Umbra

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Shamanic ritual ensemble

Evoke the spirits with this unique ensemble. Featuring Middle-American flutes, skin drums, and a humming Shaman.

Umbra gives you three wooden flutes: The high quena, mid-range quenacho, and a contrabass flute. Expressive and playable, with slides, ornaments, and a 'finger-tapping' pizzicato.

The ritual also involves percussion, including a gong drum, a shaman drum, a rainmaker, and a frame drum. Played in a number of standard and non-standard styles, including muted hits and rubber ball bowing.

The Shaman himself presides over the ceremony, with a bass voice that goes down to a low G. With arcane mutterings, and humming that morphs through multiple vowels.

All that, plus some stunning processed patches: Umbra will help you conjure another world.

Content:

• 8 single instruments.
• Up to 10 articulations, 2 mic positions.
• Processed: 2 ensembles, 5 pads, 2 plucks, 2 keys, 2 drones, 4 perc.