trance-inducing

Several singers have attempted it, and the latest will be Laurel Irene, a master of repetition, endurance and trance-inducing resonance — a promising start to the Resonance Collective’s new season.

Over on the Pyramid Stage, The Master Musicians of Joujouka were first on the bill, playing an ancient style of trance-inducing music from the Ahl Srif mountains of Morocco.

But it wasn’t like Medea’s trance-inducing voice, or even Piper’s charmspeak.

The shape of her mouth, her trance-inducing chanting, her words — an interchangeable mix of theater, skin, body, home, eyes — were hypnotic, up to a point.

Despite state and church prohibitions, it was common practice in the Netherlands to lace beer with various “trance-inducing or hallucinogenic substances,” according to the art historian Simon Schama, and there’s a strong possibility that tobacco was similarly spiked — perhaps with cannabis brought back by Dutch traders from the Levant or India.