Saturday 24 September 2011

Icaros

"Ayahuasca Yari" by José Campos.
A very nice (arranged) example of icaro, with paintings by the great Peruvian shaman/artist Pablo Amaringo (1938 - 2009).
Icaros are 'spontaneous' spiritual songs inspired to shamans by the ayahuasca medicine and other 'teacher plants'. They are used during ceremonies to communicate with ancestors and spirits of the forest, to heal and provoke certain visions and particular states of consciousness.

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