Track Listing

1. Sunrise Over The Ucayali
2. Wisdom and Love - Herlinda Augustine
3. Anaconda - Herlinda Augustine
4. Courtship - Juan Augustine
5. Hummingbird - Herlinda Augustine
6. Beauty Of The Feminine - Manuela Mina
7. Marriage - Bernardo Ochovano
8. Gestation Of The Fetus - Magdalena Ochovano
9. Protection In The Womb - Magdalena Ochovano
10. Lullaby - Herlinda Augustine
11. Children By The River
12. Power Of Love - Herlinda Augustine
13. Dolphin - Enrique Sinure and Herlinda Augustine
14. Spirit Song - Limber Augustine
15. Far Away Visitors - Basilio Lopez
16. Thunder And Lightning - Herlinda Augustine
17. Honoring Fire - Herlinda Augustine
18. Preparation Of Plant Remedies - Enrique Sinure
19. Ayahuasca - Herlinda Augustine
20. Power Song - David Enciso
21. General Healing - Herlinda Augustine
22. Cleansing Of The Heart - Enrique Sinure and Herlinda Augustine
23. Curing Bad Air - Herlinda Augustine
24. Curing Fear - Enrique Sinure
25. Late Night In The Jungle
26. Ayahuasca Ceremony - Enrique Sinure and Herlinda Augustine
27. Sleep Protection - Herlinda Augustine
28. Family Farewell - Augustine Family

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132700 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-08
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

A LOT MORE THAN SHAMANS' SONGS.
It was really difficult to make a decision about this music CD because Amazon's own free samples are way too short to get a clear glimpse from them. Still I decided to give it a go since I've always enjoyed real Native American music and even more when it's free of synthesizers.

Ok so, why the title of this review?, this covers way more than Healing Icaros. Among the 25 tracks you can find sounds of the jungle, everyday songs, community songs, even a lovely track featuring kids laughing and singing (Track 11, Children of the River).

This then, is more than mere shaman songs, it is a testimony to an endangered culture, and the preservation value alone has justified the purchase. We as a society (white/western culture) are aggressively taking away the living space of these peoples who rely on millennial oral traditions to transmit their culture to new generations, and they too (the new generations) are being destroyed by the penetration of our culture.

The back cover claims:
"the proceeds from this album go directly to the Shipibo singers and their families who participated in this recording"

Whether you believe that or not is up to you, nevertheless I didn't find a reason for this to be on that,
just play it and let it transport you to the jungle...

To a simpler life.
To more happy life.
To a more sacred life.

The charm of amazonian cultures
I have not heard this CD in its entirety--merely have listened to the samples. But they were more than enough to persuade me to go ahead and buy the CD. Admittedly I am strongly biased toward the indigenous cultures of the Amazon basin because I have had some of the most wonderful experiences of my life in amazonian indigenous communities in Ecuador and Peru. The songs on this CD of Shipibo singers remind me of a CD I have of songs of the Secoya people who live in northern Ecuador and also in Peru. The melodic structure and pacing of the songs are very similar. These are clearly traditional songs that have been passed down generation to generation, so that we can safely assume that listening to them we are hearing something very close to what ancestors of these singers were singing centuries ago at least in terms of melodic conventions if not lyrics. But above all these songs are hauntingly beautiful. Listen to the samples and you will agree.