PRAANA and Courtney Storm Invite You to Venture Inward on “Dive”

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“Dive” featuring Courtney Storm is PRAANA’s latest work, surfacing through their ongoing efforts to penetrate the sheaths enshrouding consciousness.

Nothing happens by accident when PRAANA spend time together in the studio. Their process is deeply intentional, informed by thousands of years of yogic philosophy. That’s exactly why the duo’s second Courtney Storm collaboration, “Dive,” resonates in a way that dance tracks seldom do.

Notably absent from the single, which came out on Enhanced Music‘s Colorize imprint, are the obvious devices meant to elicit big crowd reactions or bolster social media metrics. In their place are soothing melodies, human and vulnerable. Rather than distract the listener, “Dive” offers an object of single-pointed focus, acting as a vehicle for the listener’s journey within.

“’Dive’ feels like a threshold,” explained Chad Cisneros of PRAANA in an email to EDM Identity. “It was written from a place of sincerity, a place of wholeness. It’s not trying to dominate a festival moment — it’s inviting you inward.”

He and his creative partner, David Reed, are qualified to concoct such an internal aid. While the two are best known for their work in the trance and progressive house spheres as Tritonal, Cisneros’ personal minfulness journey started before the wildly successful project was a glimmer in his eye.

Chad Cisneros has never shied away from discussing how his early battles with substance abuse led him to become sober 20 years ago. “At first, meditation was kind of a checklist item as a part of recovery and sobriety from alcohol and drugs, but without much of a technique or true discipleship,” he admitted. “As I’ve continued to evolve, mature and grow, meditative absorption has become a primary practice for living.”

He continued: “I now see the inner work of consciousness as fundamental to inner equanimity, joy and contentedness. I now teach, initiate and share the wisdom and technologies which have been passed down to me.”

It wasn’t long before these influences started to manifest as something separate from Tritonal. Cisneros and Reed started anonymously releasing music under the PRAANA moniker in 2019, revealing themselves to be the creative force behind it when they delivered their 2023 album, Supernal Dawn.

The following year, the duo worked with Courtney Storm for the first time on the aptly titled “Synergy.” “PRAANA is very intentional about who enters the space,” wrote Cisneros. “Courtney carries a sincerity in her voice and spirit that doesn’t feel performative. That matters to us.”

In an email to EDM Identity, Storm shared that working with Cisneros and Reed brings out a different side of her creative range. “Both times have been a pretty special experience with the only real difference being I didn’t have to slide into their DMs this time, haha,” she wrote. “Each time, we’ve tried to encompass the PRAANA ethos and what they stand for, which always pulls me into a whole other writing world that I love. This time, we experimented with chants and a lot more vocal layers than ‘Synergy’ had.”

“It’s mad to think that you can make music with someone half way across the world,” Storm went on. “Working with Chad and Dave have and will always have a special place in my music career because they are the first people I’ve performed with live. So this release is just another building block and special memory to add.”

The dancefloor is sacred. It has the power to heal, and PRAANA know this better than most. “Dive” is the latest addition to a growing body of work that sees them transmute the catharsis of creative spaces into a means of self-discovery available to anyone.

Listen to “Dive” featuring Courtney Storm on Spotify or your preferred platform, and follow PRAANA on their healing journey one sublime release at a time.