BEATS ANTIQUE Reveal 'A Thousand Faces'; New Album & Live Performance Art Project

Electronic dance trio BEATS ANTIQUE has never been afraid of artistic exploration. For A THOUSAND FACES-ACT 1, their seventh studio album due out October 15 via Beats Antique Records, BEATS ANTIQUE have taken another jump to an even higher, multi-dimensional art form: program music constructed for the stage, taking full advantage of recent groundbreaking innovations in live performance technologies. The group will present the project as part of a major national tour launching October 3 in Salt Lake City.

Teaming with a group of renowned artistic collaborators stemming from their San Francisco hometown and Obscura Digital, the acclaimed live art projections company whose work with Google, the Guggenheim, and the royalty of Dubai has delighted audiences around the world, BEATS ANTIQUE's new album and live performance art project A THOUSAND FACES delivers the band's signature mix of electronica and world-fusion beyond the sonic realm into a multimedia extravaganza that's part odyssey and part genre-warping rock opera.

A two-volume endeavor with a highly theatrical live-show counterpart, A Thousand Faces encapsulates each stage of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey in 22 sweeping and lushly textured tracks. While the accompanying show will carry audiences through the complete journey, A Thousand Faces-Act 1 represents just the first half of the monomyth, with the second volume due out next spring.

"A Thousand Faces is meant to be an adventure for the audience, a wild ride that takes them through these mystical lands all across the globe," says David Satori, who formed the Bay Area-based group with fellow musician/producers Tommy Cappel and Zoe Jakes in 2007. As veterans of a vibrant Bay Area underground arts scene committed to pushing boundaries through collaboration, BEATS ANTIQUE first and foremost strove to offer a uniquely communal experience with A Thousand Faces. "This is a universal story that's been told for thousand of years," notes Jakes. "Each one of us is a spoke in the wheel of the monomyth, and there's a deep sense of unity in all of us sharing the same story."

Dubbing A Thousand Faces their most intensely collaborative effort yet, BEATS ANTIQUE designated a diagram of the hero's journey as their guide for the initial stages of songwriting and composition-then let their experimental sides take over and flourish as they delved further into the creative process. "Making the album was incredibly organic from thought to actual completion, right down to the guest musicians who joined us," says Cappel. A Thousand Faces-Act 1 features a carefully curated ensemble of guest collaborators, including Les Claypool of Primus and sarod player Alam Khan (son of legendary classical Indian musician Ali Akbar Khan).

With technology and production helmed by Obscura Digital, the show will feature creative visual production by Ivan Landau (Æon Flux, Sin City, Blade Runner). Also partnering with illustrator Leighton Kelly (who teamed up with Landau on the video for "Revival," a track off of Beats Antique's 2010 album Blind Threshold), the group has created a multimedia spectacle that's rich in sensory stimulation. Part of the art for the stage production will even stem from a collection of works created the fans themselves.

Prior to embarking on the A THOUSAND FACES tour, BEATS ANTIQUE will make several festival appearances at the Summer Set Music Festival, The Big Up, Emerald Meadows, Bumbershoot, Rifflandia and Great North Music & Arts Festival. Their headlining tour will encompass almost 30 markets culminating with two headlining dates at The Fillmore in San Francisco.

The complete BEATS ANTIQUE tour routing follows here:

DATE CITY VENUE

Fri	8/9		Somerset, WI		Summer Set Music Festival
Sat	8/10		Ghent, NY		The Big Up
Sat	8/24		Eugene, OR		Kaleidoscope Music Festival
Sun	9/1		Seattle, WA		Bumbershoot Festival
^Thu	9/12		Victoria, Canada		Rifflandia Festival
^Fri	9/13		Victoria, Canada		Rifflandia Festival
^Sat	9/14		Victoria, Canada		Rifflandia Festival
^Sun	9/15		Victoria, Canada		Rifflandia Festival
^Fri	9/27		Detroit, MI		Forever Festival
^Sat	9/28		Norridgewock, ME		Great North Music & Arts Festival
^Sun	9/29		Norridgewock, ME		Great North Music & Arts Festival
A Thousand Faces Tour:
Thu	10/3		Salt Lake City, UT		The Depot
Fri	10/4		Boise, ID		Knitting Factory
Sat	10/5		Bozeman, MT		2013 Hushush @ Kountz Arena
Sun	10/6		Jackson Hole, WY		Pink Garter Theater
Wed	10/9		Lincoln, NE		Bourbon Theatre
Thu	10/10		Iowa City, IA		The Blue Moose Tap House
Fri	11/11		Springfield, IL		Donnie's Homespun
Sat	10/12		Columbia, MO		The Blue Note
Tue	10/15		Charlotte, NC		The Chop Shop
Wed	10/16		Chattanooga, TN		Track 29
Thu	10/17		Asheville, NC		Orange Peel
Fri	10/18		Biloxi, MS		Biloxi Civic Center
Sat	10/19		Ozark, AR		Harvest Music Festival
Tue	10/22		Columbus, OH		Newport Music Hall
Wed	10/23		Millvale, PA		Mr. Smalls Theatre
Thu	10/24		Philadelphia, PA		Theatre of Living Arts
Fri	10/25		New York, NY		Irving Plaza
Sat	10/26		Boston, MA		Paradise Rock Club
Sun	10/27		Burlington, VT		Higher Ground
Thu	10/31		Minneapolis, MN		Mill City Nights
Fri	11/1		Chicago, IL		Vic Theatre
Sat	11/2		Madison, WI		Majestic Live
	11/1 - 11/3		New Orleans, LA		Voodoo Music Experience
Wed	11/6		Houston, TX		Fitzgerald's Upstairs
Thu	11/7		Austin, TX		Emo's East
Fri	11/8		Dallas, TX		Trees
Sat	11/9		Tulsa, OK		Cain's Ballroom
Wed	11/13		Santa Ana, CA		Yost Theater
Thu	11/14		San Diego, CA		House of Blues
Fri	11/15		Los Angeles, CA		The Fonda Theater
Sat	11/16		San Francisco, CA		The Fillmore
Sun	11/17		San Francisco, CA		The Fillmore

^ indicates a Live Set featuring Sidecar Tommy & David Satori

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