Showing posts with label Goddess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goddess. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Witchy Woman: Hekate and "Morgan le Fay"



Today's random tune is called Morgan le Fay and is by Hekate, a band from Koblenz, Germany that was founded in 1991 as an experimental atonal project. The band combines music from other historical periods with modern styles. The band is named after the Greek goddess of necromancy and ghosts. Hekate performs music from the folk, classical and medieval genres and combines them with modern electronic sounds using percussion, historic instrumentation, guitars and synthesizers, and the lyrics often reference myth and legend. They sing in multiple languages, including French, English, Yiddish and German. You can find Morgan le Fay on their 2004 album Goddess (Luxus Edition).

Friday, September 2, 2016

Shocking: Druid Sisters Tea Party and "Electricity"



Today's random tune is by an electic, Northern California all-female band called Druid Sisters Tea Party. They describe themselves as an organic world dance band that pulls musical flavors from all around the world, with sounds that include "tribal-jungle style dance drums, Celtic fiddle, gypsy cello, dreamy trance vocals, deep bass and hypnotic didjeridu," which they round off with "Goddess vocals." You can find their tune, Electricity, on their 2010 release Moon Juju.

Friday, December 12, 2014

Goddess of Song: Yungchen Lhamo and "Gebu Shere"



Today's random tune is by Yungchen Lhamo, a Tibetan exile in New York City. Lhamo's name translates to "Goddess of Song," and was given to her by a lama after her birth in Lhasa. Fleeing Tibet in 1989, she first lived in Australia and then in New York. She tours extensively, singing unaccompanied, and has collaborated with artists such as Annie Lennox, Billy Corgan, Sheryl Crow, Michael Stipe and Peter Gabriel, to whose label, Real World Records, she is under contract. This song, Gebu Shere, can be found on her 2008 album Ama, and is about a missing lover - which she describes as the reality of a lot of Tibetans who live apart because of exile.