Featuring 25 artists in genres from world music and blues to folk and pop-rock, music lovers will find much to enjoy on Desert Streams, a locally-sourced streaming service. In this blog series, we'll introduce you to the artists.
Enjoy... then get streaming!
But first, mark your calendar for our kickoff for round two of Desert Streams!
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Desert Streams Live!
Friday, September 13 from 7 to 10 pm
Groundworks, 2919 E. Grant Rd.
This is an all-ages show, free and open to the public. Three artists will play: Aztral Folk, opens a new window, Miss Olivia & The Interlopers, opens a new window, and ZNORA, opens a new window. MizSkoden, opens a new window will DJ before and between the bands!
Also, we'll begin the second round of submissions on September 15. We're looking for 25 new artists! Submission information will be available on our Desert Streams website.
Meet Aztral Folk
Traveling within different human perceptions and dimensions, integrating folkloric elements, using any kind of kachivaches (random things) to create sound, dissolving generational gaps, and entering fearlessly into a romance with music in all of its many forms – that is how Aztral Folk arrives, using all of these elements to create an amalgam of colors, a rainbow of sound.
Aztral Folk is an experimental fusion band based in Tucson, Arizona. The group merges a range of musical styles from gypsy jazz to Mexican folk in a blend we like to call Ethno Psychedelic Fusion. The lead singer, Kiri, is one of the most original and versatile voices to come out of Mexico in recent years, integrating everything from Tuvan throat singing, to operatic voice production, to the guttural Louis Armstrong growl. The band members hail from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. They mix the melodic lines of the cello, the punch and groove of the electric bass, and the energetic beats of the drums with Kiri’s multi-dimensional voice to create a journey of song that is inescapable, rustic, and otherworldly.
