MANTRAVINE PRESSKIT
Agafay Desert, Morocco
Who We Are
Agafy Mountains Desert Dwellers Party, Morocco 2024
Mantravine is a Neo-Ethnic Fusion band from Singapore, practising a type of alternative world-making. Through their organic sound innovated from contemporary electronic and global rhythms, live instruments, spoken word and vocals, their music gives birth to a new story, rewriting the code which pervades our present existence.
Within this code, sound is the language of the planetary human condition. Sung into the matrix— a different truth is made to perpetuate itself and new earthly patterns are born. Musical experiences, workshops, healing ceremonies and sound baths are the main ways they build and liberate community through the joy of sound.
Mantravine is composed of: Isuru Wijesoma, double-necked guitar with Carnatic slide, Farhan Remy, keyboard and trumpet, Rupak George, Ableton producer, ArunDitha, lyrics and vocals.
They’ve played festivals and events in Germany (Wurzel, Evolution, Kepotopia, Gaggalacka), Thailand (Wonderfruit), Italy (Casacon, La Fonderia), New Zealand (Luminate & Twisted Frequency), Morocco (Desert Dwellers), Netherlands (ShiokFest, Toekomstmuziek, Zoku, Parck, Supermercator, Mahara) Sri Lanka (Atman), Hawaii (Phoenix), France (Nataraja, Ancient Sight), Japan (One Music Camp, World Beer Summit), Indonesia (Burning Island Festival), Australia (Dragon Dreaming), Singapore (Sunda Festival, Kalaa Utsavam, Neon Lights, Singapore Writers Festival, Night Festival, Singapore Grand Prix F1, Soulscape), Serbia & Montenegro.
What We Do
Music
We give concerts at festivals, private events and parties using a wide range of genres like shamanic jazz, funk, world electro swing, indian classical, and psychedelic ethnic fusion
Workshops
We offer interactive workshops that can be around creating a song from scratch with an audience, dissolving the ego or connective dance workshops
Soundbaths
Healing frequencies, binaural beats, meditative and earthing practices are fused into an intentional soundbath that helps people to gain wisdom, insight, rest and deepen their internal resonance with all that is and all that ever will be
Music Videos
Gaggalacka Festival, Germany 2023
WHERE YOU WANNA GO
Electronic Jazz Rock
Music video at one of Asia's best music festivals Wonderfruit festival in Thailand
LOVE ATTACK
Drum N Bass
Chill Im Haim Elf Stage in Wurzel Festival Germany as part of our 2024 tour in Europe and Morocco
FUNKY DANCE MOVES
Dance Funk
Music video shot on a rooftop in Singapore for our album Nartana, sanskrit word that means dance
Workshops
Raffles Place Alliance, Singapore
Songwriting
An interactive music workshop that teaches how musicians work together in a group, using organization, structure and creativity. Participants will create a fun song with music software, writing their own lyrics, compose bass lines and choose rhythmic grooves. Taught by psychedelic dance tribe Mantravine.
Unity Dance
An intimate and interactive dance workshop to connect deeply within and with others to remove the filters of separation and feel the power of being ONE.
Unearth Your
Inner Elder
Where does the ego come from? Its attachment to our personality structure is inherited from our biological ancestors and our soul ancestors. Often, we do not question the parts of ourselves which show up again and again as looping patterns. But what if we take a good look at them - and let the loops go if they’re not serving a desired purpose for us anymore?
Soundbath
Altered States, Singapore
Healing solfeggio frequencies, binaural beats, meditative and earthing practices are fused into an intentional soundbath that helps people to gain wisdom, insight, rest and deepen their internal resonance with all that is
Media
Botanical Gardens, Singapore 2018
“At the recent Sunda Festival, Singapore-based band Mantravine transported us into their cosmic music universe, seamlessly blending electronica, funk, and psychedelia. I’ve seen many artists blend different genres together, but never quite like this – I could almost feel the sounds of Farhan Remy’s trumpet and keyboard, Isuru Wijesoma’s double-neck guitar and ArunDitha‘s voice resonating through my chest, compelling me to let loose and groove to their organic melodies. They were in tune with the crowd, and the crowd was certainly in-tune with them.” —City Nomads
“Call them sound healers, cosmic shamans, or psychedelic musicians; the artists behind Mantravine individually and collectively set themselves apart from other musicians in the local scene.” —Time Out Singapore
“Such are the cosmic, cosmopolitan soundtracks of Mantravine, one of the scene’s most distinctive ensembles with their enchanting brand of live electronic music…..Mantravine gigs are often a communal affair, with energies echoing and bouncing between band and audience.” —Life In Arpeggio
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The Projector, Singapore
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Highlight Events & Festivals
Wurzel festival, Germany 2024
- Australia (Dragon Dreaming festival, Open Studios, Pyjamma Frequencies)
- Indonesia (Burning Island Festival)
- Italy (Casacon, La Fonderia)
- France (Nataraja festival)
- Hawaii (Phoenix festival)
- Japan (One Music Camp festival, World Beer Summit festival)
- Germany (Wurzel Festival, Gaggalacka festival, Evolution festival, Kepotopia festival, SANKT PIESCHEN Festival, Dragone Fest Dresden, Osthang Darmstadt, Berlin)
- Malaysia (Asean Puppetry Exchange)
- Morocco (Dessert Dwellers Party)
- Netherlands (Shiokfest, Parck, Kokopelli, BRO20, Mahara)
- New Zealand (Luminate festival & Twisted Frequency festival)
- Serbia & Montenegro (MSC Cruise)
- Singapore (Sunda Festival, Kalaa Utsavam, Neon Lights Festival, Night Festival, Singapore Grand Prix F1, Singapore Writers Festival, Crypto Artweek Asia, Pink Dot, Light to Night Festival, Ocean Purpose Festival, Soulscape, Flipside festival, played for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong)
- Sri Lanka (Atman festival)
- Thailand (Wonderfruit, Paradise Lost, Sanctuary, Horizon, Studio Lam, Jamcafe, Asai Hotel, Bebop Live Music Bar, Michelangelo's)
Concert Media
Kepotopia Festival, Germany 2023
WONDERFRUIT
Neo Shamanic Tribal Funk at Theatre Pavilion Stage at Wonderfruit Festival, Thailand
TRIBAL FREQS
Psychedelic Techno Liveset at Tribal Freqs, Singapore
LUMINATE
World Psychedelic music at Lunasa stage at Luminate Festival, New Zealand
Tech Requirements
Shiokfest, Netherlands 2023