Shamanic music is a powerful and ancient form of sound that connects individuals to the spiritual realm, facilitating healing, transformatio...

Sound plays a crucial role in shamanic practices across various cultures. It is used to facilitate altered states of consciousness, perform ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the Tukano people of the Colombian Amazon may have documented the soundtracks to their hallucinogenic experiences...

Shamanism and music combined thousands of years ago. By observing nature, shamans perceived that the power of sound could be used to help an...

Archaeoacoustics is a sub-field of archaeology and acoustics which studies the relationship between people and sound throughout history. It ...

Shamanism is a way of perceiving the nature of the universe in a way that incorporates the normally invisible world where the spirits of all...

The drum, often called the shaman's horse, provides the shamanic practitioner a relatively easy means of controlled transcendence. Resea...

I am pleased to announce the publication of my first online course, Your Guide to Shamanic Drumming , on Insight Timer. Insight Timer is a ...

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe is redefining the parameters of the cello. He combines virtuosic performance with improvisation, singing...

Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq won the Polaris Prize in 2014 for Canada's best album of the year.  Animism  contained sounds never hear...

I recorded a collection of multicultural songs and chants in 2011 and made them freely available for download at Archive.org. I learned thes...

In her scholarly article "The Symbolization Process of the Shamanic Drums Used by the Manchus and Other Peoples in North Asia," et...

The drum, sometimes called the shaman's horse, provides the shaman a relatively easy means of controlled transcendence. Researchers have...

The key to understanding the shaman's world is to realize that the universe is made of vibrational energy. According to quantum physics,...

Native American artisans have long utilized gourds to make many items, including utensils, serving bowls and rattles. The gourd rattle repre...

Season's Greetings! I wish to thank all of my Spotify listeners for making 2021 a standout musical year! We made it through another wil...

In her first new recording in a decade, Joy Harjo -- the first Native American named Poet Laureate of the United States -- digs deep into t...

" Nayan Navaa " is the superb new album from Namgar, a band that plays modern sounds rooted in traditional music from the Republic...

Jim Pepper (1941-1992) was a jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer of Native American descent. Born in Salem, Oregon, Pepper grew up in Por...

Among Iroquois medicine societies of present-day central and upstate New York, rattles are often described as hands of the spirit beings....