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Education

Where's The Beat? From Ancient Rhythms To Future Grooves For Gizmos, Gadgets And Thingamajigs

Source: Matthew Montfort
August 10, 2017

The classic “world beat bible" by Matthew Montfort is now bringing these ancient rhythms into the grooves of the future with content for digital audio workstations, sequencers, computers, tablets, smartphones, CD players, and other gizmos! Where's the Beat? A. West Africa, Bali, and India, birthplaces of polyrhythm, gamelan, and tala. B. Within every performer, where musical dreams are made. C. In a rhythm training manual by Matthew Montfort called Ancient Traditions – Future Possibilities. ...

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Event

Ancient Future Concerts Celebrating Matthew Montfort's New Custom Scalloped Fretboard Guitar

Source: Matthew Montfort
December 21, 2015

Ancient Future Bay Area Concerts Debut Performances with Matthew Montfort's New Scalloped Fretboard Guitar Featuring World Guitar Pioneer Matthew Montfort, Tabla Virtuoso Vishal Nagar and Special Guest Composer/Santurist Mariah Parker One of the program variations of the trailblazing world fusion music ensemble, Ancient Future, this improvisatory ensemble features world guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort accompanied by renowned Indian tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar and composer/santurist Mariah Parker. Blending flamenco, raga, rock, Celtic, jazz and Asian music, they will perform music from Ancient ...

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Performance / Tour

Ancient Future Pacific Northwest Concert Tour

Source: Matthew Montfort
March 8, 2015

The pioneering world music group Ancient Future will perform four concerts as part of a rare Pacific Northwest concert tour. Celebrating its 36th year, Ancient Future is the world's first and longest running ensemble dedicated to world fusion music. They've sold over 150,000 albums and millions of samplers, and performed over 1,000 concerts. Ancient Future has become a large collective of master musicians from around the world with many smaller ensembles within it. Each program focuses on the traditions of ...

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Performance / Tour

Original Ancient Future Reunion Concert

Source: Matthew Montfort
March 5, 2015

On Sunday, April 19, the original line-up of the pioneering world fusion music group Ancient Future will perform together for the first time this century. Ancient Future was formed in 1978 by students at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California, including Mindia Devi Klein, Matthew Montfort, Benjy Wertheimer, and Phil Fong. Ancient Future's first concert took place to a packed house on February 11, 1979, at the original Sleeping Lady Cafe in Fairfax, California, then a ...

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Video / DVD

First Ancient Future Studio Video Released On Earth Day

Source: Matthew Montfort
April 17, 2014

Ancient-Future.Com Records Presents: Yearning for the Wind By Ancient Future Yearning for the Wind is the first brand new Ancient Future studio recording released to the general public since 2002's Planet Passion. It isn't that Ancient Future hasn't been active. Indeed, Ancient Future has recorded over three hours of music in this period, much of it live. But rather than release it all in a market where a low value is placed on music while ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Announcing The Archive Of Future Ancient Recordings By Ancient Future: Celebrating 35 Years Of World Fusion Music With New Fan Funded Tracks And Youtube Video

Source: Matthew Montfort
February 11, 2014

Ancient-Future.Com Records Presents: The Archive of Future Ancient Recordings (A.F.A.R.) Fan Supported Recording Series by Ancient Future Celebrating 35 Years of World Fusion Music Ancient Future performed its first concert on February 11, 1979, at the Sleeping Lady Cafe in Fairfax, California. Since then, the band has gone on to perform hundreds of concerts nationally and internationally and release seven full length recordings that have established Ancient Future as the trendsetting pioneers of world fusion music, a term coined by ...

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Technology

Dickens Of A Twitter Torrent From An Ancient Future Present Starring Etherseizer Scrooogle

Source: Matthew Montfort
December 10, 2013

The week of December 9, the twitter account of the world fusion music band Ancient Future is hosting a twitter torrent from Ancient Future leader Matthew Montfort's spooky little spoof, “Dickens of an Ancient Future Present." Based on Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carole," the spoof follows Etherseizer Scrooogle as he is haunted by four phantoms: his deceased search partner Torrent Pirate, the Ghost of the Ancient Future Past, the Ghost of the Ancient Future Present, and the Ghost of ...

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Performance / Tour

Ancient Future Duet Northern California Tour Featuring Matthew Montfort And Vishal Nagar

Source: Matthew Montfort
November 11, 2013

Ancient Future Duet Northern California Concert Tour Featuring World Guitar Pioneer Matthew Montfort and Tabla Virtuoso Vishal Nagar Friday, January 10, 2014, 8 PM The Sunflower Center 1435 N. McDowell Blvd., Suite 100 Petaluma, California 94954 Tix: $12 advance, $15 door. Advance tix at https://ancient-future-sfc.eventbrite.com Info: Call 707-792-5304 or email [email protected] Saturday, January 11, 2014, 8 PM Trinity Chamber Concerts Trinity Chapel 2320 Dana Street between Bancroft Way & Durant Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 Tix: $15 general, $10 senior/disabled/student. No ...

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