Pagans use musical instruments for sacred purposes–in meditation, ritual, or community gatherings. Instruments connect us to the divine, build relationships between people, are used for healing, and to manipulate the energy that affects our reality. Many instruments have been put to sacred use throughout history. Some instruments themselves are considered sacred and have their own …
Syncing hearts, aligning emotions, building communities, healing, bonding, and affecting emotion. Music–and especially music played in a group–is powerful magic. Drums are used for healing and prayer all over the world. Drums are used to drive away demons and to drive people to the madness of war. Drums can take us into different states of …
Dance is a somatic experience and community ritual. Dance is an art and a mating display. Dance is small private moments and exaggerated musical numbers. Dance is strict discipline and a child’s first movements to rhythmic sound. Dance is grounding and transcendental. Dance is cultural expression and reaches beyond language barriers. Dance is secular, spiritual, …
Our new album, Thinkin’ of You, has been a labor of love. Spiral Rhythm is excited to share our new music and celebrate spirit with song. We supported each other creating an album through a pandemic and the loss of our dear bandmate PJ Seale. We have grown with learning, creativity, and experimentation. We have …
By Kira Lang of Spiral Rhythm Our three tracks on The Red Album: Pagan Voices for Reproductive Rights (redalbum.org) are very different but with the same goal. Bringing awareness to reproductive rights, raising funds to benefit those in need, and using our voices in protest of injustice. They are the chant Mother Of by Kiki …
Hello, friends. This is Kira Lang of Spiral Rhythm. What is the place of music in pagan ritual? I’ll share what my beloved bandmates had to say about that. Kerri Hirsh-Upton and Jon Skoglund have been crafting ritual for decades, as Priest and Priestess, and at times Spiral Rhythm’s shows are in form of a …
ghost-writer We write and sing songs to celebrate, to express our connection to each other, our community, and the sacred. Music is a powerful means to express Spirit. There are as many methods to writing music as there are musicians: The whole piece may write itself; the lyrics may come first, or the tune; a kernel of …
It’s A Process Spiral Rhythm, in one form or another, has been making music together since around 1997. Our first album, I Am…, came out in 2000, starting us on our journey recording pagan music. We’ve run the gamut since then – live recording, studio recording, side projects, guest recording, a movie credit, and now …
Submito Silentium This was not the post we thought to write. It is not the post we want to write. It is, however, the post we felt we needed to write. On February 11, 2022, Spiral Rhythm lost part of its soul when our beloved PJ Seale passed through the veil. She had been doing …
