Post 9: Pagan and Witchcraft Music

Music is accompanied by instruments and voice. A form of communication through the sound produced with tone, pitch and rate. We've been familiar with the usual pop and rock music. But there was one type of music that only few were aware of.

Pagan Music or Witchcraft Music is a project of Alfred Surenyan. This project started in 2006 as a means of research, study, organization, and practice of the music of the Neo- Pagan Community. This type of music were performed by Pagan Musicians. I found from an article entitled "Canadian Pagan Musicians" You Won’t Want to Miss by Sable Aradia from "witchesandpagans" the list of musicians who share the same type of music. It is amazing to see people who are really into this culture and respect one another. They even create music that made them unite as one.

This type of music expresses more of the culture and their respect to Neo-Pagan Community. A lot of people thought that when we talk about "Pagan and Witches" they're the bad guys who use magik to curse people. That is completely wrong. This community is united to protect people and the environment. They were the healers of our world. People who are not familiar with this type of culture won't be able to understand the goal of this community. I suggest you to visit couple of articles that can help you get familiar to what i want to say regarding this culture: "Article 1" and "Article 2"

We may not be aware of what the world has on the other side but we all we need to do is to be open to them. They are not different from us. They just have different beliefs like everyone else. And their music might help us understand the world they are in.

Another article entitled "Out of the Broom Closet, into the Rave: 'Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music" by John L. Murphy of "popmatters" and "How Pop went Pagan" by Nell Frizell of theguradian inspired me to dig deeper into this topic. We actually did not even notice how Paganism was involved into music in the late 60's. The airwaves have also been ruled by Pagan music. There comes Metal, Rock, Pop, Country and much more. There are no complete difference between the type of music we were familiar with and Pagan music only because we cannot really determine which one's played by Pagan musicians. When we hear songs being played, it is the meaning and the soul of the song we are after, and not the culture of it.
Music is one type of element that can make the world unite into one. When we all hear a song, our hearts sing with. It does't matter whether this song came from the culture we don't belong or from the artists we love so much. By means of music, we can create a message to communicate and send it to the world.