Praful

Praful is a master sound healer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer and charismatic performer. He embraces Jazz, Soul, Dance, Indian and New World Fusion with grace and passion.

In 1992, after having completed his studies of Jazz Sax&Flute at the Amsterdam Conservatory (AHK), Praful went on a spiritual quest to India. He meditated in the Ashram of the enlightened mystic Osho and learned the Indian Bamboo Flute (Bansuri) with Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.

Equally fascinated by Brazilian music, he went to live a year in Brazil and immersed himself in the music scene of Rio de Janeiro. Over the years, all those influences integrated into his own brand of Sacred World Fusion, first presented in 2001 on his album ‘One Day Deep.’

Released in 2003 in the USA, the album became a major success in the US-Jazz scene — US-Billboard Chart notations and the #1 radio hit SIGH were accompanied by extensive touring. Several radio singles and 2 more albums in similar Chillout-style followed.

After 2006, his heart was calling for a change — his busy life as an entertainer and bandleader felt increasingly empty and did not bring happiness. He went on a quest for his true calling.
“My heart was longing to melt in love and joy with other hearts, to disappear in sound and silence, to become one with all,” says Praful. “Music is my gift to those who are ready to travel with me into the depth of Being – music can help you to awaken. Once my life purpose revealed itself to me, I had to live it!”

Since then, new music and projects have been birthed: the Spirited Tribe Trilogy recorded Live in one studio session (‘Silence Speaks’, ‘Call of the Beloved’, ‘Earth Tones’), two meditative Solo albums ('Where Spirits Live', 'Pure'), a Sufi-inspired song collection ('Mirror of the Heart'), devotional Sanskrit Mantras ('Into Being'), several releases with his dance project Red Fulka ('We Are One', EP 'Soul on Fire'), a collaboration with Mantra singers Satyaa & Pari ('Om For Yoga'), the tribally rooted Duo with Didgeridoo player Sika ('Quintessence'), Tantra music with singer Peruquois ('Breathing Love'), several guided meditations and even classical infused music by Erik Satie ('The Silent Side of Satie'). He also co-creates and records guided meditations with his partner Vimal G. Gabrielsen ('Golden Chakra Meditation'), the Tantra teacher Ma Ananda Sarita (‘Goddess Essence Meditation’) and others.

His latest solo album SELVA SAGRADA (released July '21) took him back to the years he lived in Brasil, and after that played hundreds of concerts with Latin Bands in Amsterdam. The whole album is a reverence to the magic, mystery and sacredness of our Mother Earth, Pachamama. It's an expression of gratitude to the healing energy and empowering forces of plants, animals and all the Elements. A humble reminder, that we all ARE nature, that all life forms are symbiotic and make each other’s existence possible. An invitation to remember and celebrate our uniqueness and beauty, our universal connection with Earth and Spirit, and to restore the harmony between our precious blue planet and all sentient beings.
Selva Sagrada is an expression of gratitude to life on Earth.
It is medicine music – medicine for the heart.

Currently, Praful is releasing a series of Remixes from the Selva Sagrada songs — cooked up by some of the best (Ecstatic) Dance DJ's around the world: Yemanjo, Mose, Kareem Raihani, Binder, Martyn Zij, Raio and others. 5 new Red Fulka dance tracks have also been released.

Praful is a regular guest on many festivals and gatherings throughout the world, giving concerts solo, with one of his projects or playing Healing events together with his partner Vimal Gabrielsen. He is also world-renowned for his work/performances with Eckhart Tolle, Dave Koz, Deva Premal & Miten, Swati Natekar, Carlos Nakai, Jai Uttal, Peruquois, Maneesh de Moor, Ma Ananda Sarita, Marc Antoine, Adani & Wolf, Nippy Noya, Armando Peraza, Laura Fygi, Mola Sylla, Kareem Raihani, Robertinho Silva, Armandinho, David Steindl-Rast, Gerardo Rosales, Monte LaRue, Sika, Holiwater Project, Sudha, Carrie Tree, Project 2000, Hardsoul, DJ Maestro, DJ Lucien Foort and many others.

Praful's 10+ solo albums garnered great international success. He keeps on composing and playing new music constantly, and he will keep doing so as long as he breathes. «Why stop, when you do what you love?»

Teacher and bestselling author Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now) finds Praful’s music «tremendously beautiful and deeply touching» and has invited him several times to play for his talks.

“As he weaves his spell with his sax, or invites soul-searching with his flute, or ignites you to dance to abandon, he is in each and every note, inviting you to journey towards that which is of the highest caliber within you.”
(Ma Ananda Sarita, Tantra teacher)

“Krishna is playing and singing through Praful”
Brandon Bays, USA (inspirational teacher, healer, bestselling author ‘The Journey’)

“He plays … without meaning to announce he has heard and learnt from a world master, God of flute, Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia. He plays … like a global music artiste would — merging swaras into breath, a full scream from the heart that sounds less like it comes from the West and more like any temperamental (Indian) vocalist …”
S. Mehrishi, Daily Pioneer, New Delhi, India

“When you play the flute, it’s like the universe is making love to me.”
Rinske Frederiks, NL

“I have no words to describe what you do. It is simply transcendental watching you drop into the space between the notes and download all of us with a powerfully transformative experience.”
Sean Gardner, USA (Raw Food Guru)

Discography

Solo Albums

Praful — Selva Sagrada (Mystic Productions, 2021)
Praful & Spirited Tribe — Earth Tones (Mystic Productions, 2018)
Praful & Spirited Tribe — Call of the Beloved (Mystic Productions, 2017)
Praful & Spirited Tribe — Silence Speaks (Mystic Productions, 2017)
Praful — Into Being (Mystic Productions, 2014)
Praful — Mirror of the Heart (Mystic Productions, 2013)
Praful Mystik — Pure (Mystic Productions, 2011)
Praful Mystik — Where Spirits Live (Mystic Productions, 2008)
Praful — Remixed+2 (Therapy Records, 2007)
Praful — Pyramid in your Backyard (Therapy Records, 2005)
Praful — One Day Deep (Therapy Records, NL, 2001/ Rendezvous, USA, 2003)
Praful — Touched by Love (Mystic Productions, 1999)

Solo Singles and Vinyl

Danza de la Tribu — Praful's One Tribe Remix (Mystic Productions, 2022) (single)
Supreme Light Within — ftr. Pernilla Kannapinn (Mystic Productions, 2022) (single)
Calma e Tranquilidade — Mose Remix (Mystic Productions, 2022) (single)
Danza de la Tribu — Kareem Raihani Remix (Mystic Productions, 2022) (single)
Los Rayos del Sol — Martyn Zij Remix (Mystic Productions, 2022) (single)
Calma e Tranquilidade — Yemanjo Remix (Mystic Productions, 2022) (single)
Breathe — Binder Remix (Mystic Productions, 2021) (single)
Cura el Corazon — Original + 2 Remixes (incl. Kareem Raihani Remix) (Mystic Productions, 2020) (maxi-single)
The Eyes of a Miracle — Kareem Raihani Remixes (Mystic Productions, 2014) (maxi-single)
Underworld Antonio Ocasio Remixes (Tribal Winds Records USA, 2006) (12 inch)
Let the Chips Fall (Rendezvous Records USA, 2004) (CD single)
Inspiracao 3 Remixes (Therapy Records, 2004) (12 inch)
SIGH — Remixes (Rendezvous Records USA, 2003) (single)
Corpo Suado Original (Therapy Records, 2002) (12 inch)
Naked / Corpo Suado Remix (Therapy Records, 2002) (12 inch)
Inspiracao (Therapy Records, 2002) (single)
Inspiracao Hardsoul Treatment (Therapy Records, 2002) (12 inch)

Collaborate Albums and Singles

Praful & Dana Devi — A Prayer for Liberation (Mystic Productions, 2022) (EP)
Red Fulka — Danu (Mystic Productions/HiTech Roots, 2022) (single)
Red Fulka — Sacred Men (Mystic Productions/HiTech Roots, 2022) (single)
Red Fulka — L'Arpege trop bon (Mystic Productions/HiTech Roots, 2021) (single)
Red Fulka — Let Yourself Fall (Mystic Productions/HiTech Roots, 2021) (single)
Red Fulka — Seeds (Mystic Productions/HiTech Roots), 2021) (single)
Praful & Sargam — Call for Freedom (Mystic Productions, 2021) (EP)
Praful & Friends — Let the Healing of the Earth Begin (Mystic Productions, 2021) (single)
Praful & Pernilla Kannapinn — Drink from Me (Mystic Productions, 2020) (single)
Praful & Sika — Quintessence (Mystic Productions/Sika Music, 2015) (album)
Satyaa & Pari with Praful — Om For Yoga (Silenzio, DE, 2015) (album)
Red Fulka — Soul on Fire (Shining Music, 2015) (maxi-single)
Praful / Helvia Briggen — The Silent Side of Satie (Mystic Productions, 2014) (album)
Red Fulka — We Are One (Mystic Productions/HiTech Roots, 2011) (album)
Peruquois & Praful — Here I Am Beloved (Mystic Productions, 2011) (maxi-single)
Peruquois & Praful — Breathing Love (Mystic Productions, 2009) (album)
Jiga-Voo — Instinto (Coast to Coast, NL, 2009) (album)
Dinesh Mishra & Praful, with Heiko Dijker — Live at Open Sky House (Mystic Productions, 2006) (Live album)
Bayuba Cante — Orunmila's Dance (NetworkMedien, 2001) (album)
Bayuba Cante — Cheba (NetworkMedien, 2000) (album)
Project 2000 — It's About Time (Universal/Polydor, 2000) (album)
Dancing Poets — Fragments of Truth (Osho Verlag Koeln, DE, 1993) (album)

Meditations

Vimal Gabrielsen & Praful Mystik — Elemental Meditation (Mystic Productions, DE, 2022)
Vimal Gabrielsen & Praful Mystik — Golden Chakra Meditation (Mystic Productions, DE, 2020)
Ma Ananda Sarita & Praful Mystik — Goddess Essence Meditation (Tantra Essence, UK, 2019)
Tiger Singleton & Praful — There's only Love — Live Recording (Mystic Productions/Tiger Singleton, 2018) (EP download)
Guy Barrington & Praful — Colibri Heart Ecstatic Dance Journey (NL/UK, 2011)
Joshua Samson — One Minute Fit – Pilates (Oreade, NL, 2011)
Roslyn Whitney — Awakening (USA/NL, 2010)
Alles is Goed — Realisering (Alles is Goed, NL,2009)
Dorien van Nieukerken — Mindfulness (Heart 2 Heart, NL, 2008)

Other Albums Produced by Praful

Dana Devi — Doorway to Silence (Dana Devi Music, NL, 2019)
Satyaa — Isness (Silenzio, DE, 2017)
Pari — Healing Mantras (Silenzio, DE, 2014)
Sudha – In Her Name (Malimba Records, USA, 2014)
Guy Barrington & Praful — Colibri Heart Ecstatic Dance Journey — (NL/UK, 2011)
Joshua Samson — One Minute Fit – Pilates (Oreade, NL, 2011)
Roslyn Whitney — Awakening (USA/NL, 2010)
Alles is Goed — Realisering (Alles is Goed, NL, 2009)
Dorien van Nieukerken — Mindfulness (Heart 2 Heart, NL, 2008)
Deva Premal — Dakshina (Prabhu Music, 2005)

Guest Appearances (a selection)

Erica Nap — Het Vergeten Lied (Murali Records, 2022)
Satyaa & Pari — Live in Corfu (Satyaa & Pari, 2021)
Kailash Kokopelli — St. Michael Invocation (Kokopelli Medicine Music, 2021)
Satyaa & Pari — New Year Celebrations (Satyaa & Pari, 2020)
Kailash Kokopelli — Wuerde (Das Grundgesetz) (Kokopelli Medicine Music, 2020)
Kailash Kokopelli — Skylark (Kokopelli Medicine Music, 2020)
Kailash Kokopelli — Freedom: Chance 2 Change (Kokopelli Medicine Music, 2020)
Kailash Kokopelli — Strawman (Kokopelli Medicine Music, 2020)
Maneesh de Moor — Mother of All (MDM, 2019)
Pratibha — Circle of Love (DK, 2019)
Anugraha — The Early Bird (Anugrah Music, 2018)
Ajeet Kaur — Kiss the Earth (Spirit Voyage, 2017)
Lucinda Drayton – The Road least travelled (Blissful Music Records, 2015)
Ajeet Kaur — Darshan (Spirit Voyage, 2015)
Gurudeva — Satsong (Feel-the-Beat, 2015)
Prem Gitama / Gopal Anand — Glory of the Lotus (Kaula, 2014)
Kailash Kokopelli — Golden Dragonrider (Silenzio, 2014)
Pari — Healing Mantras (Silenzio, 2014)
Satyaa — Kundalini Yoga Mantras Vol.2 (Silenzio, 2013)
Ellen Molnia – In the Heart of a Gopi (Nataraj Records, 2013)
Kailash Kokopelli&Dhwani — Shamantra (Silenzio, 2013)
Terence Samson — Daily Tuning (NL, 2012)
Raphael & Shakya — Nomadic Love (Malimba Records, 2012)
Satyaa & Pari & Mira — One to One (Silenzio, 2012)
Veeresh and the Humaniversity Sound — Samasati (Freestate Records, 2012)
Meetha Pandit&Heiko Dijker — Luminance Project (EMI India, 2011)
Mama DC – Supernatural (NL, 2011)
Satyaa — Sings Kundalini Yoga Mantras (Silenzio, 2011)
Kareem Raihani — Hitech Roots (Hitech Roots, 2010)
Peter Makena — Magnificence (Makena Music, 2010)
Sika Rose — Bubblin' (NZ, 2010)
Bickley Rivera — Chillin' After Five (Level Blu, 2010)
Satyaa & Pari — To The One (Silenzio, 2010)
Driftkikker — D-Time (Driftkikker Productions, 2009)
Lawson Rollins — In Motion (radio single) (Infinita, 2009)
Pratibha — Echo of a Star (DK, 2009)
Adani & Wolf — Supersteam (United Recordings, 2009)
Tarisha — Carry Me Home (Tarisha Love, 2008)
Gaia Nostra — Hold you once again (Tabtoo/CNR Entertainment, 2008)
Happinez/Sudha&Maneesh de Moor — Relaxz Vol. 3 (Happinez, 2008)
Marco Antonio Sanchez Ramirez — Lo que trajo el barco (Musica de Alla, 2008)
Monte La Rue — The End of the Rainbow( United Recordings, 2008)
Sudha & Maneesh de Moor — Sharanam — Sacred Chants of Devotion (Malimba Records, 2007)
Maneesh de Moor — Om Deeksha (Sounds True, 2007)
Nelson Latif — Movimento (Brasil,NL, 2007)
Tamara Maria — Tamara Maria (NL, 2006)
Jazz Juice — 52nd Street (Freestyle Records, 2006)
Rasiko — Girando (Sonante, 2006)
Maneesh de Moor — Sadhana (Sounds True, 2005)
Neobe and Adani & Wolf — Unconditional (Therapy Records, 2005)
Deva Premal — Dakshina (Prabhu Music, 2005)
Humaniversity — Love in Action (Humaniversity Sound, 2005)
Electro Coco — Coco do Mundo (Mais Que Nada Music, 2004)
Omar Ka & Fula Band — Soruuna (Ka 2000, 2004)
Sudha — Planet Love (Malimba Records, 2004)
Miten with Deva Premal, Songs for the Inner Lover (Prabhu Music, 2003)
Adani & Wolf – Les Seigneurs (Therapy Records, 2003)
Deva Premal & Miten – Satsang (Silenzio/White Swan 2002)
Humaniversity – Peace is in our Hands (2002)
Ravi — The Afro-Indian Project (ARCmusic, 2001)
Saoco – Aroma de Cafe (Mellow Mamma Records, 2001)
Maneesh de Moor – Lovers Lounge (MDM Music, 2001)
Satgyan – Liquid Passion, 2000)
Laura Fygi — The Latin Touch (Universal Records, 2000)
Olav Basoski — Opium Scumbagz (Defected records, 2000)
Gerardo Rosales – Senor Tambo (A Records, 1998)
Bacan con Lilian Vieira — Cara (Challenge Records, 1996)
Florian Richter – Canto (Sound Star-Ton Records, 1995)
Kamal – Mistral (Nightingale Records, 1994)