Ritual Music

[circleofsnakes]

Dear All

 

I am interested in thoughts or suggestions for 'ritual' music. This could be music used in particular workings, or music to trigger the magickal imagination, or music that just motivates one on their path.

 

 

I remember at an early age listening to Starman by Bowie on repeat and letting my mind transcend. I have a few pieces that have the effect these days including Led Zep, Massive Attack, Hungarian Cello pieces, just to name a few examples. Occasionally i hear a piece in a film and have to source the soundtrack for that 'special' piece.

 

My motivational music tends to be seasonal. Some things work for the cold midwinter and others for the summer.

[spinney]

Afro Celt sound system - whirly reel(beard and sandals mix)

Neville Brothers - Healing Chant

Debussy - Pr?lude ? l'apr?s-midi d'un faune

Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Tom Waits - 9th and hennepin

Anthony and the johnsons - I fell in love with a dead boy/fistful of love

 

wont tell you whtt sort of ritual as is private but these are a few pieces of music that I have used in my magic/ritual/meditations/journeying

[Ancestral Celt]

"Sacred Chants" by Alex and Michelle Garcia-Diaz is the only pre-recorded music I've used in ritual.

[Michele]

I have not used "CD" music in ritual, other than the times when I was in a group and my teacher would occassionaly put on music.

 

I have at times played a flute in ritual for a specific invocation. Usually in ritual I like silence. I think that there can be a lot of meaning in silence, and for me it often leaves a 'bigger' place to be explored. I like to follow hte sound of the breath, and/or heartbeat in ritual, or the depth of a very still silence. Also, for me, the sudden ending on a CD in ritual would be rather jarring if I was not yet at the ending part of the ritual, and it would break into my state of 'otherness'. There are a few songs I have played around with, and I find that music while driving can put me in a very contemplative mood, but silence can also. I seem to have a very strange enjoyment of stillness and silence sometimes, lol. And my house (now sans the teenagers, lol) is actually a very deep and silent place. I have found that music when on my way to work can do a lot to influence mood, though, and I'm sure that music could well be used to influence ritual if I was technological enough to get the CD to keep repeating itself, lol.

 

The song "Angel" by Beyonce I have used as a specific "building up" or "fanning" of the emotive state, and also, interstingly enough, her song Ave Maria. But I have usually used them in meditations, not rituals.

 

M