Music is an essential part of Bwiti ceremonies in Africa and, of course, in the Czech Republic as well.
I am probably the only one Czech “beti” (Bwiti harp ngoma player) and one of the few white Europeans. With no one else in the Czech Republic (maybe in Europe), you would experience authentic Iboga Bwiti music created for you in a live broadcast, other iboga therapists play music from a recording, which loses a little of its charm. During therapies and ceremonies I do not use recorded music (or just very few late in the night), but I play and sing for you in direct flow with a connection with iboga medicine for many hours.
Traditionally, several musical instruments are used in Bwiti:
- mainly instrument is the so-called ngomo or ngombi (eight-stringed harp – see below)
- mongongo (looks like a bow, it’s kind of like a big mumble)
- soki (a rattle with two balls)
- you can also look forward to the sound of the cuckoo horn (honking horn)
- drums (djembe or other high-pitched drums)
- obaka (beating wood to wood in high rhythm)
Ngomo (Ngombi) harps, main Bwiti music instruments
Each ngomo harp is Goddess in the Bwiti tradition, they often even dress up in robes. Each ngoma harp has its own name and personality and brings a specific energy from the “Invisible World”.
Samples of Bwiti ceremony “ngoze” (1 night ceremony) in Cameroon
Samples of our Iboga music
You can listen our music also here: