Hello, my name is Ludo from the Hilight Tribe.
I'm a singer, percussionnist and I play various instruments of the world.
Hi, I'm Greg.
In 93, the band Hilight Tribe didn't exist but were musicians playing in jam-sessions.
We played in our own groups until we decided to dissolve all the groups
to make the Hilight Tribe.
The band Hilight Tribe was born in 95. We were very much world music.
We did our first official concert on a beach in the northern Ibiza.
It was very magical because 2000 people were there at our first performance.
After Ibiza, we began to develop into a Natural Trance style.
The Natural Trance is a music trend which is spreading throughout the world.
Natural Trance musicians play by themselves
with acoustical instruments, and play with electronic music
like techno-trance styles without the help of machines.
We are very attached to the roots of music.
But we don't forget that we are in 2000s and there are many trends in music.
For us, future music is going to be Natural Trance.
We learned with our DJ friends to understand that music and not to be shocked.
We weren't composers on machines, we tried to make it with our instruments.
To relearn the rhythms they use and make these cocktails
which make people dance the whole night.
After going to Goa, we had a boost to try playing acoustical techno.
We mix a lot of natural instruments, bass, guitare, drums,
and percussions from all over the world.
Then we use effects with our sound engineer Matt
who transforms all our sounds with his mixing console.
We don't have a lot of lyrics, like a singing band.
The relationship with the crowd is different and yet quite the same
to people with electronic music and how they react with the crowd.
It works by waves and energies. You raise people up and back down.
When some people like a party, there is a feeling.
When people smile at others, they are happy together and an energy is created.
People become so involved that they surpass something.
They come at a certain stage. They dance and suddenly, like sport...
The guy who is running can feel that same energy.
You become as addicted to the running as to the Natural Trance.
The instruments are heard separately and then come together.
People feel that. For that reason I like meeting with the public.
One track links to another, a smile appears and the energy comes.
There are moments with different energy.
The crowd has a lot to do with that. They give us an exchange.
There is a trance phenomenon. At some moments with the crowd,
nobody is watching anyone else. We don't look at the others.
The people are in their trance. There is something happening.
It feels like something ancestral, present in the tribes
of the whole world: that state of trance in music.
Free Tibet is the leading track of our new album.
It is the one we chose to make into a music-video.
We try to present a lot of faces of Natural Trance but I am sure
that there is a lot of things to discover in the coming years.