IKAR's services incorporate Sephardic and Mizrachi-style drumming, chanting and droning (using a low-pitched, sustained tone as a harmony) with what Tigay called a "catchy melody on top" as a way of "giving people a sense that they are entering into uncharted psychological territory and transcending the everyday." Worshippers are induced "not to tolerate things as […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM on December 16, 2018