dancing! especially to psychedelic, progressive and ambient trance music, outdoor and indoor trance dance gatherings, psychedelics, psychedelic trance music, eschatology, buddhist and hindu philosophy, mayan philosophy, yoga, meditation, reiki healing, massage therapy, california, the united states of america, india, denmark, portugal, oil painting, digital photography, cinematography, old citroens, bowling, singing!
Music
rock, folk, blues, classical, pop and electronic pop artists ...
the kinks, joni mitchell, cinnamon chasers, the carpenters, supertramp, the moody blues, john lennon, bob marley, the beatles, fleetwood mac, air, lemon jelly, enya, primal scream, dionne warwick, jamiroquai, radiohead, bjork, portishead, massive attack, madness, swing out sister, lightning seeds, keane, nick drake, marianne faithfull, grace jones, blondie, belle and sebastian, sterolab, smashing pumpkins, the uninvited, the divine comedy, everything but the girl, dido, jason falkner, luke vibert, jaco pastorius, arlo guthrie, chet baker, james taylor, the beatles, neil young, crosby stills and nash, bonnie raitt, judy collins, the doors, grace slick, tom petty, abba, enigma, william orbit, leftfield, the chemical brothers, underworld, orbital, wagon christ, estero, deep forest, billy holliday, kirsty maccoll, dionne warwick, carole king, cyndi lauper, annie lennox, donna summer, aretha franklin, melanie, ella fitzgerald, gil scot heron, chemical brothers, beethoven, schubert, dead can dance, komeda, yoko ono, the motels, blind melon, tortoise, groove armada, oasis, carly simon, stereolab, alison moyet, kraftwerk, lamb ...
progressive and psychedelic trance artists ...
vibrasphere, altom, freq, protoculture, son kite, atmos, atomic pulse, atmos, sbk, element, antix, system 7, ajja, fatali, tegma, cosma, allaby, astrix, quadra, ticon, chromosome, GMS, hux-flux, tristan, deedrah, magnetrixx, halluncinogen, melicia, s-range, infected mushroom, broken toy, eskimo, wrecked machines, sensum, psysex, matenda, rinkadink, paste, aquatica, perplex, hallucinogen, shakta, sesto sento, yahel, mind modem, sun control species, astral projection, sinewave, E.V.P. ...
ambient electronic, ambient trance and other electronic artists ...
abakus (my brother russell!), mirror system, solar fields, aes dana, kuba, tripswitch, bluetech, shpongle, cell, shulman, boards of canada, ulrich schnauss, chicane, asura, solarquest, nagual sound experiment, slack baba, orchid star, youth (to name but a few ... )
trance, house and misc DJ's ...
john digweed, seb fontaine, paul van dyk, tiesto, timo mass, sander klienenberg, sasha, deep dish, darude, dave seaman, ltj Bukem, schiller, atb, art of trance ...
Movies
star wars, close encounters of the third kind, return of the jedi, 2001 - a space oddessy, alien, full metal jacket, the matrix, baraka, A.I., the life of brian, harvey, harold and maude, koyaanisqatsi, planet of the apes, back to the future, forest gump, airplane, stand by me, sliding doors, billy elliot, the never ending story, empire strikes back, the abyss, the day the earth stood still, le ballon rouge, waking life, K-PAX, being there, mommie dearest, tootsie, fatal attraction, a beautiful mind, rain man, cocoon, donnie darko, the fisher king, wings of desire, what's eating gilbert grape, the truman show, frances, brazil, flatliners, network, E.T., whatever happened to baby jane? mommie dearest, twin falls idaho, the dark crystal, star trek - the search for spock, star trek - the voyage home, memento, starman, they live, easy rider, duel, the champ, city of lost children, twelve monkeys, the karate kid, until the end of the world, war games, the china syndrome, it's a wonderful life, mr. hulot's holiday, mon oncle, ferris bueller's day off, breakfast club, thelma and louise, true romance, charlie and the chocolate factory, apocalypse now, back to the future, the thirteenth floor, the man with the x-ray eyes, naked gun, regarding henry, dancer in the dark, a scanner darkly, somewhere in time, mrs. doubtfire, brokeback mountain, it's a mad mad mad mad world, blue sky ...
Television
i don't watch television very much except for nature shows, top gear, and dragons den or x-factor with my mum. growing up i loved sapphire and steel and french and saunders, all creatures great and small, huckleberry finn and friends, and dallas. i was a big fan of american TV sitcoms from the late 60's and 70's such as bewitched, i dream of jeannie, benson, alice and the mary tyler moore show. i also loved CHiPS! which was usually on saturday mornings and the dukes of hazzard! i also for some strange reason loved the 80's US soap knots landing! putting all those aside i am most dedicated fan along with my dad and brothers of of star trek: the next generation and star trek voyager! resistance is futile!
Books
i never have been much of a reader but other books which have grabbed me over the past few years have been ... celestine prophecy, the tenth insight (holding the vision) and the secret of shambala by james redfield, be here now by ram dass, it's here now, are you? by bhagavan das, food of the gods by terence mckenna, autobiography of a yogi - paramhansa yogananda, the cosmic game - explorations of the frontiers of human consciousness by stanislav grof, servers of the divine plan, see ... www.thenewcall.org, journey to ixtlan and the art of dreaming by carlos castenenda, the tao of pooh, 'kink' by dave davies, psychedelic shamanism by jim dekorne, 'essential reiki' by diane stein and currently reading supernatural by graham hancock.
Heroes
lisa thorkil petersen (my mommop, danish gran), john lennon, timothy leary, terence mckenna, mikao usui, bob marley, andre citroen, albert hoffman, alexander shulgin, gandhi, amma, yogananda, ram dass, karen carpenter, joni mitchell, dave davies, ray davies ...
About me:
hello my name is Christian and welcome to my page on myspace. i am 37 years old and i live in North London in England in Great Britain in the United Kingdom.
Slideshow
my middle name Thorkil is pronounced 'Torkil' and was my danish grandfather's name. i was born in north london and spent my early year's growing up in southgate. i am 37 years old. i was born on april 4th 1972. zodiac sign is aries. mayan galactic signature : white planetary world bridger. i am the son of Dave Davies and nephew of Ray Davies of the rock group 'the Kinks'.
i have 3 brothers. 2 older and one younger which is Abakus (see my friends). i also have 2 half-brothers, one being Daniel Davies, guitarist and frontman/singer of the LA based rock your arse off band 'Year Long Disaster' (see my friends). i also have 2 half-sisters. my spiritual name is 'sky'. i received this name during a meditation in in the Los Angeles mountains in 2003.
around 1990 after finishing King Alfred School in north london i got my first job working part-time as a music library assistant for Match Music Library. i then got a job as a secretary for Logorhythm Music in Soho. after a year working there i went to do an art/ film foundation course at harrow polytechnic. after finishing art college i got a job working in the video department at the Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street to save up money to follow my dream of moving to California. i travelled to Los Angeles where my dad was living and working at that time. i lived in the hollywood and west hollywood areas for a period over 10 years.
during my time in LA i had work experience as a runner/PA for movie and music production companies. my first job was working as a runner for a friend of my father's, the classic hollywood horror movie director John Carpenter on a TV movie called ... John Carpenter presents 'Body Bags'. working with John and his wife Sandy King was a great privilidge and gave me an insight into what it is like to work in hollywood!
after working on Body Bags i got a job working as a runner for the art department for a short lived TV show called 'Viper' filmed at Paramount Studios which was like a dream come true! in fact when i look back on it now seems all quite surreal! working on Viper i also had the priviledge of being able to hang out around the Paramount Studios lot and with some inside connections managed to get onto the set of star trek: the next generation which was an experience i will never forget and will always treasure! another experience i will always treasure was when my old schoolfriend crystal and i snuck backstage at the troubadour's of folk festival at UCLA in '93 and i got to meet one of my favourite singer/songwriters Joni Mitchell!
later on in the 90's i worked for a music production company working with japenese pop acts and assisting two excellent lady producers, who also worked on albums for such artists as barry manilow, barbara streisand and johnny mathis. at this time i was also assisting my dad (Dave Davies) helping to promote his US club tours, working on his new CD releases and creating and designing his website ... www.davedavies.com. in 1999 i took on the job of west-coast tour manager for my brother Simon's band MASH! booking them gigs all around town and having a mad two week MASH up in L.A!
by the end of '99 i gave up working for movie and music studios in favour of working as a waiter at a cosmically cool coffee shop, Nova Express Cafe (www.novaexpresscafe.com) in the fairfax district of hollywood. it was at also this time while working at nova i began exploring the LA underground and overground electronic dance club scene with my south american 'raver' buddies, dancing at LA's best dance club Giant and them Spundae religiously almost every saturday night. i also began to DJ a little myself and booked DJ friends to play at the cafe.
it was during a trip back to London at the end of 2002 when my brother russell (Abakus) took me to a psychedelic trance squat party in a warehouse in east london. it was the sound i was looking for! when i returned to LA i quickly hooked myself into the psy-trance music scene and discovered desert trance and full-moon forest gatherings! by the end of 2003 it was soon time for me to go back to england and re-connect with my family and friends and connect with the psychedelic trance music scene in my home country.
since being back in london i have been promoting and playing ambient chilled-out beats at psy-trance parties, and have played at summer festivals around England such as the Sunrise festival and Offworld Festival.
i have been a vegetarian since i was 12 years old but i never really liked meat before that anyway. i love indian, thai and mexican food! and i love pizza!!
i have a passion for dancing to psychedelic, progressive and ambient trance music. i am also practicing massage therapy and i have just completed Reiki II training and i soon to go onto to become a Reiki master and become a teacher of Reiki healing.
daytime jobs since being back in London have had included waitering at veggie restaurants in london. i also had a job of stepping in as cook for GSCE and sixth form students at Wentworth tutorial college in Hendon. pizza bagels was my most popular item on the menu and i thank the students for kindly accomodating to my vegetarian menu! i worked for a couple of years as a delivery driver for the Organic Delivery Company (www.organicdelivery.co.uk) delivering organic fruit and vegetables and environmentally friendly products to your door. i got to know my hometown of London like i never have before and i get to meet lots of great people and families in all different parts of this incredible city. my most recent job has been working at Planet Organic in Islington. i am now on the path to become a Reiki Master and qualified massage therapist and professional DJ hopefully playing in a bar or club somewhere near you soon! for bookings email : christiandavies@email.com - i also play at weddings and private parties. Abba to Zappa and beyond!
i'm sure there will be more about me coming soon so stay tuned to this space on my space!
tune i like very much by my friend Laurence Harvey aka Kuba from his 2005 cd release 'Inside Out'. check out laurence at http://www.myspace.com/mrkuba
this is one of my favourite psychedelic trance tunes ever by Protoculture called Figa Fee ... http://www.myspace.com/protocultureonline
one of my favourite tracks from my younger brother's recently released cd 'We Share The Same Dreams' ...
an ambient chillout tune i like very much on a compilation i recommend called Relaxed Journey's. this is Altitude 2 by Altitude ...
Psychedelic Trance tune i am into at the moment by GMS and Astrix called Psychedelic Circus ...
here's my uncle and dad performing their klassik hit All Day And All Of The Night live in 1979 ...
this is a tune i like very much at the moment by Jon Hopkins ...
this is a favourite song from my dad's first solo album released in 1980 ...
my favourite female singer/songwriter is Joni Mitchell and this is some footage i have loved much over the years with Joni performing a classic song with her cool band she put together for this tour including the great late Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass ...
a favourite song by my uncle and dad and i recently made this slideshow for it. Celluloid Heroes from their 1979 One For The Road tour ...
an ambient/chill-out tune i like very much at the moment by some people who i happen to be friends with and i've enjoyed dancing to their music for quite a few years now. Mirror System remixing a Tripswitch track ...
so my dad is Dave Davies and my uncle is Ray Davies of the rock group 'the Kinks' and this is a little recent documentary on their career with interviews with my dad ...
my favourite female singer/songwriter is Joni Mitchell and my all-time favourite joni album or the one i have probably listened to the most over the years is her 1976 album Hejira. this is Black Crow with Jaco Pastorius on bass ...
a track i have been listening to a lot at the moment by my friend Alex Sheffer aka Cell, with 'Under Your Mind' ...
an ambient tune i like by H.U.V.A Network ...
i made this slideshow for my friend Kuba's (Laurence Harvey) most gorgeous song ...
a track i very much like featured on my younger brother's recent cd 'We Share The Same Dreams' called Deun Deu ...
another favourite tune by my favourite progressive trance producers from sweden Vibrasphere with Ensueno (Morning Mix) ...
a progressive trance tune i like very much by Suntree called Freedom ...
a favorite progressive psychedelic trance tune by Timedrained from Denmark called Dream Factory ...
a new tune by my younger brother Russ (aka Abakus) from his other music project Cinnamon Chasers (http://www.myspace.com/cinnamonchasers)
Who I'd like to meet:
joni mitchell, again! ram dass, mike pinder, christine mcvie, richard carpenter, james taylor, judy collins, carole king, arlo guthrie, yoko ono, alexander and anne shulgin, dionne warwick, whoopi goldberg, madonna, marianne faithfull, matthew modine, robin williams, harrison ford, carly simon, prince charles, prince william and/or harry windsor, queen elizabeth, lauren bacall, jack nicholson, ... i'm sure there's many more ...
"Firefly" hallmarks the cornerstone and encapsulates a decade's worth of musical ingenuity, talent, and experience. An accomplished colorful music mixing traditional instruments (flute, didgeridoo, jewharp, etc...), sensible, powerful voices, world and ethnic music touches (tribal, celtic, oriental, latino) with a typical electronic touch.
2 new tracks of Asura are available on my page, several compilation arrive this year, and of course, my new album, 360, for the last quarter of 2009. Stay tuned my friends!
Salut mes chers activistes ambient!
Deux nouveaux morceaux sont disponibles sur ma page, de nombreuses compilations sont à venir (une dizaine), et mon album, 360, en fin d'année. Restez connectés, les amis!
Tonight sees the return of Alpha Omega to London! Featuring artists such as Hybrid, Si Begg, Zen Mechanics, Symphonix, Culprit 1 and many many more. Held at the legendary SE1 in London Bridge, go to www. myspace. com/alphaomegaevents for more info.
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Interview with Culprit 1 and DJ Pena can be downloaded here: www. sendspace. com/file/je2l2n
Tonight sees the return of Alpha Omega to London! Featuring artists such as Hybrid, Si Begg, Zen Mechanics, Symphonix, Culprit 1 and many many more. Held at the legendary SE1 in London Bridge, go to www. myspace. com/alphaomegaevents for more info.
Tickets - accessallareas. org
Interview with Culprit 1 and DJ Pena can be downloaded here: www. sendspace. com/file/je2l2n
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