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About Me


This Saturday, 13th of September was a good moment to pray for peace and look after Mother Earth, meditate, dance and unite mind and heart with the teachings of Roy Little Sun (am investigating a bit now, who is he, why does the message come this way and so on) and celebrate Leonard Peltier's birthday ...
Konichiwa!
Watashitachi wa Mithology trance group desu. Maitoshi madrid nite kourei no project ni surukoto wo mezashite imasu. Hitoridemo ookuno kata ni madrid no kono festival de oaishitaidesu.
Sayonara!

Some Writing & Interests

If you don't get the Japanese words above and want to learn something about my culture, then go to the Original Thought Magazine. I collaborated with an article named "My Mother was not a White Dove" and wrote about my laissez-faire education and thoughts about how I feel about understanding Japanese people, especially my own mother.
Check it out at the December 2007 issue at www.originalthoughtmag.com/mag/index.php?option=com_content& amp;task=view&id=219&Itemid=219.
Hope you enjoy it! Another article is on its way, expect the unexpected ...
Anyway, I've got good news: I recently fell in love with the indian spirit through my free lance translation work for Mario Agreda, known as "El Indio". It's a good expercience, being close to a director of documentaries on Mayan culture and especially involved with the AIM (American Indian Movement) especially because I'm not red nor white, couldn't even imagine myself being black, now how would that be? I'm just yellow and I like it, it's a good in between, as long if there's some colour :)
Thanks to this small translation job, I got the chance to find out more about the spiritual part of this movement and hear the healing and inspiring words of Russel Means over and over again ... My respect to all leaders and members of AIM, Peltier's family, Harvey Arden and all of those people, true to themselves and fighting for what's most important to all of us, the essence of life: our freedom.
Next video is a play on Leonard Peltier's life:
And this is just good literature for all of us about Leonard Peltier:

Projects: Colectivo Mithology - Beat Da Street Project - Aisa Festival

I furthermore dedicate my free time as a member of our collective, dedicated to trance and psybient music, with some room for experimental music, named Colectivo Mithology. We are just 3 members and it is getting more "serious" lately, especially since I've founded the Beat Da Street Project.
I always describe the Beat Da Street Project with a female touch. Just like Atenea was born out of Zeus' head, SHE, was born as an idea coming from my experiences with the collective I'm involved with. I personally consider Beat Da Street to be a woman. That doesn't necessarily mean I myself feel like Atenea though, I personally feel I'm more like Artemisa in Greek mithology, but as we all know, we constantly change from day to day, however, we might not notice it.
The Beat Da Street Project 2008 is there to promote all sorts of creativity around and within us, and to share this idea at a free street parade to take place in Madrid. We are also planning to offer an event afterwards, in a park, open air, we have the support of the city hall, which is only good for what we aim for.
As a collective dedicated to psychedelic trance music, psybient and experimental music, we've chosen 3 other different interesting cultures apart from the Psychedelic Trance Culture: Mayan Culture, because of its calendar and its way to be connected with Nature, Cyber Culture with its proper music scene, which will be breakcore and some industrial music and cyber wear performances and Graffiti Art with other artistic performances (example: students of Bellas Artes will bring a modern performance based on Mayan Culture, so will the graffiti writers do) to be brought together in a one-day event in order to celebrate the diversity and innovation among us.
All collaborators who participate with this project will be the main protagonists of this street event mainly because of their integrity with themselves as artists of all kinds. Their participation with the Beat Da Street Project will be based on these four particular art topics. All their artistic work will be brought together and merged among these disciplines in art in order to integrate with each other and to bring something new to Madrid and its cultural and social activities.
Lastly, they will show that we can all work together on a common idea: to create the choice of a day to be conscious about who we are so that we can all co-create among ourselves. Thanks to all of them, we can see the event as a social gathering and as a necessity among all the collaborators to offer this cultural initiative to the society in which we live.
Our collective is also involved in a project with promoting a small village up north in Spain called Aisa, through art and music. It is located up north at the Spanish Pireneos and we have celebrated the first edition of AISA Festival during 3 days (25 - 26 - 27 July this year) with all sorts of activities organized by the village people itself. People could assist to rock concerts at local level (a huge football field) and could be at an area where to listen and dance to psy- trance music (a smaller picnic spot). The building up and organization of it was our part of the event.

Links

Colectivo Mithology
Our collective dedicated to promote the psychedelic trance culture:
www.myspace.com/mithology
Beat Da Street Project
Our project to trance up Madrid through a street parade followed by an event in a park with the support of the city council:
www.myspace.com/beatdastreet
Aisa Festival
Festival that takes place up north at the Spanish Pireneos in july 2009. Take a look at the pictures of the first edition if you wish:
www.myspace.com/aisafestival

Free stuff for MySpace profiles English / Español

My Interests



Well, I'm just someone who can't avoid using all of our 5 senses: sight, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling. If we all have these different senses then why not try to fully use them?

So, let's start with good food and good taste! What about TASTING some fresh sea bass, flounder & pink fatty tuna sashimi with some nice sour salad & tendon? Ramen & mabu dofu, udon & grilled saba!
I could talk about food for hours, but funny enough I hardly cook myself. Oh no, I just enjoy eating it :) Oops, did I mention the Belgian fries & mussels?

I like the SMELL of Bioré (Japanese soap) for my skin eversince I knew it and always need to have some umeboshi in the fridge just in case, I like shizowakame and probably one of my guilty pleasures is to eat and smell (!) nattou, it's sticky and smells really bad, but I just love it.

Other essentials of the good life are being with my friends. From time to time I need to see certain Japanese friends to FEEL connected with my roots. Their way of thinking and expressing themselves remind me about my culture and family. As well for my Belgian friends, they give me their type of conversation I so much need.
My life might have been a mess at some point growing up - I was born as a Japanese baby in Las Palmas (Canarian Islands) and lived in Belgium for a long long time and am now back in Spain. I am Belgian now, can you tell? - but the same big fuzz has also contributed to have different strong inner values. I just enjoy being part of the Culture Club and ... How could I possibly live without one of the most beautiful experiences one can have called dancing?

I adore the SIGHT of the mountains, I like "messy" gardens, I could stare at my lovely cute and small black and white cat Niñachan as if she were a baby, same goes for old dogs, I also like to observe people a lot, especially at transient places, that's why I like Mark Rothko and Edward Hopper paintings. Also love David Hockney's doggie style and Kazimir Severínovich Malévich:

I am without a doubt a HEARING person, I like words, books, conversation and music and am very sensitive to what people say and the tones and voices they use. I like being by myself with inspiring literature and would sometimes take some time off once in a while just to read all day, it makes me travel in my mind. I appreciate it to hear good music ... See list of favourites down here:

I'd like to meet:



Where does the name of the project "Beat Da Street" come from?
The name of the project has its origins in a pair of shoes and represents that feel to me. I hear you thinking: "So, what's in a pair of shoes?" Everything.
I used to have a real good pair of shoes almost 15 years ago. When I used to put on my British Knights to beat the streets, to just walk around with them, they would give me a certain feeling I could only have wearing those and no other shoes. Freedom. Youth. Craziness. Just me by myself on the streets, wondering what would happen to me that day.
My left foot would represent my innocence and faith at that time, I would get off on the right foot on Carole King's beats: "Where you lead, I will follow ... Any anywhere that you tell me to ..." while my other foot would be the taking care of John Coltrane's Love Supreme beats ...
Years later I can finally show this pair of shoes my respect and feel that same thing again, by using the British Knight's slogan for a party: Beat The Streets With BK ... The only thing is that I haven't found the same shoes anymore eversince, but still, if the feeling's there, it has done a real well job!
As Tom Waits says: "If there's one thing you can't lose, it's that feel' ... ! Your pants, your shirt, your shoes, but not that feel'!"
I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do ... That feel' is the one and only reason why I keep up with this project.

He says:
"You can throw it off a bridge
You can lose it in the fire
You can leave it at the altar
But it will make you out a liar
You can fall down in the street
You can leave it in the lurch
Well you say that it's gospel
But I know that it's only church ..."

It is just impossible losing it! So I think you might as well just keep it from the beginning.

Video below is when we arrived at the Plaza J. Benavente in Madrid @ the Beat Da Street Project 2007, all dancing to welcome the future ... (Thank you Meller).

Music:



Like all or most music released by following brilliant labels:
Warp, Ninja Tunes, Rephlex, Rather Interesting, Real World, Blue Note, Ultimae Records, 2 Meter Sessies, New Earth Records, Zenon, Twisted, TIP and Iboga Records ...

Furthermore:
Jungle & Drum 'n Bass with a touch of soul - Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, lovely Joshua Redman & all that JAZZ! - Apart from enjoying jazz, love to dive away in AMBIENT/PSYBIENT: Bluetech, Orbient, Solar Fields, Robert Rich, Cell, Toires, Metrosat4, Alex Scheffer, Aural Planet, ... (in other words, just check out all good things on Fahrenheit Project and Floating Point compilations) - Psychedelic, tribal, minimal TRANCE - World Music & Healing Music - Meditation Music & Experimental Music - Roni Size & Kenji Williams - beautiful Natacha Atlas & Oliver Jones - Roots Manuva & Papa Wemba - dEus in their early years & Morphine - Steel Pulse & also the early years of Tom Waits (isn't it strange how people change with time?) - Reefer Decree & Noodreem - Kitaro & The Magical Healing Mantras of Namaste - Dreamfields & Muslimgauze - Dreadzone & Abakus - Laurie Anderson & Steve Reich - Franz Liszt & dramatic Gustav Mahler - Marc Ribot & overwhelming John Zorn - everlasting poet Linton Kwesi Johnson & simply irresistable Robert Palmer - Pol & Anton Fier - sexy Tori Amos & sometimes getting me depressed Nick Cave - coming from heaven Cocteau Twins & Dead Can Dance - Aphex Twin & Glen Gould when playing Bach - Pandit Shiv Kuma Sharma & Little Axe - Eddie Harris & Dr. Octagon - Frankie Carbone & Jimi Tenor - Rory Block & Mother Earth - Seti & Flexitone - Jesus & Mary Chain & Trance Mission - Digital Underground & Young Disciples - BWP & Laslo Hortobagyi - Rooms Miike & Mannequin Lung - Musci & Venosta & Lounge Lizards - Elvis Costello & Transglobal Underground - impressive Grace Jones & Van Morrison - Squarepusher & Wayne Shorter - Eleftheria Arvanitaki & Adrian Sherwood - Queen Latifah & Sounds from the Ground - Tusnelda & Blasted Mechanism - Banco Da Gaia & Toots Thielemans - Stevie Wonder & Velvet Underground - city lights of Anthony Rother & Paul Desmond - Fred Frith & Aimee Mann - Chura Liya Hai Tunm Ne & Augustus Pablo - Wynton Marsalis & Astor Piazolla - Goran Bregovic & Tracy Chapman - Justin Vali Trio & Omara Portuondo - Billie Holliday & Brandford Marsalis - Two Lone Swordsmen & Plaid - Lisa Carbon & Brian Eno - HUVA Networks & dark and powerful BLT - Bill Laswell & Conemelt - Karen Kay & Simon Lovelock - Aretha Franklin & of course, The Pixies - Erik Satie & The Dmitri Popkrovski Ensemble - Barry Adamson & Tool - sometimes getting too serious Leonard Cohen & cheerful Aisha - John Cale & Ry Cooder - Chick Corea & elegant Sade - Suzanne Vega & Norah Jones - Material & Ronny Jordan - Talving Singh & Star Sounds Orchestra - Solar Fields & Ramesh - haunting Sheila Chandra & Michael Brook - Gong & Emou - Jocelyn Pook & Jane's Addiction - Michael Franti & Patti Smith - Flexitone & Tangerine Dream - Charlie Mingus & Star Sound Orchestra - Speedy J & Autechre - Equinox & Cristian Vogel - Mary Boine Persen & Nasser Kilada - Gaia & Michel Petrucciani - Jan Garbarek & Prince - Femi Kuti & Chet Baker - Baden Powell & Trilok Gurtu - Rickie Lee Jones & Miles Davis - HMC & Jazzanova - Medwyn Goodall & Annie Lennox - Future Sound of London & Money Mark - Red Seal & Dub Trees - Michel Petrucciani & Joao Gilberto - Chaka Khan & Chano Dominguez - Lounge Lizards & Otis Redding - Eddie Harris & night tripper Dr John - Cowboy Junkies & Archie Shepp - Serge Gainsbourg & Cheb Khaled - Morphine & so on ...

Nice records would be:
"Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth" (His Name is Alive)
"Kele Mou Bana" (Don Pullen)
"Buen Ambo" (Carlos Díaz)
"Night Ride Home" (Joni Mitchell)
"Not Responding To Light" (Decoy)
"Secret Story" (Pat Metheny)
"Hornography" (The Horn)

Some really great tunes are:
"My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" from the Spotlight Kid album (Captain Beefheart)
"Before Today" (EBTG) and their lovely cover of my favourite of Captain Beefheart
"Memories" from the One Down album (Material)
"Love Steps In" (Freda Goodlett)
"One Of Us" (Joan Osbourne)
"Eye Doll" (Drone)
"Nature Elements" (In fact the whole Morning Glory album of Ibojima sounds delicious)
"Free Fall" (Rumpistol feat. Tusnelda)
"By Your Side" (Sade)

Movies:


Films directed by Hal Hartley (Trust is my favourite) & David Lynch - Robert Altman & Jim Jarmush - John Cassavetes & Akira Kurasawa - Hayao Miyazaki & Peter Greenaway (above all "El Cocinero, el Ladrón, su Mujer y su Amante" & "Drowning by Numbers") - Pier Paolo Pasolini & Stanley Kubrick ...
Nice films would be:
all Jodorowski films (especially Santa Sangre), Genny Tartakovsky's Dark Crystal, The Hunger, Estación Central do Brasil, always gets me cry when I see it, Paris Texas, beautiful soundtrack, same goes for Little Shop of Horrors and Time of the Gypsies, Kikujiro no natsu, crazy summer times, Bagdad Café, Smoke & Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge, La Celebración, Chunking Express, Tampopo, getting hungry thinking about it ... , Crying Game, reminds me of a good friend, so does Relax, it's just Sex, 1 Giant Leap, great project, Broken Flowers, Farinelli, Lamerica, Joy Luck Club, City of the Lost Children, Last Emperor, Ran, Great Dictator & Modern Times, Labyrinth, Rocky Horror Picture Show ...
"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring ..."
"Dolls"

Television:



When I was younger, the Muppet Show, without a doubt, it used to be original all the time, fun and overwhelmingly creative:

Then, the Twilight Zone.
Nowadays it would be Ren & Stimpy, what a laugh and Six Feet Under.
Documentaries, of course, like "Korubo, ir matando" (and all Luis Miguel Domínguez productions), New Atlantis, Big Cat & Transglobal Productions and BBC's Life on Earth series and Mario Agreda's documentaries.
In general, not enjoying TV too much really, doesn't get my attention.

Books:


My library and the books I've read is mainly a melting pot of Dutch, English and Spanish written novels, filosophy and poetry and they have all helped me through the way:
El Tao de la Mujer (Maitreyi D. Piontek) - Introductie in Esoterische Filosofie (Gradus van Florestein) - Luna Roja (Miranda Gray) - Handboek Chakrapsychologie (Anodea Judith) - El Nuevo Manual de La Curación por las Flores de Bach (Dr. Gotz Blome) - The Empty Boat (Osho) - Cuerpo de Mujer, Sabiduría de Mujer (Dra. Cristiane Northrup) - Conversaciones con Goethe (Johann Peter Eckermann) - Mitos, Sueños y Misterios (Mireca Eliade) - De Verborgen Dynamiek van Familiebanden (Bert Hellinger) - Psicología y Medicina China (Leon Hammer) - De Halfbroer (Lars Saabye Cristensen) - El Incal (Jodorowski & Moebius) - De Snavel van de Vink (Jonathan Weiner) - De Man Zonder Eigenschappen (Robert Musil) - Warm, Rood, Nat & Lief (Leo Vroman) - De Last van de Wereld (Peter Handke) - Viaje al Fin de la Noche (Louis Ferdinand Céline) - Man en Vrouw (Margaret Mead) - A World Of My Own (Graham Greene) - De Kunst van het Geheugen (Daniel L. Schachter) - Tokyo Blues (Haruki Murakami) - Mr. Vertigo & La Máquina de Escribir (and all novels or essays written by Paul Auster) - The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi) - Donde No Alcanza La Mirada (Georges Abolin & Olivier Pont - Marianne Frederiksson - Maya Angelou's autobiography & poetry works and so many other books written by Alain de Botton - Alessandro Barrico (especially Without Blood) - Juri Rytcheu - Eduardo Galeano - Samuel Beckett's Trilogy - A. F. T. Van der Heijden - Oliver Sacks - Kurt Vonnegut - García Lorca - Walt Whitman - Jerome David Salinger - Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go) - Jane Austen - Henry Miller - Seneca - Pitigrilli - Roald Dahl - D.H. Lawrence - Tomek Tryzna - Hanne Orstavik - Noelle Chatelet - Anne Cameron - George Sand - Jean Shinoda Bolen (...) - Per Petterson - Willem Frederik Hermans - Charlotte Bronte - Louis Paul Boon - Paul Van Ostaijen - Eduardo Galeano - Barbara Temelie - Majorie Former - Rudiger Safranski's biography writing on Shopenhauer - Michel de Montaigne's essays - Anaïs Nin - Rabindranaz Tagore ...

Heroes:



No, she's not my mother, but she could be :)
Jean Shinoda Bolen, I worship her:

Maya Angelou, great inner voice ... and author of I Know Why The Caged Birds Sings, A Song Flung Up To Heaven and Even The Stars Look Lonesome:

Maitreyi Piontek:

Anaïs Nin, what can I say...

Some time ago I started to read about Quantum Theory and Physics ... and read this book in Dutch. It looks short but it's good enough to keep on investigating ...

Olivier Follmi, photographer of mankind ... who has taken these and many other wonderful pictures.
Check out his work on www.follmispirit.com and enjoy: