SELVA SAGRADA is a reverence to the magic, mystery and sacredness of our Mother Earth, Pachamama. An expression of gratitude to the healing energy and empowering forces of plants and animals. 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 & Spirit, and to restore the harmony between our precious blue planet and all sentient beings.
With this music and its strong South American influences, Praful reconnects with his earlier musical years when he lived in Brazil, fell in love with the Amazon forest and traveled the continent.
Selva Sagrada is an ode to life on Earth.
It is medicine music – medicine for the heart.

Featuring Almunis, Pernilla Kannapinn, Jennifer Ann, Gil Lopez, Afra Mussawisade, Sandip Bhattacharya, Martin Brunsden, Vojta Violinist & Vimal Gabrielsen

Selva Sagrada

A collection of positive, heartwarming songs inspired by nature, human connections, and the magic and mystery of life on Earth. Praful's solo album features a blend of short and longer pieces, including instrumental and vocal tracks in English, Spanish, and fantasy languages. Drawing inspiration from indigenous folk, South-American, African, and European styles, as well as sacred plant ceremonies like the Cacao ceremony, Praful's music is true medicine for the heart.
The album title was inspired by a message from indigenous grandmothers, urging us in these changing times to be gentler on ourselves, and embrace a new era of yin, more feminine living.
"Look up. A breeze is stirring. Feel the sun on your wings.”

Sun on your Wings

Breathe; breathe in the air (2x)

Ela me respira, me enraiza, me segura, me ama
Ela me inspira, me aterra, me carrega, me ama

Mama Mama Pachamama, Mama Mama Pachamama, 
Heya Heya Heya Hey

Quando eu ando em sua pele 
nossos corações batem como um só
Ela me alimenta, me faz sentir no jardim do Éden

E o mundo para de girar
todo átomo começa a cantar

Yanana Nay Nay Nay Nay, 
Yanana Nay Nay Nay Nay Nananay

English translation:
Breathe; breathe in the air (2x)

she breathes me, roots me, holds me, loves me
she inspires me, grounds me, carries me, loves me

Mama Mama Pachamama, Mama Mama Pachamama, 
Heya Heya Heya Hey

when i walk on her skin, our hearts start beating as One
she nourishes me, lets me live in the garden of Eden

and the world stops turning, every atom starts to sing

Breathe

SELVA SAGRADA is a reverence to the magic, mystery and sacredness of our Mother Earth, Pachamama. An expression of gratitude to the healing energy and empowering forces of plants and animals. 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 & 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.

Selva

Calma e tranquilidade são as ordems do senhor
Calma e tranquilidade para receber o amor

Free Translation:
This inner silence is the doorway to love - and love is the door to eternity and tranquility. In this, we are one with all. Calmness and tranquility are the keys that open these doors.

Calma e Tranquilidade

Danza de la Tribu

Agua Pura ftr. Almunis

deep organic ambient pachamama ecstatic-dance remix by Yemanjo, ftr. Praful on vocals, bansuri flute and xalam

Calma e Tranquilidade - Yemanjo Remix

This 3/4 remix by Dutch Ecstatic Dance-DJ Martyn Zij brings the warmth of the sun to your ears, oozing with passion and confidence. Organic, arpeggiated synths mixed with Praful's vocals & flute, South-American-style Ukulele, touch the heart and slowly build in intensity, until bursting open into a powerful trap-infused beat.
May it inspire your movement & expression, may it warm you and help you keep the inner flame burning!
Gracias a los rayos del sol!!

Los Rayos del Sol - Martyn Zij Remix

First collaboration between Mose and Praful - a heart opening dance remix that features Praful on vocals and Bamboo flute, weaving Portuguese and English in a coherent, touching way. This music medicine provides a tapestry for the dance to fly even higher, while also calming and centering body, mind and spirit.

Calma e Tranquilidade - Mose Remix

Praful's EP release of 2 uplifting dance-floor world-beat remixes, crafted by DJ Kareem Raihani - the original versions were released on the Praful album 'Mirror of the Heart'

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The Eyes Of A Miracle - Kareem Raihani Remix

Lotus Dance - Kareem Raihani Remix

Emerging from a still place within, Where Spirits Live has the power to reconnect you with that sacred space. 6 long pieces with organic world percussion, tabla, soprano sax, guitars, acoustic bass, Hang and soft Mantra vocals touch your heart and take you into relaxation. 

“We have to say we are loving this album. It’s been constantly running as the soundtrack to our days. Beautiful!” Deva Premal & Miten (Mantra singers) 

“Where Spirits Live is one of those rare CDs that gives me the same deep full-body experience that I usually only experience listening to Live music.” 
Sh’ana Sheane (Australia) 

“Once in your CD player, you won’t take it out so soon.” Yoga Aktuell (DE) 

I am a sky where spirits live. 
Stare into this deepening blue, 
while the breeze says a secret. 
Like this. 
Rumi

musicians:
Praful – Bansuri, Soprano Sax, Bamboo Sax, Melodica, Vocals, Spanish Guitar, Hang, Tanpura, Keyboards, small percussion 
Afra Mussawisade – Gome, Ghatam, Kanjira, Caxixi, Shakers, Brushes 
Sandhya Sanjana – Pitched Vocals (1) 
Heiko Dijker – Tabla (2,4) 
Pablo Nahar – Acoustic Bass (2,3,4,5,6) 
Nelson Latif – Nylon Guitar (2) 
Gil Lopez - Steel String Guitar (6) 
Maneesh de Moor – additional keyboards (1,3,4) 
Vimal G. Gabrielsen – vocals (4) 

Bird Of The Soul

Love Is The Diamond

Ide Were Were is originally a traditional African song based on the ancient traditional chant for Ochún, the Orichá (goddess) of love from the Yoruba religion, which was practiced in what is today Nigeria and Benin. Taken by the slaves to the New World, it formed the base of the Santeria religion in Cuba and the Candomblé in Brazil. Like a black Aphrodite, her seductive and sensual power encapsulates the feminine ideal. In nature, she rules over rivers.
Praful’s much slower chill-out adaptation and harmonisation was recorded by the singer Deva Premal in the year 2000 and has since become a highly popular song in singing circles all over the globe. This is Praful’s first own recording, featuring guest vocalist Pernilla Kannapinn.

Ide Were Were

A gentle, reggae-flavoured song, sung in Spanish and English, as a support and affirmation for men, amplifying the courage to live with a heart wide open and with a sweet presence that simply holds space. A reminder how the different facets of men can work in perfect balance: heart and mind, freedom and responsibility, flexibility and firmness; as soft as a rose petal, hard as a sword. 
Feel free to play or sing it in men's gatherings.

Hombre Soy - I'm a Man

Misterio

Taller than Trees

Kora Buntari

Cacao Espíritu

Women of the 4 Directions

Raindancer

Spirit of the Water (feat. YUNEA)

Heartfire

El Sol en tus Alas

Butterfly Visits

new album by Praful, released 23 October 2014
Mantra songs & sacred journeys - restful, devotional music to heal and guide you Into Being

Water Healing Mantra

This is one long piece of beautiful music, around the Mantras "OM" and "Om Namoh Bhagavate Vasudevaya" - ideal for your practice, whatever that maybe: Yoga, Meditation, Tantra, Mantra - a delight to listen and dive in!
Beautifully produced by Praful together with Pari Laskaridis.
With guest musicians: Hans Christian, Danilo Ananda Steinert, Manish Vyas, Afra Mussawisade, Gopal Anand 

Buy on Bandcamp

THE GRAND DANCE

Silence Speaks is a new album by Praful and contains gentle, meditative, healing music - long instrumental passages feat. Bamboo Flutes, Piano, Guitars, Hang Drum & World Percussion interchange with Sanskrit Mantras. Praful gathered his favorite musicians and a love support team, the Spirited Tribe, to record music from a shared magical experience of love and friendship.
Includes the Mantras: Dhyana Shlokas, Buddha chant, Om Shanti

Silence Speaks

A Prayer for Healing (feat. Dana Devi)

Taking Refuge

Don't Fight with Life / Om Namah Shivaya, from the album 'Call of the Beloved' by Praful & Spirited Tribe - sacred world fusion, released October 2017. A simple but effective message: If you don't fight with life, life simply helps you, takes you on its shoulders. Sanskrit equivalent: Om Namah Shivaya! (Thy Will be done)
The album is a collection of 12 acoustic songs and instrumental pieces, with influences and inspirations taken from South American Folk music, Sanskrit Mantras, Rumi poems, Yoruba spirituality and more. Songs that speak of love, joy, peace and surrender.
Praful gathered his favorite musicians and a love support team, the Spirited Tribe, to record music from a shared magical experience of love and friendship. http://prafulmusic.com/
Buy on iTunes: http://apple.co/2yRu2w7
The Spirited Tribe: Praful, Andy Blissett, Joshua Samson, Terence Samson, Gil Lopez, Dana Devi, Vimal Gabrielsen, Chandra de Rijk, Isha Nayomo - Sound Engineer: Stephan van Wylick - Camera: Eddie Boschma

Call of the Beloved

Don't Fight with Life / Om Namah Shivaya - Radio Edit

Espirito Das Plantas

Completing the CD trilogy, Earth Tones offers three mesmerizing, acoustic pieces, which build up from soft and still to intoxicating movement. Praful gathered a group of his favorite, sensitive musicians and a love support team, the Spirited Tribe, to record music from a shared magical experience of love and friendship.

So Far, So Near

Earth Tones

Wherever You Turn, You're Facing God

This is a taste for a one-hour meditation with 10 stages which encapsulates the essential components for women’s empowerment & the Goddess Essence transmission. It opens the three positive polarities of the female chakra system, the 2nd, (Belly) 4th (Heart) & 6th (Third Eye. The music is very eclectic, some tracks are for dancing or moving (great for Ecstatic Dance also), some are very silent and meditative. Available on iTunes and Bandcamp, but not on streaming portals.

Goddess Essence Meditation

BIRTHING SPIRALS

Part 3 of a 3-track release with acoustic Original, Dance Remix by Kareem Raïhani and Tantric Chill Remix by Praful. 
A reverence to the mystery and sacredness of our Earth, Pachamama. 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 and cannot survive if we continue to destroy the very basis that makes our existence possible (something becoming increasingly visible to all of us). An invitation to remember and celebrate our universal connection with earth and spirit, and to restore the harmony between our beautiful, precious blue planet and all sentient beings. 
It is medicine music – medicine for the heart.

Cura el Corazón

Cura el Corazón - Tantric Chill Remix

Drink From Me is the first collaboration of gipsy folk singer / violinist Pernilla Kannapinn with world artist / multi-instrumentalist Praful - the laid-back song blends poetic and almost lustfully sensual lyrics with spicy tango flavoured rhythms and rich and luscious melodies.

Drink from Me

Drink From Me

Praful is a multi-instrumental artist, vocalist & live looping master of a New Era. His music is a crossover and live channeling of ethnic/traditional and modern styles, drawing inspiration from indigenous folk songs, sacred chants, South-American & European styles, Indian ragas, shamanic trance, Jazz and world electronic music. It comes from the heart, as an expression of gratitude to the mystery and sacredness of life on Earth, as a call for celebration.
As he drops into the space between the notes and weaves his spell, he invites soul searching, calling you to journey towards that which is of the highest calibre within you. “…it’s like the universe is making love to me.”

Praful is a regular guest on many festivals and gatherings throughout the world, giving concerts Solo or with one of his various projects. He is also world renowned for his work/performances with Dave Koz, Deva Premal&Miten, Eckhart Tolle, Satyaa&Pari, Swati Natekar, Carlos Nakai, Jai Uttal, Lilian Vieira (Zuco103), Peruquois, Jonathan Butler, Maneesh de Moor, Marc Antoine, Adani&Wolf, Nippy Noya, Armando Peraza, Mola Sylla, Kareem Raihani, Gerardo Rosales, Monte LaRue, Holiwater Project, Sudha, Carrie Tree, Project 2000, Hardsoul, DJ Maestro, Lucien Foort and many others.

"...very beautiful and deeply touching."
Eckhart Tolle (spiritual teacher, healer, bestselling author ‘The Journey’)

“Krishna is playing and singing through Praful”
Brandon Bays, USA (awareness teacher, bestselling author)

“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

“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 - Sun on your Wings (2024)
Praful - Selva Sagrada (2021)
Praful - Earth Tones (2018)
Praful - Call of the Beloved (2017)
Praful - Silence Speaks (2017)
Praful — Into Being (2014)
Praful — Mirror of the Heart (2013)
Praful Mystik — Pure (2011)
Praful Mystik — Where Spirits Live (2008)
Praful — Remixed+2 (2007)
Praful — Pyramid in your Backyard (2005)
Praful — One Day Deep (2001/2003)
Praful — Touched by Love (1999)

for full discography, see home page

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