(Tribal Trance) Professor Trance & The Energisers - Shaman`s Breath - 2002, FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

A master teacher and natural healer, Frank Natale has been a prominent figure in alternative education for over thirty years. He was known as a charismatic and provocative teacher who had the capacity to draw from the complex realities of psychology, spirituality, shamanism and music and combine the essence of those in a powerful way.
Early on in life, still a young man, he had the extraordinary chance to meet and work with some of the key pioneers of the human potential movement, which was the beginning of humanistic psychology. He was on stage with Abraham Maslow, founder of Psychodrama, spent time in the hot tubs of Big Sur, Esalen with Fritz Perls (founder of Gestaltherapy) and was one of the first encounter-therapists, trained by Chuck Dederick (founder of the Encounter Movement). As co-founder and clinical director of Phoenix-House, the first drug free therapeutic-community in New York, he gained international reputation. For many years he was a close disciple of Baba Muktananda.
His own Institute, The Natale Institute (TNI), founded in Houston Texas in 1982, had representations in all five continents at its high time. From 1987-1997 Natales main focus was his presence in Europe, especially in Germany, Italy and France. As Professor Trance Frank Natale produced a number of internationally successful Trance Dance CDs and books. He spent the last years of his life in the US and in Hawaii. The intense body of work within TNI entailed the following subject areas:
Life Skills, teaching the basic skills of a self-determined and authentic life
Skills for the New Age and Spirit Lives
Trainings and seminars focusing on metaphysical qualities of life
Shamanic and energy work
The ONE Experience, a process of initiation.
The last years of his work were dedicated to a large extent towards the study of extraordinary states of consciousness. Many were in favour of his teachings, including the usage of natural consciousness-expanding substances, at the TNI-Institute in Amsterdam, Crystal Palace. However he was not supported by governmental organizations.
Through his charisma and genius and his straight forward and often uncompromising way of pointing out delicate issues, he inspired, encouraged and thrilled thousands of people all over the world. As a rebel of the soul he never wanted to be nice and convenient - and he wasn't.
Committed to dance movement as a healing force, Frank, with his band 'Professor Trance', has produced a body of trance dance music including the best selling CD 'Shaman's Breath' on Island Records, the double CD 'Medicine Trance' and their latest CD 'Rites of Passage'. Publishing credits for Frank Natale include the books 'Trance Dance - The Dance of Life' from Element Books and 'Mastering Alive Relationships'.
He was a great and gifted teacher, still sending signs of encouragement in the creation of his conscious death at the day of Festival of light, Summer Solstice. Frank indicated that even death, the last great passage and challenge in life, is nothing but a transition into another dimension: No beginning, no end, only transformation.
Frank Natale, a unique teacher and guide in the field of human growth and development in the USA, Europe and in many other parts of the world for more than 30 years, began his last great journey on his 61st birthday. He left his body on June 21st 2002.

This remarkable CD is a soundtrack for trance dancing-but it's not rave, it's not techno, it's not ambient or industrial or hip hop, or anything remotely partaking of the mind-numbing conformity of modern urban dance music. Instead, it's made up of beats inspired by traditional cultures that still maintain a connection to the spirits via shamanism and trance dancing, mixed with cutting-edge club music: that is, it's modern tribal techno-pagan shamanic music, and it rocks! If you can sit still during this album, you're either completely physically repressed, deeply into resistance, or dead.
Prof. Trance & The Energisers are an international "tribe" of creative folk who "experience the Great Mother Earth as the original deity and the intelligence within nature." Their purpose is to bring good energy into people's lives through neo-shamanic cross-cultural spiritual practices. Trance dancing is an ancient shamanic practice used for healing through techniques of ecstasy. As the Energisers write, "Anyone can Trance Dance because there are no steps, no external expectations. Spirit knows the steps and once awakened, Spirit takes over."
The concept, text, and lyrics for Shaman's Breath were all created by Frank Natale, aka Prof. Trance, the leader of the Energisers. Each of the CD's nine tracks conveys a piece of the Energizers' cosmology. The CD kicks off with "Spirit Catcher" and progresses to the core tracks, "Breath Connects Us All" and "Dancing Your Animal," concluding with the beautiful "Soul Hunters Return." Using this music is meant to be a spiritual practice distilled from many shamanic traditions-spiritual technology stripped of cultural baggage (a paradox, because what makes the music so successful is its grounding in, with occasional samples of, particular music cultures). I've interacted with a lot of modern tribal techno-pagans over the years (Madison is full of 'em), but very few as are committed, as focused, as grounded, and as effective as the Energizers appear to be.
The CD's liner notes are specific about how to use the music to enact your own trance-dance ritual. (I tried it out, following the directions: it works.) If you're into techno-rave, or a hardcore modern urban soul who sneers at anything remotely spiritual, then steer clear of Shaman's Breath. If, on the other hand, you're serious about The Real Stuff (not just more "New Age" ear-candy crap and quick-fix album), then this CD is a must-have. Give into the flow-as the words to "Xingu" say, "Move that body, heal it...

All Music Arranged and Performed by: Alian Eskinasi, Joe Galdo and Pim Kilian
Breath and vioce by: Frank Natale
Vocals on "Kozuma": Betty Wright
Djembe & Conga: Frank Jansen
Congas on "Soul Hunters Return": Florencio Baro