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Earth
Magick
by Todd Alan and Lady Pythia
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Produced
& Engineered by Todd Alan
Copyright
1987 Todd Alan Studios. All rights reserved |
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Lyrics
and music by Todd Alan and Marybeth Witt
1.
Mother Earth & Father Sky <free
song Mp3 download>
2.
Time for the Goddess
3.
Kundalini
4.
Earth Magick <free
song Mp3 download>
5.
Song of the Earth
6.
What you Do
7.
Fairy Dancer
8.
The Dragon Song
9.
Age of the Daughter
10.
Sing a Song
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Earth Magick
Copyright
1987 Todd
Alan and Marybeth Witt.
All rights reserved |
Of "Earth Magick," Lady Pythia writes:
"We ventured into realms quite different from
anything called "New Age" music at the time--for the music
was stylistically very different, in that it was more folk-rock than
the ambient meditation music which permeated the New Age scene at
that time. The Earth movment scene had a few bards of
incredible, great note, but no real rockers. Oracle filled in
the niche between folk and the hard Pagan rock which has since followed."
"Our means of music-making was also quite
unusual. Rather than sitting down expressly to write a song, when
Todd would start playing riffs and chords, often I would just began
to sing...and Todd's harmonies blended exquisitely--thus songs
created themselves, in a way, with unusual styles, syncopations,
patterns. One song was triggered by Todd playing some chords
during a thunderstorm ...and a song poured out first from Mother
Earth through me, then from both of us--and became the title song of
the album."
"So much of 'Earth Magick' also reflected the
intense spiritual and magickal work we were doing with my Coven:
teaching Goddess chants and drumming on the Great Serpent Mound at
the Harmonic Convergence, creating huge mythic workings with the
Coven of the Floating Spiral for festivals--journeys through the
Elements, through the Mother. Political work for peace,
conservation.... "Earth Magick" was the Magick which we and
all in the early Neo-Pagan movement were doing in our everyday lives
as well as together, at festivals of hundreds, then thousands!"
"We were fortunate enough to have with us a
drummer friend-brother, "Bongo" Bob, whose rhythmic talents
had been discovered by Todd and his original techno band. Bob
brought in the tribal beats that underly much of our music, Jim Gress
played bass on a number of our pieces, and Jeff Douglas added lovely
keyboards and harmonies in 'The Dragon's Song.' 'Earth Magick' is
full of delight, of tribal beats, of Mother Earth screams (even the
guitar screams on the title song), and of visions which we had and
still have for the future of humanity on this delicate planet, our Mother."
"Our first album-cassette--'Moon Magick'--was a
long, extemporaneous, spacey and otherworldy adventure into the
Astral and cosmological mind. 'Earth Magick,' on the other
hand, contained fully fleshed-out songs, and presenting them at
festivals immersed us more in the magickally musical scene of the
mid-1980's. We were honored to have taken a creative part
during that time of change and evolution in the Earth Religions and
Goddess/Nature Spirituality movement."
Brightest Blessings,
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