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Sax-, Flute- and Bansuri- player Praful is a native German who chose Amsterdam as his home base in the late 80’s. Over the last 2 decades he has emerged himself in Jazz, Dance, TripHop, Latin and West African Music and especially in the musical cultures of Brazil and India. He has recorded and shared the stage with numerous artists and bands: Project 2000, Bayuba Cante, Société tous les Couleurs, Dave Koz, Gerardo Rosales, ElectroCôco, Lilian Vieira (Zuco103), Jonathan Butler, Maneesh de Moor, Deva Premal and Miten, Marc Antoine, Nippy Noya, Armando Peraza, Ravi, Jazzjuice, Good Move, Hardsoul, DJ Maestro and many more. With ‘Project 2000’ he was decorated with the Dutch Heineken Crossover Award.

In 2001 he signed his first solo artist deal with Therapy Records and released the album ‘One Day Deep’, produced by him together with Adani&Wolf. Launched in the USA on Dave Koz’s label Rendezvous Entertainment from LA, Praful was embraced as “Jazz-Debut artist of the year 2003” (The Wave, LA) and “The breath of fresh air in America’s Contemporary Jazz”. The album stayed in the US American Billboard chart for 70 weeks, scored a #1 radio hit with the first US-single SIGH and sold more than 100.000 copies worldwide. Developing further his warm and original crossover between Jazz, Electronica and WorldMusic, Praful released ‘Pyramid in your Backyard’ in 2005.
Fluent in 7 languages, Praful is a true world citizen who loves and seeks the (musical) meeting and communion with humans from all colors, cultures and religions. His albums are released in North America, Europe and Asia and Praful has performed with his Band as well as other projects all over Europe, in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Malaysia and Indonesia.

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1	Moon Glide full track	160
2	Sigh full track	123
3	One Day Deep full track	80
4	Sonhar full track	57
5	Let The Chips Fall full track	55
6	Inspiracao full track	51
7	Naked full track	46
7	Teardrop Butterfly full track	46
9	Wishful Walk full track	36
10	Inspiração full track	33
11	Corpo Suado full track	23
12	Sigh (Maneesh de Moor remix) full track	21
12	Morphic Resonance full track	21
14	Drop To The Ocean full track	16
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Twiggystickstoo wrote:
August 2009

Very nice!

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antz_killer wrote:
March 2009

"Praful" means "the dust" in Romanian.

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CHIBHEAD wrote:
February 2009

Praful is a genius!!

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udecide wrote:
January 2009

shimmering nuances of ........ahhhhyaahh

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concretica wrote:
January 2009

Sonhar !!!

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mistergonsalves wrote:
September 2008

he BLOWS . . . and i mean it in the GOOD way!

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TheZeppelin62 wrote:
August 2008

Excellent music

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DaWetPet wrote:
November 2007

Great artist with a really good eye for jazz fusion with Brazilian folk elements and modern beats. A tribute to modern saxophone artists and a damned good composer.

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iamabsolut wrote:
April 2007

Lovely on a Friday night by candelight dinner!

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Vierds wrote:
February 2007

Whoa, I'm playing Joe Sat's 'You Saved My Life' on iTunes and listening to the 'Wishful Walk' demo at the same time... they sound like they could be lined up really nicely, wow.

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Vierds wrote:
February 2007

Great stuff to listen to when you want a change in your normal line up of any high-paced music. Nice n' relaxing. Below poster has poop for a brain.

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liOVERLOADil wrote:
December 2006

Poop

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