kanuak is paulo ventura's psy-trance project, created in 2005.

During his teens, the artist was often outside with friends and eventually got in touch with underground circles. Assimilation to the rave scene had a major impact on his music.
 
Creating the project and participating in several others, paulo developed a deep relationship with the dance-floor, carried away by the leading Brazilian underground electronic music at the time: Psy-trance.
 
That romance lasted several years while he was in college, and it was during those days that he decided to take music seriously, investing lots of his time in production, so much so that in 2006 he created 5 different
albums for KanuaK.
 
paulo stayed fully immersed in that realm, spending endless hours in the studio, DJing and playing live sets at local private parties and festivals until I moved from São Paulo to Washington, D.C.

In the U.S., Paulo has performed as kanuak in several occasions, and put efforts into catering to the trance crowd, even though minute. Sticking to the uplifting energy of full-on Psy-trance, his sets and music are influenced by visual contact, astrix, infected mushroom, tristan, and others.

serving as a deep and robust foundation for the artist's path, kanuak's catalog is a sonic signature of paulo's evolution, and creativity. with 13 albums created from 2003 to 2011, the rhythmic seed is the deep root of a mystical journey.

The inspiration for the project's name came with the discovery of the 13 moon calendar and the law of time. in mayan, kan uak means rhythmic seed, which is paulo's sign in the tzolkin zodiac.