Dancing Devil is a psytrance trio consisting of brothers Michael and Pascal Vollenweider, and Seraina Sunanda Herzog. At the age of 5 Michael and Pascal started playing on various instruments (piano, percussion, drums, guitar, bass). Over the years they played bands of many styles, including punk-metal, funk, rock, triphop and experimental genres. Seraina stepped into the world of music at the age of 7, attending music-oriented schools and later playing in jazz and blues bands.
In the mid 90's when goa parties were still mostly underground and unheard of, each of the trio found their own inspirations in their own way. They met in 1998, in the time when Goa was mostly influenced by different kinds of spiritualistic beliefs: Shiva, Shanti, Vishnu, Buddha and Krishna were dominating the scene. In a response to the desire of change, Dancing Devil came to life.
After a few releases of promotion CDs they released their debut album ?Wired & Ready? in 2004 and soon played several times every weekend all over Switzerland and Germany.
Now they're going a step further aided by all the advanced technological devices, but at the same time traveling back to the origins of GOA: ?Forward Into The Past? is the name of their new album, containing well produced original sounds. In 2002 Michael teamed up with Daniel Kessler and started a side project called Chilldevil. As the name states they produced groovy, funky and clubby chillout which included also some triphop songs co-produced by Seraina Sunanda.
Albums released so far:
- Wired and Ready (2005 ? Wood Room Records)
- Forward Into The Future (2007 - Wood Room Records)