San.Dra : “Retreat” | San.Dra [aim-sandraproducer] | grooveTEK.net
by Morpheus on 07/10/09 at 7:58 pm
San.Dra is a relative newcomer to the electronic scene but what an excellent, contemplative, eastern flavored track she’s produced for us. Her details are below. Thanks San.Dra – M & BB
San.Dra – Retreat by San.Dra
San. Dra (Alexandra Kartisheva) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, to a musical family, a family of professional musicians. Her parents wanted her to become a great classical pianist, but she had another path in mind. She loved the electronic music that was emerging at the time. When she was around ten years old, she remembers watching videos of “The Prodigy” in amazement, thinking, “How do they create such music? “
Later, a classmate brought in a drum’n'bass CD for her to listen to. She loved the broken rhythms. In May of 2007, she released her first professional track. It was played by dj Gvozd on “Radio Record” (Russia) in December that same year. The Russian drum’n'bass crew (mostly “Respect Family“) have supported and mentored Alex, giving her a powerful stimulus for her musical development.
Music labels, Subtle Audio, Respect and Opposide are interested in her music and have signed her. And San.Dra is supported by Loxy, Stranjah, Paul T, 0=0, Fracture & Neptune, Dissident, Electosoul System, Gvozd, Unquote and many other great artists.
Their goal is to make a unique ambient drum’n'bass sound with lots of percussions (leftfield drum’n'bass) to make people think, a sort of meditation. First of all it’s music for the soul, and only then is it music for dancing. Alex creates music to focus people’s attention on the cultures of the east, meditation practices and consciousness enlightenment.
San.Dra lives life with a credo: All that we are, is all that we’ve thought.
