Last Night, Today, Music, Magic

[wolven7]

Intense dreams about work, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Battle Star. Weird overlaps, there.

Woke up after about 6 hours' sleep. Did a Light exercise routine, went and got some Chick-Fil-A. Delicious.

In other news, I need your recommendations of musicians, from the Beginning of Music to now, who consciously incorporate magical intent into their music. I know lots of musicians who are also "pagans," "wiccans," "Neo-Norse," whatever else, but the ratio of those to those who consciously and openly weave it into their music, to those who don't, is pretty low.

Naming yourself gets you Me, staring at You, with a look on my face that says, among other things, "Really? You think I didn't know that?" If someone else names you, that's cool, though.

I'll collect all the answers in a post, here, in a couple of days, or so.

And.... Go!

Comments

[lillornyn.livejournal.com]

Blackalicious and Saul Williams immediately jump to mind.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Huh. Saul Williams, sure, but I wouldn't have thought of Blackalicious. Any particular example?

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Blazing Arrow (which features Saul, actually), to a lesser extent The Craft, and Gift of Gab's solo album 4th Dimensional Rocketship Going Up.

Black Metal is rife with this, too. Check out Therion which is actually the musical arm of the Sweedish occult school Dragon Rogue. Most recent example is the best, their Gothic Kabbalah album.

While the intent is arguable, Ville Valo of Finnish band H.I.M. is a student of Kenneth Grant's work (as best seen in their track "Nightside of Eden".

There's Current 93 whose earlier stuff was all Crowley and Thelema focused and whose recent stuff is 24/7 Christian Mysticism.

Ummm, Robbie Williams might not put this kind of throught into his music, but the design of his 2007 Intensive Care album's packaging was a sigil designed by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly.

I hear my roomate hit you with many of the other usual suspects so I'll leave off his list :)


Then there's your classics... Led Zepplin -- Jimmy Page, according to the story, owned more of Crowley's original texts than any other collection. He also owned Crowley's old Boleskine House and ran an occult publishing company. And the Rolling Stones, ect.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Wonderful List. Also, I don't count any band from the late 60's and early 70's because....I mean, Come On.

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Hey, why not count them... at least the legit examples.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I want to throw Bowie in the pile, but without reference and attribution, I'll have to settle for a "Maybe."

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Bowie - The Place of Enchantment by Alex Owen and Turn Off Your Mind by Gary Lachman

Rolling Stones - Turn Off your Mind

Led Zepplin - Turn Off your Mind and assorted articles by Erik Davis

Also, if you're interested in Art and the Occult pre-20th Century, Lachman also wrote the indespensible A Dark Muse.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

See, you should mention these things, more often. ;)

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

"Naming yourself gets you Me, staring at You, with a look on my face that says, among other things, "Really? You think I didn't know that?" If someone else names you, that's cool, though."

This. I'm always leery of this. I have the exact same reaction, actually, however...

...I don't want to have that reaction since I think it's vastly important to name yourself.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

True, but there are two people/groups, in particular, at whom this statement was aimed. I probably should have made that more clear.

Though I definitely agree.