Tribal Drift

Tribal Drift, founded by Cyrung, aka Craig Miller, and joined by Dougal Hallowes, Andrew Byrnes, Peter Smolik & Shiney Le fai, combines the ancient and wild sounds of the Australian Didgeridoo with contemporary techno grooves and dance sensibilities that pull their resources from across the globe in a jigsaw of musical creation; true one-world music.

Album: Collective Journeys

[Chill CD006]
Collective Journeys

Track Listing:

  1. The Void (7.50)
  2. Belly - Earth and Space mix (9.05)
  3. Fertile (8.43)
  4. Ants (8.58)
  5. Transmutation - The Jungle Never Dies (6.45)
  6. Volcano (9.22)
  7. The Void - Reprise (6.52)

'95 Debut album from Tribal Drift, is a trancey/tribal/ambient/call it what u like little number. And it's good. Didjeridoo's, tribal beats and chants send you on a journey into the land of Aborigines. The highlight is definitely 'Volcano' (available also on 12"), a 9 minute stomping drum/didge affair with one build-up after the next, that's been played at Return to the Source a number of times. A couple of the tracks are a bit weak, but overall it's a wicked debut from Tribal Drift.

12" : Tangents EP

[Chill 12007]
Tangents EP

Track Listing:

  1. Fertile (8.43)
  2. Transmutation - The Jungle Never Dies (6.45)
  3. Volcano (9.22)

Released in '95 on the Chill Out label. Undoubtedly the best of the 'Collective Journeys' album is found on this 12". Superb.

Album : Priority Shift...A bridge in Time

[ON-U88]
Priority Shift...A bridge in Time

Track Listing:

  1. Once a Pond a Time
  2. Priority Shift
  3. The Laws That I Live By
  4. Observations in Pond Movement
  5. Further Down the Stream
  6. What are we Doing Here?
  7. Anahata
  8. Cyclic Pulse Factor in the Sense of 7
  9. Are you a Pulsar Twinkling in the Jigsaw of Creation?

The second album from Tribal rift, released in '96 on the underground front line label 'On-U Sound'. "It spans musical influences from heartfelt reggae, full-on techno and drum 'n base, to deep ambient excursions"....taken from the Official Tribal Drift Web Site

Album : Live at the Roxy Praha

[TDCD 11.11]
Live at the Roxy Praha

Track Listing:

  1. Void
  2. Warani
  3. Belly
  4. The Laws that I live By
  5. Observations in Pond Movement
  6. Within You (previously unreleased)
  7. Anahata
  8. Volcano
  9. Recipe (previously unreleased).

Released in '99; available through local record shops or order direct from Tribal Drift. Recorded live in Prague, Czech Republic.

Other Info:

'Belly' and 'Ants' also feature on the 12" Dubs [Chill12005].

'Transmutation' also features on the first 'Return to the Source' compilation - Deep Trance and Ritual Beats.

For further information on Tribal Drift see their Official Web Site, or this European Site

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