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Specializing in flamenco percussion and keys, De Kai creates unique, engaging, original, provocative blends of funk, soul, flamenco, Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern, Afro-Latin acoustic dance music and live electronica with his project ReOrientate.

Friday, Apr 22, 2011 3:55PM / Members only

Amazing energy at Grappa's Cellar last night where ReOrientate and many other artists appeared for Gimme Shelter! THANKS to all our friends who joined in to support ShelterBox. SPECIAL PROPS to AliveNotDead and to Chris B and Kate Sullivan and everyone pitching in at E.V.E.N.T and The Underground to make it all happen!

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ReOrientate featured in Culture magazine

Monday, Feb 28, 2011 10:16AM / Members only

An interview with me in this month's Culture magazine about how ReOrientate happened and what it's all about, as we look forward to our full length show Sat 5 Mar, 10pm, at the Fringe Club... full text at

http://www.reorientate.info/reorientate/biography.html

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ReOrientate - live at the Fringe

Monday, Feb 28, 2011 10:04AM / Members only

As featured in this month's Culture magazine!
http://www.reorientate.info/reorientate/biography.html

An infectious blend of Flamenco/Chinese/Indian/Arabic/Afro-Latin/Soul acoustic/electronica. Original, fresh, unique dance music without borders - lyrical, funky, fiery, immediately familiar, distinctly Asian, yet defying categorization.

Infusing the passion of hot Spanish flamenco rhythms back into its Oriental gypsy roots, the sound of ReOrientate draws from the epic Silk Route migrations of the gypsies through cultures that today are Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, African, Latin...

A cross-cultural collective of performers from diverse traditions, ReOrientate is dedicated to weaving rich, surprising, irresistible grooves and harmonies embracing and transcending heritages from Far East to Far West.

ADMISSION includes 1 drink:
$125 (advance: [email protected] or +852 2521 7251) /
$150 (at the door)

Details: http://www.alivenotdead.com/dekai/ReOrientate-live-at-the-Fringe-event-1176350.html

Fringe Club: http://www.hkfringeclub.com/lm_en.html
Inquiries: [email protected]
Website: http://www.reorientate.info/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/reorientate

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The Gypsy Road to Flamenco

Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 9:39AM / Members only

What a night... a big thanks to all our wonderful friends who came out for the ReOrientate show at "The Gypsy Road to Flamenco"... and to Bahouki and Sol Y Flamenco for sharing great gypsy music, to the Fringe Club and to Calvin for making all the magic happen...

http://www.alivenotdead.com/dekai/The-Gypsy-Road-to-Flamenco-with-ReOrientate-Bahouki-event-1128796.html

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"Aaja Nachle" by ReOrientate

Sunday, Jul 11, 2010 4:06PM / Members only

THANK YOU to all the wonderful music lovers who came out to see ReOrientate play at Backstage Live. It was one HOT party thanks to you!!
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d56AKBFeQ0g

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M3GA
posted on Sunday, Nov 13, 2011 4:15PM [Report]

Are you enjoying your weekend ? : ]
M3GA
posted on Sunday, Oct 30, 2011 12:46PM [Report]

M3GA <3
liugenshui
posted on Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 3:57PM [Report]

how are you !
PIGTIGERMONKDOG
posted on Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 10:20PM [Report]

Thank U & good luck in UR performance, I am at NYC,
liugenshui
posted on Monday, Feb 28, 2011 2:26PM [Report]

thank you!
alivenotdead
posted on Wednesday, Dec 29, 2010 10:05AM [Report]

Happy New Years from everyone at alivenotdead.com!
TurtleTabla
posted on Friday, Jul 30, 2010 4:20PM [Report]

hi~dekai~i am dickson how are you~
liugenshui
posted on Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 6:04PM [Report]

您的善举我们很感动！
残疾人艺术团刘根水祝福每位朋友：
幸福健康快乐每一天！
多谢关注、支持与帮助！
Aisha89
posted on Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010 7:21AM [Report]

Hey De Kai!
I just check out your website. It's nice!
But I think you can further improve it by providing more info about the members. Just a suggestion, rest is up to you! Love the videos too! Keep up the good work! Have a great week ahead! :)
QUASAR
posted on Saturday, Jul 3, 2010 6:37PM [Report]

Hey there De,
what's up?..please do give a listen to our music..and let us know what you think.
Cheers bro,
Sanjeev @ Quasar
liugenshui
posted on Thursday, Jun 10, 2010 8:11AM [Report]

残疾人艺术团刘根水感谢社会各界的关注、支持与帮助！恭祝您：快乐每一天！幸福每一天！我们经常往返于深圳市和江西办公，不能来参加你们的活动，请海涵！您的善举我们很感动！谢谢！！
Oxana Banshikova
posted on Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010 2:51PM [Report]

Nice to see you on AnD ;-)
deboraying
posted on Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010 5:02PM [Report]

okay, then we have to be fans of each other first, then we manually change each other's status to "friends" then we can PM each other, and exchange email address.
deboraying
posted on Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010 10:18AM [Report]

to send through emails, we'll have to exchange email address. or we can link up as friends, then we can PM each other, coz I don't think we would want to post our personal email address here for everyone to see.
deboraying
posted on Monday, Feb 22, 2010 2:00PM [Report]

it's back on. it's the third track. the reason i took off that song is because, i wrote it like ten years ago, and the lyrics doesn't reflect what I believe in now. let me know what you think, ,then I'll take it off again. it's better if we can just email each other...but I don't want to write my email here for everyone to see. =(
deboraying
posted on Sunday, Feb 21, 2010 4:02PM [Report]

oops, sorry, I forgot i took it off while I was reorganizing my songs.Now it's down to two. Are you online now?
I can put it back up again.
deboraying
posted on Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 1:19PM [Report]

Hi De, my friend did an "Orient" remix of my song, "If there is a God." Give it a listen and give me your honest opinion. Personally I'm not too crazy about it. Let me know what's wrong with it! =X
rottendoubt
posted on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 7:21PM [Report]

happy birthday! =D
Aisha89
posted on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 5:36AM [Report]

Welcome to AnD! Hope you enjoy it here as much as we do~ Do put up your music on here once you get a chance~ Looking forward to it~ :)
Belkie
posted on Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 3:27AM [Report]

Welcome to AnD !! :)
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De Kai

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A native of St. Louis, De Kai specializes in flamenco percussion and keys, creating unique, original dance music across the rich variety of music styles he grew up with living and traveling in Chicago, Berkeley, San Diego, New York, Toronto, Munich, Andalucia, Madrid, China, and India. He performs across a wide range of fusion as well as pure flamenco in traditional dance / guitar / percussion format.

His project ReOrientate creates engaging, provocative blends of funk, R&B, soul, flamenco, Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern, Afro-Latin, and diverse other acoustic music and live electronica.
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Occupation: Musician , Composer , Music Producer
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