. My place is about an hour and a half away from Athens if you need a place to crash. **side note: unless by some miracle both my housemates are out of town that week, I can't have drugs in the house** He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths. - Murdoch, Dame [Jean] Iris
Kartikay is a character role that I play when I feel like escaping reality. Nothing I say under the pseudonym "Kartikay" reflects any of my actual life or personal history.
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I will probably go to the CHi-town show. I wonder what shpongle will be doing this summer? I would like to see them at some fests.
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TN shows probably. GA maybe. "Within your heart is a lotus, and within this lotus is a diamond. This diamond is the source of creation, and in all the creation, there is only one lotus."
"Only from the Heart can you touch the sky." ~ Rumi
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Have fun to all those across the pond that will attend these events 
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Who is going to the Arcata Show? People traveling up North to the Arcata show should holler at me. I have never seen Shpongle but I might make the venture if it entails meeting some of yall have you ever taken that ferry from San Francisco to Berkeley and looked back and seen that while in Berkeley, San Francisco doesn't exist?
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nodice wrote:Who is going to the Arcata Show? 
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Anyone going to the Austin show?
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I can't seem to find where to purchase tix for the LA show. Its not listed on ticketmaster (at least it wasn't last night). are they being sold on a different site?
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You'll see me at the Austin and Dallas shows trippin face ...They all became the river.
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Hey if anyone's passing through Toronto, Canada for the New York show hit me up. I'll split gas money with ya  We're the new hippies, we get high on life, not drugs.
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