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Pagan Not Pagan Music
« on: September 04, 2016, 10:00:28 am »
Lots of music wasn't necessarily written by or for pagans, yet fits us to a tee. What are your picks?

My current favorite example:

"Terra" by Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso


It's a love song to the Earth with a sinuous melody and the sounds of Portuguese (my favorite language to hear in song...spoken, not so much!) that lend it gorgeous exoticism. Hits the spot for this tree-hugging pagan.

Here are the lyrics roughly translated into English, at least as I found on a website. Some of the local specificity may not be immediately accessible, but it grounds the song and keeps it from spinning into the hippy-dippy dolphin-hugging far reaches of outer space, IMHO.

Earth

When I found myself arrested
In a prison cell
That's when I first saw
Those famous pictures
In which you appear entire
However you were not naked
But covered by clouds…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
Nobody supposes the brunette
Inside the bluish star
In the vertigo of the movie
I send you an embrace,
Little one – as if I were
The homesick poet
And you were the Paraíba*…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
I’m just in love
With an earth girl
Earth element sign
From the sea is said “earth in sight”
Earth to the foot solidity
Earth to the hand caress
Other stars** for you are guides…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
I am a lion of fire
Without you I’d burn up
I’d burn up myself eternally
And it would be worthless
The fact of my being people
And people is another joy
Different than stars’s…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
From where neither time nor space
May the Force send courage
For us to treat you tenderly
During all the journey
That you carry out in the nothing
Through which you bear
The name of your flesh…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
In the townhouses’s terraces
Of the old city of Salvador
There are remembrances of damsels
From the time of the Emperor
Everything, everything in Bahia
Makes us to be fond of
Bahia*** has such a way…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
Earth!
 
*Paraíba – One of the states of Brazil.
**Astros (Celestial bodies) translated as “Stars”.
***Bahia - One of the states of Brazil. The city of Salvador is the capital of Bahia.
« Last Edit: May 07, 2019, 05:26:55 pm by RandallS »
The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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Re: Pagan Not Pagan Music
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2016, 11:49:09 am »
Quote from: Altair;195850
Lots of music wasn't necessarily written by or for pagans, yet fits us to a tee. What are your picks?

My current favorite example:

"Terra" by Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso


It's a love song to the Earth with a sinuous melody and the sounds of Portuguese (my favorite language to hear in song...spoken, not so much!) that lend it gorgeous exoticism. Hits the spot for this tree-hugging pagan.

Here are the lyrics roughly translated into English, at least as I found on a website. Some of the local specificity may not be immediately accessible, but it grounds the song and keeps it from spinning into the hippy-dippy dolphin-hugging far reaches of outer space, IMHO.

Earth

When I found myself arrested
In a prison cell
That's when I first saw
Those famous pictures
In which you appear entire
However you were not naked
But covered by clouds…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
Nobody supposes the brunette
Inside the bluish star
In the vertigo of the movie
I send you an embrace,
Little one – as if I were
The homesick poet
And you were the Paraíba*…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
I’m just in love
With an earth girl
Earth element sign
From the sea is said “earth in sight”
Earth to the foot solidity
Earth to the hand caress
Other stars** for you are guides…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
I am a lion of fire
Without you I’d burn up
I’d burn up myself eternally
And it would be worthless
The fact of my being people
And people is another joy
Different than stars’s…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
From where neither time nor space
May the Force send courage
For us to treat you tenderly
During all the journey
That you carry out in the nothing
Through which you bear
The name of your flesh…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
 
In the townhouses’s terraces
Of the old city of Salvador
There are remembrances of damsels
From the time of the Emperor
Everything, everything in Bahia
Makes us to be fond of
Bahia*** has such a way…
 
Earth! Earth!
However distant
The wandering navigator
Who could ever forget you?...
Earth!
 
*Paraíba – One of the states of Brazil.
**Astros (Celestial bodies) translated as “Stars”.
***Bahia - One of the states of Brazil. The city of Salvador is the capital of Bahia.
"Transcendence" by Lindsey Stirling, in all honesty. Its orchestral version (found here: ) is amazing, and when I saw her in concert back in July, she explained the meaning behind the song. She was going through a serious low in her life, and Transcendence is about overcoming the depression and literally transcending above it. Not even remotely pagan sounding, but paganism has helped me transcend my numerous battles with depression over the years.
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Re: Pagan Not Pagan Music
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2016, 12:28:12 pm »
Quote from: Altair;195850
Lots of music wasn't necessarily written by or for pagans, yet fits us to a tee. What are your picks?

 
I'm not sure if she's pagan or not, but she is a Sami (indigenous north Scandinavian) singer, whose culture is rooted in shamanism. She's not typically mentioned along with other Pagan groups, but I find myself listening to her music when I am in the mood for Pagan music. Her music is a mix of folk, jazz, pop rock and post rock.

Here's a live video with two of her songs, ."

Another group I can think of who are somewhat spiritual, but write similar music to other Pagan groups, is a Polish group Dikanda. Their sound is a bit more traditional, but they blend all different kinds of folk music from all across Europe, including Romani (gypsy) music. A lot of the songs they sing are traditionals, but they write some original music and sing without using a language.

Here's a video of their song,

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Re: Pagan Not Pagan Music
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2016, 01:49:32 am »
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Lots of music wasn't necessarily written by or for pagans, yet fits us to a tee. What are your picks?

 
I've got a roadwork playlist that I had a lot of help putting together:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmAttCiVgW-5ADIV1-12Bmia2Fogx1Ty

(for some reason, hyperlinks freeze my computer now :rolleye::)
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Re: Pagan Not Pagan Music
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2016, 02:23:51 pm »
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Lots of music wasn't necessarily written by or for pagans, yet fits us to a tee. What are your picks?

 
I have lists of music I consider 'witchy' or magical, but 'pagan'? Not so much. Except maybe this:

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Re: Pagan Not Pagan Music
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2016, 05:01:33 pm »
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Lots of music wasn't necessarily written by or for pagans, yet fits us to a tee. What are your picks?


Laura Doggett's would be on the top that list.
 
Beth Patterson's and also come to mind.  

Just about anything from Lord Huron has a weirdly liminal, shadowy, pagany feel but that might be true just in my weirdly liminal, shadowy, pagany head. :whis: comes to mind as a particularly good example.

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Re: Pagan Not Pagan Music
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2016, 05:04:34 pm »
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"Transcendence" by Lindsey Stirling, in all honesty.

 
Seconded!

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Re: Pagan Not Pagan Music
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2016, 01:28:43 am »
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Just about anything from Lord Huron has a weirdly liminal, shadowy, pagany feel but that might be true just in my weirdly liminal, shadowy, pagany head. :whis: comes to mind as a particularly good example.

 
OOOOH YES

The Yawning Grave is one that hit me over the head a month or so ago.
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Re: Pagan Not Pagan Music
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Seconded!
Oh, another pagan-but-not song is "Citizen of the Planet" by Alanis Morissette. It's the song that first introduced me to Quan Yin when my iPod freaked out and started playing it in the middle of my meditation music.
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