Dirtwire – Ghostcatcher Tour (w/ Mystik Fool)

Dirtwire stands poised between ancient Mother Earth and modern technology, a blend of ethnomusicology and the psychedelic trance state, gut-bucket delta blues and what the band variously dubs “back-porch space cowboy blues, swamptronica, and electro-twang.” It’s a sound informed by Dirtwire’s travels and performances around the globe, where East meets West and North joins South. From the favelas in Brazil, Femi Kuti’s Shrine in Lagos, Tokyo’s bluegrass clubs, Ayahuasca ceremonies in Central America, Gamelan performances in Bali, desert festivals in the Australian Outback, and the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s modernized new capital Astana, the band spreads its message by building bridges across musical cultures in their own unique way.

Dirtwire plays an array of instruments both ancient and modern, including West African kamale ngonis, jaw harps, space fiddles, whamola basses, Rickenbacher electric 12 string guitars, bowed Banjos and mouth harps from around the globe, all interwoven into modern laptop beat creation. Hailing from the underground west coast electronic bass music scene Dirtwire finds itself at the forefront of experimental electronic music production mixing in their wide array of world instruments with sampled beats and 808’s. Dirtwire’s live shows are a communal psychedelic journey, ranging from down home boot stomping get downs, to bass and blues electronic mashups, to ethereal cinematic beat driven soundscapes. Woven into each is the exploration of where live instruments meet computer production, and where tradition meets experimentation.

About: Mystik Fool

Mystik Fool is the alias and music project of Galen Deery, a multi-instrumentalist songwriter from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in Pennsylvania. Founded in 2018, the project continued to grow as the music was shared. With a full band, Mystik Fool is fronted by a ukulele. During solo appearances the show transforms into a live looping experience where Galen builds each song from the ground up. The name Mystik Fool came from a few pivotal moments during adolescence. The way of a mystic, as defined in the dictionary, is “one who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect”. And the fool being defined as “a person who acts unwisely or idiotically”. So what is a mystic fool? Or better yet, what does a Mystik Fool sound like?

The self-proclaimed genre, “Spirit Jam”, has been coined due to the surplus of styles coming together from Rock to Reggae, Pop to Folk, and medicine music to prog. With all of these influences, Mystik Fool brings a message to reintroduce a seemingly lost idea of living through love. Attempting to revive this idea, he has toured across the US (including Alaska & Hawaii), parts of Europe opening for acts such as Trevor Hall, Matisyahu, Dirtwire, The Ries Brothers, Kyle Smith, Sensi Trails and more.