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Performance occurs in near-darkness with the shaman singing close to the individual patient, the icaro lasting from a few minutes to over an hour depending on therapeutic context. Vocal style features narrow-range melodic vocabulary, characteristic glissando-and-descending-cadence ornaments, the use of phlegmatic-rasp voice quality for certain icaros, and the optional accompaniment of shacapa leaf-bundle rattle (the canonical Amazonian shamanic-rhythm instrument). Bernd Brabec de Mori's 2015 monograph Die Lieder der Richtigen Menschen (Helbling) and the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Shipibo collection constitute the principal scholarly documentation; the 2008 Peruvian INC Resolución 836 declared traditional ayahuasca practice as cultural-heritage at the national level. Distinguished from Mestizo-Peruvian ayahuasquero icaros by the Shipibo-Conibo language repertoire and indigenous-community ceremonial-functional context; distinguished from Yawanawa and Huni Kuin healing songs by Shipibo-specific dieta-and-plant-spirit lineage.", "recipe": "classic Andean mid-2010s shipibo-conibo icaros healing songs, ritual Devotional, amazonian branch, mapuche indigenous, arctic indigenous mapuche tayil genealogical chant old norse seiðr ritual vocalization. extended whistle, breath veiled tone, straight note core, interlocked note trading. leaf bundle plant stem canonical amazonian shamanic icaros nocturnal healing canonical shipibo shacapa. palm thatch maloca. 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