Universally Owned Thursday, August 8, 2013 Independent and Free O.Z.O.R.A. FESTIVAL 2013 INTERVIEW Painting the Festival Blast Off Festival Pink By Yemanja Many have seen the pink man roaming festivals around the world, illuminating dance floors with his pinkness, and bringing laughter and smiles to all those who catch his eye. Dressed in little but the paint that colors his skin, mr pink's exuberant presence plays a pivotal role in the fes- tival as a collaborative cre- ative performance. Through- out the years I have seen him in green, gold, blue, yellow, embodying the rainbow and bringing its hues to the festi- val space, becoming an active element in the festival as a magical experience. But it is not up to me to describe and define what he does - I was lucky enough to have the op- portunity to talk to mr pink about his performance, and i leave his articulate insights to speak for themselves. How do you describe your performance / what you do in festivals and public spac- es? How do people react? My performance is an in- teractive piece. I basically get into costume and roam around the festival grounds. If I catch someone's eyes, I go to them and have fun. When the person looks PHOTOS: PETER NEMESHAZI away, it tells me the interac- tion is over. I leave it up to By novishari Main Stage. Beats Antique on the people to define what I the Dragon Nest stage, more and do, and how long I do it. If It’s happening again! And it’s more prominent in its beauty and someone "invites" me by worth all the energy and belief evolution each time we enter it looking, I believe I've been every one of us has put into making again, bursting into the minds given permission to go with our shared dream come to life, of Ozorians with their incredible it as far as they let me. They despite the numerous obstacles live performance. Powerful and are the ones who define the that we had to overcome. They all tribally empowering feelings that boundaries of the interac- made it even more precious. The flowed on and erupted into the tion. Within those boundar- opening ceremony and opening night, we became sparks in the ies, anything can happen. I concerts at the O.Z.O.R.A. 2013 night, glowing as the myriad of don't try to force myself on saw the Valley fill up with life, stars above us… anyone, if they don't look, I thousands of smiles and radiant And all around…We have arrived, don't go toward them. So the faces yet again. Ozorians rocking we are here – enjoy, love, care, people I interact with have and throbbing together as one to share, create, unify, beautify, given me their tacit approv- the tunes that Shpongle tranced dance and have the greatest time al.. so it's always a great re- us into festival mode with at the ever! action. P3 WEATHER FORECAST GOA – 20 YEARS OF PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE by Trixx Weatherman Thursday-Friday Cosmic Dancing The Ozorian Valley will see no dropping of temperatures By Graham St. John the sky, the locals are reported to rality expanding into a prolonged this Thursday, except in the INTRODUCTION have broken into a “spontaneous present. Weil explained that there cool of the night. What’s Staying Visionary: “Once I saw people applaud the ovation of the heavens”. In his was “a quality to those minutes more, it might be just ever so Visionary Minds Art P4 sky”. It was March 7, 1970, and lat- Marriage of the Sun and Moon: A within the umbra that must be like slightly hotter, climbing to 39 er maven of integrative medicine Quest for Unity in Consciousness, the feeling in the eye of a hurricane. C with occasional southwest- MAGIC GARDEN Andrew Weil had become witness Weil offers the immediate back- After all the dramatic changes of ern winds, the propheteers of Lectures at the Chambok to an extraordinary life-chang- ground for the excitement: “with accelerating intensity, everything the storm on its way toward House P2 ing event. Under a clear Saturday great drama, a nebulous darkness stopped: There was an improba- us... but we still have a few morning sky, Weil had observed grew out of the west – the edge ble sense of peace and equilibrium. more days of scorching heat DAILY COMICS villagers and local indigenes of the umbra, or cone of shadow, Time did not flow.” Indeed, it was till it cools us down. Water, Creating P4 crowding into the market town whose swift passage over the globe three-and-a-half-minutes of clock shade, water, shade, water, of Miahuatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico, traces the path of the total eclipse.” time incomparable to any duration shade is your mantra for ASTROLOGY where they were exposed to a to- The unearthly light endured he’d previously known. “Then, all today too. Daily forecast P4 tal solar eclipse. Marveling upon for over three minutes, a tempo- at once, a spot of blinding P2 2 Thursday, August 8, 2013 Ozorian Prophet whose revelation in deep space “Spirals” sampled a radio com- muniqué from a remote observer reporting “vivid colours, different colours, glittering colours, … co- lours that are really indescribable, I’ve never seen colours like that”. The same album featured Doof’s “Balashwaar Baksheesh” which attempts to sonify the unherald- ed awe associated with something akin to a collective birth. A woman sampled announces that “I’ve never ever seen anything like it before in my life, the energy that everybody felt, they were grabbing onto some- thing for the first time… It was amazing, the happiness that every- one felt”. Around midway, the track ascends in waves of ekstasis with females and males screaming like it’s 1963 and they’re being exposed to The Beatles live. Over ten years later, the compilation released by Rockdenashi Productionz, Black Sun – Eclipse in Japan for the July 2009 eclipse in southern Japan featured local darkpsy artists who, according to the liner notes, ex- pressed their “understanding of the world in creative darkness”. PHOTOS: PETER NEMESHAZI The common thread between GOA – 20 YEARS OF PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE these different psychedelic styles? The shared experience in a cos- mic event: a cosmic vibe. In his memoirs, Bailey wrote of his total Cosmic Dancing eclipse experience in 1842 when he mounted a telescope inside a yellow light appeared, the coro- immediate years of transition from path. While the eclipse failed to be 2001 and in early December 2002 building at the University in Pa- na vanished in the glare, shadow Pinochet, that event was organised drawn into the orbit of the counter- festivals were held on the path of to- via, Italy: “All I wanted was to be bands raced across the landscape chiefly through a Chilean-German culture in 1970 in Virginia (when tality near Lindhurst, South Austra- left alone during the whole time of once more, and the dome of shad- partnership, and was sponsored by the dance music eclipse festival lia (Outback Eclipse), and in South the eclipse, being fully persuaded ow melted away to the east.” It was outfitters Pash and filmed by MTV. idea was abandoned for lunar lin- Africa. By that time, these events that nothing is so injurious to the then that all of Miahuatlán broke With no more than 300 freaks con- er cruises), with the aid of cheaper had accumulated a large following making of accurate observations into applause. verging (many of whom had been travel, electronic music technolo- which was observed in 2006 at Soul- as the intrusion of unnecessary The people of Miahuatlán were travelling to Goa), the occasion gies and the internet, it would take clipse in Paradise Canyon on the fast company”. Bailey was expressing getting high. Real high. At this featured Derrick May and for the another 25-30 years for the dance flowing Koprulu Canyon River in a concern common to the singu- privileged juncture in time and first time in his homeland, Ricardo music eclipse event to materialise. Southern Turkey. At mid-afternoon lar research scientist, yet remote space they shared in the perfect Villalobos. By the late 1990s, as a cavalcade of on the day of the main event, the from the experience of the eclipse alignment of earth, moon and sun Eclipse chasing has a long and spiritualists, astrologers and psy- sky changed wrapping the 7-8,000 festival. For while the presence of with their own bodies. And subse- interesting history. Historically, chedelic big-game hunters found present in strange shadows. At that other people may disrupt scientific quent to this moment, our mesmer- the experience of totality associat- themselves in the playing fields of moment Hallucinogen flicked the measurements, in the immeasur- ised observer sought to understand ed with a total eclipse of the sun the HierosGamos, scientists and switch, the sun was occulted by the able landscape of the vibe, “com- why this cosmic synchronicity had has been a cause for celebration hippies found themselves proximate moon and Venus burned high in the pany” is paramount. And it’s not such a transfiguring impact on or alarm, and has been interpret- to one another in social spatio-tem- mid-afternoon sky. It was a three only one’s close friends or family, those who experience it. Accord- ed according to local cosmologi- poral scenarios planned according minute cosmic snapshot whose dark but those others who’ve journeyed ing to Weil, “to participate in that cal systems.