Helps if you sway back and forth slightly while listening.

thank you! i love this - as i love dancing freeform & tribal style

Interesting timing. I finally accepted an invitation to attend a local Kurtan event. Some people really like the chanting and I thought I should try it and that it would be relaxing. It was just the opposite. Trying to chant words I could not read (it was in Sanscript-Hindi) and the constant loud repition drove me crazy. A number of years ago we were staying with a friend. A woman showed up with 2 kids and was given the bedroom we were to stay in (I didn't know this was a safe house and the woman was escaping from an abusive husband) so we had to stay on a sofa bed in the den. Some friends were there playing drums. It was loud and went on and on and I was feeling rilled up. It dawned on me that often this kind of thing is played by natives just before they are to go on a war mission. For some of us the constant low frequency sounds hit a part of the brain that can push negative reactions. I know I am weird.

Music is the soul provider

Victoria, you always surprise me with your posts!! WOW!! I love the drums! I can't stop moving!!!!

Wow, that was great! Thanks!

An amazing display of cultural tradition. It is one thing to study history, quite another to experience it. Thank you for sharing all of our heritage.

This is fabulous! Thanks for sharing it.