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Appendix C: Ritual Resources
Here are just a few of our favorite CDs of Pagan
ritual music and chants:
The Best of Pagan Song compiled by Anne Hill.
Serpentine Records, 2004. A splendid
introduction to contemporary Pagan music,
mostly songs with some chanting.
Bending Tradition by Emerald Rose. 2000 (studio
release). Mostly songs, some suitable for ritual
use; the chant “Freya Shakti” is a delightfully
fresh take on the popular “Isis Astarte.”
Be Pagan Once Again! and Avalon is Rising by
Isaac Bonewits
Carry Me Home: A Collection of Old & New
Pagan Songs by Todd Alan & Friends. The
group has done several albums; this one has
songs and chants, some of them more spoken
than sung in presentation.
Caution Horses by the Cowboy Junkies, 1990
(studio release).
Chants: Ritual Music, 1987, and Second Chants:
More Ritual Music from Reclaiming &
Friends, 1994, by Reclaiming, Serpentine
Records. Starhawk and Reclaiming have given
us some of modern Paganism’s best poetry;
these albums offer beautiful songs, chants,
rounds, and invocations.
A Circle Is Cast by Libana. Spinning Records,
1986. One of many albums by this famous
women’s chorus, it features a variety of songs,
rounds, and chants—traditional and original,
in English and other languages.
Circle Round and Sing! Songs for Family
Celebrations in the Goddess Traditions by
Anne Hill. Serpentine Music Productions,
2000. Accompaniment for the book of the
same name; this album features an exquisite
selection of songs, chants, rounds, blessings,
and invocations both old and new.
A Dream Whose Time is Coming by Assembly of
the Sacred Wheel, 2001 (studio release).
The Enchantment, by Gaia Tribe, Earth Tones
Studios, 2004.
Enchantress by Gypsy Ravish, White Light
Pentacles, 2001.
Faerie Goddess by Elaine Silver, The Orchard,
1999. Has the most beautiful version of
“Burning Times” we have ever heard.
Fire Dance! by MotherTongue. EarthSpirit, 1992.
One of many albums by this famous
performance group, it includes a variety of
chants, songs, and rounds.
Gaia Circles by Gaia Consort, The Orchard,
2001. One of Oberon’s all-time favorites.
I’ll Have My Chants This Time a Round: Rounds
and Chants for Everyday Mystics by Chris
Wagner (Khrysso), Worldberry Jam, 1996. Features
a selection of wonderful songs, chants, and
rounds from around the world.
Pagan Saints by Flesh & Bone, Intersound
Records, 1999.
Pasha & the Pagans, Familiar Productions,2002.
Jones St., San Francisco, CA 94102, 537
Songs both moving and amusing.
Pick the Apple from the Tree by Francesca De
Grandis, 1997 (studio release).
Rime of the Ancient Matriarch by Holly Tannen,
1999 (studio release). Serious and humorous
Pagan songs and ballads.
Rumors of the Big Wave by Charlie Murphy.
Warner Brothers, 1983.
Early Years by Ruth Barrett & Cyntia Smith,
Aeolus, 2000.
Songs for the Old Religion and The Faerie
Shaman, 1982, by Gwydion Pennderwen.
Serpentine Records, Pagandom’s first
recorded bard. Essential!
Welcome to Annwfn, 1987, and Chorus of Life,
1991, by our own Gaia’s Voice. Inspired by decades
of CAW and HOME rituals at our sacred
land, Annwfn. From Serpentine Records.
The Wolf Sky by Australia’s awesome Wendy Rule,
Shock, 2006. Her 5th major release, it’s a wild,
epic, dark, and beautiful album. It opens with
an elemental invocation and ends with a chant.
Wytches, 2003, and Belataine, 2005, by Inkubus
Sukkubus.
There are many lovely and moving songs of the
Goddess and the God available on tapes and CDs.
Here are just a few that are particularly wonderful,
and great to play for rituals:
“Jack in the Green” by Martin Graeve, from
Jethro Tull’s Songs from the Wood.
“John Barleycorn” recorded by Jethro Tull,
Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention.
“Shelter from the Storm” by Bob Dylan, from
Blood on the Tracks.
“Hymn to Her” by the Pretenders, on Isle of View
“Danu” by Ruth Barrett, on Parthenogenesis,
Dancing Tree Music.
“Every Woman Born” by Ruth Barrett, on The
Early Years, Ruth Barrett & Cyntia Smith,
Dancing Tree Music.
“Ancient Mother” and “From the Goddess/O
Great Spirit,” by Robert Gass, On Wings of
Song, Spring Hill Music.