Astrology, Spirituality & Alternative Healing

I've never learned, mostly because my own inner sense of rhythm and time-signature isn't that great. Maybe I'll eventually learn the frame drum, though. If you've heard of the drummer Layne Redmond, she's quite the player and teacher by what I've seen of her instructional videos. Here's a performance she does with another frame drummer, Zohar Fresco:

And if you go to her page, she's got more CDs and instructional videos. I need to get her book, "When the Drummers Were Women" because it sounds like a compelling history

As for what the women in the second video are singing, I don't know what the words are, but after a little research and mention on the comments, that they are singing about the Zar. The book "Encyclopedia of Spirits" (Judika Illes) has an extensive entry on the Zar, so I'm not going to transcribe it. In brief, the Zar are akin to the Djinn. Here's a highlighted quote from the entry: