Praful
Electronica / Jazz
I was born and raised in Germany. In 1987 I got attracted by the music scene
in Amsterdam where I studied jazz-sax and flute at the School of Arts. Since
the early nineties I started focusing on Latin, Brazilian, African and
Indian music and spent regularly time in Brazil and India. I worked with in
Holland operating groups and artists like Treme Terra, Nippy Noya, Saoco,
Gerardo Rosales and my own projects ‘Good Move’ and ‘Praful & Alchemy’.
In 1997 I got in touch with newer developments in music, like trip hop,
dance and drum&bass. I played with the experimental dance formation Project
2000, which in 1999 won the Dutch Heineken Cross Over Music Award. The band
released an album and two singles with Universal/Polydor. Here I also met
the stunning Senegalese singer Mola Sylla with whom I work also in other
formations (in 2001at the Jazz Festival Moers, Germany together with Ernst
Reiseger) and in the group ‘Societé-tous les couleurs’.
As reed player and composer I am also involved with 'Bayuba Cante', a very
international group mixing Afro Cuban Santeria-roots with flamenco, rumba,
Indian music, funk and jazz. 2 albums are the audible result of this
collaboration (see discography). We did tours and concerts in Holland,
Belgium, Canada, Germany and Cuba.
After having made an ‘unofficial’ solo album (‘Touched by Love’ in 1999, a
simple album with liquid, relaxing music), I signed in 2001 with Therapy
Records, a small Amsterdam based label. The album ‘One Day Deep’ was
released in that same year. I composed and produced it together with Rob
Gaasterland and Daniël Testas, the producers of ‘Project 2000’, also known
as Adani & Wolf. 'One Day Deep' contains sax and flutes, down tempo jazzy
and chilled grooves, western dance vibes, Brazilian rhythms and Indian
flavors. A crossover between world music and electronics. I was assisted by
some international guest musicians such as Afra Mussawisade (percussion,
Iran/Germany), Ted de Jong (tabla, Holland), Adrian Elissen (Spanish guitar,
Malta), José Lopretti (bass, Uruguay) and the Brazilian mystery singer
Algodao Doce (where do I know that voice from?).
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