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Magickal Musick

 
  

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Wanderer
01:33 / 06.04.04
Its not exactly Magickal per se, but A lot of System of a down's stuff has a shamanic lyrical feel to it, particularly "Arials" and "Science" off of the Toxicity album and "Innervision" off of "Steal this Album"
 
 
Wanderer
01:47 / 06.04.04
Many of the Doors songs have a similar tone, particularly "when the music's over", "take it as it comes", "The crystal ship", "the river", and "the end". These may not be explicitly occult, but the tone as well as the enormous level of audience energy channeled at the door's concerts, qualifies as magick in my book. This might be stretching the thread a bit, but for chaos magick practitioners in particular, couldn't jazz, especially the more out there stuff, be considered "chaos music"? after all, its based on a seeming chaos (improv) which conceals a larger order to the soundscape (the chord progressions, if the composer chooses to use chord progression.)
 
 
Liger Null
20:42 / 09.04.04
I'll have to delve into the bubble gum realm and pull out "God is a DJ" by Pink. It has references to the "third eye" and "Look for Nirvana" as well is this catchy chorus:

If God is a DJ
then life is a dance floor
Love is the rythym
and you are the music
If God is a DJ
then life is a dance floor
You get what you're giving
it's all how you use it

It always makes me think of Fanny and Jack dancing for the Harlequinade.
 
 
grant
14:52 / 12.04.04
You might find this interview in Fortean Times interesting.

It's with Gary Lachman, who, as the intro says:
... has contributed to Fortean Times, Mojo, TLS, Bizarre, Literary Review and Gnosis. Aside from writing he has been a bass player and composer for Blondie, a guitarist with Iggy Pop, and the leader of his own groups The Know and Fire Escape.

His first book, Turn Off Your Mind - The Mystic Sixties and The Dark Side Of The Age Of Aquarius (Sidgwick and Jackson, £12:99) charts the popular growth of occultism followed by a descent into the violence and madness exemplified by Charles Manson and his Family. A second book, New York Rocker - an autobiography - is due out in February 2002. He is currently researching a book on aspects of consciousness.

 
  

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