Music that Communicates Spirituality (Page 1 of 2)

hey Woowoo, i dig your post, although i cant really come up with examples right now. one thing that did pop into my mind is this:

isn't music, in its essence, spiritual communication?

i think Yes, but the sad answer that follows is that our mechanization has turned music into a Technology rather than a Technique. music is produced and artists are made and crushed in a day, pumping out a million identical platinum records.

where has music gone? there are still those, who celebrate its essence. and i presume that is what you are talking about?

Hello wickywoowoo!

Well, I have noticed Tool's music and it has been an inspiration for me.  No band has ever touched me spiritually like Tool has.  I don't know how they create their music, but it is great and I am glad that so many people get to hear and enjoy it.  Have you heard their newest CD?  What do you think of it?

Bob Marley also hits a chord with me.  I've been listening to his music most of my life.

Although I have to say, its hard to find these bands these day.  There is a lot of music out there and most of the "relative good bands" are watered down with a bunch of "money, sex, money, sex" mainstream music.  Although if that is your thing than great!  Although I have a hard time listening to the radio, mostly because they play the same songs over and over.

Anywho, welcome to the forum!

"We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment,
We are Choosing to be here, right now. Hold on, stay inside...
This holy reality, this holy experience.

Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion."

-Tool

I really recommend Dead can Dance, it is one of the coolest bands ever:) Lisa Gerrard's voice is pure gold! Also, you can find many spiritual vibes in progressive trance, with lyrics. I also like Juno Reactor, Matrix-style music:)

Not just progressive trance, actually.  If you're really into getting a spiritual sense from the music not just in the lyrics but also in the music itself, and you like trance, I would highly HIGHLY recommend checking out some good psychedelic trance.

You can find tons of it at www.saikosounds.com.  I'd recommend checking out artists like Electric Universe, Protoculture, Deedrah, Wizzy Noise, Talamasca, ... oh heck, I could go on and on and on.  Psytrance has absolutely 100% hooked me as the "musical genre of choice" for my own spiritual progression, and if you're a trance enthusiast you owe it to yourself to check it out.  A lot of this music is not the kind of stuff you'll find in a record store.

Case in point, on the Electric Universe disc "Cosmic Experience", the very first song called "The Prayer" has a rather long Hindu mantra chant that hits you right smack in the third eye and Does Not Let Go.

Here's a few of my personal favorite albums; you can listen to several-minute-long samples of them at these links:

http://www.saikosounds.com/english/disp … sp?id=4047
(Electric Universe, "Cosmic Experience".  You just need to listen to the whole thing.  Track 7, "Nova 3" is practically my personal theme song).

http://www.saikosounds.com/english/disp … sp?id=3594
(Protoculture, "Refractions".  Slightly more mellow, definitely has a lot of energy but doesn't feel as intense despite the tempo being high.  Very clean sound).

http://www.saikosounds.com/english/disp … sp?id=4922
(Wizzy Noise, "Sabotage Part 1".  Very, very good disc.  A bit heavier/darker and more full-on, but has so much energy that the intent totally carries through.  Make SURE to check out track 8, called "Overvoltage").

BTW, at saikosounds, stuff goes "out of stock" all the time but it'll almost always come back; psytrance doesn't get pressed in huge CD runs so things appear then disappear then reappear pretty much constantly; that's why they have the "wishlist" set up the way they do, so you can put stuff you're interested on there and they can use that as a clue of what they need to restock again.  So if any of the stuff I've recommended says it's out of stock, it's probably not permanently so; I check back often (at least once a month).

If any of you dig this kind of music, let me know and I can post a more complete list of must-haves.

Kinsei,

Those links were terrific. I love psytrance - but I dont spend time looking for new muic much - My good friend had a label - Lotek records (HardNRG) and he produced a number of tracks, some of which I participated in their creation.

I have been looking for some new stuff recently - and am happy with these.

I also agree that this genre is my personal preference for spiritual music (in electronica).

I have never really been a tool fan - I tarted out heavily into industrial in the 80s and then on to electronica through the 90's.

I will say though that Dead can Dance, Front 242, Yokota, Skinny Puppy, front line assembly have all played a foundational role in bringin up the various genres and seeded many of the ideas on how to produce music. Skinny puppy was the orignal "most sampling band" in the late 80s where they sampled content from the world around them to weave it into their protests agains elitism, corruption, animal testing and the general stupidity of man.

I prefer music without lyrics though as I prefer the ound to be a backdrop to my own thoughts and feelings.

Kensei, I think you might like this song: http://sstave.com/music/yokota/Susumu%2 … %20Day.mp3

Let me know if you like it...

Phlux, very cool "psychedelic minimal" sound on that Yokota song... when was that from?  I'm always interested to know the years of various electronic music songs to hear the progression over the past decade or two.  Sometimes you can hear a song and look at the year and immediately recognize how groundbreaking it was at the time.  It's like for psytrance, the mid-90s Astral Projection "Dancing Galaxy" was absolutely insanely groundbreaking; they were one of the crews that definitely laid the groundwork for the genre to follow.  I imagine Yokota was much the same way; very cool stuff.

Oh, and if you were happy with those links at saikosounds (which I'm very happy to hear, btw)... here's a few other albums I own and can vouch for that you might want to check out (in no particular order; I like all of these):

Jupiter 8000 - Twisted Bliss
Talamasca - Zodiac
Shakta - Feed The Flame
Deedrah - Body&Soul
Ticon - Zero Six After
VA - The Secret of the Thirteen Crystal Skulls

And some brand spankin' new stuff that I have on order but haven't received yet (from two of the same artists previously linked); the previews are awesome:

Electric Universe - Silence In Action
Protoculture - Circadians

Enjoy.

Lisa Gerard of Dead Can Dance did the music to the movie Gladiator. And is the voice of the wailing woman when he goes through that near death experience in the desert.