Zar, 1

Live recording of zar music, by Mazaher, one of the only groups who still plays this type of folk music native to Egypt. The music is trance-inducing, starting slow and building to a frenzy at the end. Traditionally it's sung and played by women to purge mental and physicall illness. Some instruments: tabla (drum), nai (flute), simsimayya (strings), belt made with dried sheeps' hooves strung together for percussion.

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Music

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• zar
• Egypt
• Cairo
• Egyptian music
• tabla

[DeathShamans]

Depossession music that female shamans used to use before she wasn't allowed to lead spiritual groups anymore. Now possessions of females with no warrior within are 10 times likely to be possessed by a daemon neighbor or husbands daemon. This music clears the daemon out