Peru's Amazon region is the home of the last remaining ayahuasceros, shamans who utilize native plants and ritual songs to induce healing trances. The Songs the Plants Taught Us is a remarkable document, offering a window for our ears and minds into authentic ayahuascero healing sessions.
Recorded deep in the Peruvian Andes, this rare treasure offers a variety of icaros (magical healing songs), each possessing its own peculiar, hypnotic beauty. Floating melodies, native chants, fragments of the Catholic liturgy, and spontaneous rhythms elicit visions of a spirit world alive with animist magic.