Avalon - Sully Erna

Lyrics to "Avalon"

A veil of sparkling white soothes and bathes me in the light
It feels me with the suns and visions of the ancient ones

Descend to me, and sooth my disarray
And so it's done-Hear my words Avalon

Fields are swaying like dancers in the moonlight
Rivers field with dreams-Unbroken and still promising

Descend to me, and sooth my disarray
And so it's done-Hear my words Avalon

Warm inside-open the way in
Float into the night-Embrace what's to be

Avalon 

Saami Yoik Traditional Music Form

In followup to an earlier post, the Saami chant music video Adjagas, here it is described:

ADJÁGAS music is gentle, peaceful, dreamlike, spiritual and utterly engrossing. It is, at the same time, strangely alien. Lyrics are unrecognisable, startling vocals delivered in a style that veers between whispered but crystal clear sweetness, unbridalled emotion and all points in between, sometimes hitting notes that may previously have never existed.

Their music is based around the concept of the yoik, a traditional musical form which describes something not with its words but its sounds. You can start a yoik where you like, you can end it where you like. Its elements remain structured, but its fluid at the same time. A yoik is like liquid in a bottle you can shake it up, but the contents remain the same. And the content of the yoik deliberately has many meanings, in order, if necessary, to spare the feelings of the subject. So it may pass judgement, but its open to interpretation. It is also possible to be the subject of more than one yoik: how it sounds depends upon the perspective of the person who is delivering it. More importantly, a yoik is not written. It comes to a person.

It is not strangely alien to me, but comfortingly familiar.

Dreamers

כ״א באב תשע"א
Lughnasadh 23

Me too.

A Hauntingly Beautiful Song

A hauntingly beautiful song.

The Home Coming

ב' בטבת תשע"א
Grael 5

Beautiful traditional Celtic music.

The Truth Inside

כ״ט בתמוז תש"ע
Lughnasadh 1

Excerpt of the lyrics from Within Temptation's Stand My Ground:

Stand My Ground.
I won't give in
No more denying, I gotta face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will
Stand My Ground.

Watch the music-video here.

Angels

כ״ט בתמוז תש"ע
Lughnasadh 1

Awesome! (Lyrics to Angels.)

Watch the music video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK9qfVQ4Z04

Vote for Sharon den Adel...bottom left hand side. http://www.rockmetalmagazine.com/metalqueen/

Hat-tip to my friend, Savitri Shivani.

With Beauty Underneath The Stars

י״ח בסיון תש"ע
Mab 19

Exquisite music!

Sisters Of The Wind

כ״ה באייר תש"ע
Annwyn 26

This morning as I lay half awake in my bed after an interesting dream, the sudden vision of a wormhole in spacetime opening up to my vision became perceived. It wasn't a tenuous or tumultuous wormhole at all either, but a peacefully stable permanent wormhole reaching out through the fabric of deep existence, connecting me into a vast network of wormholes. Like my own personal umbilical cord to the Great Endless Goddess whose body forms Reality, my own personal path within the Reality of the Divine Feminine cleared perceptively before me. I am truly joined together with my sisters in a Sisterhood of Witches. We are the Universe.



Lyrics from Laura Power's track Sisters of the Wind [from Beyond The Pale, Legends of the Goddess II CD]

Sweet abandon
Goddess of air
Tangled starlight
Trails from her hair
In the silence of time forgotten
Before the garden of man
Riding currents with all creation
She plays out God's hand

Wings of fortune
Beckon the dawn
Cross fields of heather
They circle the moors
Somewhere over the mists of morning
Beyond the mountains of sky
They'll pass right through your dreams
With a whispering sigh

They fly graceful and bold
The four winds of heaven
Rise shining like gold
Their world knows no end
Forever sisters of the wind

And willow
Alder and ash
Groves of glory
Bow as they pass
East and west of the mystic crossroads
North and south of the sea
They'll find and guide you along
If you believe

They fly graceful and bold
The four winds of heaven
Rise shining like gold
Their world knows no end
Forever sisters of the wind

The Secret Chord

ט' בתשרי תש"ע
Blodlessing 10

In follow-up to earlier entries (Heikhalot, The Nine-Tenths Gate and Shabbat Proclamation - Time Is Gold), my facebook friend Jacek OSTROWSKI shared this treasure with me:



Gathered from the web, the full and complete lyrics to a perfectly imperfect song, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen:

[[ Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord.
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this,
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof,
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you
To a kitchen chair.
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair,
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain.
I don't even know the name.
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word.
It doesn't matter which you heard,
The holy or the broken Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah ]]

Baby, I've been here before.
I know this room, I walk this floor.
I used to live alone before I knew you.
Yeah, I've seen your flag on the marble arch,
But listen love, love is not some kind of victory march,
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah ... {Hallelujah}

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below.
Ah, but now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you,
The holy dove, she was moving too,
Yes, and every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above,
As for me, all I ever seem to learn from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.
Yeah, but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight,
It's not the laughter of someone who's claims to have seen the light,
No, it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
but I couldn't feel, so I learned to touch.
I've told the truth, I didn't come all this way to fool you.
Yeah, and even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand right here before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Timelapse Between The Shadows

י"ט בתמוז תשס״ט
Faunus 20

In follow-up to today's commentary on Pinchas, I found this beautiful music video - (Timelapse) Between The Shadows.

Unfinished Story

לָשׂוּחַ

Amy graces us with her exquisite Unfinished Story ...

Pointless

לָשׂוּחַ

Maksim beautifully plays Somewhere In Time ...

Melancholy Of Fallen Leaves

Some beautiful music ...

Amazing Presence, Stunning Voice

כ'א ניסן תשס"ט
Raven 21

Simply wow.

Miss Susan Boyle blows the audience (and me) away with her debut performance, singing I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables. Don't let this one go!

HT sa_hall.

I Held The Moon

י"א כסלו תשס"ט
Shamash 12

Exquisite and pagan-friendly, this darkwave neo-classical piece from the rare CD Zal (which I now own) by sToa is hauntingly beautiful.

She Is Eternal

כ"ה חשון תשס"ת
Phasma Priscus 27

About the song Inama Nushif (She Is Eternal) sung entirely in the Fremen language by Azam Ali. The lyrics.

El Rey De Francia

כ"ה חשון תשס"ת
Phasma Priscus 27

Enchantingly witchy melody.



From Poets, Bards and Singers

"The origins of El Rey De Francia, as with other Sephardic music, lie most likely in 13th or 14th Century Andalusia with versions of this gentle erotic song having surfaced in countries all across Mediterranean Europe and Turkey. The poetry is Ladino."

The Heart Is A Mirror on El Rey De Francia

Anol Shalom & The Witch's Curio

כ"ה סיון התשס"ח
Alban Heruin 26

I love this song (Anol Shalom meaning Now We Are Free) by Lisa Gerrard. Interestingly, I found this video on YouTube a little over an hour after posting a magically related entry on Craftwork - Secure Boundaries Of The Universe - about the newest curio added to my cabinet of magic. Read about the mystical geometry of circlecasting garnet granules at Craftwork Of A Jewitch.

Presence

ד' באדר א' תשס"ח
Keolwulf 5

From the CD Beyond The Pale, Legends Of The Goddess II by Laura Powers, an excerpt of the lyrics from Sisters Of The Wind:

Sweet abandon
Goddess of the air
Tangled starlight
Trails from Her hair
In the silence of time forgotten
Before the garden of man
Riding currents with all creation
She plays out God's hand

Related entry: Epiphany