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Black Coffee performance at Zamna Festival lit with Robe

Lighting designer Eran Klein worked with artist Black Coffee on the Island Stage of the 2023 Zamna Festival in Tulum, Mexico. Klein was asked to light Black Coffee’s performance by techno visionary Oren Heknin, a long term client and underground club promoter/presenter.

The LD insisted on having Robe Spiiders, MegaPointes LEDBeam 150 and Tetra2 moving lights on his rig, which involved swapping out the originally proposed moving lights for his Robe luminaires. “I could not contemplate producing such a special show without the right tools”, he says. The Island Stage - one of several performance spaces across the site - is surrounded by water and an integral part of this large outdoor club environment which energises each year through January, attracting major DJs and music producers from around the world.

Behind the DJ booth and stage was a permanent ground support structure which could be utilised for lighting positions, but Eran Klein and the Black Coffee team built their own eight metre high “heart” centrepiece in front of this. This comprised custom goalposts creating four arches in a slightly abstract heart shape. Loaded with the Robe lights, this became the architectural hub of the Black Coffee performance. Black Coffee shows often have a visual feature to suit the specific performance space and place.

Klein put the ten Robe MegaPointes, five a side plus strobes, on the outer arches. The inner arches were used to rig the thirty-two Spiiders plus sixteen 1-lite blinders. Underneath the structure, four Tetra2 moving LED battens were deployed horizontally orientated, complemented by three vertically hung Tetra2s per side, so a total of ten Tetra2s. Another two Spiiders were on the downstage PA towers for artist key lighting.

The LD built a three dimensional “temple of light” with Spiiders, an idea “inspired by the Mayan indigenous warriors whose culture and historic legacy permeates the whole region”. He programmed and ran the show on a GrandMA2 console. All lighting equipment was supplied by rental company Logra Mexico, via their Cancun office.

The sound designer was Jeronimo Ignacio Sanches a/k/a ‘Nacho’, Island stage manager Borja de Torres kept everything running on time, and the heart piece was a collaboration between Pomelo and Dynamic Waves. The Zamna Festival was produced by EBM (Entertainment Business Management). Head of production Miguel Lovera worked closely with Donald Hernandez, Lisa Bevers, and Toni Rocio.

(Photos: Jesus Arce/Pablo Pereyra/Kristian Suárez)

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