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FESTIVAL REVIEW
FESTIVAL REVIEW
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ugust. Sunday morning. Arriving at the
sunny Boomland. Idanha-a-nova Lake
is so peaceful & beautiful waiting all the
boomers from all around the globe.
REVIEW
By 6th Sense
prods team
Boomland is much greener this year; grass is covering the lake’s shores offering peace to our devouring “city-eyes”. Feminine (Boom’s 2014 theme) statue at the entrance welcomes all boomers. It embraces, with feminine vibe and energy, the land, the family. This family will be created for the period Boomland and Boom Team offers us the opportunity to be a part of this oneness. Shakti… All workers, builders,
sound technicians, decorators put their last touches, so everything is ready for another gathering of the
psychedelic tribe.
Walking around Boomland, you can’t help but noticing amazing structures, gardens, exciting installations, shade spots, environmental and recycling
material. In the meantime more and more people
get in. Boom Buses are arriving continuously and
lovely faces full of smiles pop out of them and
tents like mushrooms in the wood pop out too.
Along with the tents the first queues in showers,
toilets and restaurants take place! And that is exactly the miracle: everybody is happy and the average time waiting to eat or go to the loots is 0 – 10
minutes depending the hour.
That’s a huge achievement, when
we are talking about managing
35000 to 40000 people living in
the nature! Its worth to mention, compost toilets, showers
and shops were so many,
than any other Boom’s edition. Music starts at the
Chill Out Gardens, where
a great blue-lime patterned
stage, with wonderful green
spots, hosts the Boomer who
wants to experience the frequencies of the chill/ambient music,
flowing under the trees, as there are speakers installed on them too. This is the place where human mind
interacts with the organic harmony of nature. Union. As we were talking with Rui from Good Mood, he explained us that the landscape design was inspired by philosophy and spirituality, the garden of Epicurus
in ancient Greece or Zen Gardens in Asia. Some of the artists presented quality music performances were
Aes Dana, kuba, Johnny Blue, Master Margherita, Awakening Session, Mike Stellar and many more.
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Later the same day Dance Temple, Alchemy Circle and Sacred Fire start vibrating as well. All the
people welcome the music; everybody joins this
unique Boom vibe of oneness! Dance Temple is as
big as never before and its construction is based
and inspired from the “Sagrada familia” cathedral
in Barcelona, one of the most impressive pieces
of architecture in the Western World. The bamboo construction is so elegant that we can’t imagine how much work needed to be built. Two gates
form the temple’s entrance, the Venus portals,
which are portals dedicated to the Earth Goddess!
So in nighttime you could experience mind blowing 3D visual effects, as both portals were videomapped.
What to say about the sound! Once again Function One soundsystem provides us generously
with amazing clarity. This year’s dance Temple
features the latest speaker technology: the 1.80
* 16m infrabass low frequency generator known
as the “wall of Bass”. Music and line up designed
and served to make the Boom family connect even
more. From the depths of the Boomer’s heartbeat
till the frequencies of the kick drums of the huge
soundsystem, WE ARE ONE!!!
Psy dark, Hi tech, Forest, Organic & Full on psychedelic music as night evolves, leading to psy progressive mornings, with most of the top artists of
the scene. Some of the highlights were definitely
Atmos live performance, Farebi Jalebi, Anoushka
Shankar with her virtuus sitar, Ace Ventura, (so
thrilled to keep up with his 5-hour performance
to satisfy the enormous dancing crew!), Tristan,
Shane Gobi closing and many more…
Alchemy Circle, this year, is moved from the
shores of the lake further back. Better sound,
less humidity proves that the choice is good.
We listen to great hypnotic techno, sophisticated
progressive trance, really good dark progressive
music and everything that might pop up in between those genres, reproduced from the world
premiere “Vero” sound system from Function one!
There were so many great artists performed in Alchemy circle. Some of them: D-Nox & Beckers, and
Nanoplex live delivered great music and appearance performances. Also James Monro proved
once again his unique skills in track selection and
mix. In addition Extrawelt, Hypogeo, Pena, Ticon,
Diogo Ribeiro, Perfect Stranger and many more
made all the people dancing like crazy.
Sacred Fire stage surrounded by magic gardens in
an almost fairy – tale forest setting, hosts boomers who love bands. Dj Booth in a natural setting
offered an Afro, Indian, Etno-fusion, Psych rock,
Dub, Organic Trance and Fusion blend, a day by
day - themed schedule. Sitting, lying, eating, dancing, however the boomer wants to experience
transformation through music, sacred fire offers
choices for everyone! Mysterious flowers, lighted mushrooms, handcrafted sits and psychedelic
art transcends the Boomer to a world of light and
love.