Favorite Spiritual Songs
Marmalade
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Centria said
Thanks for posting these, Mr. Ben. I will listen to some of them. (some of them I already know and they’re great.)
Marmalade said
You’re welcome. Which ones do you already know? I was already familiar with these songs, but I decided to pick some versions I hadn’t heard before.
I think I might’ve heard Johnny Cash sing gospel before, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard him sing I’ll fly away. I’m not big into choirs, but as backup singers for Johnny Cash it works out quite well.
BTW the Jerry Garcia video has its embedding disabled. If you just double-click on it, you’ll be brought directly to the video on Youtube. He has a better version of this song on The Pizza Tapes album.
Centria said
I’ve loved “I don’t know how to love him” since first hearing it in the 60’s or 70’s at our church. In fact, can probably sing you (even though off-key) the whole Jesus Christ Superstar album. Also the Johnny Cash I’ll Fly Away. Maybe some of the others, but will need to click to find out! (but need time to do that…)
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Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Dec 21, 2008, 10:39 AM: |
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| Can be Christmas music, or other music that makes your spirit soar or pause in awe…Nordic Chamber Choir – O Magnum Mysterium (M. Lauridsen)
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMarmalade said Dec 21, 2008, 7:45 PM: |
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| In the specific terms of spirituality, I do enjoy something like Jesus Christ Supestar… and also I love the sweet melancholy sounds of some of the more religious mountain ballads… likewise with certain gospel songs. Less directly in terms of spirituality, I find that any emotionally-moving music can put me in a spiritual mood. For instance, I sense that at the bottom of almost any love song is the longing for that which is beyond us… which for me implies God… especially songs about frustrated love because no love in this world can ultimately satisfy us.
On the other hand, most music that is intended as religious usually doesn’t inpire much of a spiritual sense in me. Marm Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#379767′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Dec 21, 2008, 8:00 PM: |
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I Don’t Know How to Love Him
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMarmalade said Dec 21, 2008, 8:03 PM: |
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| Yep, that is the one. I’m trying to think of some more specific examples. I’ll see if anything comes to mind. I know there are a bunch of spiritual mountain ballads that are utterly beautiful, but offhand I can’t think of the name of any.
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMarmalade said Dec 21, 2008, 11:03 PM: |
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| Okay, here ya go. I collected together some favorite songs of mine that inspire a sense of the spiritual for me. You can find them in my most recent blog.Favorite Spiritual Songs
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Re: Favourite Spiritual Musicarpita [no longer around] said Dec 21, 2008, 11:04 PM: |
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| …don’t have a favorite i don’t think… but i like these a lothttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfSV_k3MhCw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrEUUxniAw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY5wxOhlPig&feature=related Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#379825′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMarmalade said Dec 22, 2008, 12:08 AM: |
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| arpita – I liked the second one, but I loved the third. That is one of my most favorite mantras. There is an interesting cd by Jonathan Goldman called Trance Tara. I couldn’t find it n Youtube, but here it is on Last FM. Even my friend who doesn’t like mantras enjoyed that cd. Another interesting cd by Goldman is Medicine Buddha. Its funny I hadn’t thought of mantras when I saw this thread. I guess I don’t normally think of mantras as music, but essentially they are. My first experience with mantras I believe was with a group of Hare Krishnas when my brother was interested in that religion. The Hare Krishnas always seemed like nice people to me, and for that reason I have fond memries of their very well known mantra.
My favorite version of it comes from a cd titled Kirtan Rasa by Vaiayasaki Dasa. Some of his Hare Krishna chanting can be found in this video. I enjoy his passion. Marm Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#379837′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Dec 22, 2008, 10:42 AM: |
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| Marmalade, I’m listening to your selection. Really loving Down to the River to Pray – what a pure lovely voice, wonderful harmonisation and very heartfelt too.For some reason the embeding was disabled on Man of Constant Sorrow (was that it?)
How about O Brother, Where Art Thou – I’ll Fly Away? (I was listening to the Soggy Bottom Boys version of Constant Sorrow and was led there… though I see you have the Johnny Cash version with the Baptist Catholic Methodist – ? wow! 🙂 – Choir) There is something really heart-warming about this music, isn’t there? Thanks so much! Love, Nicole Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#379926′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMarmalade said Dec 22, 2008, 11:41 AM: |
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| Of all those songs, Down to the River to Pray might be the one I enjoy the most. However, I do love Let the Mystery Be. Iris Dement is on the top of my list of favorite singers.Yeah, that is the version of Man of Constant Sorrow that wouldn’t embed. There is a shorcut you can use when that happens. If you double-click, it will bring you directly to the video on Youtube. Jerry Garcia has a version that I like more which is on The Pizza Tapes album. There are many good renditions of this song.
I did have in mind the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou. All the songs in that movie are quite lovely. I chose to share the Johnny Cash version because I like his voice. I’d heard he’d done gospel, but I think that might be the first time I heard him sing I’ll Fly Away. Marm Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#379946′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Dec 22, 2008, 10:18 AM: |
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| arpita, I really liked the second one, which is a Bogoroditsye Dyevo, the Russian Orthodox version of Ave Maria – other settings I enjoy very much are (all three have such a totally different interpretation eh? you’d never know it’s the same prayer) -Russian church music is all a cappella, so lovely…
Bogorodice, Djevo, radujsja / Sergej Rahmanjinov (though my favourite part of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers is the Nunc Dimittis – Nyne Otpushchaeshi – Rachmaninov Vespers) Bogoróditse Djévo (Arvo Pärt ) The Tara Mantra is very beautiful as well, very moving Thank you so much! Now, on to Marmalade’s music, this should be fun! Peace, Nicole Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#379920′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual Musicarpita [no longer around] said Dec 22, 2008, 10:58 AM: |
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| hi Nicole thanks for linking the Rachmoninoff… actually i was going to link that originally – for Boroditse devo … (since the choir i belong to has been singing that – and it is so beautiful … but when i found the chant – it was so sublimely simple that i posted that instead… Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#379932′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Dec 22, 2008, 12:41 PM: |
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| Your choir is doing the Rachmaninoff, arpita? Wonderful! I think of all the music I have sung in choirs over the years, it was his Vespers that absorbed me the most completely (even more than Handel’s Messiah or Brahm’s Requiem) – even years later, I find myself completely under its spell without notice.Marmalade, I agree, all the music in Brother Where Art Thou is great. It was really that movie that helped me get as fond of bluegrass as I am now.
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Re: Favourite Spiritual Musicnimrod [no longer around] said Dec 22, 2008, 1:51 PM: |
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| Brahms’ German RequiemMy partner and I were vacationing in Zurich. It started to rain one day while we were out strolling. We decided to duck into a nearby church to get away from the downpour. As we opened the doors, the sound of what turned out to be a 40-voice choir rehearsing the Requiem poured out onto the street. Even though I was swept away by the beauty of the music and my tear ducts were clamoring for attention, I remained a dry-eyed manly little fellow.
They went on to rehearse the next piece for their concert which turned out to be –of all things!–that chestnut of all choruses, the Robert Shaw Chorale setting of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” That’s when the water works erupted. I guess I was a little more homesick that I realized! Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#379997′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Dec 23, 2008, 10:22 AM: |
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| This is a glorious work, nimrod, full of light. Like Faure’s Requiem, there is nothing dark or depressing about Brahm’s German Requiem, though it has some very intense and thrilling interpretations of the texts from Hebrews 13, 1 Corinthians 15 and Revelation 4 (original German below).My favourite movement in this regard is #6. It was very exciting to sing in concert, a lot like being on a rollercoaster or in the midst of a waterfall 🙂
I like this video because it shows the translation of the words as they are singing. Best of all, Bryn Terfel is the baritone! Brahms Requiem – Mvt. 6, part 1 Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt, sondern die zuknftige suchen wir.
Ebr. 13,14. Siehe, ich sage euch ein Geheimnis: Wir werden nicht alle entschlafen, wir werden aber alle verwandelt werden; und dasselbige pltzlich, in einem Augenblick, zu der Zeit der letzten Posaune. Denn es wird die Posaune schallen, und die Toten werden auferstehen unverweslich, und wir werden verwandelt werden. Dann wird erfllet werden das Wort, das geschrieben steht: Der Tod ist verschlungen in den Sieg. Tod, wo ist dein Stachel? Hlle, wo ist dein Sieg? Herr, du bist wrdig zu nehmen Preis und Ehre und Kraft, denn du hast alle Dinge geschaffen, und durch deinen Willen haben sie das Wesen und sind geschaffen. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#380270′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicAlluvja said Jan 27, 2009, 2:45 PM: |
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| I just only now found this thread. Some wonderful music. I (have) Brahms requiem, I’ve heard Faurés but I’m not so knowledgeable about it as you seem to be. Great thread Nicole, thxs. Edited PS: I did post this under your relevant post of December and linked it to reply to post , so I’m not quite sure why it appears here and not under the appropriate post. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#393492′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMr. said Dec 24, 2008, 1:13 AM: |
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| I like music that is spiritual in flavor and sentiment but not necessarily religious per sey. Joan Osborne’s “What If God Were One of Us? or U2’s “In The Name Of Love” are some pop music examples. I have also written stuff that is spiritual without being religious.
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMarmalade said Dec 24, 2008, 2:08 AM: |
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| That is the way I am, Mr. I wonder why some people are moved by “religious” music and some aren’t. I wonder if it has to do with what we experience as children or at other pivotal times of life. I grew up in small alternative churches that didn’t offer much in the way of traditional choral music. I pobably heard more folk-type religious music. It also probably helps that I spent years living in South and North Carolina.Marm
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMr. said Dec 25, 2008, 11:42 AM: |
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| Marmalade, I think thatwhat you know from your past and what you grew up with plays a part. I also think that what you are exposed to as you grow to be your ownperson does as well. I am familiar with Gospel music having listened to a lot of Soul music and its roots when I was younger. I am also familiar with Choral music having been in the school choir during elementary and middle school before puberty changed my voice.
I do like some Gospel and Choral music. I like “Oh Happy Day” for Gospel and “The Grapes of Wrath”, Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and “Amazing Grace” for Choral. I like particular songs more than particular artists. I write music in various genres as well. It may just be me but I believe that all music is spiritual in nature. It is emotion channeled. Hearing a great song for the first time is akin to a deeply moving religious experience. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#380804′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicUa said Dec 27, 2008, 11:24 AM: |
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| From a very young age music was the door in which the spirit walked through to open my soul. From Led Zepplin Houses of the Holy to TOOL; vibrations have centered me, sent me, questioned me, shown me my infinite oneness and my complete isolation in this bag of cells. When my daughter was very young maybe five or six months the Dali Lama was in San Diego. A friend owned a herb store and was very involved with the Free Tibet movement, because of this she had seven of the Dali Lama’s monks staying at her house. They all came by the store to give her thanks while we were visiting. They asked if they could chant welcome to my daughter. I held Chloe while the monks circled us and began chanting. Their voices…. I can’t put into words what it’s like to stand in the center of that vibration. By far musically and spiritually I have never experienced anything like that. Almost like every cell in my body had ears and heard the chant in a different voice but at the same time in perfect unison.
I wish I could post each of these songs for your pleasure but alas I lack the skills. I know most of these songs are on youtube so please enjoy……. 1) Ben Harper with The Blind Boys of Alabama- Satisfied Mind (actually check out the whole album, There Will Be A Light) 2) Ben Harper- With My Own Two Hands 3) Bob Marley- Misty Morning, Kaya, Rasataman Chant…. OK I might as well just say…. Bob… Nuff said 🙂 4) Grateful Dead- Ripple 5) Jimmy Cliff- Many Rivers to Cross 6) Ray Charles & Willie Nelson- A Very Good Year (From the Genius Loves Company album) 9) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Eddie Vedder- The Long Road (Please listen to this song! Ali Khan has a voice that is truly inspired and even though I didn’t know what he was saying for the longest time this song moved me to tears and when my grandfather died I must have played this song a hundred times.) I hope you enjoy these songs as much as I do and look foward to playing your selections also. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#381274′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Dec 27, 2008, 5:18 PM: |
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| Ua, Mr and Marmalade, thanks for keeping the thread warm…Joan Osborne – One of Us
U2 Pride (in the Name of Love) Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers To Cross Nusrat fateh ali Khan & Eddie Vedder – The Long Road Love you muchly (especially wonderful to have you back Ua!), Nicole Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#381356′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicUa said Dec 29, 2008, 9:06 PM: |
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| Yea… Links! Thank you!!! Nicole, I never really left; just observed for awhile. I love seeing how these conversations wander, twist, dance and evolve. Seeds growing into trees harvesting soul food for sure. Sometimes the greatest lesson for myself is to simply watch others come to understandings… It gives me faith in all of us.
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Dec 30, 2008, 8:11 AM: |
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| Observing is good, Ua, yes, I love the way you put it,Hugs,
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 26, 2009, 4:57 AM: |
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| http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=d63COahIpVM
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 26, 2009, 5:20 AM: |
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| At present my favourite piece of music is “You Raise me UP”- Josh Groban It changes from time to time, another is Return to Innocence by Enigma and another is “Lifted” on the album Ocean drive by the Lighthouse Family.
Mantras by Hein Braat is good and very uplifting too Love and light Tai Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#392824′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 26, 2009, 5:55 AM: |
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| Ha Tai, are we on the same wavelength? we post in same place again same time
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 26, 2009, 5:52 AM: |
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| forgot to say that last one is by Deva Premal
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicMirenithil said Jan 26, 2009, 5:40 AM: |
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| A lot of Hawaiian music. A lot of it’s so joyful and uplifting; a lot more of it is mellow and relaxing. One of my favorite groups is named Hapa, and their song Ka Uluwehi O Ke Kai is one of the joyful ones entirely in Hawaiian. The instrumental-only track Justin’s Lullabye by the same band is one of the most soothing things I have ever heard and was an immense comfort to me in a time of need two years ago. Keali’i Reichel also has a lot of stuff that’s wonderful. Another song that makes me want to get up and dance with the world is “Live A Little” by the Hawaiian Style Band, as is “Spread A Little Aloha (Around the world)” by the Mana’o Company. I also have to mention Bruddah Iz’s (Israel Kamakawiwo’ole) version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” It’s as pure a song of the joy of living and thanksgiving as I’ve ever heard without being explicitly religious.
Rod Stewart also has songs that make me want to just get up and dance for the joy of living (and that, to me, is spiritual.) Particularly “Rhythm of my Heart”. “Forever Young” is a blessing set to music. Bach, Vivaldi, and the like also strike me as deeply spiritual, though. And, yes, got to love “Return to Innocence” by Enigma. Wow, that one’s amazing. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#392828′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 26, 2009, 5:55 AM: |
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| The first time I heard Return to Innocence I went tingly all over, you could say it was “one of those moments!” I had a similar reaction to Phil Collins “Somthing in the Air Tonight” – long time ago now.
New Age music is great especially “And So to Dream” by Mike Rowland. Somewhere over the Rainbow is one of those special songs….. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#392835′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 26, 2009, 5:59 AM: |
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| I’ve been thinking for a while to post here, yes Jenny we did it again! I love music all kinds another favourite is a version of Pachelbel Canon, arranged by Kevin Kendle – Album Pure Peace – New World Music.
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 26, 2009, 6:02 AM: |
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| Pachelbels is one of my alltime favourites. My son Rowen knew I loved it and had it played at his wedding which was really sweet and when it started playing he looked across at me to see what my reaction would be. I also love a few of Phil Collins. I’ll fish around in Youtube and find my favourite. Groovy kind of love
It has a really special meaning for me. Back in 1988 when I was very unhappy it kept coming on the radio and when I turned on the radio and when I walked into shops it would be playing every time I felt really down and I took it to mean there is a person on the other side of this existance that loves me unconditionally and it felt like a promise that someone special would be there for me. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=uCexfCIC79M Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#392840′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 26, 2009, 6:11 AM: |
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| Must have been a great day Jen. Vivaldi – the 4 Seasons is a good one too.
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 26, 2009, 6:16 AM: |
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| Yea Yes Vivaldi too yes and it was a great day
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 26, 2009, 6:17 AM: |
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| When I used to massage I always played Enya and some other beautiful nature music
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 26, 2009, 6:23 AM: |
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| Hows this one for awesome though …Carmina Burana by Carl Orff http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=C0i9uWNDvDg
In Canberra one year it was turned into a huge outdoor opera with huge fires and hundreds of performers from children to old people all using the fire theme in candles and fire sticks. held down near the lake in the middle of winter. . Stunning it was. Fire operas were held 3 years running and we went to them all and they were incredible. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#392850′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 26, 2009, 6:39 AM: |
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| Hey, I’ve got Enya too on my favourites, haven’t got her new one, but mum has, must borrow it! I have The Memory of Trees on CD, rest on tape. Do you like Clannad too….hauntingly beautiful music. Must check out your youtube after dinner, just been preparing some home made veggie soup..
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 26, 2009, 6:42 AM: |
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| I got the new Enya for christmas. I like Clannad too.
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 26, 2009, 6:49 AM: |
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| I have a very soothing CD with water, birds song and monks singing – excellent for using for relaxation – can’t remember the name of it now, could be one I’ve taped from a friend, must find it and listen again. I’m drumming with a friend from our group at 2pm, we need the practice, drumming can be very uplifting and energising
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 26, 2009, 8:08 AM: |
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Tai, Jenny and Silverpony, so wonderful that you have been enjoying this thread. Music is such a big part of my life that I was hoping for an active ongoing discussion on everyone’s favourites, and now it looks like it’s happening. I first got to appreciate the beauty and joy of Hawaiian music on my first visit there in 1986. The language itself is so lovely and flowing. I just found this song on youtube:
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 26, 2009, 9:35 AM: |
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| Most beautiful video and such soothing Hawaiian music. I would like like to sing more in a group. Our drum teacher may teach us some African songs to sing along with the drumming.
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 26, 2009, 10:55 AM: |
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| African songs and drumming are a magical combination. You must get so much joy from your drumming group! how about the Native Flute? It has such a warmth and resonance
Spiritual Flute: The Beauty of Nature Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#392961′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 27, 2009, 5:22 AM: |
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| Thats beautiful. I spent ages listening to over 10 different versions of the Allelujah Chorus. Thats also stunning. Good idea for a group. I keep thinking of more. The music of Taize is lovely too but I couldnt decide which one to link to. I particularly love their earlier music which had no instruments or just guitars. There is a wonderful book called Brother Roger and it tells about how Taize got started. I think it has become too commercial now though. But I think my current fav music that raises my spirits and transports me is Deva Premals song that I linked to earlier
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=d63COahIpVM and this version is really ethereal. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#393281′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 27, 2009, 5:47 AM: |
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| Just coming to post a tibetan singing bowl youtube link! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BckaOwrn1ok&feature=related The Music of the Spheres
I found it was very heart related, the guy playing the bowls was really in the flow.. Found this when watching the images and crystal singing bowls Nicole Will go check out your link Jen Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#393285′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 27, 2009, 9:11 AM: |
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| Tai, sorry you were having trouble with that link, singing bowls are awesome. Is this anything like what you were trying to post?
The Music of Music of the Spheres Jen, I love singing Taize/playing the flute – it brings us into a beautiful space of worship. There are so many great Taizes, but this is one of my favourites:
And in honour of Mozart’s birthday anniversary,
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 27, 2009, 10:07 AM: |
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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, ‘My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all.One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.The other is Good. The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: ‘Which wolf wins?’The old Cherokee simply replied, ‘The one you feed.’
Hi Nicole, that was the right one! I found this on the spiritual flute link (one of the comments on the music) I rather liked it…
The flute was magic, haven’t caught up with the other links yet. Just so much beauty to drink – my cup is full!
Love Tai
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 27, 2009, 10:23 AM: |
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| I love that parable, Tai. So, may your cup run over with joy and bliss! 🙂 Here’s some more Mozart – Lang Lang is such a phenomenon, do you know of him?
Lang Lang Mozart Piano Concert nr24 c-moll Kv491 (part1/3) Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#393383′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 27, 2009, 10:51 AM: |
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| I doKNOW him now -very rousing, I shall put all that power and spirit into making the tea !
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicJenny said Jan 27, 2009, 2:09 PM: |
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| Hi Tai and Nicole, I love this group. Enjoyed Mozart. Happy Birthday M.Heres something a bit different but also enjoyable and touching.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xoMhCT-7A Have a great day. Gotta go to work. Hugs Jenny Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#393475′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 27, 2009, 4:13 PM: |
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| Jenny, Alluvja, Have a good day at work, Jenny.That’s a lovely, warm rendition of What a Wonderful World, great pictures in the slideshow too. Alluvja! Good to see you. Your post appears in the right place on my screen – maybe you have the “unthreaded” or “newest first view? Or it could be another glitch due to the new format. I would like to know the Faure Requiem better. There is nothing like having to perform music to motivate one to learning it really well 🙂 so maybe I will have a chance to sing it one day. I love this part of that Requiem, it is so ethereal, makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up 🙂
In paradisum deducant te angeli,
in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem. Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere aeternam habeas requiem. May the angels lead you into paradise, Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#393531′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 28, 2009, 5:00 AM: |
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| That song and the singer were so gentle, peaceful and full of love Jen, greatLove Tai
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 28, 2009, 7:45 AM: |
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| I hear from our friend Albert that 2009 is Handel year in Australia. I love the Messiah, but here’s something just as magnificent from Handel’s Zadok the PriestDarn! That didn’t work 🙂 let’s try this
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 28, 2009, 10:57 AM: |
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| Just had my late afternoon burst of Zadok before making tea and unstacking the dishwasher – haved a blessed day Tai Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#393797′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 28, 2009, 12:31 PM: |
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| Thanks, Tai, just about ready to go to work now, I’ll leave you with this Dougie Maclean song (sweet strings accompanying)Dougie MacLean – Broken Wings
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Jan 30, 2009, 9:26 AM: |
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| so soft and gentle, a little sad… for some reason I thought of Cat Stevens – Moonshadow I listened a while agot to a 10min Youtube of the lotus sutra, it was quite an experience, it sort of vibrated in the chest – it was a tone, more than anything – interesting… Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#394603′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 30, 2009, 10:12 AM: |
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| Yes, I could see why Moonshadow might have come to mind… The lotus sutra sounds like quite an experience.
This one has very lovely images too… Relax – Buddhist Meditation Music – Zen Garden … Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#394631′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual Musicmuji said Jan 30, 2009, 11:32 AM: |
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| I received Nicole’s invitation to this celebration. She said to bring classical music. I was going to post “Oh Well” by the very old Fleetwood Mac when they were still led by Peter Green who was going through his Jesus phase. But, the video was removed by Warner Brothers for copyright infringement!To me, “spiritual” is anything that moves me closer to my center, toward wholeness or nothingness. “Oh Well” is one of the most paradoxical pieces of music you’ll ever hear. It begins as raucous instrumental blues rock that stops on a dime, and after a cowbell (!) Peter Green sings without backing:
“I can’t help about the shape I’m Cowbell, more revved up guitar and another stop and cowbell… “Now, when I talked to God Cowbell, raucous guitar and a climax that segues into seven minutes of pseudo classical Spanish guitar with recorder and cello, completely instrumental. There’s Nicole’s “classical music”! This was my “spiritual music” when I was a teenager. This, some other music by Peter Green, and George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” album. It’s now forty years later and I’ve found other music that moves me in different ways. But, the important element has always been MOVEMENT. I was in a workshop once conducted by John Pierrakos a co-founder of Bioenergetics. It was my first with John, a 76 year old Greek man with incredibly vibrant energy. John was one of the most real, the most emotionally honest people I’ve ever met. At the start of the workshop, one of the women put on some new age CD, the typical ethereal stuff, until John arrived. As soon as John did arrive, he IMMEDIATELY said to “Turn that off! It’s keeling the energy!” And, absolutely EVERY time we grew silent, withdrawning our energy, holding our breath and leaving our bodies, John would confront the forty of us and plead for us to help him while he worked to unblock one of us individually. One particular moment I’ll never forget. John had a woman over a roller, a two-foot diameter cylinder that was used in the work he did. It’s similar to the exercise balls around now, but more stable. Someone would lie face up onto the cylinder with the middle of their back, the area where the diaphragm attaches to the spine, contacting the cylinder. Feet would be planted on the floor and arms outstretched to open the heart. The head would be allowed to hang loosely. John hovered over this woman, who he had instructed to breathe very deeply, and squeezed her throat muscles. It looked like he was strangling her. You could feel the fear in the rest of us. There was a silence. John looks up at us and says “BREATHE! Feel this yourselves! I’m an old man, I need your help…don’t keell the energy!” We obeyed and within a minute, the woman cried out as loudly as she could with the cry of a BABY! Every single one of us IMMEDIATELY began to sob. What she’d been holding in resonated with what we all hold in to different degrees. Our ACTIVE participation helped HER release and her release helped US release. I’ll never forget the oneness of that experience. And, that oneness is what I see as “spiritual”. ANYTHING that facilitates this, any kind of music, an understanding look, a crisis…it really doesn’t matter what, anything that facilitates MOVEMENT can help us experience transcendant wholeness. Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#394675′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Jan 30, 2009, 4:25 PM: |
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| What a powerful and moving experience that was, muji. There are so many, many ways and kinds of music and experiences that can lead us further into wholeness, I most heartily agree!
Thank you so much for this post. It’s tremendous. Love, Nicole Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#394772′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Feb 3, 2009, 8:33 AM: |
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| I find “Out of the Depths” (De Profundis) very moving – it’s by Terry Oldfield It’s on the New World Music label “the lapping waves of sound that ride Terry’s flute and the alluring siren-like vocals of Imogen entice you deep beneath the surface, where whale song provides an emotive counterpoint for a haunting lyrical plea. This compelling musical prayer of heart felt communion alternates with cascades of enthralling beauty and joyous freedom, unfolding a feast of glorious sounds Voted Album of the Year – think it was 1993 this is the blurb off the back of the CD! 
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Feb 3, 2009, 9:53 AM: |
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| Great music and wonderful picture. I love whales!Now let’s see, whale music:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=p_o6NQX7lmE http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=xo2bVbDtiX8&feature=related Love, Nicole Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#396161′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Feb 3, 2009, 10:23 AM: |
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 have a happy day – I wonder what those whales were talking about… Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#396177′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Feb 4, 2009, 8:08 AM: |
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| Love your dolphins. They are delightful. Yes, who knows what philosophical discussions we were listening in on from the depths of the ocean? :)Here are dolphins to the sounds of Pink Floyd:
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Feb 7, 2009, 11:05 AM: |
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| in deep appreciation to dolphins and the ocean One of my dolphin CD’s “Harmony” by David Sun – New World Music “This delicate, imaginative music links the playful, complelling voices of Dolphins with the soothing sounds of their watery world. The effect is powerfully comforting, inspiring and restful, drawing on upon the Dolphin’s renowned healing powers to balance the listener… above moving dolphins from guess where, photobucket.com Love and light to all dolphins Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#397929′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Feb 8, 2009, 8:12 AM: |
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| Sounds like a wonderful CD, Tai,I just discovered this today, isn’t it lovely?
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Feb 9, 2009, 2:58 AM: |
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| the music took you to a deep ocean, where the waves just moved forever I saw this video too on the same page – called Water by Keplerne1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22idB502CTI&feature=related Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#398473′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Feb 9, 2009, 9:30 AM: |
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| Exactly, the endless waves of being, Tai, you know it.Unfortunately the video you linked is showing up as unavailable.
Tai, I’m an absolute nut for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ music, and this is one of my very favourite performances of one of my favourite songs by him. It is very oceanic, no wonder they used it in the score of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 🙂 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#398545′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Feb 18, 2009, 3:54 AM: |
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| It sounds like waves rising and falling, beautiful ….. it was a shame about my video not working. If a video shows as feature related does it mean that it isn’t shown for very long on youtube. I still haven’t worked out all the technical stuff!
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicNicole said Feb 18, 2009, 8:54 AM: |
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| Yes, that’s right, you can hear the waves… oh too bad, I wish you could have seen it. I don’t know what “feature related” means, this video has been on youtube for a long time though…May I share another favourite? Another fantasia, this time on a much more familiar song Fantasia on Greensleeves – Ralph Vaughan Williams Hope you can see the video, lots of beloved trees 🙂 Hugs, Nicole Like! // <![CDATA[SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:’Re: Favourite Spiritual Music’, url:’#/conversations/view/379662#402098′ }, {button:true} ); // ]]>Post this! // |
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Re: Favourite Spiritual MusicTaikunping said Feb 19, 2009, 4:49 AM: |
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| Hi Nicole, that was beautiful, just like walking up on Bickerton Hills….I love Greensleeves, it was one of my favourites on the recorder and guitar when I was learning – don’t think it would sound quite the same on my drum! A good way to start my day. The loading and unloading is getting a little slow, would you like to start another music thread? |
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Marmalade said
I posted these songs in response to Nicoles thread in the God Pod.
Favourite Spiritual Music
In that thread, I also linked to these three chants.
Trance Tara by Jonathan Goldman
Medicine Buddha by Jonathan Goldman
Hare Krishna by Vaiayasaki Dasa