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(**Oziene will be performing in LA until November!!**) THE OZIENE EXPERIENCE is an ALL DRUM BAND made up of just 2 people. We synthesize World-Rhythms with Funk. We play HIGH ENERGY shows. We get people excited and create a party. We cause people to DANCE in random public places. (This is your LIFE you're living after all, and since you are alive, you might as well ENJOY IT). We create acoustic group bio-feedback loops, -by putting out sound vibrations which are reflected back to us by local pedestrians, who spontaneously decide to be our dancers. This ENERGY-VORTEX functions as a magnet to pull in more and more distant people from the surrounding areas(outer-vortex) into the powerful self-perpetuating loop of its central-vortex=THE OZIENE EXPERIENCE. Those who FEEL IT, KNOW IT(many participants have reported that they leave the area feeling pleasantly "buzzed"!)(-we usually do!). Yes, the primitive act of DRUMMING and DANCING has many beneficial effects which are rarely understood by so called "civilized" people. People have the opportunity to vent their negative qi(in a healthy+positive way), and simultaneously, this EXPERIENCE of repetitious sounds(DRUMMING) and repetitious movement(DANCING) stabilizes brainwaves, and stimulates Beta-Endorphins(neurohormone opiates secreted by the pituitary gland), -RADICALLY RAISING LEVELS OF DOPAMINE and SERATONIN(more mood-elevating hormones)(-yes there ARE things other than Prozac and pills to improve your mood and your health! -Be nice if some of the 100,000+ people who die every year from pharmaceutical drugs knew this, but anyway), This trance-inducing experience, offers benefits similar to meditation, as we activate new areas of the brain which often go unused in our piddely day to day lives. The end result, helps people to HAVE A GOOD TIME!!! Then, your own IMPROVED CELLULAR RESONANCE will be something you can take home with you to enhance further manifestations of your outer quantum-hologram. The "Oziene Experience" occasionally plays indoors for PARTIES, they have also opened for "Tito Puente" in Boston, and were a frequent opener for Govinda at "The Mercury" in Austin back in 1999. Previous versions of this band have also played(mostly on the street)across Europe, Boston, NYC, Portland, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco(-almost arrested in many of those cities too), We're now leaving AUSTIN TEXAS to take our groove to Venice Beach/Los Angeles. We DON'T sell CD's, and *NO* you are NOT encouraged to bring a drum and play along, -THIS IS NOT A DRUM CIRCLE, this is the *OZIENE-EXPERIENCE*. So bring all your lunatic friends, and come FEEL THE NOISE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Member Since: 11/10/2005
Band Members: OZIENE LIVE VIDEOS: ----The Video above: Filmed by Lizzilicious(edited by Ojas) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRUEXlpeFd0. THANK YOU Liz !!!!!!!!!!! ---Rare Video Clip Below(-on the street, Austin TX 2007)---Hey dancers, -Many items LOST+FOUND at our last few U.T. -West Mall shows(Contact us to claim your stuff!) also (anyone who photo or/FILMED US THIS YEAR),-can anyone eMail us some video?, we could use it for this page. -THANKS) -also,, Outdoor gigs are never definite. Check this site as close to a show as possible to make sure it's actually going to happen. Nothing scheduled in Austin now as we've relocated in LA for the end of the tourist season(til November) where we're preparing to play the Venice Beach Boardwalk, and the 3rd St Promenade/+Pier in Santa Monica, CA. (This may become something we do every year..) -Slideshow below
Create a Free SlideshowLocal members of the Oziene Experience: Ojas from Austin: Drums+Vocals, SCOTT CHESAK(Scooter): Drums+Vocals, MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE: (WHO choose to DANCE) are also a part of the OZIENE-EXPERIENCE. Eliot Stone occasionally sits in on "The Orb", as does Owen Towles on the skins, and WE ARE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER CONGUERO(must have technique on congas or djembe), and maybe 1 CRAZY DANCER(Gymnast or Capoiera) who does flips and plays percussion. Also if you are a dancer responding to our advertisement in LA, then you don't have to play percussion!(you don't really have to do flips either..)--Touring X-band members currently in the United States (who may occasionally show up) include. Carmello Torres(Del Castillo) Adrian Harpham(Brazilian Girls) Dan Rieser(Norah Jones) Shamou Amoui(Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre) Ricardo Barnes(Tito Puente Junior) Oliver Rajamani(duh) and the "Lord of Rhythm" Marcello Ozain(Kilombo Mambo).
Influences: MUSICAL INFLUENCES=Fela Anipalato Kuti, Irakere, James Brown, Niel Peart, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinadad, Tobago, Africa, New Guinea, ALL previous members of this band, have contributed something to our current sound(Especially the original members=Marcello Ozain, and the human octopus: CYRIL ATEF). We're also influenced by the desire to HAVE FUN while balancing some negative karma of the human race. Face it, human beings are the parasites of this planet, and we are trashing it like there's no tomorrow. The animals would never destroy the Earth the way we do. -As a species, one of our only unique and redeeming contributions to this world, is our ability to create music. -so that is what we do.
Sounds Like: A HIGH-ENERGY celebration of cultural WORLD-RHYTHMS. On a good day we try to do what any good art should do.. CONNECT YOU WITH YOUR SOURCE! (Although it's really just 3 white guys playing their drums on the sidewalk.)
Record Label: Oziene is EXPERIENTIAL... We ONLY play live !!!
Type of Label: Indie