In today’s streaming world, artists are rarely compensated for the depth of their creative labor. When you listen — and especially when you purchase the music — you help sustain the songs, the ceremonies, and the ancestral work that gives birth to them. Your support keeps this living tradition alive.


These ceremonial recordings were created to accompany inner work, ancestral tending, and personal journeys. One features Akutu Irka playing the mayowakan — the Taíno ceremonial drum — and the other carries her spontaneous ancestral chanting woven with the pulse of the ceremonial rhythm.

Each song is a prayer in sound, offered for those seeking to reconnect with the land, the spirits, and the ancient memory held in our Afro-Taíno lineage.

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Irka Mateo’s Music

Irka is a performer and recording singer–songwriter with a thirty-five-year career rooted in Dominican spiritual folklore. Her contemporary music honors Afro-Taíno rhythms, stories, and carries Abya Yala music influences, shaping a sound that bridges tradition with new creative expression.

These albums and singles continue the work of carrying forward the voices of our people — through drums, story, rhythm, and prayer.

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