Music at Boom personifies mankind’s ancestral practices of worshipping the world of sounds manifested through four different zones: Dance Floor, Chill Out, Sacred Fire and Groovy Beach.

In ancient Greece, Dionisio was the dancing God. His followers, mostly women, practised a collective liberation trance. This trance ritual of women, participating in Dionisio’s ceremony, is called Menadismo. They are also known as Bacante.
Menadismo, although commonly associated to the lower classes of ancient Greece, brings together a great variety of social classes, playing a fundamental role in Greek culture. We can see this transversal influence through Dionisio and his followers’ role in one of the nation’s first tragedies called The Bacante by Euripides, where the expression “Theatre begins where trance ends” came to life.
The first actor is the one that, after entering into an altered state of perception, is willing to recreate or represent it, entering the field of theatre. It’s like a spring, as the uniting force, with trance on one edge and theatre on the other. The Flute, Cetera and all sorts of percussion instruments are the selected equipment.

Moroccan Gnaua, most of them descendents from ancient slaves, are black people who focused on elements from Sudanese’s culture like possession trance, originating a particular fusion with Islam culture, adopting Sidi Bilal as protector saint, prophet’s companion and first muezzin.
They accomplish healing and exorcist trance ceremonies called Derdeba and have their own confraternity and sanctuary (zauia). Derdeba’s ceremonies take place at  the house of who requested the service and is built upon two distinct parts. First there’s kuyu music – praying and skilled dances at the sound of drums and qerqabat, making Gnaua the new masters of the house.
Then there’s silence and the more sacred second part begins – m’luk, is played with a string instrument called guembri while spirits’ submission, from tslim formulas, is taking place.

The spinning Dervish is a form of Sufi trance. It survived until today (Turkey), because in countries under Muslim influence, ancient civilizations’ trance (Middle East, Greece) was not repressed like in Occidental Christian society where, after being seen as pagan, was soon after seen as evil.
The Dervish spins around recreating planetary orbits following the rhythm of the Sufi drum, always repeating the simple formula Duch-Bog. They wear a red hat like a split cone and long tunics, which open as they spin.
Although there are many others, Sufi ’s confraternity spread around Islamic world with different techniques, using trance to reach a higher state of consciousness and allowing a simultaneous connection between emotion (soul), spirit (mind) and body (physical).