El Canto del Tiempo/Ayahuasca Ikaros

Let's face it, not all shamans are created equal when it comes to musicality as we understand it in the West. Despite the fact that being "musical", in Western understanding, is not a top priority in Amazonian shamanism and in shamanism from around the world, it is hard for us not to be judgmental regarding issues related to musicality due to the way we are conditioned. Don Evangelino Murayay is a well-experienced shaman with an unusual commend of the various parameter involved in a musical performance. He is a fantastic singer and a multi-instrumentalist. Very simply he is a great shaman and a superb musician! This is one of the best traditional ayahuasca icaros recordings in the market right now. The recording quality complements Don Evangelino's mastery. I highly recommend it!

Don Evangelinos icaros ( songs/ chants) are purely magical. The music is hypnotic, healing and addicitive.

Don Evangelino Murayay has honoured us with a live recording of his beautiful, powerful and healing Ikaros. The music was captured live during a traditional Ayahuasca ceremony. This limited edition CD is packaged with all recycled paper, and includes a fantastic booklet complete with English translations. Don Evangelino Murayay Born in Cajamarca in the northern Peruvian Andes to a peasant family, the then young Evangelino inherited the vocation to become a curandero (healer) from his grandfather. But as a growing child between family and farm, his interest had not yet been awakened towards the teachings and practices of his healer grandfather and his plants. In his adolescence, he left the Andean highlands to enter into the jungle, the Peruvian Amazon, in search of work and new frontiers. He became passionate about archaeology and participated in expeditions searching for clues to the puzzles of Peru’s many ancient cultures. While in the jungle he met a woman healer, and this curandera tried to make him understand that underneath his passion there was a hidden power. After some time, she initiated him in the way of the San Pedro, opening the doorway to a path of intense exploration of inner worlds and spaces. It was in this road that he met a physician who worked with the Ayahuasca plant and the Dieta. He received this new initiation, which led him to master healers Don Wilfredo Tuamana, Don Aquilino Chujandama, Don Solon Tello and Don Guillermo Ojanama. He spent many years of apprenticeship with these great masters, receiving their wisdom and experience, until he found his own path, his own teacher. For more than twenty years he has travelled this path of effort, search and toil, helping and instructing people from all walks of life in the art of self knowledge through the Dieta and responsible use of the Plants of Wisdom. Don Evangelino’s work has taken him beyond the frontiers of his native Peru, awakening and guiding numerous spiritual beings to consciously locate themselves in the currents of existence here on earth.