Aleah Long is an experienced session singer, vocal arranger, songwriter, and activist whose music has many roots: worldbeat new-age afro-pop trance-dance soul might be a good description. She makes frequent appearances at women’s and lesbian festivals with a number of groups she has helped form — her One World Inspirational Choir, and the theatrical performance and ritualist ensemble Evolution, which was inspired, she writes, “by the Great Mother, who beckons her daughters to call her names, embrace divine purpose and awaken to the creative healing powers, restoring balance and beauty to the Earth.”

Long lives in Newburgh, in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State. Somewhere in her travels — there is little information on this — she encountered ayahuasca, and, in her album En Full Circle — A Shamanic Journey, she uses her music to capture what appears to have been a deeply transformative experience. “My work,” she has written, “is with sound vibration and journaling my experiences with DMT / plant / root medicine through music.”

En Full Circle is Long’s only album to date. The title perhaps refers to the documentary film Full Circle, an exploration of contemporary women’s spirituality, but the content is born out of her experience with Amazonian plant medicine. You have never heard ayahuasca music quite like this — for example, the following cut, entitled Icaro:


Icaro by Aleah Long


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4 Responses to “Soul Ayahuasca”

  1. Randall Sexton says:

    Nice. I’ll have to get this.

  2. Steve Beyer says:

    Thank you for the comment. I took the opportunity to visit your wonderful website and read the story of your journey, which I really enjoyed, and for which I thank you. I see you are a fan of Butch Hall flutes — so am I! I have had my Little Horse flute since 1997, and it has gone with me on many trips and vision fasts. It is a great pleasure to hear from you.

  3. Randall Sexton says:

    Thanks. It always helps to have little signs that I’m on the right path. Trying to make a decision to continue with nurse practitioner training or spend all my time on the shamanic path is driving me crazy. Let’s see, take another course or Amazon jungle trip, hum….

  4. Steve Beyer says:

    Of course, the spirits will tell you what they think, if you ask them with a little tobacco. :-)


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