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Today I speak with Craig Coland. Craig is a visionary

sacred music composer, producer, and performer. He's also the director of the Shamans Dream World Groove Ensemble.

Craig has created with Sounds True, three albums, Carol the Dream, Dance, and African Dream, as well as a remix with Jayutal entitled

Dial M for Mantra.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Craig and I spoke about music as a spiritual experience,

the ritualistic aspect of music, and the role of music as a positive voice in the world. We also discussed and listened to three musical selections

from shaman's dream. Here's my conversation with Craig Coland.

Craig, I've heard you say that music is your spiritual practice.

And to begin, I'm wondering if you can explain what that's like for you,

how music is a spiritual practice in your life.

Just through the very experience of playing music and being influenced by it either through listening or dancing.

And especially for me, what has been at the core of how I've played music has been playing it improvisationally.

Since 96, I've been working with Micheline Berry, a yoga teacher in Los Angeles.

On a monthly basis, we put on ritual dance concerts. and for two hours with a group of just awesome musicians we would play improvisationally for dance and for a ritual process. and through the process

of doing that having to not know what was going to happen or what we were going

to play, the process of being present and allowing really spirit to move

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