Shaman trance music recommendations

[Yoda]

So I've been in the mood for shaman/drumming type music these days and I got Drew's recommended Kenya and Tanzania witchcraft and ritual music CD recorded by Fanshawe and it is just what the witchdoctor ordered. Thanks Drew!

 

So just wondering if anyone else has any favs out there?

[三江源]

Anugama

 

 

Click on 'Shamanic Dream' and you'll get to hear some of it. It really works for journeying.

[guangping]

I enjoy Sufi music, and my favorite in this category is the album Whirling, by Omar Tebbiuk ( not sure of the last name spelling, sorry )

[thelerner]

For great videos and CD's I recommend Gabriel Roth's 'Sweat Your Prayers", The Wave series of CD's and videos. They have a warm up, movement styles and music to match as you go through flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness.

 

Here's a plug:

 

In Sweat Your Prayers, internationally acclaimed movement and theater artist Gabrielle Roth translates to the printed page the insights of her nearly forty years of teaching personal and spiritual development. Her workshops, attended by thousands around the world, teach us to realize our potential for ecstasy as we experience movement and ritual theater techniques. The book is a journey through five universal rhythms-flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness. These rhythms can free the body and spirit from ordinary consciousness and catalyze motion deep in the psyche. Each sacred rhythm is a teacher, a gateway to the soul. Flowing holds the feminine mysteries, staccato the masculine. In chaos, the challenge is to integrate these principles into the flow of one's personal energy, to find the magical blend of feminine and masculine energy that makes each person unique. Lyrical is the context of self-realization, the full expression of the soul. And in stillness, the mother of all rhythms, we find the emptiness of the uncluttered mind wherein we contemplate the mystery of it all. Practicing the rhythms frees the body and becomes a way to express the heart and clear the mind. Complete with personal stories and interactive exercises, Sweat Your Prayers reveals an ancient and contemporary method for unleashing a natural sense of movement, resulting in both personal power and presence of the soul.

 

 

Michael

[Qui-Dao]

So I've been in the mood for shaman/drumming type music these days and I got Drew's recommended Kenya and Tanzania witchcraft and ritual music CD recorded by Fanshawe and it is just what the witchdoctor ordered. Thanks Drew!

 

So just wondering if anyone else has any favs out there?

 

Thanks for sharing this! Just listened to the entire cd, wonderful wonderful music!

 

Does anyone know of any good shaman drumming only music? just pure good drumming without any of that witchcraft ritual stuff.

 

 

Thanks much again!

[voidisyinyang]

Glad the Kenya and Tanzania Witchcraft and Ritual Music c.d. is staying alive! I gave my copy to a coworker but then miraculously my other coworker brought back the CONGOTRONICS, Konono #1 c.d. and when we put that amazing TRANCE MUSIC on everyone in the office had smiles on with their bodies grooving in wild contortions.

 

So then I put on Kasai Allstars for my all night trance music (congotronics #3) and I admit that I favor Congotronics #1 although both are really top-knotch in terms of hitting that 8 pulses per second standard.

 

Go for it people CONGOTRONICS #1 and keep those ears open!

 

Oh and have to mention ECHOES OF THE FOREST this amazing pygmy trance music c.d. -- really beautiful.

[Qui-Dao]

Glad the Kenya and Tanzania Witchcraft and Ritual Music c.d. is staying alive! I gave my copy to a coworker but then miraculously my other coworker brought back the CONGOTRONICS, Konono #1 c.d. and when we put that amazing TRANCE MUSIC on everyone in the office had smiles on with their bodies grooving in wild contortions.

 

So then I put on Kasai Allstars for my all night trance music (congotronics #3) and I admit that I favor Congotronics #1 although both are really top-knotch in terms of hitting that 8 pulses per second standard.

 

Go for it people CONGOTRONICS #1 and keep those ears open!

 

Oh and have to mention ECHOES OF THE FOREST this amazing pygmy trance music c.d. -- really beautiful.

 

Awsome! Thanks a lot!

[Teddy]

'Timbalada' is a 'pop' group from Brasil that use almost only drums and voice. They are very different to what most Americans would think of as Brasilian music. They might interest you, as many of their beats and melodies are based on the ritual music of 'candomble' and 'yoruba'.

[VCraigP]

I enjoy Sufi music, and my favorite in this category is the album Whirling, by Omar Tebbiuk ( not sure of the last name spelling, sorry )

 

OMAR FAROUK TEKBILEK

 

I had the great good fortune to attend a weeklong camp filled with instructors teaching middle eastern music and dance. Mendocino Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp.

 

Omar was one of the top music teachers there.

 

He is a wonderful man. His music is also incredible. To see him play live...even better.

 

There are several teachers there who are not only musicians but also teachers in the sense we talk about here. True Mystics.

 

ahh...I need to listen to him play...right now.

 

Craig

[Yoda]

kickin' list! Thanks all!!

[Aetherous]

Divine Sound by Omdasji.

 

It used to be on cdbaby, but now I think you can find it on an MP3 download site.

 

Edit: just found a website for it...

http://dhyanyogiomdasji.com/

Edited September 13, 2008 by Scotty

[Qui-Dao]

"The continent of one-thousand drums Vol1, 2 & 3", most pure shaman drums with very little other instruments, sounds or vocals, I like it pure.

 

I sometimes mix them with "David & Steve Gordon - Sacred Spirit Drums (1998)", play two tracks at the same time, Gordons are weak in drums but has nice fill-in background flutes and other instruments, together the effect is amazing! My favorite mix:

 

"Ubumwe" from "The continent of one-thousand drums Vol 3" with "Sunrise Ritual" from "David & Steve Gordon - Sacred Spirit Drums (1998)". You can experiment with other mixes, I found these two groups mix great together.

 

Also like "Africa Djembe Orchestra - Drums of Goree (1993)(Orchestre Africa Djembe)" and

"Djembe - Percussions D'Afrique".

[三江源]

Maybe it is a good idea to register at last.fm so we can share music.

 

 

We could have a group there.