Selections from the Mess ep. 1

Well, folks. At Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel we have been doing some changes. We are keeping the Pagan-Musings Podcast as it is, a talk show with some music, news, interviews, and random babbling from RevKess and KaliSara. But we are adding several new programs to our list.

Selections from the Mess is just such a program. It is a weekly special series from Musica Pagani, hosted and produced by RevKess, featuring the pod-friendly music from that week's episode of Murphy's Magic Mess on KZUM-HD 89.3FM in Lincoln, NE. The original, full length show airs and streams live on Sundays at 9am Central, bringing the listener two full hours of New Age and Pagan music enjoyment. Whenever possible, RevKess will be taking cuts straight from in studio recording of that week's show. This first episode unfortunately had to be pieced together from his own music archives as the gain was set wrong on the recording equipment and there was major sound distortion.

The Play List:

1. Katherine Kaye - Waiting for the Rain - Dreaming Still
2. Matthew Shoening - Water - Elements
3. Paradiso & Rasamayi - Wisdom - 3rd Eye Rising
4. Heidi Anne Breyer - Off Season - Another Place and Time...
5. Lis Addison - New Nation - Grace of the Green Leaf
6. T. Thorn Coyle - Lugh's song - Face of a New Day
7. Emerald Rose - Three More Drops - Archives of Ages to Come
8. S.J. Tucker - Firebird's Child - Blessings
9. S.J. tucker - In the House of Mama Dragon - Haphazard

Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel hopes that you enjoy this little one hour music offering and that you will tune in to other programs available in archives or catch a live show soon!

-RevKess

Well, all, it was a wonderful show, again. If I may toot my own horn, that is. You see, Murf asked me to help put the show together for Sunday. It was a blast. Hardly even got close to playing half of what I had picked out, but it is May and we have four more shows to go. ;)

The morning started out for me, Sarah was visiting from Cozad and we got up with plenty of time to spare before the show.... or so we thought. It was the Lincoln Marathon. I live right off of 10th Street and the radio station is located on the top floor of the Terminal Building, which is also on 10th. Guess what, the Marathon route went from before my apartment to past the studio. Needless to say, we had fun getting there. Good thing I suggested we leave early. We managed to find a parking space only a block away from the station. Now, Murf, being more experienced, left early enough to take an alternate route to the station and had few problems getting there. She was just arriving at the sound booth as Sarah and I got upstairs. Thank you, Damon, for waiting in the parking lot for us! You are a Goddess send!

Once we arrived and got settled in, Murf started off the show with the back up disk she made just in case I wasn't able to arrive on time. Heh. Good thing, too. She had some wonderful new stuff courtesy of a music promoter, and it was BEAUTIFUL. I have received comments in email from one of my listeners in Colorado. Blessed be, Lauralee!

The Pocket Pirate, a.k.a. Damon, was with us once again. I am so pleased to have him back on the show. He brings an interesting take on things. I sometimes am too serious and he makes us all laugh. Seems I have turned into the Straight Man on the show, and that is just ironic if you know me at all. :) I am good for being the butt of jokes, but I also like to share some good ones.

Sarah's visit to the show was great. She was there for moral support during my first solo-esque stint behind the boards. And that was her voice you heard a lot during the second half of the show. She did our Quotes and helped with the announcements. She is also helping me to find some fun and interesting music to maybe play in the future. One of her suggestions is Enter the Haggis, a Celtic rock group out of Canada. You can find them at www.enterthehaggis.com, where you can listen to streams of all four of their albums thus far and even purchase their music. At some point I am sure you will get to hear some of their music on the show. We are pondering doing themed shows once a month to help share some of the great stuff we have found that doesn't always fit into the normal genre of Pagan music.

Now, on to some of the Calendar of Events type stuff for you all. I know not all of this got covered on the air, but we try our best to share it all with you when we can.

Calendar for May 4th-10th
Monday, May 4th, 2009: Moon is void of coarse at 8:31pm

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009: Moon enters Libra at 4:51am
Cinco de Mayo, Mexican holiday of the dead
Beltaine cross quarter day, sun reaches 15 degrees Taurus

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009: Long Island Church of Aphrodite formed by Rev. Gleb Botkin, 1938

Thursday, May 7th, 2009: Moon is void of coarse at 5am
Moon enters Scorpio at 11:48am

Friday, May 8th, 2009: Full Moon at 11:01pm

Saturday, May 9th, 2009: Moon is void of coarse at 1:48pm
Moon enters Sagittarius at 8:49pm
Flower Moon is the name of the Full Moon
Joan of Arc canonized, 1920.
First day of the Lumeria, Roman festival of the dead; this festival was probably borrowed from the Etruscans and is one possible ancestor of our modern Halloween.

Sunday, May 10th, 2009: Mother's Day

Upcoming Events:
Saturday, May 9th, 2009: Mysteries of Wicca, hosted by the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca, 2pm at Here & Back Again. This month's class is on Divination.
Pagan Alliance Network Meet & Greet Social at 5pm, at Here & Back Again. An opportunity for Pagans and curious minded people to get together in a neutral environment and learn about each other.

Sunday, May 10th, 2009: Open Full Moon Circle, hosted by the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca, 6pm at the Unitarian Church at 6300 A Street, Lincoln. Meet and Greet at 6pm, ritual is at 7pm. Ritual attire not required, but encouraged. Please be sure to arrive before ritual starts.

A reminder:
Lincoln: Friday May 15, 2009 — 8-10pm
Lincoln NE House Concert
Hosted by Joe and Jade
2348 D Street
Lincoln, NE 68502
$6-$15 suggested donation, please.
RSVP to Jade: (402) 613-7891

Omaha: Saturday May 16, 2009 — 8pm
The Dollhouse
4022 Lafayette Ave
Omaha NE 68131
Join us at Bryir's lovely Victorian home.
$6-$15 donation, please.

Unfortunately, SJ won't be available to do an appearance of the show during this tour, but we may be able to line something up for during her next tour. Be sure to RSVP for the Lincoln show so that Jade knows how many people to expect. Your's truly is going to do his best to be there.

Tidbits & Quotes:
All things grow with love. -- Anonymous
Real love stories never have endings. -- Anonymous
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now! -- Victor Frankl
Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe. -- Anonymous
The best proof of love is trust. -- Anonymous

COMING UP NEXT WEEK:
More Beltaine/May music from such artists as Incubus Succubus, Gaia Consort and a host of others.
Mother's Day Pagan Music. Wonder what that could be.....?
Further details on the Full Moon Circle on Sunday the 10th.

Again, I would like to thank all you wonderful people for listening to KZUM and Murphy's Magic Mess. On behalf of Murphy, the Pocket Pirate, Sarah, and myself, have a safe and wonderfully joyous Beltaine month! -Phil

April 26, 2009

Heya, all! Glad to see you all listening. It was another fun Sunday morning at the Mess! I was going without sleep, which happens from time to time with me. So I was a bit goofy. I'm usually pretty good at playing the straight man to Murf (and now the Pocket Pirate/Damon), but today I was just plain silly. And of course in all the confusion of my lack of sleep, dead air time (we forgot to turn the gain back on for the microphones around 10:15), and an over load of sugar and caffeine, we forgot to do the TidBits and Quotes and the Calendar for the week. My deepest apologies.

So, what kind of fun did we have today? Hmmmm.... Well, we listened to a piece from the original movie soundtrack fro the Wicker Man, of course it was the original movie. The remake, as we all agreed this morning, is not all that good. Nice try, but the original is just so much better. The "Maypole Song" is a bit of Pagan ritual, actually. As it was depicted in the movie with Christopher Lee and Edward Woodard, the "Maypole Song" was done with a group of children and teenagers doing the Maypole dance. The song itself is an account of the cycle of life, from birth through death and into birth again. Very lovely visual if you listen to it while in a trance or meditative state.

the lyrics:
In the woods there grew a tree
And a fine fine tree was he

And on that tree there was a limb
And on that limb there was a branch
And on that branch there was a nest
And in that nest there was an egg
And in that egg there was a bird
And from that bird a feather came
And of that feather was
A bed

And on that bed there was a girl
And on that girl there was a man
And from that man there was a seed
And from that seed there was a boy
And from that boy there was a man
And for that man there was a grave
From that grave there grew
A tree

In the Summerisle,
Summerisle, Summerisle, Summerisle wood
Summerisle wood.

For the movie, the vocal was recorded by the actor Walter Carr, the song has since be covered a capella by Mediaeval Baebes under the title "Summerisle (Maypole Song". (source: http://www.wicker-man.com/musicofthewickerman.php)

I love this song and am including it in the Beltaine ritual I am doing next weekend.

In other news:
S.J. Tucker is going to be in Lincoln on May 15th and Omaha on the 16th. You can get details of these appearances by visiting S.J. Tucker's web page and clicking on Schedule.

Lincoln: Friday May 15, 2009 — 8-10pm
Lincoln NE House Concert
Hosted by Joe and Jade
2348 D Street
Lincoln, NE 68502
$6-$15 suggested donation, please.
RSVP to Jade: (402) 613-7891

Omaha: Saturday May 16, 2009 — 8pm
The Dollhouse
4022 Lafayette Ave
Omaha NE 68131
Join us at Bryir's lovely Victorian home.
$6-$15 donation, please

CALENDAR OF EVENTS for the week:
29 April 2009, Wednesday: Birthday of Ed Fitch, Wiccan author

30 April 2009, Thursday: Walpurgis Nacht, traditionally the German Witches gather on the Blocksberg, amountain in northeastern Germany.

1 May 2009, Friday: Beltaine/May Day
Order of the Illuminati formed in Bavaria by Adam Weishaupt, 1776

2 May 2009, Saturday: Birthday of D.J. Conway, Wiccan author
Saturday is also the monthly meeting for the Circle of Mystics Discussion Group. They will be meeting at 2pm at Here & Back Again in Lincoln. A $2 donation is requested to help cover the rent of the space.

COMING UP NEXT WEEK:
Next weekend I will be putting the show together. I am not sure if Murf wanted me to do both hours, so I have begun putting together a collection of light instrumental leading into slightly heavier music and then a nice collection of songs including some new stuff for many of you. I hope I manage to put together a show that everyone enjoys. I will be sure to post a full play list from the show as soon as possible.

In the meantime, if you want to know what we have played in the past, please check out Murf's web site.

Until next week! Keep listening to KZUM 89.3, take that cell phone out of your ear if you are behind the wheel, and remember to tune in Sunday mornings at 9am Central. Pax musica! -Phil