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MP #19: New for December 2013

At least for now, RevKess seems to be on a roll. Here’s another fun episode of Musica Pagani. This time 15 new pieces of new age music. With the exception of a two part piece, each track is a different musican or band. Most of it does come from new releases for December, but some are earlier releases just arrived or new releases that arrived for October and November of 2013.

Starting off with a wintery mix for the holiday season, moving into inspirational and then some drumming and vocals, winding down with more instrumentals and closing out with a sampling of Celtic music.

We do hope that you enjoy the combination of musics!

Play List

  1. Kathryn Kaye – Brightest and Best – What the Winter Said
  2. The Morgan Sisters – Deck the Halls / Winter – Winter, Snow and Strings
  3. Isadar – Sing We now of Christmas – In Search of the Meaning of Christmas
  4. Paul Spath – Reflections – Redemption
  5. Akasa – Sky Children – Portal
  6. Forrest Smithson – Dreaming I (radio edit) – Dreaming Time
  7. Get Tribal – Indra, India (Endless Reflection) – God of Drum
  8. Irinushka – Genie in a Bottle – Roads Traveled
  9. Ricky Kej – Shanit, pt1 – Shanti Orchestra
  10. Ricky Kej – Shanti, pt2 – Shanti Orchestra
  11. Peter Sterling – Isle of Light – Twilight Serenade
  12. Uwe Gronau – Night Train – Flight 14
  13. Cosmo Frequency – World of Light – Soundtrack to Life
  14. David Nevue – Dark Afternoon – Open Sky
  15. Bill Leslie – Gaelic Soul – Scotland: Grace of the Wild
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MP: Rock It, Pagan Style pt 1 & 2

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Click to Listen, pt 1 – Pt 2 available here.

Well now, would seem that RevKess has been even more neglectful of things than usual.  It has been some time since he did an edition of Musica Pagani. He’s making it up for it the best he can with a two parter: Rock It, Pagan Style!

Earlier in 2013, Kenny Klein launched a recording project with his touring band FishBird. Some of the music they did was rock-like covers of some of his older music. And of course, every good musician is experimenting with new pieces whenever possible. That’s just what FishBird has done.

In this two parter of Musica Pagani you will get a taste of FishBird as well as some other rocking musicians and bands with a distinctive Pagan flare. Everyone from Leigh Anne Hussey with her unreleased Uglytown demo to Wendy Rule and Rosin Coven, with stops along the way to visit with Omnia and Frenchy and the Punk.

We do hope that you have enjoyed this special edition of Musica Pagani!

Play List, Pt 1

  1. FishBird – Season of the Witch – FishBird
  2. Omnia – Intro (Anima & Faun) – Live Religion
  3. Omnia – Du Laman – Live Religion
  4. Omnia – Auta Luonto – Live Religion
  5. Wendy Rule – Continental Isolation – Continental Isolation EP
  6. Wendy Rule – The King Moon – Artemis EP
  7. FishBird – Fur and Feather (into) The Cuckoos Nest – FishBird
  8. Spiral Dance – Spirit of Albion / Wooden Box – Through a Sylvan Doorway (feat. Damh the Bard)
  9. Rosin Coven – Water Don’t Talk to Me – Sing Me Malaise

Play List, pt 2

  1. FishBird – Jam (session, into) Marie Laveau – FishBird
  2. Nuit – House of Sleep – Mother Night
  3. Nuit – Look at Me – Mother Night
  4. Uglytown – Babylon is  Fallen – demo (unreleased)
  5. Uglytown – My Winter Song – demo (unreleased)
  6. FishBird – Pagan Jugband Blues – FishBird
  7. FishBird – Fairy Queen (into) Mandrake – FishBird
  8. Frenchy and the Punk – Blacksmith – Elephant Uproar
  9. Fenchy and the Punk – Lunar Frenzy – Hey Hey Cabaret
  10. Frenchy and the Punk – Magician and the Dancer – Happy Madness
  11. Rosin Coven – House of Roses – Sing Me Malaise
  12. FishBird – Victor – FishBird
  13. FishBird – Little Amazon – FishBird
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Veterans’ Day on the Mess

ad bannerHello, all. I’ve been rather remiss of late when it comes to sharing our play lists and other notes from the shows, both those on PMPChannel and the shows I am involved in on KZUM. We’ll see what we can do to rectify that.

Here is the playlist from Murphy’s Magic Mess on the 10th. It was our Veterans’s Day celebration, so much of the music fits into that theme. It was also one of our SoundExchange tracking weeks, so the format of the playlist is taking straight from the tracking spreadsheet. I had the pleasure of selecting the music, and these 20 tracks are just half of what I selected. We also had a nice little visit with Josh Bivins of UNL Pagan Life, the Pagan student group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Playlist

Song Title Featured Artist Album
Warrior Queen Kellianna Lady Moon
From Cradle to Coffin Isadar The Purple Heart
Flowers of Edinburgh Bill Leslie Scotland: Grace of the Wild
Dark Afternoon David Nevue Open Sky
Stone Circle Al Jewer & Andy Mitran Music of the Earth
Peaceful Warrior Chant Ruth Barrett The Year is a Dancing Woman: Vol. 1
Warrior’s Prayer Wil Kanim Firewater
Prayers for the Warriors Sophia Emergence
RED Alabaster & Blue Celia Red Alabaster & Blue
Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees) Dale Bacon Poems
Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees) Hugin the Bard Bardic Tales of the Mabinogian
The Bold Fenian Men Omnia Crone of War
Battle Hymn Faith and the Muse :Shoumei:
Coloured Ribbons & Tarnished Brass The Cundeez Coloured Ribbons and Tarnished Brass EP
The Battle of New Orleans Coyote Run Pleads the 5th
The Green Fields of France Dropkick Murphys The Warrior’s Code
I Am Warrior Monica Richards InfraWarrior
Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone Murphey’s Midnight Rounders Swede Hollow
Sink the Bismark Johnny Horton Battle of New Orleans
Don’t Call My Name In Battle Heather Alexander Songsmith: From Andre Norton’s Wit
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MMM: Freedom to Be (Who and What We Are)

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Notes for 29 September 2013

KZUM promotes diversity and the Mess is a prime example of that diversity. If you listen to KZUM often you know that Sundays are an interesting combination of programming. The Glorious Gospel is from 6-9am and immediately followed by Murphy’s Magic Mess from 9-11am. Two polar opposite programs back to back. There is very little, if any, tension between the programmers for these two shows.

To share in that diversity, Murf, *K8 and Phil decided to do a show filled with songs about diversity and songs that address the discrimination that unfortunately still exists in the world. You can see that by the variety of songs that were picked for the show.

  1. God is Alive, Magick is Afoot – Buffy Sainte-Marie – Illumination
  2. Ancient Paths – Stanton Lanier – Open Spaces
  3. Valhalla – Stephen DeRuby – Sacred Spaces
  4. Day of Celebration – James Sera – Reality of the Fantasy
  5. Goddess Rising – Paradiso & Rasamayi – Attuning to Oneness: the Harmonic Ascension
  6. Malaika – Wouter Kellerman – Mzansi
  7. Rag Klem – David Vito Gregoli – Primordial Sonics
  8. Burning Times – Charlie Murphy & Circle Magic Music – Circle
  9. By Our Own Fear – The Wyrd Sisters – Inside the Dreaming
  10. Scott & Jamie – Fred Small
  11. Homophobes in Robes – Romanovsky & Phillips – Let’s Flaunt It
  12.  I’m Not Homophobic – The Trestle Foote Faerie – Naughty in Pink
  13. The Heart is the Only Nation – Ruth Barrett & Cynthia Smith – The Heart is the Only Nation
  14. Silent No Longer – Emma’s Revolution – Roots, Rock and Revolution
  15. Feel the Colors – Ubaka Hill – Dance the Spiral Dance
  16. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Buffy Sainte-Marie – Up Where I Belong
  17. All My Relations – Ulali – Mahk Jchi
  18. We Won’t Wait Any Longer – Gwyddion Pennderwen – The Faerie Shaman
  19. Everyday Goddess – Celia – Breathe
  20. Burning Times – Spiral Dance – Magick
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PMP & MP Flip

 

Beginning on Saturday 7 September 2013 and Sunday 8 September 2013 Pagan-Musings Podcast and Musica Pagani are flipping around. Due to a major scheduling conflict, RevKess and KaliSara have decided to flip the programs around. As many of the regular listeners have no doubt noticed this summer, RevKess has been absent more often than not from Pagan-Musings. With football season starting up it is almost guaranteed that he will be unavailable for any of the live Saturday broadcasts for the foreseeable future. With careful consideration, the hosts have decided it would be in the interests of the listeners and the channel to change things.

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Beginning on Saturday 7 September 2013 at 7pm Central you can hear Musica Pagani in a recorded format. RevKess wil continue to bring you music from the New Age and Pagan genres along with interview segments with some of those artists. You can also catch some RevKess’s music reviews over at his review site.

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Beginning on Sunday 8 September 2013 at 7pm Central you can hear Pagan-Musings Podcast, most often broadcast live. KaliSara and RevKess will continue to bring you talk and information from the Pagan community with a variety of topics and guests.

Here at PMPChannel we hope that you will find this change to be easy and cause little to no disruption to your listening experience. The hosts are looking forward to being able to continue to bring you the information and entertainment you have grown to appreciate over the years, as well as spice things up a bit with some new topics, new guests, new music, and lots of fun!

You can contact the hosts of PMPChannel at paganmusings@gmail.com or on Facebook.

 

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Musica Pagani #13: 2 Sets of 13

The thirteenth episode of the rebooted Musica Pagani was aired on Sunday 25 August 2013 (click on the image to hear the broadcast). In this edition RevKess brought the listener two sets of thirteen. Thirteen New Age and instrumental pieces followed by thirteen Pagan and vocal pieces. In this edition RevKess also brings the listener some new music. Never before heard on Musica Pagani. Some of it has been in the waiting pile for some time, some of it is new to the Channel this summer. Listen and enjoy.

You can find Musica Pagani on Facebook.

Music

New Age & Instrumental

  1. Nick Farr – Reign of Thunder – A View From Within
  2. Mirabai Ceiba – Sat Guru Prasad (Blessing of Life) – Awakened Earth
  3. Catherine Marie Charlton – Moon Twist – Undershore
  4. Lisa Hilton – Someday, Somehow Soon – Underground
  5. The Pure Heart Ensemble – The Journey Deepens – Bliss of Being
  6. Takashi Suzuki – The Knowing – Voyage: Hiroshima Eternal
  7. Peter Sterling – Modern Times – Patterns of Relfection
  8. Paradiso – Time Lapse – Shaman’s Trance
  9. Kathryn Kaye – August Light – Dreaming Still
  10. Annette Cantor – Isis – Songs for the Goddess
  11. Psicodreamics – Sancta Inquisitio – Ancient Wisdom
  12. Louis Colaiannia – Way of the Rain – A Moment Between Eternities
  13. David Arkenstone & Charlee Brooks – Lumaria – Loveren

Pagan & Vocal

  1. Emerald Rose – Queen of Argyll – Archives of Ages to Come
  2. Damh the Bard – The Cutty Wren – Tales from the Crow Man
  3. Featherscale – House of the Rising Sun – Gypsy Heart
  4. Telergy – Ghost – The Legend of Goody Cole
  5. Rosin Coven – House of Roses – Sing Me Malaise
  6. Mirabilis – The City – Here and the Hereafter (sampler)
  7. Michael Brant DeMaria – Chantress – The Maiden of Stonehenge
  8. Jenna Greene – Harvest – Crossroads
  9. Bone Poets Orchestra – Seven Sisters – Ecstasy in the Ruins (rough cut)
  10. Mama Gina – Waking Panther – (rough cut)
  11. Lon Milo DuQuette – Last Night I Dreamed of Dead People – I’m Baba Lon
  12. Legend – Spark to a Flame – Cardinal Points
  13. Tuatha Dea – Aradia – The Tribe (featuring Wendy Rule)

The next edition of Musica Pagani, #14, is the last to be aired on a Sunday. Due to scheduling conflicts, RevKess and KaliSara (cohost on Pagan-Musings Podcast) have elected to flip the shows. Starting on Saturday 7 September 2013 you can find Musica Pagani on the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel at 7pm Central. Sunday the 8th starts the new day for Pagan-Musings Podcast, airing live at 7pm Central.

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PWN #106 – Heather Greene & Pagan Media

On this week’s edition of the Pagan Weekly News, Heather Greene joined RevKess for a lengthy discussion of Pagan media. Heather is a contributor to Circle Magazine, a columnist for The Wild Hunt, an adviser for Lady Liberty League and the current National Public Information Officer for Covenant of the Goddess. She also writes on her personal blog about various topics.

The first half hour of the show was brief coverage of some Pagan related news as well as some goings-on in the United Kingdom. Heather joined the broadcast around the bottom of the first hour. For the majority of the program she and RevKess discussed a variety of Pagan media related issues. Rounding out the end of the show RevKess visited on a couple of other news items.

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Music

  1. Omnia – I Don’t Speak Human – Musick & Poetree
  2. Damh the Bard – Pagan Ways – Cauldron Born
  3. Spiral Dance (featuring Damh the Bard) – Spirit of Albion/Wooden Box – Through a Sylvan Doorway
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Lavender Hill #128

128 episodes into the Lavender Hill series and we are going strong. With the recent additional of an extra half hour, Corwin and Phil get to bring you more news, views, interviews, and music from the LGBTQA+ community.

This we the hosts covered several topics ranging from marriage equality issues in the United States and elsewhere, the blood industry and the ban on gay men donating blood, plasma and other blood products, Russia’s continued negative stance towards the LGBTQA+ population and their pledge to enforce their anti-gay laws during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, and some political wrangling from the Conservative end of the spectrum.

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  • Late in July the Associated Press published an article that indicates that Nebraska lawmakers are looking to reevaluate the state’s “defense of marriage” law. The topic will hopefully come up for debate in the fall session of the legislature.
  • Marriage equality seems to be gaining momentum in Pennsylvania.
  • Pentagon confirms spousal benefits for same-sex marriages.
  • Claiming that the rights of athletes would be respected during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko urged gay rights activists to “calm down”. Even with his assurances of respecting rights, he insists that all athletes, citizens and visitors alike, will be expected to obey established Russian.
  • A Southern California man is diagnosed with “chronic homosexual behavior” by his physician.
  • Campbell, California Mayor Evan Low refused the honor of donating blood by the Red Cross because he is openly gay.
  • Fox contributor Sandy Rios sticks her foot in it again by insisting that gays are incapable of healthy long term relationships, especially gay men.
  • Call Me Kuchu is showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center in Lincoln, NE from Friday the 16th of August through Thursday the 22nd.
    • In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers follow David Kato – Uganda’s first openly gay man – and his fellow activists as they work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, are prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world. CALL ME KUCHU depicts the last year in the life of a courageous, quick-witted and, steadfast man whose wisdom and achievements were not fully recognized until after his death, and whose memory has inspired a new generation of human rights advocates. 

Music

Queen Radio GaGa Greatest Hits II
Bette Midler I’m Beautiful Bathhouse Betty
Klaus Nomi You Don’t Own Me Klaus Nomi
Pheromone Pholk Listen to Your Heart Music you love…but you don’t know why

Additional links….

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Musica Pagani #10: Drumming in the Harvest

RevKess had a blast with the 10th edition of Musica Pagani. Drumming in the Harvest was full of drumming and lively music. A true harvest celebration.

With harvest related pieces from Damh the Bard, Jenna Greene, Cernunnos Rising and Heartbeat, as well as drumming interpretation of African inspired music from Hennie Bekker and rock styles from Omnia, this edition brings you a collection of music from around several places around the globe.

This was a real chance for RevKess to share some of his favorite drumming pieces he’s collected over the years, most of his favorite drumming groups have been kind enough to allow airplay on PMPChannel. Tuatha Dea, Elvendrums, Dragon Ritual Drummers and Frenchy and the Punk to name but a few.

  1. Dragon Ritual Drummers – Heart Beat – Passage
  2. Tuatha Dea – The Blessings – The Tribe (featuring Spiral Rhythm)
  3. Hennie Bekker – Cry of the Wilderness – Temba: African Tapestries
  4. Tuatha Dea – Bagabi – Kith & Kin
  5. Dragon Ritual Drummers – Bamboula – Volume 2
  6. Spiral Dance – Fae Dance – Through a Sylvan Doorway
  7. Frenchy and the Punk – Carnival – Elephant Uproar
  8. Frenchy and the Punk – The Chase – Elephant Uproar
  9. Damh the Bard – Lughnasadh Dance – Cauldron Born
  10. Spiral Dance – Pocket Full of Thyme/Guardian’s Dance – Through a Sylvan Doorway
  11. Cernunnos Rising – Hearbeat of Harvest – Wild Soul
  12. Jenna Greene – Harvest – Crossroads
  13. Heartbeat – Heartbeat of the Earth – Bloodmoon
  14. Omnia – Cernunnos – Sine Missione
  15. Omnia – Dionysos – Sine Missione
  16. Omnia – Flora – Sine Missione
  17. Frenchy and the Punk – Specter of Land and Sea – Elephant Uproar
  18. Elvendrums – Dreamtime – Gateway to Faerie
  19. Elvendrums – Walking in the Woods – The Dragon
  20. Omnia – Love in the Forest – Wolf Love 
  21. Omnia – I Don’t Speak Human – Musick and Poetree 
  22. Cernunnos Rising – The Great World Tree – Urban Druid 
  23. Tuatha Dea – The Hunt (Corners) – Kith & Kin
  24. Dragon Ritual Drummers – Serpentine Seduction – Tribal Magick (digital release)
  25. Wendy Rule – Elemental – The Wolf Sky
  26. Wendy Rule – Deity – Deity
  27. Spiral Dance – Summer’s Farewell/Bo Mhin Toitean/Idbury Hill – Through a Sylvan Doorway