Dymons is Daniel Symons
He first wanted to drop out of school and sing at the age of seven...It didn't happen so he started drumming... with pots and pans... Aged 17 he begun globetrotting towards Morocco with a couple of drumsticks and came back with a darbuka. His love for drum beats and his thirst for adventure then got him on a train to West Africa... with a full drum kit this time... In Burkina Faso the kit was traded for African drums...Alternate life styles, cultures, and music have taken him over the 5 inhabited continents since, where he has gained a considerable amount of musical experience, collected various instruments and quite a soundbank as he traveled most places with a digital tape recorder. He has performed over a thousand live gigs in more than 30 different countries with musicians from all over the world encompassing a wide variety of music genres and bands. Some of the parties and festivals include Glade(UK), Boom(PRT), Wickerman(UK), Life Festival(IRL), Waveform(UK) Outback Eclipse(AUS), Soulclipse(TUR), Rainbow Serpent(AUS), Zoom(CHE), Paleo(CHE), Rastecas(MEX), TranceKarma(PRT), Quest for Goa(PRT), Synergy(UK) (I.D.Spiral, Turaya), Exodus(AUS), Morocco 2001, Mystery of Eleusis(CHE), Psyberpunk(CHE), Temple of Light(CHE), The MicroCosm(USA), Biolive(CHE), FrakaSound(CHE), and many more...
Dan is also involved writing, recording, mixing and performing with the Peaking Goddess Collective, a live ambient and trance band. He also mixed the album "Flooting Grooves - Upsyde Downe" (Peak Records) with Pearce van der Merwe and has released tracks on internationally acclaimed compilations.
His mystical nature and deep feeling that there's much more to reality than we can see led him to explore various states of consciousness trough trance rituals with “shamans” and medicine men and women from many different horizons. He has helped others experience such states and cure themselves by musically accompanying healing ceremonies and rituals (firewalking, trancedancing, sweatlodges, etc...).
Elestial Records, Dymons, Druids Brew, 2007
Hi ! This is Daniel Symons aka Dymons (sometimes misspelt Dyamonds, Dymonds,...)
I founded Elestial Records to unite musical genres of different cultures of the globe, the universe and beyond... for the benefit of all beings...
This first solo album “Druids Brew” is a potion made of the many influences I was blessed with traveling through space, time and beyond...
Although very dub oriented this album flows through a multitude of styles and atmospheres...
I spent a few years on the road gathering ambient sounds into a little black box and many musical influences from all continents. This is a journey through a wide diversity of soundscapes.
The album features a Master of Santeria(Afro-Cuban Mysticism) on the congas, a talented griot from West Africa on tama, cabasa and n’goni(traditional African guitar), a Divine female voice from the Berber tribe and much more...
Fat driving bass lines, grooving drum beats, pulsing skanks, ethnic and contemporary sounds dance together in a psychedelic fashion for you to sit back and enjoy the ride or move you feet to the beats either way it should take you on a trip!
Genre: Ranges through Ambient, Chill, Dub, Breaks, Tribal/Ethnic, World Beat, Electronica, Downtempo, Progressive and PsyTrance,.. Mostly being a mixture of all these with quite a psychedelic edge...
Track List :
1. One Drop or Two 8:18
2. Gathering of Lights 8:57
3. El Jaguar 7:49
4. Sparkles 7:59
5. Wakan Tanka 10:22
6. Beyond the Continuum 8:15
7. Blessings 19:20
All tracks are written, mixed and produced by Daniel Symons @ Alchemy Studios, Switzerland
The mastering was done by Kevin Metcalfe @ Soundmasters Studio, London
Have a listen and take a peek @ Arabesque Distribution:
http://tinyurl.com/2sbhfp
Or @ your favorite shop:
http://www.beatspace.com/
http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Cosmosophy/
https://psy-buy.com/?art=684
http://www.goastore.ch/
http://www.discobole.gr
http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=6679
More info here too:
http://www.elestialrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/danielsymons
Blessings
Dan
