Welcome to Metsa Music
Connect with the Amazon. Awaken to the heartbeat - your own and that of the cosmos. Tap into the world of plant spirit medicine. The plants are singing to you.
Are you listening?
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We Are All Related
There are still places in the world where plants are considered teachers and healers. Places where people have direct communication with the spirit world. Places where there is a recognition and a deeply felt sense that there is no separation, that we are all interconnected.
If you travel to visit indigenous elders in any jungle, mountain, plain, or desert in this world, you will hear a common refrain:
“We are all related.”
To transcend a world of separation and ego, we need to consistently cultivate the stillness in ourselves. Only from that place can we deeply listen.
Through the stillness, we can find ourselves in everything and everything in ourselves.
Welcome to the musical journey of Contact.
This album is a compilation of ceremonial plant medicine songs, called ikaros, some of which are presented traditionally, true to their origin, and others which are a reinterpretation through decades of practice in this work.
From Metsa:
“As I sing I invoke the Great Spirit, the light and love of the universe through my singing to reach you where you are in time and space. I intend to open your world of hearing, seeing and experiencing - to take you on a journey.
With each song I’m calling in the plants, the spirits, people, and energies of the invisible world. I’m connecting all of them through a vessel: me. From this space I am nourishing your kaya (spirit), opening your juente (heart), and clearing your way.”
It’s a deeply intimate space that may remind you of the place within yourself of perfect union.
Hear the jungle, the wind, the plants, the mountains, the fire, the water. Hear the heartbeat - your own and that of the world.
Allow the music to work on and in you. Allow the music to heal you. Allow the music to guide you. For these songs, your internal compass already knows the way.
Be Still, Relax, Pay Attention. Let Everything Be, Let Everything Go.
Songs
My Own Way
Intention: To Align, Fine tune and Upgrade your Energy
We are connected and interdependent with all things. The world of the stars, the plants, the spirits, the animals, even we, as human beings have our unique design or pattern…. (read more)
Lupuna Manta
Intention: For Spiritual Protection
The Lupuna is a tree known for its shamanic power and wisdom. We invoke its energy to bring protection and strength for you, your family and your home place... (read more)
Biography
METSA
Metsa, or Metsa Nihue as he is known to many, is internationally renowned in the field of Amazonian plant spirit medicine. He calls himself a vegetalista (vegetalist) due to his direct relationship with plants in South America. The Shipibo people of Peru call him an Onaya (medicine man). Many call him a “shaman,” but it’s a term he doesn’t promote.
Through ritual, prayer, ceremony, and song, he acts as an inter-dimensional traveler, a walker between worlds, helping people connect to themselves, to the invisible power of nature, and to the ineffable.
His journeys in the spirit realm began with music. As a teenager, eager to become a percussionist, he traveled the world and immersed himself in everything from Rastafarian beats and Indian mystical music, to Indonesian gamelan and Latin-Brazilian rhythms.
In 1996, seeking his own healing from addiction, he was introduced to Amazonian plant medicine and taken under the wing of a master medicine man from the Shipibo-Conibo community. Over the next two decades, he was trained in their ways, following strict plant diets in the jungle and learning the art of singing to heal.
Building on that initial training, he further immersed himself and developed his skill sets over the years through indigenous traditions from the Amazon (Quechua Lamista, Awajun), the Andes, the Native American Plains, and Gabon.
Today, his practice is focused on using the universal languages of singing and music to help people reconnect with the sense that we are all, in fact, connected.
KAPOMO
Kapomo has been immersed in ceremony and ritual practice with indigenous grandmothers and healers from the Mayan, Meshica, Lakota, Shipibo, and Quechua traditions for over a decade. She curates ritual space, hosts womens circles and leads collective healing experiences in different communities around the globe. She’s a Moon Dancer, Qi Gong practitioner, raga singer, and also a physician, acupuncturist and naturopath. With her singing she transmits the energies of the moon and the water. She appears on the album Contact in two songs; “La Luna” and “Sunarai”.
Mission
OUR MISSION
Metsa Music aims to share vibrations of sound inspired by teacher plants themselves, through the lens of ancient, indigenous traditions where music is still believed to be transmitted by spirit. Metsa Music is also a place where we hope to keep these singing traditions alive, both in their original forms and as invaluable raw material we can reinterpret for the needs of our times.
OUR VISION
First — Our vision and life’s mission is to empower communities to come together through sound, music, and dialogue to the remembrance that we are all related. Only with a true sense of connection we can realize new solutions in our world. We offer sessions and workshops across the globe to support this realization.
Second — We invite you to use these songs for your own meditations and healing practices. Please consider donating to our cause as a way to give thanks for the benefits you and your community receive from these transmissions. (You can do this by purchasing our album through Bandcamp and adding an additional contribution for the work.)
Third — We are committed to creating opportunities and education for future generations in the indigenous communities that have so generously aided us on our path. Here are just a few of the things we have completed and continue to support:
Co-founded and facilitated the establishment of two retreat centers in the Peruvian Amazon led by indigenous healers.
Financial stewardship of the Sundance ceremonies of the Dakota nation of Manitoba and the Moondance ceremonies of the Meshica people.
Regular financial support to the families of roadmen in the Native American Church.
Sustaining the work of medicine men and women in North and South America.
We look forward to doing more, and our hope is that Metsa Music becomes an ongoing source of support for both us and those who have helped and taught us.
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