Shamanic / Journeying Music

The heartbeat of the great drum holds a deep resonance, pulsing with the heart of the earth. Deborah's non-verbal vocals generate a sense of safety, wholeness and love. Use this music to provide a space of resourcing and resonance with your soul, with Gaia, and all life. Journey inward or move in the pulsing sound field.

 Ancient shamans and modern sound researchers discovered the same thing—rhythm is the most reliable way to shift our brainwave states.

Celebrated percussionist Layne Redmond has been teaching her Middle Eastern-style hybrid tambourine techniques to a group of cutting-edge percussionists in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil - the red hot kitchen that gave us the original samba, capoeira, Caetana Velosa, Gilberto Gil, Olodum and Ile Aye.

Acclaimed musicians David & Steve Gordon combine beats from their amazing collection of ethnic drums and percussion with the sweet sound of Native American flute. To evoke the element of water, they have included water drums and actual sounds of water percussion.

This flute-centered album was created specifically to support healing and relaxation. Native flutes, soft drums and ethnic percussion create an earthy, relaxed atmosphere, ideal for bodywork, yoga, the healing arts or simply for relaxed listening.

After hearing this each morning in the desert at one of Angeles Arrien’s 12-day retreats, I came to love it as a quiet, supportive, meditative friend. Side 1, “Shamanic Dream” (“Earth-Sound in Cis with relaxed Heartbeat-Rhythm”), is especially suitable for trance meditation.