Alexander Karvelas, PhD
Performing artist, teacher, ethnomusicologist
Dros is a fusion project by Alexander Karvelas that breathes futurity into tradition. Alexander specializes in traditional Greek music, while also drawing on over fifteen years of disciplined study of Middle Eastern and North Indian traditions, drawing out their points of historical and aesthetic convergence and building musical-cultural bridges across time, space, and memory. A strong synergy of tradition and imagination makes Dros equally at home in the worlds of global bass, downtempo and ecstatic dance music, as well as traditional acoustic performance settings. Across all of these diverse spaces the mission is the same; to move people’s bodies, hearts and spirits with the creative force of these musical traditions.

Long before the inception of dros as a project, Alexander embarked on his mission to serve as a vessel for musical memory and lineages of ecstatic expression—he has performed and toured extensively with Mah Ze Tar, collaborated in the studio with producers such as Nyrus, Akriza, Soohan, and Peace Sine, composing and tracking live instrumentals and vocals in electronic contexts. Through these collaborations, and through decades of live performance on stage, Alexander sews seeds of musical reawakening, calling listeners, dancers, and audiences into rapturous communion with the ever-emergent beauty of tradition.
Booking / Info
dros.muse@gmail.com
Global Bass Gathering, Roots Music Project, Boulder 3/6
Boulder Ecstatic Dance, 3/8
Fluidity Ecstatic Dance, Ashland, 4/14
Folk and Forage Festival, Eugene, 4/17
Churning Man Festival, Asheville, 6/20
Telluride Mushroom Festival, Telluride, 8/15