Annie Hilsberg and Robert Matt, better known as Yulara, achieve their desire to bring people of different cultures together through the power of music on their third release for the Higher Octave label. Future Tribe spotlights the duo's increasingly jazzy, up-tempo direction, with tracks featuring guest artists Afro-pop superstar Angelique Kidjo, smooth jazz guitarist Brian Hughes, and new age legend Cusco. Annie Hilsberg shows tremendous musical growth on 12 songs that beautifully reflect her soprano and alto saxophones, flutes, and vocal talents. Robert Matt's keyboards and programming add several layers of ambient grooves and sampled nature sounds into an organic fusion…
Deva Premal is a musician known for her meditative spiritual new-age music, which puts ancient Buddhist and Sanskrit mantras—as well as chants in other languages—into atmospheric contemporary settings. Premal met her partner in life and music, Miten, at the Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune, India in 1990, where she was studying reflexology, shiatsu, cranio-sacral therapy, and massage.They have been touring together since 1992, offering concerts and chant workshops worldwide.