Eihwar - Heill Óðinn

 

 

This is yet another 1 of those very odd things that cropped up when my friend David Biedny died was everything related to Odin/Wotan and Vikings stuff. I have a long drawn out list of very strange experiences with THAT, and I heavily resisted it. But, especial Odin themes cropped so heavily, but had zero interest in brutes, savages, murderers, and blood-lusting war mongers whom pillaged & plundered my ancestors. I also knew NOTHING about this culture because of all the gory past history. 

I kept being aggressively followed, and haunted, for months with these 2 huge ravens. i was so baffled! Even when I spent a month in Southern Delaware, there they were again. I'd be woken up in the morning by the cawing of these 2 HUGE RAVENS. They'd be outside my window, then when I came into the living room, they'd go to my balcony, and perch either inside it or on the banister. Or they'd head over to the parking lot and cackled at me. When I went to the front of the building to head outside to do some Pokemon Go, those 2 huge ravens were there again, and made a lot of vocal sounds at me, and looked me on the eyes. It was highly unnerving.  

But, since I was so prejudiced over it, David figured out ways around this, to sneak it in, because I value the arts, nature, the environment, music, and higher ideals... then, next thing I knew I was picking up a lot of Norse vocabulary words, and it tricked me into researching it. Now, I can recognize many many of the names, words, themes, and so on. It's all related to Germanic stuff anyway, and even tho' my German is somewhat rusty, I still use German frequently because most of my favorite music is still German, and I follow some stuff on Instagram, X, and YouTube in German. 

I didn't know, yet that David had died, only my teacher, Bill Martone. 

I even had strange dreams about a man with 1 eye, or a man with 2 different eyes, or old wizards that flew around. I had very weird instances of howling Eastern Coyotes which are mixed with wolves, which was super creepy, and unnerved me a lot. Then, on another instance, 2 of these Easter Coyote wolves just showed up in my neighborhood, and stood in my path, before I could reach the PokeGym, in a billowing poof of diaphanous mists & fog, like a thin cloud. They just sort of strutted a bit, sniffed the ground and air, then carried on like usual, and sauntered away, pretending to be dogs... but weren't dogs at all. 

Then, I found myself listening to Viking music more than just the typical Neo Page Tribal stuff I'd been already listening to for years.  

 

So, here's 1 of the more unique Viking Tribal musical acts out there called EIHWAR. 

I'd already been listening to Heilung for years, so this one is highly unique in its own way.  

 

 

 

Mixio's "Charm" Track from the 2000s

 I love finding randomly obscure Indie songs, and these things can just happen out of nowhere, with me. I was sitting on the sofa, meditating, as 1 does, when the audio ended, and I heard this song my daughter was playing she often has similar eclectic tastes like myself. 

And, I heard this track and was like: WOW!

 

So, naturally, I got up, n went to my daughter's room and asked about this song. SO, she texted me the video, and I tracked it down. 

it has that old school MySpace days kind of feel to it.  

It still feels very FRESH to me, and has this very satisfying & catchy VIBE to it!

Then I tracked it down on Spotify. 

 

Loreen: Selected Tracks

 So, ever since my friend David Biedny died he's actually been highly active in my life, and music comes my way in a MASSIVE WAY... I could write A LOT ABOUT THIS, and I've blogged about it elsewhere. But, 1 such track was called "Tattoo" by Loreen, who's 1 of the very few singers to win Eurovision twice. 

I generally don't follow Eurovision, unless someone I was "flowing" or was friends with mentions a track from 1 of the Eurovision competitions, and I check it out, and like it.  

I was scrolling through YouTube, when this image of the  thumbnail of this video kept popping up, on every single video, and each time I came to YouTube. 

Then when I noticed the TITLE of this song was "TATTOO" immediately I was like: DAVID!!!

1 of David's Tattoos! THE MAIN ONE I've been working on decoding the meanings of... and possibly cracking this code: 

 

So, I watched the video, n I was STRUCK by JUST HOW MUCH SHE LOOKED SO SIMILARLY to my O.C. Djehkäujaa that it FREAKED ME OUT!!!! 

Then, I fell down the rabbit hole of Loreen... Parts of this song, were Arabic orchestral, and in the Live performance I saw she'd inserted various Scandinavian Runes & Staves, whcih are thing whcih KEEP on popping up in my life since David died.  

Other things which kept showing up in Loreen's videos and stage performances, and lyrics, would either remind me of my beloved friend, David, or even answered my questions, but many of the intentional   choices she made for things, like mountains, symbols, words, would remind me of Djehkäujaa whom I started creating back in 1997, then started evolving and really taking shape in summer 1998 and then early on in 1999.

 

So, was David Biedny and Bill Martone (my teacher who passed away just before David Did) have something they were trying to convey to me? 

I don't know.  But, the experience of all of this is QUITE INTERESTING! 

And, even Loreen has videos of herself standing on a Mountain, whcih is like the dream of had, of a figure, whom turned out to be David Biedny, with me, atop a unique mountain in the Himalayas, whcih took a long time to figure out was "Mount Meru" which is literally Mount Kailash in Tibet.  

 

So, I've played several tracks by Loreen since I'd 1st come across that video with that song! 

Not long after I heard Loreen's track "Feel's Like Heaven" I found a similar sounding song, tho also different, by a band called "Dead Can Dance" (the name says it all!) called "Opium" which has these melancholy lyrics in it, that remind me of David before he passed away. 

We'd had various exchanges, but he'd often pull away from me, tho' he was my favorite, and he was very moody. He'd tell me about how he was a recluse, and wanted to be away from people... which was odd for such a social person.   I KNEW that something was wrong w him, but I didn't know what. He's sometimes tell me some things, and it was very personal, like he told me his recent ex girlfriend at that time was abusing him.

 

Since David passed away, I learned A LOT of things, and he was a teacher at Yale University, so I guess this figures! I learned about a lot of things he'd never told me when he was alive, but also the things he had told me, but were somehow blocked from my memories.  

Anyways...  

I'd also taken my old songs I made from about 10 years ago, or longer, and started re-working them again. 

 

Kyle Gordon's Eurodance techno Hit spoofing the 90s

 2 years ago, comedian Kyle Gordon had a MASSIVE HIT that was spooffing 90s Eurodance called "Planet of The Bass" and this frickn song, altho' hevaily teasing stereotypes of the 90s Eurodance techno genre WAS SOOOOOOOOO FUCKING GOOD that EVERYONE KNEW ABOUT IT!

 

I COULD NOT GET A TICKET TO HIS SHOW IN BOSTON!!!! 

But, the thing about this song, despite the intentionally teasing of the old European mis-use of English, probably mostly picking on a personal favorite like "Masterboy" which kicks ass in so many awesome tracks, despite having oddly used English words or phrases, or perhaps various tracks by "MAXX" people LOVED THIS SONG even MORE than the funny lyrics, and comedy. He's a great comedian, honestly. But, there were so many klips on his social media with this song, spooffing this genre, like how some many 90s Eurodance techno groups would just swap in & out the singers, and make them lipsync to vocals that weren't their own, like "Captain Jack". 

 

 

THIS SONG WAS SO CATCHY and the format for this genre STILL WORKS! The 4/4 beats, and the upbeat lyrics applied to various buzz words, like this song frequently uses. Like "Planet of The Bass" or  randomly sexy language about phone sex, and "I love you", or throwing in Fantasy & Sci-Fi themes, and things like "World Peace" or "Stop the war!"

But, EVERYONE just LOVED THIS SONG!

I think it just PROVES that PEOPLE NATURALLY LOVED EURODANCE TECHNO the 90s style! It blends, House Music, Synth, rap, melodies, and various concepts.  

So, he also did a Discotech Italodance track also, last year:

  

 

Sääftig x Takeo Ischi - YODEL TECHNO

 I frickin LOVE techno, and Schlager techno, and weird Quirky stuff like this!

This features Takeo who's a Japanese guy with PRETTY GOOD GERMAN, and he's got that super cutesy elderly man vibe going on.

This video IS SOOOOOO ADORABLE!!!!! 

 

 

The Halluci Nation: Electric Pow Wow Drum

 This track came along in my radar about 2024-2025, so I thought I'd revisit it here. It's Native America with House Music & Electronic Elements. THE MOST POPULAR TRACK they made is "Electric Pow Wow" and it's so popular with kids "from the Rez" (as we/they call it) because we/they're no longer afraid of our/their heritage, and celebrate it OPENLY and flaunt it on Social Media.

Despite many people having NEGATIVE experiences due to CoVID Lockdown, NOT EVERYONE DID, and since that time period I've seen these kinds of things shoot off into major popularity, including the dance competitions from the Pow Wows. It makes me feel PRETTY GOOD to know that our future generations CARE about our tribal nations' heritage and preserve and evolve it.

 I often hear this track in YouTube Shorts & Reels on Instagram & TikTok as well as on X/Twitter

 

 Another interesting House Music Track by this Musical Project Group:

 

The Lost Song of Jorge Sacco 'Save Your Mind' of The Gaia Project

 There was an incredibly popular track by Jorge Sacco from his "Gaia Project" that often was not credited by title, but in some cases WAS. It's generally called "Save Your Mind" or the Medusa song. But, it's not entirely clear.

So, where is this song?

What happened to it?

Who was Jorge Sacco?

What was The Gaia Project?

 Well, if you're looking up old Tribal Fusion bellydance Videos from back in the GW Bush Era & Early Obama Era (the mid 2000s & early 2010s) you will very likely still come accross footage of the Tribal Fusion belly dancer movement all over YouTube assuming the footage is still there, and the search engines are STILL WORKING.

 

During this time period the Belly Dance movement reached incredible popularity due to The Bellydance Super Stars, as well new forms of Belly Dance, such as ATS, and Tribal Fusion Belly Dance sweeping the globe and spreading due to Social Media Platforms such as: MySpace, TribeNet, LiveJournal, and many others that have come and gone. 

The Tribal Fusion styles of Bellydance  branched off from Cabaret/Raqs Sharqi & ATS bellydance, and merged with House Music, Hip-Hop, Popping & Locking, Breaks, Hitting & holds, and merged with so many international forms of dance whihc were on the verge of being lost forever, so the dancer movement learned, studied, and incorporated these ancient & ethnic dances and even began using Jazz choreography merged with imrpov, and Rave Culture mixed with the budding underground movement of "music festivals" due to Love Parade being permanently canceled in Germany, so EDC became a Massive phenomenon as an underground cultural movement, and the movement of "Summer Music Festivals" grew into world wide standards drawing from Burning Man, Woodstock, and more. 

The Tribal Fusion movement of dancers drew from an eclectic mixture of Experimental Music, Arabian & North African Music, as well as "Goth" subculture, and often had a "mood" of eeriness, vamps, femme fatal, and the strange beauty, haunting beauty, or dark beauty. It was normal to hear a mixture of glitch-hop, dub step, slowed EDM, as well as Neo Pagan, and various ethnic alternative music fusion.

So, the track of Jorge Sacco very much capture the mood, tone, and style of that time period. It was eerie, haunting, dark, and strangely beautiful. It also blends the old and the new, which was very common not just in House Music, but in the dance movement,which often had dancers rescure antique and old discarded items from thrift shops & flea markets, or Ebay, and make new art to be worn on stage, at festivals, or in public fashion. "Everything Old is now new."

The REMIX CULTURE IN EVERY WAY.

The dance movement, altho often having a dark Gothic or halloweenish vibe to it, in general was very anti evil,and was more about sisterhood, and acceptance of all kinds of bodytypes, people, genders, etc. and was ahead of its time. 

Here are EXAMPLES of THIS VERY FAMOUS TRACK by Jorge Sacco with LIVE DANCERS:

JorgeSacco · Gia Project - A Small Dubstep Collection

As of the typing of this blog, I haven't been able to find much of Jorge Sacco, nor this song.

He DOES have a Twitter, SoundCloud, and YouTube Channel

However, he has NOT been active since 2018. 

He's a Musician, Composer, Producer, DJ, and MC from Argentina, and most of his songs were popular with Spanish Speaking dancers, altho much of the video content was frequently in English, it was usually in Spanish, or bilingual listings, and most of his songs had English titles.

Altho you CAN STILL find his Gaia Project songs on SoundCloud from which this song originated, you WILL NOT FIND THIS TRACK AMONG THEM. Also, the majority of the links he put great care into listing on his SoundCloud are almost all broken links.

It is also unknown as to whether he is still alive, or perished, but also his music is NOT AVAILABLE on Spotify, nor is it in the YouTube Music system.

At this point, it's either lost media, or abandoned media.

Is he dead?

I honestly don't know.