Give the Drummer Some: Trance, Danger, and Rapture in the Oldest Instrument of All

The Emerald - A podcast by Joshua Schrei

The link between music and trance is so deep that many ethnomusicologists will say that every single culture on the planet has some form of musically-driven trance tradition. Right at the heart of these traditions sits the drum. Far from being a 'primitive' instrument, the drum is advanced technology β€” more often than not, it is the essential instrument that opens up the doorway to states of rapture. This long-known power has led to the development of intricate cultures of trance drumming fro...

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