Based on the experiences of an anthropologist and three electronic musicians, this project deals with Amazonian reality and its current implications, including ecology, shamanism and the encounter of cultures.

For the occasion, The Young Gods will be in small-scale electronic formation (computer, sampler and percussion), and will blend a presentation of their new ambient album "Music for Artificial Clouds" (2004) with soundtracks recorded in the Amazon and reworked by computer: a live work of electronic improvisation.

Jeremy Narby is a doctor in anthropology from the University of Stanford. He has worked with indigenous people in the Western Amazon for two decades on questions of territorial rights and bilingual, intercultural education. He has written several books, including "The Cosmic Serpent, DNA and the Origins of Knowledge" (1998, Penguin Putnam, New York), which breaks new ground in showing connections between indigenous knowledge and science. He also co-edited with Francis Huxley the first-ever anthology showing the evolution of Western attitudes towards shamanism on a worldwide scale, called "Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge" (2001, Penguin Putnam, New York). He works as coordinator of Amazonian projects for Nouvelle Planète, a Swiss NGO.

The "show" should last about 90 minutes and should include several phases, including music only, anthropological tales only, and others in which music and story combine.