This week’s Monday Magick entry, like many before it, is inspired by events that are currently occurring in my life. Recently, lacking a magickal partner and feeling as if I’m not practicing my magick to its fullest potential, I was struck by the desire to convert part of my home[…]
I can’t help noting that I’ve posted a lot more Jazz tunes than I have anything that might be considered “Metal” or otherwise stereotypically “dark” as part of this Monday Magick experiment. I don’t know if that says more about my taste in music than the apparent occult interests of[…]
This week Monday Magick wants you to take it easy. Just sway and step to the sounds of “Haunted House” from ‘Before the Rain’ a 1978 LP from Danish harmonica player Lee Oskar. Oskar may be best known as a founding member of Funk outfit War and has also earned[…]
This week’s Monday Magic featuree is another entry in an ever-growing list of massive instrumental Jazz suites we’ve featured in this space. The track in question is the nearly ten-minute “Suite: Golden Dawn” from guitarist Al Di Meola’s 1976 Columbia Records LP ‘Land of the Midnight Sun’. Is the name[…]
I’m feeling a little off this week and really just needed to spend some time after work relaxing and vibing out. So when it came time to pick this week’s Monday Magick entry I went looking for something that sounded smooth over something with in-your-face occult qualities. Ultimately I chose[…]
This week’s Monday Magick entry is a massive tune from one of the most celebrated, not to mention most sampled, Jazz keyboardists of all time, Bob James. And while “The Golden Apple”, from James’ 1975 LP ‘Two’, isn’t necessarily one of his most sampled tunes, it is one of the[…]
This week we’re keeping Monday Magick light and airy with an entry from Jazz/Funk vibraphonist Roy Ayers and his legendary fusion group Roy Ayers Ubiquity. The tune in question is an old favorite of mine, the title track from the band’s 1975 Polydor Records LP ‘Mystic Voyage’. In keeping with[…]
I’ve been pretty stressed out recently, so this weeks Monday Magick entry is on some cool out shit. It’s an extended 7-and-a-half-minute Jazz-Funk fusion instrumental titled “Witch Doctor’s Brew” from obscure California-based band Magnum. And though the track certainly isn’t diabolical by any means, it is the one tune on[…]
Speaking of the dearly departed Ms. Winehouse, the wavering lilt of Hiatus Kaiyote vocalist Nai Palm definitely shares a few thing in common with her druggy croon. When Giant Step sent me the re-release of the Melbourne, Australia-bred crew’s album ‘Tawk Tomahawk’ I was blown away by the LP exclusive[…]
