What sorts of music do you like for various aspects of your spirituality?
Is there a specific artist or group of artists or genre that you periodically
use for meditation, ritual, etc.?  Or do you just prefer  silence and the 
crickets?

69 responses total.

Whoever asked about a music item:  now there's one.
If this goes anywhere, I might link it over to the Music conf, but not yet.

I particularly like drumming music. There isn't a whole lot out there, but
there is some good stuff available.
Dead can dance is my favorite. Great stuff!

Have you heard Mickey Hart's stuff?  Good stuff.  Also, Jonathon 
Goldman has at least one CD of drumming.  I have all the DCD stuff.

Mickey Hart's "Planet Drum" is especially good.  For other
good drumming try Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors. She has
about 6 or 7 albums out....and each is very different
from the other.  Folks, this is what I do as a part time
job....sell music....I am pretty well versed in some areas
and no practically nothing about gunge etc.

Gunge, Sis?  You don't even know how to spell it.  :-)
Grunge music in ritual.. . now THAT would be an interesting conversation.
We could start with Nirvana's "Smells like stale incense"

OOoooh, Arwen...
Very cool, what can you dig up for Cuban drum music. I have two
or three albums.

Any type of moving music will do for me. It just depends on your mood.
Swelling classical music such as the Heberdies is particularly lovely if you
donot turn it up very loud. Drum work is also very very inspring.

Cuban,huh?  Try Crosspulse (a group) interesting rhythms.
Ther is someone else who I cannot remember...I will look him
up.  Emilio? Something like that.

Arwem again...Glen Velez....another good drummer type

alan stivell - celtic harp my usic.  (I think I have his name right.  It's
fantastic, and I've used it for years.

Becca...could you get the label?  I love Celtic harp.
Try Judith Pintar or Kim Robertson

James, Enya and Classical.


Enya is New Age?  So?
Gosh... I know a few 'christians' who'd die if they knew I listened to Enya.

Enya is NewAge?  I think of her as electro-Celtic same as Clannad, Altan, etc.

I refuse to think of Enya as Newage, for the simple reason that
Newage music doesn't have words.  Enya does.

Good points... but I know SO MANY people who try
to tell me she's New Age.... oh well...

Though it is true that newage by most people's definition has
no words,I don't think that applies to Enya as she uses her 
voice as an insturment. (I read Carribean Blue used over 200 vocal
tracks)  I agree that her music is extremely condusive to meditation.
Chopin also is a great realaxer, as well as someNona Hendrix.
Concrete Blonde is good for raising energy levels.

Personally, for relaxation, I use The Planets, by Holst, and the Bolero by
Ravel.

Bolero does ANYTHING but relax me.
Try Debussy.

I've always liked Vangelis for meditation.
Enya and Mike Oldfield's older stuff is good too.

re #18:  Odd.  I find Bolero very relaxing.  Don't ask me why.

I am suprised that no one has mentioned Jean Micheal Jarre'
I mean if Carl Sagan likes it it must be good

I have everything Jarre has ever made.
And if your speeking of the tv show Cosmos, It was Vangelis, Heaven and Hell,
Part 2.

I forgot to mention just how much classical does for me here.
Certain music, like Debussy's Danse Sacree et profane... and a LOT of
Debussy... and other specific classical music that escapes me right now.

Ditto, especially piano concertos.

There's a piece by John Adams called "Simple Tones in Common Time"
(or something like that -- it's the last cut on his "The Chairman
Dances" CD with the San Francisco orchestra).  It's the perfect
meditation music.  People often find the earth dropping away from
them toward the end.

Sounds like something to check out.
I've always been into earth dropping.

There's a pun in there somewhere...
By the way Synth folks...
Arwen left me an email on Saturday and said to say Hi to
everyone here.

Back when she was still Walter, Wendy Carlos did a kind of 
electronic "Four Seasons" called "Sonic Seasonings."  The 
"Summer" movement is stunning.  It's a slow-motion piece 
all about heat, the outdoors and insects.  You feel 
outnumbered and irrelevant, but the effect is curiously 
blissful.  A Taoist experience, I think.  

Thank you Phaedrus....you are a dear...or is that a deer?
I laugh when people tell me that they find "all" classical
music boring!  Obviously they have never heard of Hasndel!  Or several
others I could misspell! :->

Wagner, Respighi (Feste romana!!), Elgar has some good stuff...the list
goes on and on... :)

Carmina Burana by Carl Orff rules.
You probably heard it in the Movies Excalibur and The Doors.

Beethoven's 9th is good too.

beethoven's 7th is better.

Dvorak's 9th (and to a slightly lesser degree his 8th)

My air conditioner in the middle of a lucid dream.

YES!!! Let's here it for white noise!

my computer (which has been ON since school started)

the train passing 10 feet from my wall at 3:30 am...every night.

I like to listen to My Bloody Valientine. There is something spirtual about-se
guitar.

Anyone heard of October Project. I just got the album for my birthday
and it's my favorite now!!!
As well as Jane Bunnet, "Spirits of Havana". They mix jazz and some somngs of
songs of the Oricha on this album, it's really neat!!

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