Music lovers can dig some earthy tones when Dirtwire plays Saturday night. The two-man, Bay-area-based band, composed of David Satori and Evan Fraser, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Prospector Conference Center and Theater as part of Vision2025, a health and wellness festival that runs Friday thr ough Sunday. “We are proponents of healthy living,” Satori said during a Zoom interview with Fraser. “We support regenerative-food moments and regenerative lifestyle movements. We’re always looking for different ways to live healthier and be more in harmony with the planet.”  Finding harmony with the planet doesn’t just involve sustainable lifestyles. It also includes music, and Dirtwire performs music with traditional instruments found around the world. “My influences are percussive and include different stringed instruments like African harps, African thumb pianos and South American percussion instruments, to name a few,” Fraser said. Satori’s list also includes some obscure music makers, including an esraj, a bowed Indian device that is akin to a small combination of a sitar and dilruba.  “There’s also this Pakistani keyed banjo called a benju and all sorts of instruments that I want to keep collecting,” he said. The two combine these with Western instruments for a style that has been described as “back-porch space cowboy blues, ‘swamptronica’ and electro-twang.” “Right now we’re focused on what we can tour with and stay focused on what we have on stage with us now,” Satori said. Dirtwire’s roots lay at the California Institute of the Arts in Southern California, where Fraser and Satori met as students. “We both had amazing teachers, and it was a revolving door of people with incredible talent that exposed us to so many global music cultures, different music styles and techniques,” Fraser said. “That led to collecting more instruments and teaching ourselves how to play while learning from teachers at the school. That, in turn, gave us a lot of time to hone our craft and find our musical voice.” The two musicians played in a couple of different bands, Satori said. “One was a funk band, and the other was a four-piece where we started to tour more,” he said. “So, Dirtwire is sort of an evolution of our musical history.” Dirtwire emerged from the studio rather than the stage, and it was about finding what instrument from which country could complement other instruments from other countries, Satori said. “Evan plays a lot of different instruments, and I play multiple instruments as well, and we started experimenting,” he said. “We were really trying to learn how to replicate those we did in the studio so we could play those songs on stage.”  In addition to making music with global instruments, Satori and Fraser see themselves as world-music ambassadors. “Universal Language” is the new album from San Francisco Bay-Area duo Dirtwire. Credit: Photo courtesy of Dirtwire “We love sharing what we do and where the instruments come from because we are showing people things they haven’t seen before,” Satori said. “So we see this as our job to share what these instruments are and where they came from and what they are made of.” Earlier this year, Dirtwire released the album “Universal Language.” “This album showcases a lot of collaborations with our peers, friends and amazing artists we met on the Internet and on tour,” Fraser said. “There are a lot of people we’ve been inspired by, and we kind of planted seeds for collaborations, and the ‘Universal Language’ album is what came into fruition.” Some of the artists include the Floozies, Moontricks, Josh Teed LUZCID, Noetika and Danny Musengo, to name a few, said Satori, who founded Sunrise Studios Collective, a nonprofit that has so far built 13 recording studios in nine countries.  “You learn something every time you collaborate because you have a front-row seat to someone’s process when they create,” he said. “We’re looking at their projects and can see how they do this or learning about interesting choices on the musical, production and recording side.” The idea to seek Dirtwire to play at Vision2050 lands on Adam St. Simons, who co-organized the event with Ashley Heather.  Adam St. Simons is a co-founder of the Vision2050 health and wellness festival that debuts this weekend in Park City. He’s also a fan of Dirtwire, which will perform a concert that blends exotic and Western instruments on Saturday at the Prospector Conference Center Theatre. Credit: Photo courtesy of Adam St. Simon “Music gives people a reason to come together, let go and share something that stays with them,” St. Simons said. “We want the concert to be a highlight in its own right and an invitation into the wider weekend. You might come for Dirtwire and leave with a new connection, a new perspective or a reason to get more involved in your community.” Saturday’s gig is a one-off show for Satori and Evans, who just became fathers in the past two months. “Our partners have graciously agreed to let us do this one gig, and then we’re taking some time off of touring,” Satori said. Dirtwire  When: 8 p.m. on Saturday Where: The Prospector Conference Center and Theatre, 2175 Sidewinder Drive Cost: Ticket prices start at $60 Tickets: vision2050pc.com/concert Web: dirtwire.net Also: Vision250 When: Friday through Sunday Tickets: vision2050pc.com/tickets Web: vision2050pc.com The post Dirtwire fuses world instruments and collaborations into its music appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less