What’s Yoga on the Dance Floor?Yoga on the Dance Floor with Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space is a new genre of dance music which combines house music with yogic transcendence! The act is a unique combination of world-class electronic dance music and live vocals inspired by the spiritual tradition of India. Set to minimal and tech house beats with flavors of Dub and Brazil it has been called the “music of the future”. The “cutting edge and revelatory” album Yoga on the Dance Floor and Sanskrit Mantras, features melodies reinterpreted from classics sung in Sanskrit and Bengali. The source material includes The Sri Isopanishad, Bhagavata Purana, songs of Indian saints, the Bhagavad Gita As It Is, (the epic Sanskrit poem addressing the diverse paths of yoga) as well as originals in English. The international duo is comprised of France's Gold, Platinum, and Diamond house music producer, composer and DJ, Tom Glide, and New York City singer and writer, Ekayani. The musical pair met when Ekayani was working as a fashion model in Paris in the mid- nineties. After an initial collaboration on BMG Records (France), they each went on to have distinguished careers spanning fifteen years respectively. They reunited artistically in 2007 releasing the EP “The Tom Glide Space Like Fire Remixes” which contained the smash single “Third Eye” winning Best Urban Track 2007 on the New Century People’s Choice Awards. The success of “Third Eye” was the inspiration for their subsequent four star album. Released at the 13th Annual Amsterdam Dance Event in October 2008, the album was voted # 1 in all categories in the People's Choice vote cast. Money to Burn was voted Record of the Year and Best Urban Track, Yoga on the Dance Floor and Sanskrit Mantras - Album of the Year, Here's the Light - Best Song, and Space winning Best Spoken Word! An additional honor went to Tom Glide as “Producer of the Year”. The ten track album also features a first rate music video “Here’s the Light” by producer and director Roberto Serrini (NY Street Films). Yoga on the Dance Floor is a groundbreaking crossover act performed in both nightclubs and yoga studios! Ekayani and the Tom Glide Space have appeared at internationally reknown New York City venues including the dj paradise Cielo, APT, Sapphire Lounge, Label Lounge, The Knitting Factory, Jiva Mukti Yoga and East West Yoga, and the festivals International Dance Day and Dance Parade. They have been featured on airwaves and podcasts worldwide; KFOR (Serbia), Radio Beach FM Mar del Plata (Argentina), The English Breakfast (NL), XtraTrancecast (NL), Back to Fundamentals, Musique Radio (France), The Liquid Sound Lounge (WBAI), WPS1 Art Radio (MoMa), East Village Radio and Legends Radio (NYC). The March 2009 release Money to Burn The Remixes Album offers chilled interpretations of this topical song about the world financial crisis by select international djs Boddhi Sattva, Domy Dee, Jedsa & Lust with Tom Glide reappearing with a West Coast Mix. Money to Burn appears as a single on the April 2009 deluxe double cd Club Star Records (DE) compilation Fashion House No. 2 Dubai Edition receiving top billing above more than two dozen titles notably above the well established acts Morecheeba, Michelle Weeks and Osundade. |