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Quote by Jean Houston

Next is now, world music as the single most potent force in the culture of fusion ... World music-makers are like shamans, carrying us on magic carpets of riffs and melodies through states of consciousness that spin us out of time to lands not yet invented but glimpsed on the aural horizon ... And so we see that music brings us, in the jumping of our cells, from what is past to what is trying to become the future. lt expresses and fulfills our need to hear the spirit in the dark.
(Jean Houston in Jump Time, Sentient Publ. 2004)

Professor Trance - Frank Natale - Trance Dance Music

"My purpose is to empower the individual through Trance Dance Music. This is accomplished by improving the quality of the individuals life through their participation in 'Trance Dance: The Dance of Life', rather than the useless search for life's meaning. My focus on Trance Dance provides the dancer with direct experience, rather than just more data and dogma." - Frank Natale

'Trance Dance International' was founded by Frank Natale (author) aka 'Professor Trance' (artist). He brought trance dance to the West for the first time.

Frank's shamanic approach combines the Goddess cultures and Amazonian plant shamanism. The Goddess cultures were Earth grounded spiritual paths, which dominated the Mediterranean and Europe 35,000 years ago before 'his'-story, the time of male-dominated societies began. Amazonian Shamanism combines the use of teacher plants and trance dance within the context of spiritual ritual.

Committed to dance movement as a healing force, Natale, with his band Professor Trance, has produced quite a number of CDs, and we have incorporated some of his best tracks into the following compilations:

Trance Dance music CDs featuring Professor Trance (Frank Natale) and other international artists:
GrooVitalize
GrooVitalize
Relax, renew, rejuvenate with energizing downtempo, danceable offbeat rhythms to drift away. Outstanding global international artists mix a contemporary pleasurable flow with unconventional sounds for a trance dream voyage - Feet on the ground and touch the sky.
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Drum Drive
Drum Drive - Various Artists
Drum Drive
Drum music - Extra long play album to keep you going with drums, percussion, shakers, bells and whistles. These moving rhythms will get you lost in trance inducing bliss. Make some noise, bang on something! Destress, have fun, let your hair down, strut your stuff, drive yourself nuts, go bananas.
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Tribal Groove
The Tribal Spirit awakens and explodes in vibrant celebration with instruments & vocals from Africa, Native America, the Middle East, Australia, Mongolia, Tibet, and other regions. Enter these magical lands where ancient rhythms and cool grooves entwine into a moving, fresh and fascinating sound-journey. Featuring drums, tabla, dumbeck, kanoun, accordion, flute and indigenous vocals mixed with keyboard, synthesizer and percussion.
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Drum Trance
Tribal
Tribal Rocks!
Tribal music of modern trance dance with a twist of the tribal world: The drums entrance past and present in an intoxicating party with ethnic influences, uplifting rituals and celebrations of Life - dub mixes of percussion, tribal voices, didgeridoo, with inspirations from Africa, North America, Egypt, India, Central Europe, Pakistan, Australia. - Dance till you drop!
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Groove Temple
Pulsing world beats interweave with spacious melodies for a cool sacred journey into the global temple of music. Hypnotic sounds of exotic instruments (sarod, dumbeck, hajouj, tablas) and enticing voices emanate from India, Australasia, Central Europe and the African savannah. Edged with electric accents (keyboard, cello, guitar, synthesizer, drums, bass) and full of mystical verve, this sound-ceremony will ignite your Spirit!
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Drumming Planet
Vivacious Ethno-Trance drum music mixes vibrate from an array of percussion instruments (log, dumbeck, pony, derbuka, dhol, bhodran, frame, jun-jun, tablas, etc). Hypnotic rhythms with ancient roots in ritual ceremonies from the South Pacific, Africa, Ireland, Native America, India and other exotic regions will set your tribal fires burning! Breathe deeply. then move, stretch and embrace a rich mythical sound-journey unfurling within these tribal-music fires.
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Drum Trance
Globe trot non-stop from dance to trance in contempo percussive fusion mixes of ancient instruments, kaleidoscopic musical styles from Africa, New York's underground, Europe and the Middle East - A synergic ambience with scalding desert dunes, primeval forests, tribal rituals and mystical lands of the imagination.
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Tribal Trance Dance
Trance out to tribal rhythms merged with Turkish Drum & Bass, Moroccan ethno-pop, Dj mix from Ghana and Brazilian electro-rap. Journey with American Indian medicine men and Australian hill-people from the rainforests of Oceania to the brash Indo-pop clubs of Indonesia. Modern ethnic dance music with djembe, derbuka, gamelan, bagpipe, native flutes, tabla, log drum and other exotic instruments.
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