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Mayan Ruins

About Me

MAYAN RUINS (live debut~9/24/2006) is an umbrella project that currently unites Christian (DrXZombie) with former Totems Denny & Derek as well as an evergrowing pool of talented musicians (Zachary J Mechlem, Annette Christianson, Gregory Morris, Paul Ravenscraft, Will Menton, Rob Dorsey, Ron Esposito & many others) who play live & record with us...

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Member Since: 03/09/2006
Band Website: mayanruinstribal.com
Band Members: Christian-fender bass, doumbek, frame drums, tambourine / Derek-guitars, doumbek, djembe, persussion, recording engineer / Denny-doumbek, djembe, various percussion / Paul Ravenscraft-congas / Annette Christianson-violin / Zachary J. Mechlem-doumbeks, resonator guitar / Gregory Morris-violin, acoustic guitar, mandolin / Will Menton-guitar, doumbek / Rob Dorsey-throat singing & chant, djembe / Ron Esposito-crystal & copper bowls, overtonal chant (and others who've served) Dave Rohs-guitars, devices / David Guy-winds / Lindsay-violin (plus special guest-players) Kevin Hartnell-doumbeks, frame drums, ashiko. cajon / Android-electric & acoustic percussion / Nikol-ethereal vocals / Eddy (from Happy Maladies)-violin
Influences: Psychedelia (60's-present), surrealism, Krautrock (NEU! Popol Vuh, Amon Duul II) DUB (New Age Steppers. Suns of Arqa, Prince Far I, Lee 'Scratch' Perry) Fripp/Eno, Middle Eastern music, Indian classical & folk music...
Sounds Like: Shamanic beats, psychedelic strings & dub bass with a primitive/progressive worldview...
Record Label: CDBaby
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Mayan Ruins site

Our first freestanding website is up & running. Listen to music, view video (with Zahara!) & download our STARRY WISDOM live cd free!Mayan Ruins Tribal
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 06:29:00 GMT

Mayan Ruins CD now available at CD Baby

Our new studio (plus two live tracks) cd is now available for purchase at http://cdbaby.com/cd/mayanruins . It should also be available thru' your favorite digital music distributor shortly. Let ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:50:00 GMT

New Mayan Ruins CD coming soon!

After 7 months a NEW, 75% studio recorded Mayan Ruins CD is nearing completion. MAYAN RUINS (title) will be the first studio recordings we've done (multitracked round robin/improvisational pieces reco...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:58:00 GMT

New Magick

Amazing how Mayan Ruins continues to expand-latest line-up includes X, Derek, Denny, Paul, Zach, Greg Morris & Will Menton. We played a very magical set of pure improv at a benefit for the Ipsalu ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:38:00 GMT

Live CD coming soon!

Well, STARRY WISDOM-Mayan Ruins Live Autumn 2007 is ready! The Official Release will be on Saturday, February 23 at Rohs Street Cafe (in a wonderful evening of Dancing from Anaya Gypsy Dance Troupe, l...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:21:00 GMT

Mayan Ruins, Live Autumn 2007

Autumn 2007 has beeen an incredibly busy & creative time for Mayan Ruins. We've been recording all our shows & should have a wonderfully representative live collection out soon. Worl...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:22:00 GMT

Huge World Music Fest coming in October

Our friend Zachary Mechlem has invited Mayan Ruins to be one of the participants in the first ever Worldmiusic Fest at Southgate House in Newport KY. http://www.myspace.com/worldmusicfest  
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:08:00 GMT

New recordings JAGUAR/Mother of Serpents

Finally, 2 all new recordings featuring Christian (bass, drumming), Dave Rohs (guitars, effects, engineering) & Lindsay (violin on JAGUAR). Mother of Serpents is an ambient piece that grew out of ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:41:00 GMT

Help from my friends

Thanks to band regulars Lindsay & Denny for coming thru' with an unscheduled Mayan Ruins show (when 8Fold unexpectedly had to withdraw from the 1/12/07 show) & special thanks to Dave Rohs (gui...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:48:00 GMT