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Besides Levitation, La Forza is also keen on Teleportation & Telekinesis, but not Television or Telemarketing.

While fans of popular music always keep a laser focus on Seattle for the latest explosive trends, the most innovative and provocative sounds in instrumental music these days are coming from 40 miles down the road.

Nestled beside a lake overlooking Mt Rainier, the beautiful small town of Yelm, Washington (pop. under 4,000) provided the perfect natural environment for Austrian born classically trained pianist and electronic music expert Divina Klein and underground hip-hop producer Douglas Mackar—whose combined musical energy is reflected in their collective name La Forza— to create Dance Music for Your Mind (Vol. I), a lushly textured landscape of party music for the motivated and focus music for the dreamers.

With its fascinating mix of dreamy ambient soundscapes, beautiful solo piano compositions, exotic global percussion, rich textures and compelling melodic movements over infectious dance beats, La Forza is driven by Klein and Mackar’s mutual passion to create sounds that are interesting, intelligent and provocative but that also appeal to a people with wide ranging musical tastes.

Both organic and otherworldly, the 12 tracks on Dance Music for Your Mind (Vol. I) are about transcending the typical limitations of genre and inviting listeners to enter a place within themselves where anything is possible.

An album that moves with fluidity and purpose, "(Vol. I)" is energetic, poetic, and inspiring. The collection is a project of multiple moods where, in true indie fashion, unpredictability and spontaneity are virtues.

Driven by Klein’s compositional and orchestral arrangement skills via her Roland Fantom X7 and Mackar’s expertise with drums and percussion, La Forza’s vision is to create not only soundtracks to mindful films but also to mindful lives, “scores” that support transformational processes and the conscious creation of reality.

While most musicians this proficient in these kinds of instrumental works become “studio rats” who prefer the glow of monitors to sunlight and the process of recording over live performances, La Forza is also a force to be reckoned with in concert. Overcoming obvious logistical challenges re-creating multi-track recordings live, Klein builds layer upon layer of harmonies using a Boss RC-50 Loop Station (“dancing” by playing pedals with her feet as her hands work the keyboards) while Mackar mans the drum machines and sequencers.

In the spirit of jazz, their live performance consists of arranged songs interwoven with improvisation, the spontaneity of which insures the audience that their experience at a La Forza show is always based on true passion and the absolute presence of the band.