My Sleeping Karma Post Full Show Video From Berlin
It’s nice My Sleeping Karma give a hug before they start playing. Maybe they do that at every show — I don’t know because I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing them live. That irks me to no end. Like a to-do list banging all the time at the back of my brain — I’m dead serious. I know they’ve had health issues over the last couple years, and time’s only marching on from their last studio release, 2015’s Moksha (review here) — they had the live album Mela Ananda – Live (review here) in 2017 — but some day I’ll watch this band play on a stage. More than 15 years on from their 2006 self-titled debut (discussed here), it certainly feels due.
The video below was posted by the band in a kind of happy-new-year-things-are-hard spirit a few days ago, and yeah, I feel that. It was captured at Astra in Berlin on March 26, 2017, while the band was co-headlining with Colour Haze — the dates were posted here; I still remember the poster — and it’s just a show that got filmed. They do some effects with the video projections behind, but at its heart this is just a clip of the band playing live. They close with “Psilocybe” and do “Hymn” for an encore, then roll out so Colour Haze can take the stage before they go on to do the next gig of the tour in Hannover. Could hardly be more mundane, right? I grieve for that ordinariness.
But even in that grief, I post this in a spirit of joy. It’s not something I planned on, just happened to stumble on it on social media and decided to throw it on here in case you, like me, were willing to put down whatever it is you’re doing for a while and bliss out on what was probably just another night for My Sleeping Karma on this run. The band are currently slated to play Desertfest Berlin — same venue, I think — as well as Desertfest London, Resurrection Fest, and Sound of Liberation‘s much-delayed 15th anniversary party this year. I hope it all happens and everybody gets paid. I hope it feels normal.
Enjoy the clip. They kill it:
My Sleeping Karma, Live at Astra Berlin 26.03.2017
Dear friends,
we wish you all a peaceful and happy new year!
The past two years have been really difficult for us as well as for the whole world. In order to compensate the lack of live performances at least a little bit, we would like to share something with you:
In 2017 we´ve been on tour together with our friends in Colour Haze. Our performance in Berlin has been filmed by a small video-team called “Macabre Pariah”. This Video is soundwise as well as from performance side imperfection – but it´s somehow authentic.
As a small new years present we like to release this video today on Youtube. Enjoy…
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support. We wish you and the entire human family freedom, peace, happiness and a bright future.
All the best and keep your good Karma!
Steffen, Seppi, Matte, Norman
Tracklisting:
0:00 Intro
2:05 Eleusine Coracana
8:40 Prithvi
15:00 Enigma23
21:20 Drannel Xullop
29:15 Ephedra
36:40 Vayu
42:05 Akasha
48:48 Brahama
57:14 Ahimsa
1:02:26 Psilocybe
1:12:48 Hymn
Recorded at liveclub “Astra” Berlin – Germany 26.03.2017
Videorecording by Agata and Anka – Macabre Pariah Production.
Video post production by Steffen
Sound: 50/50 mix of FOH stereo out and Zoom H2 ambient mic also at FOH.
My Sleeping Karma is:
Matte Bass
Seppi Guitar
Steffen Drums
Norman Soundboard
Thanks and hugs to our tourcrew:
Rene Hofman Soundengineer
André Stein Lightengineer
Sylvain Dessaint Merch
Daniel Stenger second soundboarder in case Norman can not do it
My Sleeping Karma on Instagram
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