Well, after hours of frigging around with the microsoft, google, yahoo groups etc. I finally managed to locate a website for storing files.

So to those that are interested the web urls are as follows;

www.freedrive.com/public-up.../view/2979 Contains First Track -
www.freedrive.com/public-up.../view/2981 Contains Tracks 2 - 6 incl.

One of the most exciting and pleasurable things about these recordings at Puruchucu (a coastal Inca city which had been reconstructed in keeping with the original design) was that the archaeologists discovered pre-Colombian musical instruments (in amazing animal shapes) A group of my friends in Peru who are musicians led by Alonso Del Rio reconstructed these instruments, and played them during the ceremonies, so for the first time in over 500 years these sounds were heard again. The music was beautiful and enchanting.

For those who are interested in the full details check out my website at;

www.shamanism.co.uk/shaman_s...apes.html
and for a full index listing;
www.shamanism.co.uk/shaman_shop/CD1.html


Brief blurb from my Album 'The Shamans of Peru';

1-3 San Pedro ceremony held in Puruchucu, at the head of the Rimac valley. The ruins of this sacred site or huaca date back to pre-Inca times and have been accurately reconstructed. Setting the scene for the ceremony, three musicians play replicas of pre-Hispanic instruments. Alonso del Rio says: ‘while keeping to their original tuning, we have explored the instruments musical possibilities to give an idea of what the music could have been like in pre-Colombian times. The melodies came to us through the ancestral memory evoked through medicinal plants like San Pedro and Ayahuasca’.

4-5 The Mesa Nortena is a particular ceremonial tradition best conserved in the region of ‘Las Huaringas’, high and remote sacred lakes in the northern Department of Piura.

There are probably only a few good maestros who continue this ancient tradition in Peru today. The rest simply work with the externalities of the mesa, while giving their clients minimal doses of the visionary San Pedro cactus. Originally more importance was given to the medicine, which must be in the organism of the participants as well as the maestro for the power to flow. The mesa then served to intensify the power of the plant.

An altered state is needed to enter the symbolic world of the objects on the mesa (the word refers to the altar as well as the ceremony itself). The abundance of macerated plants, perfumes and smells employed in the mesa function to move the feelings associated with one’s memories. At a deep level, sensations are translated into vibrations which the medicine brings to consciousness so that associated hurt and pain can be ‘remembered’ again and a new attitude can emerge.

Have fun, and enjoy!

best wishes

Howard