Throughout the ages and around the globe, drumming has been used for communication, entertainment, and prayer. That is especially true for the Rastafarians who performed at this year's Sacred Music ...

Members of the D.C. Nyabinghi community bring an old Rastafari tradition to the new Babylon. Doum-doum. Doum-doum. Brother Irice, a Rastafari elder of the Nyabinghi order, settles near the altar and ...

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about the origins of the Jamaican musical genres Burru and Nyabinghi. There’s RFI Listener Club news, the listener mailbag, great ...

From left, Mosiyah Tafari and Binghi Neal take a break from traditional nyabinghi drumming and chanting on stage as frankincense wafts from a burner held by Ras Jahbo, center, during an event by the ...

In the history of Jamaican music, there have been some outstanding counts, among them Count Matuchie, Count Shelly, Count C, and Oswald ‘Count Ossie’ Williams. A seminal figure in the development of ...

Nyabinghi music is the traditional drumming music of Jamaica's Rastafarian communities, named after Queen Nyabinghi, a traditional African goddess. It's a hypnotic trance music, involving chanting ...