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.  

 

 

 

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. 

 

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.

Video Music Arts Notes Post

This post is JUST some notes about some video that are inspiring some of my current ideas for producing TV content this year.

A lot of these videos, and also some photography is styles of things I'd love to expand into doing. Everything from costumes & makeup, but also shooting on location, shooting in studio, various lenses & frame-rates.  HEAVY on the artistic VIDEO end/spectrum.

Fantasy Glam:

Experimental/Glam:

Tribal Fusion/Gothic

Old School Video Art Effects:

Old School Eurodance Techno & Rave


















Dark Earthy/Neo Shaman/Neo Pagan/ Neo Tribal Glam

Tribal Fusion/ New Agey

Dreamy/Surreal

Witchy Tribal Dark earthy Glam

Boho Ravers

Glam/Emotive Video Portraiture Video Art

Integrated Effects with old media

Old School Urban Glam Ravers

Cinematic Wanderlust Glam

Regal Matriarch Crone Glam

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Subjective Art; Chinese Cha Dao/Gungfu Cha
Ceremonial Tea Culture

My Chinese Tea Table

#chadao #gungfucha #cha #tea #teaculture

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Recent Music Video Art June 2018

Well, I'd previously been very busy with going to UMASS Boston, but NOW I am doing a variety of film-making, animation, and photography, among other arts. My daughter is about to wrap up her Freshman year in high school.

I have a mix here of music but also video art heavy on the audio design. 

But, here's some interesting video art since last I'd posted:







Jail Blimp:

Jail Blimp is ONLY 1 min long, but its SO AWESOME! I've watched this so many times! It's surreal, whimsical, weird, and won a number of awards. I often ask people if they've seen it, and when they haven;t I always show it.

All India Radio:

Let's talk "All India Radio"!

It was my little brother that showed me their work. very creative video art in a variety of styles. I've often referenced their work for some of my own at UMASS:

Here's a new one:

Other older ones:

My PERSONAL FAVORITE:

"All India Radio" has actually SO MUCH content. Most of their work is ambient or chill-out music. But, they're highly experimental, and very artistic.

The Glitch Mob's NEW album as an entire video art FILM
"Seeing Without Eyes":

The Glitch Mob has been a favorite of mine since the GW Bush Era. They've always been pretty artists, including their live shows and their music videos. But this was incredible. They did the ENTIRE album as a music video film. It's full or psychedelic visuals and video art.


GRIMES & Janelle Monáe:


I'd posted about Canadian "GRIMES" before but she did a video art film with Janelle Monáe with a Canadian grant that was FANTASTIC!

I've also watched this video more times than I can count. Ultra experimental. They shot so much stuff that they have a remix at the end to showcase some of their B-Roll experimental footage.

Grimes had also done some work with HANA and I gotta say I LOVE HANA's work. I love her look on camera, her spirit, and her energy!

Here's the entire film:

 Björk

I'd been a fan of Kerli for a while now, and she;s a fan of  Björk, so often her work can kind of hint at some  Björk influence, but NEVER had I seen  Björk's work start looking like Kerli's until she did THIS. Not only that but her new album is ALSO named after Kerli's album Utopia from 2013:

Incidentally, Björk likes to work with video artist Andrew Thomas Huang who's work is Incredible!  

Another thing I was quite enamored with this year was some Shamanistic Fusion, including Russian & Mongolian, or even Turkick, and Neo Pagan stuff:

Heilung:

I also happened to come accross a Tribal Fusion/Gothic bellydancer who freqently puts out videos and even dances to some older tracks from the GW Bush era by "Shiva In Exile":

Let's Talk Macross Delta Hard Rock Opera

There's a CD/album floating around out there, if u have cash to get one, from Walküre the audio/sound unit team from the Delta Unit in the show "Macross Delta".

In case u didn't know "Walküre" is the Germanic word for "Valkyrie"  which comes from Norse mythology/ancient cultural religions. (also spelled "Walkuere" which is the same thing)

There's a new song in the series "Walküre Attack!":

I think this is probably my favorite song, even tho' I like all the songs very much. This song has that epic hard rock opera vibe like another song from the "Macross Frontier" final film "The Wings of Good-bye" in which a major character martyrs them self in a gesture of noble honor.

I gotta tell ya, that song ended up being my favorite song of all the songs from the entire Macross Frontier series. (There's 2 different versions of Macross Frontier, the TV show series version, and the films versions which are a somewhat different story, much like how Macross plus went with 2 different versions also, also their English versions had differences as well, and there were 2 of those also, as well as re-edited versions of those.)

The Walküre song reminds me of this song
"Sayonara No Tsubasa ~ End of Triangle"
also often called "the Valkyrie song" by fans. 

For one, this song has the vocals by May'n, whom I liked way better than the original vocalist for Sheryl. But, wasn't interesting about the composition of this song, is that (if you ever studied music or dance) not only does the tempo change several times, but the beat counts also change. That's rare in songs. Also, this song tells a story, much like an opera, and as much of a hard rock song that it is, it also has a full orchestra backing, plus synthesizers which still has a pop & J-Pop vibe while still being "hard".

The Walküre Attack! song also does some of this, but still has more of a pop feeling than the Frontier one. This is still the most "hard" sounding. But, I suppose one could argue that the old vintage Macross music was way more rock n roll.



 

THE ARENA: New Lindsey Striling Whimsical Burning Man Vibe Video

New Lindsey Stirling Whimsical Burning Man Vibe Video

Lindsey Stirling has out a new whimsical bohemian Burning Man and almost Katy Parry or Ariana Grande or Kesha vibe going on with her new Music Video.

THE ARENA:

This video showcases much more of Lindsey's Dancing skills in ballroom and lyrical dancing and shows how nimble and dexterous she is.

The video is a very symbolic enigma of dream-like statements.

Lindsey's New Album:

Brave Enough:

On Amazon:

Kerli's Whimsical Unique Musical Arts: Feral Heats & Blossom

Kerli's Whimsical Unique Musical Arts: Feral Heats & Blossom 

Kerli has done some very uniquse and beautiful works this year. If you blinked and missed some, here are a few of them:

Feral Hearts 2nd Version:

Blossom:

Blossom 2nd Version:

Marvelously gorgeous and artistic!

Kerli Synth Pop: Whimsical Bohemian Nemophilist Mori Girl themed "Feral hearts"

(UPDATED)
I always like to see what other artists do (and in case you didn't already know, yes, I am an artist, myself, as well).

There's this beautifully talented Estonian artist, named Kerli, whom I've been admiring the work of for about a few years now. She's ever changing, and inventive. There's so much of her work that resonates with the types of things I like, or do, but in her own way. She also was the artist whom inspired Lady Gaga to create her own artistic creative works.

I wouldn't call myself a "fan" whom she affectionately calls her "Moon Children" or "Moon Babies", but more of a fellow artist that admires her work VERY MUCH, just not in the way a fan does but as another artist does.

It's a very rare person/artist that actually lives and breathes their art, and she is that, which is why I SO ADMIRE not just her, but her artwork because she IS THE ARTWORK.

She doesn't just make the art, even tho' she quite often makes and rigs her own EVERYTHING or directs it, she lives the art, performs the art, feels the art, dreams the art, sings the art, shares the art. That sort of thing is something I'd say "I get it". I think she goes beyond the legendary artist Rebecca Horn because Kerli is so much more palatable for most people.

Kerli has been teasing people last year like a Hermit, Mori Girl, Nemophilist, off communing in the woods in Estonia, and posting photos of her dreamy creations last year, burning herbs for inspiration, and really getting into character with her flowing costumes, clothes, and creating all kinds of things...

Her newest work reminds me somewhat of some California artists: Beats Antique,  Black Lotus Clothing, Sequoia Emanuelle, The Plumed Serpent/Daniella White, Zoe Jakes, Dark Beauty Mag, and a number of others on the West Coast (USA). I love all of those!

Here's a number of teasers she put out recently: "Feral Hearts"

 
If you like the strange, whimsical, dreamy synth pop styles of Canadian artist Grimes, you might like her new single which I found for on SoundCloud:

I was watching on Snapchat for quite a long time the live premiere performance clips of this song but with a live band of folk instruments. It was very nice. So, I was surprised when I found out the single version is synth pop. I like both.

She's supposed to be launching her new music tomorrow. I assume that also includes her new music video art.

I personally would've loved to contribute to the crowd funding campaign she had months ago, but I lost my job.
here was the video she created for the fund raiser. She has a very child-like sweet innocence in this video clip.

Some of Kerli's beautiful art from Estonia:

UPDATE: (1:30 AM 02/19/2016)

I actually just got the new song on Amazon. I kept searching for it, and then suddenly there it was!

UPDATE: (11:00 PM 2/24/2016)

Mermaid TEASER VIDEO IS UP:

Right HERE

UPDATE: (4:00 PM 02/25/2016)

THE FULL VIDEO IS UP!:

EDIT: 03/20/2016

Some other elated content videos by Kerli on this project:

I Got A New "Gold Record" on "8Tracks": Om Chants [Free Streaming]

I'm actually surprised that this became so popular. Originally I wanted this record to be all "om" chants for meditation and/or yoga related practices. (Yes, I quite enjoy yoga and meditation for beneficial medical and emotional well being reasons.) Unfortunately, 8Tracks just refused to let my upload certain tracks. I have no idea why. I tried frequently for over half a year,  like 7-8 months of trying, until I finally gave up on certain tracks, and just uploaded Deva Premal and some ambient tracks at the end.

There was a weird glitch when I got the "Gold Record" on this album, which just WOULD NOT SHOW UP for about a week or more.... I tried to get in contact with the 8Tracks Team which is generally rather social with me, especially on Twitter, and frequently emails me asking me to create theme mixes... but, they were nowhere to be found... I guess they were sick with flue, or on a vacation... *shrugs*

Here's my Newest Gold Record:

Lots of Om Chants from BlackUniGryphon on 8tracks Radio.

And, here is my First Gold Record:

Gypsy Mix 01 from BlackUniGryphon on 8tracks Radio.

This one hasn't QUITE made it to gold yet...

Poof! Have Some Trance! from BlackUniGryphon on 8tracks Radio.

Some Of My Music Compositions [FREE DOWNLOADS]

So, I've actually had some positive feedback on some of the musical tracks I created. I'm not the greatest musical person, but sometimes I need my own music to do my own video, or audio content. And, that's what these were for.

If you want them you can download them and use them, COMPLETELY FREE. (Just PLEASE DO NOT USE MY MUSIC FOR ANYTHING RACIST, BIGOTED, SEXIST, PREJUDICED, HATEFUL, OR XENOPHOBIC.)

the first 2 tracks are more ambient or somewhat dub house-ish.

The 2nd 2 tracks are Experimental Tribal Fusion using 303 Acid audio and ancient Arabic or Egyptian drum rhythms. Watch out for you speakers tho'.

My music is also available FREE on New Grounds. 

Sci-Fi, Animation, EDM, and Asia

 Since it's almost 2016, I have a smattering of some stuff that sorta all started coming out around the same time.

Yes, I was often NUTS about the new Star Wars films "The Force Awakens" which I still haven't seen yet, since I don't like holiday crowds. I did, however, go ridiculously insane over getting the Covergirl Lipsticks online, which was like HELL, because they sold-out in like a second, and the websites were fraught with glitches.

I'll put a weird video of a dude playing piano, who seems kinda awkward. He dresses like a Jedi, only to sit down and play the overture, then walk around swing his light saber around like he's high or something... I dunno... awkward artists... go fig'.... *shrugs*

When Star Wars came out with the new film, Star Trek came out with their NEW FILM TRAILER. Which has a track from the Beasty Boys, which NOT ALL TREKIES are fans of, sparking a MAJOR CONTROVERSY. And, YES, I am a TREKIE. OF ANY fandom out there ST is my #1! strait to the core!

And here come the haters...
I'm on the fence... it's not exactly a "Star Trek" song choice, but it's the track when the rebooted Kirk stole a car as a kid in the first new film.

Then, I got THE NEWS a few weeks ago, about the NEW MACROSS Series! I'm like a MACROSS FIEND! MACROSS DELTA or withe the Greek symbol/letter: Macross Δ

Well, We're in LUCK because a new video came out with a new song from the new Series whcih premiers LIVE on Thursday December 31st!

Most of this month I've been OBSESSED with MACROSS FROSTIER soundtrack music, J-Pop, and K-Pop.



Then, a few weeks ago, PSY, everyone's favorite K-Pop singer/rapper/dancer star came out with not just ONE, but TWO new songs on the same day:

If you haven't heard the Daddy song you, you should, and WATCH THE VIDEO:

His other song/video that came out on the same day is NAPAL BAJI which is a Disco/Electro track. And, while ur at it, you NEED to see PSY do the Daddy song LIVE with all of his dancers. There's also a Video where he was doing a LIVE show in Hong Kong and danced with Chow Yun Fat that was especially good!

 Even tho' Steve Aoki is actually American, I figured, what the hey, I'll just slap him in here also.... I've been kinda borderline obsessed with Steve Aoki... I say border line because I don't quite cross that line, just kinda close, but I like a number of things he creates, since he's more than just a musician and DJ, and a social media mogul, and well as a major producer. (And YES he has been NAKED on his Snapchat. )  He mostly seems to enjoy working with others, which makes his stuff very unique.

I must say I LOVE his NEON FUTURE stuff.
HIs NEON FUTURE II was REALLY REALLY REALLY GOOD! And he pout out NEON FUTURE ODYSSEY which is also good.

I was, however, obsessed with one track in particular, which I was busting my ass off on my now ex-job, called "Lightning Strikes", and altho' the video has NOTHING to do with Lightning, it just recently came out:

Home We'll Go Just came out on Christmas Eve.

And, you can see WHY I like Steve Aoki stuff, since he's about my age, and Generation X also:

1 final word about Steve is that not only does he have a lot of really enthusiastic fans world wide, and has a Guinness World Record of the most shows by any DJ in a full year, plus being inducted into the Hard Rock Cafe, but he managed to convince his audience to let him hurl a sheet of CAKE at them. In fact, he's managed to make people ENJOY getting caked that they compete of whom gets caked when he plays the CAKEFACE song.

If you want to see a bunch of little, skinny, hot girls, get TOTALLY SPIKED IN THE HEAD HARD CORE WITH CAKE, you should watch his compilation video, and any of his live concert shows.

My daughter has been obsessed this year with a band that's logo looks like it says "STUPID KILLERS" but no, they're actually called "STUDIO KILLERS".

They're actually a fictional band of virtual singers and musicians, similar to GORILLAZ from about a decade ago.  The main singer is a pretentious brat diva named Cherry, whom altho' is a female character is actually sung by a man, Teemu Brunila.

Well, they actually just came out with a new music video on Christmas Eve. of the track, "Jenny", that was supposed to be released over a year ago.

Today, the views on the video went from just over 200K at noon (EST) to over 300K+ by 5PM, and as I'm typing this it just got about 9K more views on it.

Here's the video:

And, I know this was from late 2014, but I just found out about it this year. Like love animation, rave, and I do like Ke$ha. This ANIMATION is SO INCREDIBLY GOOD!

Well..... 

That's all, folks!

Happy New Year! 

Can't wait to see the new MACROSS DELTA in a few days! 

I'm getting a new digital dual DJ deck in about a week. Don't know how that will go, but here's hopin'!