![]() In 2011, Boom also won the title of YOUROPE Green ‘N’ Clean Festival of the Year for the second year in a row.īoom’s eco-impact was so big that the United Nations invited the festival’s team to use their musical popularity to raise awareness in a program called United Nations Music & Environmental Initiative.Īnother particularity about Boom Festival is that it does not believe in corporate sponsors. In 2004, Boom Festival started a series of self-sustainable projects which included: toilets with no chemical products the use of natural and eco-friendly resources like the wind and solar energy recycling policies the treatment of residual waters using biotechnology and even the distribution to participants of free supplies of cleaning kits with pocket ashtrays and rubbish bags.īoom’s environmental-conscious policies have gained international recognition, and this psytrance festival has even been awarded the Greener Festival Award for several years. In the words of one of Boom’s founders: “Boom is not only a festival, but it’s also a state of made, inspired by Oneness, Peace, Creativity, Sustainability, Transcendence, Alternative Culture, Active Participation, Evolution, and Love.”Īnd that perfectly sums up what the most famous psytrance festival is all about… A Self-Sustainable Example to Follow Photo by Çağdaş Alagöz Festival Facebook Almost like an alternate reality composed by people of all sorts of ethnicities, nationalities, gender, ages, together as one. Every two years, Boomers gather on that particular place in space and time and experience a great atmosphere filled with culture, art, music, and self-sustained living. What started as a simple festival has turned into more than that – a way of living. Today, the festival has grown to around 50.000 visitors (or Boomers) per edition from all over the world, making it one of the biggest international tribe gatherings. It started back in 1997 as a small psytrance festival in the middle of a forest in Portugal. A Transformational Psychedelic Trance Festival Photo: Boom Festival Facebookīoom Festival has a truly humble beginning. Located right in the middle of Portugal, the country that’s frequently called the Mecca of psytrance, Boom counts with a variety of visual exhibitions and great music performances, group activities, workshops, and stations, all of this in one magical place surrounded by nature and great energy.īoom Festival is also known for its great environmentally friendly psychedelic universe (having won several awards). ![]() Boom Boom just captures Hooker the professional - which is good enough to modestly entertain as it plays but it leaves no real impression behind.Boom Festival is a biennial psytrance music and culture festival and it happens on August’s full moon. The feel is better than The Healer (and certainly the subsequent Chill Out), but it's not as memorable as some of the other albums that may not have been as consistent but at least had distinguishing characteristics. He's hardly lazy, but he's not inspired either, which leaves Boom Boom as a rather curious entry in his latter-day comeback catalog. ![]() However, he's not in a particularly energetic mood here. Jimmie Vaughan and Robert Cray have never been known for their flashiness and they give their respective numbers - "Boom Boom" and "Same Old Blues Again" - sharp, typically tasteful leads, but even Albert Collins seems a bit restrained on "Boogie at Russian Hill" - it's as if all involved decided to lay back and give Hook the center stage. It might not feel as slick as The Healer, but it's polished and professional and filled with cameos - but this time, the professional sound comes from the seasoned sidemen offering support and the stars here are all guitarists (or in the case of Charlie Musselwhite, a harpist) who never overshadow Hooker. In contrast, Boom Boom was lean and direct, relying on such staples as "Boom Boom," "I'm Bad Like Jesse James," "Bottle Up and Go," and "I Ain't Gonna Suffer No More." This leanness is in comparison to its two immediate predecessors, of course, because Boom Boom is hardly as gritty as the original versions of these tunes. ![]() ![]() Lucky, avoided either Hooker's signature boogie or several of his signature tunes, but they were tempered by both a slicker production and newly written tunes. It wasn't that The Healer or its 1991 follow-up, Mr. John Lee Hooker won many new listeners with his 1989 star-studded comeback album, The Healer, and his 1992 studio album, Boom Boom, was designed as introduction to his classic songs for this new audience. ![]()
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