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Live festival footage of Dhafer Youssef performing 17th Flyways at the Jazz à Vienne festival.
Dhafer Youssef
The morning liturgy sung across the thirty-one ragas of the Guru Granth Sahib, at the Tri-Valley Sikh Center in California.
Chetandeep Singh
An entire Kabbalah Kirtan evening, recorded by community television: Hebrew sacred phrases sung in the call-and-response form of Indian kirtan.
Brattleboro Community TV
The complete Sabbath cycle of baqashot in the Aleppo rite, close to four hours, as it is sung from midnight until dawn.
Chen Amos
The complete Hanukkah concert recorded at Park Avenue Synagogue.
Azi Schwartz
A traditional song from her own region, with Joosep Kõrvits accompanying her.
Drukmo Gyal
The Yiddish standard sung with the violinist Itzhak Perlman.
JewishLife
Riley Lee's full Taplin Auditorium recital, honkyoku and newer pieces, with his own spoken introductions between them.
Riley Lee Music
The whole 2021 Sendesaal concert: throat singing, igil and doshpuluur, four voices and the sounds of the Tuvan steppe.
JARO Medien (their own label)
Nakai plays the cedar flute for the better part of an hour, talking between pieces about where each one comes from.
Library of Congress
Nearly two hours of qawwali as it is actually held: a full mehfil-e-sama with Faiz Ali Faiz and his party, one piece opening into the next.
Haq Production Tv Official
Christiane Najjar sings a programme of sacred Arabic hymns of return and mercy, one after another without interruption, in the Eastern church style she has studied as a musicologist.
Christiane Najjar
The Amir Khusrau song sung on the day his master's colour fell on him, in a live performance.
Shan Music Unlimited
Twenty minutes of Amir Khusrau's Aaj Rang Hai sung by the duo with storyteller Ankit Chadha at the Rajasthan Kabir Yatra.
Rajasthan Kabir Yatra
A full evening of sacred chant by Abeer Nehme, recorded and published by the Beirut Chants Festival itself.
Beirut Chants Festival
The closing hymn of the synagogue service, on the One who was before anything was formed, sung by cantor Udi Spielman.
Udi Spielman
His award performance in London with the Gnawa Kouyous and Karim Ziad.
Transcordancias
Ahavah Rabah, the prayer about the great love that precedes the Shema, set as kirtan.
Jewish Renewal
One of the lamentations sung at the tomb on Holy Friday, by Nektaria Karantzi with the women's choir Psaltries.
Nektaria Karantzi
Bulleh Shah's verse on the single letter alif, sung with the band Noori: everything learned, set beside the one thing that matters.
Coke Studio Pakistan
Sung with Paloma Devi, who sings lead on much of the band's later work.
GuruGanesha
A short piece that shows the drive of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha style in a few minutes.
GSPS Gurbani
Yasmin Levy with the Jerusalem Orchestra East & West, following the Sephardic song from Akko to Salonika to Istanbul across a whole concert.
Arabesque Festival
A full live concert of Andalusian Sufi devotional music performed on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.
The Kennedy Center
A short chant on the Lord as shepherd, from the Maronite and Melkite repertoire she was raised in.
Sister Marie Keyrouz
The trio's full concert at the University of Chicago, with the different throat-singing styles heard one after another.
The University of Chicago
Almost two hours of mugham sung by Alim Qasimov with his daughter Fargana and the Camerata orchestra, recorded live in Izmir on 30 November 2016.
Alim Qasımov
A live orchestral performance of her song All Related, recorded at St James Church in Guernsey.
Nessi Gomes
The wandering singer of the Punjabi shrines with his ektara and ankle bells, on the divine name.
Oriental Star Agencies
The qawwali on the divine name, sung with harmonium, tabla and the hand-clapping that carries the rhythm.
A for Aleph
Fanna-Fi-Allah performing the qawwali hymn Allah Hoo live in Berlin.
Fanna-Fi-Allah (official channel)
A live performance of Alto Paraiso in a London church, built around the ronroco.
Aukai
Mooralala Marwada sings the Kabir bhajan Amar Piyaalo in a studio recording for the Kabir Project.
ajab shahar - kabir project
Two and a half hours of a singing circle in Amsterdam, recorded from beginning to end, with Uria Tsur leading the voices.
Uria Tsur
The full evening kirtan at Bhaktivedanta Manor, close to three hours, as the temple streamed it.
ISKCON Bhaktivedanta Manor
Twenty-five minutes of group singing in Zurich on Nalini Blossom's Angels Singing, carried by the room rather than by a soloist.
Her official film of the Great Compassion Mantra, shot around Kathmandu temple courtyards, with the mantra carried in a single unhurried vocal line.
Ani Choying Drolma
A twenty-five minute solo set with her band on a festival stage in Sindh, moving between Tibetan mantra and Nepali song and speaking to the audience between pieces.
Lahooti
Leonie Bos sings her song Aphrodites Song, recorded live in Amsterdam.
Leonie Bos Music
A performance of Arabiskan with the Cairo Steps ensemble, with El Helbawy's inshad voice carried over oud, piano and percussion.
Cairo Steps
An audio recording of the ensemble singing the Cherubic Hymn from the Byzantine Divine Liturgy in the ornate Asmatikon style.
Cappella Romana
The Ave Maria sung in Arabic, in the ornamented line of the Eastern churches.
A short set at the Desert Song Festival in Alice Springs, close to where most of the singers live.
Channel NT
A full evening with the Tariqa Wazzaniya in the Jnan Sbil gardens, recorded at the Fes Festival of Sufi Culture.
Festival de Fès de la Culture Soufie
A performance at the LAC festival in 2026.
LAC Documenta
A kafi about hard roads, in the voice of a man who spent decades singing at the shrines before anyone recorded him.
An ambient piece of nearly fifteen minutes in which Paulina Magus sings over a slow electronic landscape by All Stars Dying.
Paulina Magus
The full studio recording of Shantala's Baba Hanuman chant, twelve minutes of call and response.
Shantala - Topic
A nearly hour-long live kirtan chanting session recorded at a pilgrimage site in India.
Indradyumna Swami Official
A short devotional kirtan song composed for his guru Srila Prabhupada, filmed as an official music video.
badaharidas
A devotional song to Hanuman, sung by Batool Begum in her own voice and style.
Begam Batool
Baqashot in the Aleppo rite, the cycle of supplications sung through the night on winter Sabbaths.
Moshe Habusha
A complete live kirtan evening recorded in Antioch, California in January 2015, with Wah! leading call-and-response chant for close to two hours.
Dhyanyoga Centers - Kundalini Maha Yoga (DYC)
A full festival set in front of a live audience, where she moves between Urdu ghazal, Sindhi kafi and Punjabi kalam and stretches lines out as the room responds.
Jashn-e-Rekhta
Kiku Day performs the honkyoku piece Betsuden Shika no Tone on jinashi shakuhachi.
Kiku Day
A full evening of chanting with Bhagavan Das at Svaha Yoga in Amsterdam.
Svaha Yoga
A shabad stretched out over ten minutes, the way the band plays it live.
More than two hours of Krishna bhajans sung live at the Varanasi temple festival.
Sankat Mochan Mandir
Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble sing Bina's Nigun live in the choir loft.
Joey Weisenberg
Deya Dova records a song at the ancient stone site known as Africa's Stonehenge.
Deya Dova
The official music video for Blooming, a short chant carried by voice and strings.
Ajeet
The official video of Ananda Das's English devotional song Bow To You from the album Flower of Life, with Jaya Lakshmi on harmony.
Jaya Lakshmi And Ananda Das
The official music video for the song Budding Trees.
Nahko and Medicine for the People
Kiku Day performs the Zen honkyoku piece Byakudo on shakuhachi for the European Shakuhachi Society.
European Shakuhachi Society
A full concert at Three Hierarchs Chapel in New York, part of the choir's American tour in September 2021.
St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
A live reggae-style Maha Mantra performance by C.C. White at Bhakti Fest 2012 in Joshua Tree.
songbird4yourheart
A blend of kirtan, old-school soul, reggae, southern blues, gospel, R&B and jazz by C.C. White.
M U S I Q A A
A full concert in Yerevan of Armenian medieval monody and later choral settings.
CafesjianArts
The canon sung for the patron saint of Bucharest, whose relics rest in the cathedral where the choir sings.
TRINITAS TV
A full Millennium Stage concert at the Kennedy Center, with cantorial settings and klezmer side by side.
A full evening of music at home with his family, close to two hours of Gaelic song alongside country and sixties material.
Calum Martin
An official studio recording blending Celtic instrumentation with Sufi praise chant.
Al Firdaus Ensemble
A performance of Amir Khusrau's Chaap Tilak before a festival audience in Montreal, showing how the Delhi gharana party builds a single poem over time.
Saad Abdullah Niazi Official
Mukhtiyar Ali sings the Kabir bhajan Chadariya Jheeni Re Jheeni in a studio recording for the Kabir Project.
Anup Jalota's full rendering of Kabir's best known bhajan, unhurried across fourteen minutes.
Anup Jalota
Tyagaraja's kriti Chakkani Raja performed in full with Momin Khan, Patri Satish Kumar, Giridhar Udupa and ensemble at the Darbar Festival.
darbarfestival
The official music video for the song Chance at Wholesome.
Rising Appalachia
Nina Rao leads a full hour of Hanuman Chalisa chanting at Bhakti Fest, with the lyrics on screen so viewers can chant along.
Nina Rao
A kirtan chanting session recorded at Menla, in the bhakti lineage of Neem Karoli Baba.
Original source
A full Hirundo Maris concert of songs from the Mediterranean and the Nordic north, sung and played by Arianna Savall with Petter Udland Johansen, on their own channel.
Arianna Savall & Petter Udland Johansen
An hour of the chants that carry the Orthodox liturgy, sung by the choir of the Patriarchal Cathedral.
A full recording of Ambrosian chant from the Milanese liturgical tradition, directed by Marcel Pérès.
Musica Medievale
A full concert of Melkite sacred chant with the Ensemble de la Paix, the Greek Catholic repertoire of the Arabic-speaking churches.
Ensemble de la Paix
Cheikh Lo and his band play a complete in-studio set for KEXP, mbalax and Cuban rhythms carried by the Baye Fall devotional songs he has sung all his life.
KEXP
The official video for Ndogal, with Cheikh Lo singing and playing in the loose, percussive style that has made him one of Senegal's most recognisable voices.
World Circuit Records
Chemutengure sung over the mbira, with the layered voices that belong to the ceremony as much as the instrument does.
Zimbabwe Mbira
An hour of rgyud-skad, the deep multiphonic chant in which one voice sounds several notes at once, held as a single invocation.
Lama Tashi - Topic (official release)
The hymn sung at the great entrance, here in the old Bulgarian chant setting.
Sretensky Monastery Choir
A recording from the Icons of Sound research project, in which Cappella Romana's singing of the Cherubic Hymn is rendered with the reconstructed acoustics of the original Hagia Sophia.
Two songs woven together, recorded for the Small World Music series in Toronto.
Small World Music
A live rendering of Amir Khusrau's Chhap Tilak at the Jashn-e-Rekhta festival in Delhi.
A Punjabi devotional sung in the qawwali tradition of the Punjab, where Sher Miandad Khan's family has sung for generations.
Music World Islamic
Abida Parveen trades verses with Naseebo Lal over a slow-building band arrangement, the refrain urging the listener to let go and whirl.
Filmed footage of the ensemble performing a Sunday Communion hymn live during a tour in Greece.
A long piece for Tibetan bamboo flute, from the former monk who studied under the Dalai Lama before turning to music.
Nawang Khechog
Om mani padme hum, sung with The Sonic Project Band.
A kirtan concert paired with audience questions on devotional chant practice.
A full hour of Turkish sufi and classical repertoire performed live at the Eyupsultan cultural centre in Istanbul.
Eyüpsultan Kültür Sanat
The Syrian singer and oud player in the studios of France Musique, singing the mystical poetry she draws on.
France Musique
A complete mugham concert given by Alim Qasimov and his ensemble in Tabriz, from his own channel.
A full concert of Davood Azad singing and playing the Persian Sufi repertoire on tar and setar with his ensemble.
Iran International
A concert of hymns from the Coptic rite, sung by El Moalem Ibrahim Ayad with the Institute of Coptic Hymns.
Institute of Coptic Hymns
An immersive music-and-visuals piece by East Forest called Crest, designed to alter consciousness and containing strobing light effects.
East Forest
Erdal Erzincan on bağlama and Kayhan Kalhor on kamancheh perform this piece together as a duo.
Erdal Erzincan - Temkeş Müzik
Live festival footage of Dhafer Youssef performing Dance Layan Dance at the Cosmo Jazz Festival.
The complete studio recording of Dancing Shiva from the album Divine Devotion, posted on Sacred Earth's official label channel.
Sacred Earth - Topic
A live kirtan performance clip from Dave Stringer's own site.
Dave Stringer
Live performance of Dear Brother recorded at Paste Studios in New York.
An instrumental in which the Sufi reed meets something closer to ambient composition.
Iftekharul Anam
Ialoni perform the traditional polyphonic songs Diash Darjol and Mirangula.
Ialoni • იალონი
Moradi plays the tanbour maqams and his own compositions on Maqam-e Qaribi and Maqam-e Saro-Khani, followed by solos and trios with Arash and Kourosh Moradi.
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
A live performance of Dream Song, posted to Yungchen Lhamo's own YouTube channel.
Yungchen Lhamo (official channel)
Max Ribner's music video for his song Dreamers, featuring his horn playing and singing.
Max Ribner
A single complete medieval pilgrim hymn from the Compostela vespers repertoire, performed by Ensemble Organum.
Ensemble Organum - Topic
A full Paschal concert of Orthodox chant by Divna Ljubojević and the Melodi choir.
Divna & Melódi
A full shakuhachi concert by Kakizakai Kaoru, recorded in Edinburgh.
Markus Guhe
Live kirtan from inside the Golden Temple at Amritsar.
ws3ks3
A Spanish-language song from Between The Shores Of Our Souls, a complete official music video with two dancers and trumpet by Nils Petter Molvaer.
Mirabai Ceiba
The hymns of the Gregorian liturgy, one of the three eucharistic rites still sung in the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Ibrahim Ayad
A complete performance of the Moroccan-Andalusian song Elli Qalbou Safi, Emil Zrihan singing with full orchestral backing.
The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra
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