Spiral Rhythm

Embody the Divine: Sacred Dance

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, …

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The Red Album: Chant, Song & Rap

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 …

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pagan ritual altar with several drums

Music in Ritual

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 …

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Ghost Music

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 …

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