Music of faith and heart - Spiritual and Religious music

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Mendalla

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There's a lot of it out there from many traditions and cultures. Thought it would be nice for spiritual/religious music to have its own thread rather than being buried in a Pop & Chips music thread.

To kick it off, we have a collaboration between Sami Yusuf, a British singer-songwriter of Azarbaijani background, and British choral ensemble Voces8. It is from Yusuf's upcoming album Ecstasy and centres around the famous Islamic phrase "there is no god but God" or, as Sami puts it in Sufi terms, "Nothing is real but the Real". Beautiful piece that you could probably put on loop and meditate to. Fittingly, and probably deliberately, it dropped on Feb. 16 which was just before the start of Ramadan this year.


Thread rules:

There are no right answers or "One True Faith" here. Music of any and all religious traditions expressing any and all forms of religious faith are welcome.

Do not argue with someone's choices. If they consider "You Shook Me All Night Long" spiritual, we'll run with it, though some explanation would be nice.
 
From another direction, a meditation on the meaning of the crescent moon. "Crescent Moon Interlude" is a short spoken word piece recited by female rock/metal vocalists Melissa Bonny, Fabienne Erni, and Adrienne Cowan. It appears on Bonny's debut solo album Cherry Red Apocalypse.

 
Just a river of Stix ... rheids that form papyrus as a floatin means ... covers the riff ...

Kind of joust ... played on us for a lesson?
 
Light is the way and the heavier is the sinker ... so the thought settles as hypothetical only ... all alone!

These are declared out there isolated as the flaming bits inside the alien item of bother ... eph eM eral thing that's iffy!

Ural that ... as a mist about Uranus where ... into the earth ... tourn around ... rovers?
 
A meditation on the "Harvest" that I at least find spiritual. Really reflects on our dependence on Nature and the world for our sustenance. Nightwish has lots like this, esp. on their last 2-3 albums, and it's one of the things that made me a fan of the band. They engage with the universe and man's place in it in a way that I find quite spiritual and I would likely be using their music if I was still doing UU services. Singer here is English vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley whose playing often has a Celtic ring to it (in fact, he originally joined the band as a session player on uillean pipes and flutes, becoming a member in 2013). He even sings in Welsh on occasion.

 
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And from the bigger, grander side of Nightwish's sound, "Perfume of the Timeless" reflects on one of my favourite spiritual themes: How we as individuals and as a species are the legacy of those individuals and species who have gone before, making us the "perfume of the timeless" of the title. Powerful stuff expressed here by the band with orchestral and choral backing. Lead vocalist Floor Jansen pulls out the stops, too.


The video itself racked up a few awards for Finnish filmmaker Ville Lipainen, who has directed many of the band's videos and concert films. He did a brilliant job of putting the images together in a way that captures the feel and meaning of the song.
 
I resonate with gospel music done up by the broken down.

Sunday Morning Sidewalk by Kris Kristofferson is like a hymn to me and when I was looking for that one I found this one.

I never knew the story behind the song till today - but I still know all the words.

 
This has been a lifting way to spend a Sunday afternoon but now I'm getting hungry.

 
Why does the bible impress us that kings are not required?

Would they rule over business, governing and BS?

This allows differentiation of governing of the people and to the people ... versus governing for a people to grow intellectually with great care ... not a careless soul would appreciate such words! Thus great prodigal ... expressed as wasting the entire physical part while feeding the metaphysical! Like a day at the garbage tell (tell being an old word for a hill, mound or hump in the plain) ... like Will don't tell ... thus silence for a stretch when wandering without (that's san's like w/o time).

Always need for another hand when you find the 3rd is ugly about expectations of working ...

I knew stuff and thus the shelving ... that idle-i Zing ... godda stop that one ... we hate knowledge! Haven't time for it ... much to do about it ... right? Thus the lights were put out ... there ... where? You knows ...

How ever many folk were concretized ... fixed stares ... winding upwards ... when they observed what was coming down ... was unpopular! That's counter action causing friction in the fantasies of man's kyan ... some say cyan which rises as cynical shade ... coloring of mithra ... said to include light elements of justice , etc. Much over run by power ...
 
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Twas something else that should have been read into ... twad as a past tense of goober ... that's another layer!
 
Thus Calm eth ... later right now ... pious rackets of peddling ... 3 wheeling?

So many questions about what comes forth ... from mindless ad Lib'en ... Lib serrated ... k'n ei vin ...
Core penetrating de vices ... saps closer to the surface! Alternate hum'r ...
 
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