Pagan Music

[pt_tangles]

I just don't really like it. In fact, I'm not sure that I can think of any that I do like (unless Stevie Nicks counts, I like her). I know that a lot of folks love the chants and stuff, but I'm not really into it.

I like a lot of different kinds of music, but so many Pagan songs seem so forced - like the artist is trying really hard to make the song be overtly Pagan in the lyrics when it just doesn't fit the melody (or the music just doesn't grab you the way a really good song should).

Anyone have any suggestions of their favourite Pagan songs? I'm in a singer/songwriter sort of mood lately, so music of that nature may work better for me.

I think that I might start another blog.  Well, scratch that, I have started a new blog, I just haven't written anything in it yet.  I have an addiction.  I know this.  

But seriously, the more I look to expand Pagan Perspectives (renamed A Less Travelled Path), the more I am wishing for the functionality of Blogger.  Wordpress is great, but do I want to have a self-hosted blog again?  I probably will end up going that route eventually.  Wordpress.com just keeps me too restricted.

Also, I kinda want to make my writting a little more mom/family focussed.  I guess that I could do that on PP, but I dunno.  It was never really meant to be a personal/diy/mom style blog.  It was for articles, and Pagan centric stuff.  My plans for the new one, if I do end up writing in it, are to make it very much a Momblog, with decorating/homemaking/gardening/etc stuff in it. 

What I wonder is, should I do that to PP?  Should I change the focus and add a wider range of topics?  It would still be a Pagan/Witchy blog, but there would be less Pagan stuff in general, and more living stuff.

I'm very much on the fence with this one. I know that I suck at keeping multiple blogs (LJ/DW don't count), I tried to keep up my separate life/gfree blog, and I just never really had much to post about, so I let it slide.  I don't know.  Maybe I'll give PP a redesign and that will curb my desire for a new blog for a while longer.

We'll see.

Comments

[elf]

I love Gwydion Pendderwen's music, but that's acoustic folk; I don't love the studio versions as much as I love it sung by actual people in groups.

I love Heather Alexander's music. "Life's Flame" and "March of Cambreadh" are family favorites, and those are available as samples.

Pandemonaeon is good; they're closer to rock. (Maybe they are rock.)

I very much like Reclaiming's Chants but they're, ahm, chants, not songs; designed to be repeated. And I also love the Circle Round and Sing album, which went with Anne Hill's book about raising children in Paganism. I used to sing my kids to sleep with "Ocean Lullabye," and "Moon Folly" remains one of my all-time favorite Pagan songs, even though AFAIK it's not originally Pagan; it's from a poem published in the 1920s.

[pt_tangles]

I've been meaning to pick up Circle Round. I want to be able to do more things with L'il R as she gets older. I'll have to look for CR&S as well (it sounds fun from the samples).

[eldriwolf.livejournal.com]

(-I have *No* Albums here on the boat---very little preserved music of Any kind)
There are no whole records I could recommend, in any event
Even my very favorite poets don't write Great stuff every time.
There is a reason they used to put out 'singles' (and later compiled 'greatest hits', which I often do Not care for).

Gwydion actually wrote some good stuff (quite a bit for only two albums worth.)
Leslie Fish writes a few Great songs,(- and many not so great)
Leah Ann Hussy likewise--(*All* her stuff with her Band "Annwn" went up for free download after she passed)

I have heard Several European Pagan bands--at other folks houses.

a lot depends on what I am in the Mood for there is no shortage of "instrumental trance" or sort-of Celtic (Emerald Rose, Golden Bough, etc.)

Jethro Tull, Patti Smith, the Grateful Dead, many another rock band did Some pagan song or other
some classical music is Very Pagan
there were/are a few gems in 70's 'womans music'- (Ruth Barret,
Being 'format impaired' I can't be of much help-- Sorry

Blessings, and.
Good Hunting!

[pt_tangles]

Thanks, I'll check these ones out :)