Love you all so much. Heres my newest album “The Art of The Way”.
“Harmonic Transformation” worldwide album release
“Harmonic Transformation” is a synesthetic explosion on the senses. David Block invites you on a 14 track mind expanding sonic journey into his human experience. The album is a sensual, passionate, imaginative exploration of global beats, dreamlike soundscapes, organic instrumentation and yummy bass. Having spent the year of 2010 playing, creating and collaborating around the [...]
Bamm.tv shoot in San Francisco
So much fun working with Bamm.tv!! What an incredible experience. You guys are the sheeze Namaste See more at www.Bamm.Tv
Life is Art
Inspired by my own human experience…. This music was created with the intention of taking you on a journey. Dance, make love, laugh, cry, smile, watch a sunrise snuggled in a blanket….Have an emotional breakthrough!!! I hope these sounds inspire you to create your own magic!!! Pura Vida Namaste Love you, David Block (The Human [...]
“The Art of The Way” OUT NOW!!!
Posted by David on March 29th, 2012
2012 NEW TOUR SCHEDULE!!!
Posted by David on March 23rd, 2012
March 29th – San Francisco, CA – “The Art of Way” album release party at “Beat Church”. Venue Icon Ultra Lounge. Pre-party on the “Transported Bus”
April 7th – Denver, CO – “Vaporize” presented by Sculpted Sound. Venue TBA
April 13th – Denver, CO – Android Jones art gallery opening at “Knew Conscious” art gallery (Phadroid performance and Solo performance)
April 14th – Kansas City, MO – opening for the debut of Quixotic’s new performance “One” at the Midland Theater!!!
April 19th – San Francisco, CA – “Bicycle Day” at “Temple SF”
May 4th – Oakland, CA – at the Brava Theater. Featuring performance by Akara LIVE, Solo performance, and Phadroid
May 5th – Mendocino, CA – Event TBA
May 13th – San Francisco, CA – “How Weird Street Faire” performing on “Enchanted Forest” stage
May 17th- May 21st – Pyramid Lake, NV – “Symbiosis Gathering” Solo performance, Phadroid, Seraphim, and a special new treat….
May 24th- May 28th – Silvarado, CA – “Lightning in a Bottle” festival
May 30th – Santa Monica, CA – “Luminous Movement” presents at “Zanzibar”
June 1st – Portland, OR – Beloved Presents “The Muse Revival” feat Phuturprimative and Kaminanda at “Bossanova Ballroom”
June 2nd – Oakland, CA – “HomeBass” presented by Win Win Pro. Venue “The New Parish”
June 7th – June 10th – Green River, Utah – “Desert Rocks” music and arts festival. Solo performance and Phadroid show
June 12th – New York – “City of Hope” fundraiser
June 21st – June 24th – Georgetown, CO – “Sonic Bloom” music and arts festival! solo performance and Phadroid show
June 29th – July 2nd – Mendocino, CA – “Enchanted Forest” gathering
July 4th -7th – Berlin, Germany – “Freqs of Nature” festival
July 28th – August 4th – Idanha-a-nova, Portugal – “Boom Festival”
Aug 10th – Aug 13th – Tidewater, Oregon – “Beloved” sacred music and arts festival
NEW ALBUM “The Art of The Way” out March 29th
Posted by David on March 14th, 2012
DOWNLOAD the song “Lion Heart” for FREE. Full 9 song album out March 29th worldwide. Album art by Ryan Johnson.
New Years Celebrations!!!
Posted by David on December 26th, 2011
So there were some last minute changes in our new years plans and we will be celebrating in Los Angeles!!!
Its been so nice to spend the last couple weeks with my family. Visiting my momma in Kona was amazing and it was so great to be able to get over to Maui to play the Source Maui Fundraiser. Huge Aloha love to all the Island family, I cant wait to come back in February.
I have returned to Los Angeles where we (Phadroid & The Human Experience) will be performing 2 New Years shows in LA.
The first will be the debut of the Phadroid + William (Earth Harp) + The Human Experience collaboration. 9 PM – 2 AM in Venice California. Im so honored to participate in this musical experiment. Ive had so much fun jamming with William and Im so happy that we are going to explore Phadroid together.
We will then meet you at Humming Bird Ranch to dance with you to the mid-afternoon the next day. We’ll have another late night Phadroid and The Human Exprerience set with Andrew and Phaedra Jones.
Check out these two videos. The first is myself and Phadroid Live in London a few weeks ago. The second is William making magic 
Hope to see you at the show
William and the Earth Harp from WIlliam Close on Vimeo.
More shows end 2011 – March 2012
Posted by David on November 22nd, 2011
So heres a list of some shows I have planned in the next few months. Ill update it as I know more
Nov 18th – Moscow, Russia – at “Shanti” – Solo performance and Phadroid show
Nov 27th – Budapest, Hungary – Private show – Phadroid show
Nov 28th – London- “Up Rise” – an exhibition by Android Jones at “Hoxton Gallery” – Solo performances
Dec 1st – London- “Up Rise” – an exhibition by Android Jones at “Hoxton Gallery” – Solo performance and Phadroid show
Dec 2nd – London – Halcyon Presents: The Christmas Ball Twisted Records & HOMmega Productions – Coronet Theater – Phadroid Show
Dec 9th – Oakland, CA – MAPS 25th anniversary “The Kaleidoscope Vault” – at Oakland Marriot City Center – Solo performance, Phadroid show, and a special tribute to Robert Venosa
Dec 10th – Oakland, CA – THE MEDICINE BALL|MAPS 25th Anniversary Party: A Multi-Sensory Celebration – at Oakland Marriot City Center –
Phadroid show
Dec 11th – Richmond, CA – “Viva Venosa”
Dec 17th – Maui, HI – Teaching a workshop “Putting Melody and Harmony into Electronic Music” details TBA
Dec 17th – Maui, HI – “Source Maui Fundraiser” – at “Cassanova’s” – Solo performance featuring special guests
Jan 20th – Oakland, CA – “Mass Transit Dance” – Solo performance
Jan 26th – Los Angeles, CA – “Special Event!!!” Details coming soon
Jan 27th – Jan 31st – San Diego, CA – Tribal Convergence
Feb 1- 30 – Maui Tour including “Source Festival”
March 1st – 4th – Costa Rica – Envision Festival
MUCH MORE TO COME SOON!!!
Phadroid and The Human Experience (Catching the Ghost)
Posted by David on October 17th, 2011
This video was shot in July, 2011 at Ex’pression College in Emeryville CA. It is a short (4 min) documentary on the philosophy and intention of Phadroid and The Human Experience. All the visuals, music, and dance were performed live. We hope this video inspires you to explore the wildest depths of your imagination and to realize your most fantastic dreams.
MASSIVE LOVE TO YOU!!!
-David
Coming to a city near you!!! Tour Schedule from May 2010 – April 2011
Posted by David on September 29th, 2011
Excluding a few dates…. what a year!!!
5/1/2010 – Canoga Park, CA – at Rumbo Studios “The CollectiveCA presents The Manifestival 1″ (The Human Experience full Live Band)
5/18/2010 – Los Angeles, CA “Private Event”
5/26/2010 – San Francisco, CA “Supperclub” (The Human Experience Featuring Joy Anderson)
5/31/2010 – Irvine, CA – “Lightning in a Bottle” with Phadroid
6/8/2010 – Emeryville, CA – “Ex’pression College” with Phadroid
6/21/2010 – Los Angeles, CA “The Standard Hotel Rooftop” David Block acoustic show
7/4/2010 – Richmond, CA – “Union” Rigzin CD release 4th of July with Phadroid
8/18 – 8/26/2010 – Portugal – “Boom Festival” solo performance, workshop with Amanda Sage and performance with Phadroid
8/30 – 9/6/2010 – Black Rock City, Nevada “Burning Man”
9/24/2010 – Los Angeles, CA “The Manifestival” presented by The CollectiveCA (The Human Experience full live band)
10/31/2010 – Trinity, CA “Spiril Presents The Trinity Halloween Extravaganza” (The Human Experience)
11/7/2010 – San Francisco, CA “7th annual Interdimensional Art Show” (The Human Experience Live show and performances with Phadroid)
11/26/2010 – Los Angeles, CA “Lights Out: Pretty Lights after party” (The Human Experience Live Band)
11/27/2010 – San Francisco, CA “LoveTech SF” (The Human Experience Live PA)
12/13/2010 – Venice, CA at “The Whaler” solo performance
12/17/2010 – Los Angeles, CA “Yum Sauce presents: The Yum Sauce Lounge” with Phadroid and a solo show
12/21/2010 – Los Angeles, CA “HeartTribe Presents The Crystal Download” solo performance
12/31/2010 – Seattle, WA “Timeless Continuum” with Phadroid
1/15/2011 – Santa Cruz, CA “HeartTribe presents The Human Experience” solo show
1/23/2011 – San Francisco, CA “LoveTech SF” (The Human Experience full Live PA)
1/27/2011 – San Francisco, CA “Bamm.TV presents” live international broadcast and first incarnation of “Seraphim” feat Amae Love
1/28/2011 – San Francisco, CA “LoveTech SF 2 year Anniversary” (The Human Experience Feat Amae Love
2/4/2011 – Ukiah, CA “Emergence presented by Tribe 13″ solo performance
2/15 – 2/18/2011 – Maui, HI “Source Maui festival 4″ solo shows and performances with Phadroid
2/25/2011 – Maui, HI “Source Decompression” at Cassanovas (The Human Experience)
3/1 – 3/4/2011 – Dominical, Costa Rica “Envision Festival” (The Human Experience) and the debut of “Seraphim”
3/26/2011 – Boulder, CO “The Fox Theater” solo performance, Phadroid performance, and playing keys in the debut of Random Rab’s live band with the Infinidroid
4/8/2011 – Bay Area, CA “Yuri’s Day” at NASA’s Ames Research center (teaching music to kids and presenting art with Android Jones)
4/10/2011 – San Francisco, CA “Transported SF” (The Human Experience Feat Ilya Goldberg)
4/11/2011 – Oakland, CA “Spiril presents BassBrunch 1.0″
4/17/2011 – Ashland, OR “Private Event aka Mad Hatter Tea Party!!!”
“Seeing is Believing” EP release!
Posted by David on August 22nd, 2011
The “Seeing is Believing” tour 2011 was the vision of my good brother and creative companion Andrew Jones. Andrew is a pioneer in digital painting, digital street art, and just about digital everything.
Sponsored by Corel, HP, and Wacom; our team set out across the west coast of North America to empower others creativity.
The tour began at “Lightning in a Bottle” festival in Southern California, and went all the way to British Columbia….and back. Throughout our journey the “seeing is believing” team worked our absolute hardest to push the limits of creating digital art.
With 3 vehicles armed with projectors strong enough to light up the side of a skyscraper, a bumping sound system, a 16 foot dome, a chef (youre the best Cjay!!!!), an arsenal of digital creative tools (touch screen drawing tablets etc) the Night Rainbow (andrews Van… not an ordinary van…), portable recording studio, an HP 42″ giclee printer and a bunch of other super fun stuff; we set up creative spaces at Music/Art festivals playing music and creating/sharing digital art and music with all those around us.
in our spare time, we set up in the night and projected on the sides of buildings as Android Jones painted their entire sides with digital canvas’s of light, while I either played music or set up my portable mini studio and wrote music on the streets.
Our team of art evangelists consisted of 9 constant travelers and up to 15 at sometimes.
Did I mention we had a full art gallery by Tribe 13 following us on our journey the entire way!!!….
it way my dream tour. Playing music all day, dancing and being inspired by amazing artists all around all the time, writing in totally bizarre settings, and getting to collaborate with some of my favorite artists.
Besides writing music, I also had the blessing of playing some life changing shows. Performing with two of my other audio/visual/dance projects “Seraphim” and “Phadroid” for thousands of people at Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa CA, and Lightning in a Bottle in Southern CA.
The tour transformed my entire life. i extend my infinite gratitude to Andrew Jones and EVERYONE involved in our journey. You are all my family and inspire me beyond words. it was a genuine pleasure traveling with all of you. You’re all shining stars.
4 “alternate” album covers were created by Andrew Jones, Justin Totemical, Geo Atherton and Jessica Pearlstein. High quality 11″ 17″ poster prints of all the images are available for 20$.
Sending each and everyone one of you listening to this music all my love. I hope this music brings you as much joy as it brought me while I was creating it.
Namaste
Pura Vida
Peace
David
album cover above by Android Jones. www.Androidjones.net
Mastering by Chris (Omega) Cox
Extra special thanks to my love Christina Cruz for being by my side and helping me stay centered. You’re such an inspiration to me
Timelapse video of Andrew Jones’s album cover for “Seeing is Believing”
Posted by David on August 22nd, 2011
My new EP out Sept 5 “Seeing is Believing”. Album art by Android Jones
Posted by David on August 10th, 2011
