Eerie Songs

[AnthroHeart]

Post eerie songs that sound like they're from another dimension.

The strings in it really make it.

[APeacefulWarrior]

Post eerie songs that sound like they're from another dimension.

So... pretty much the collected works of Sun Ra, haha.  The cat was definitely from another dimension.  I'm about 99% sure he was a 5- or 6D Wanderer who was far more awakened than most ever achieve, considering that he openly proclaimed himself to be an alien, from the planet Saturn, incarnated on Earth on a peaceful mission to introduce higher cosmic vibrations to the world.

Which he did by creating some of the most mind-melting jazz ever conceived.  

He was also an inspiration to guys like Miles Davis, Roy Ayers, and George Clinton.   Oh, and he was obsessed with Egypt and the Pyramids.  He kinda sounds like someone we "know," eh?  

Here are a few of his more palatable compositions (in ascending order of weirdness):

Tapestry From An Asteroid



Saturn  (maybe my favorite tune of his)



The All of Everything



Calling Planet Earth  (with trippy video!)



Space Is The Place

[Spaced]

I Sun Ra

[Spaced]

Here's something strange for ya

[Bring4th_Austin]

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And here's a favorite of mine, it's a very pleasant kind of eerie. Lots of subtle atmospheric sounds, strings, and the quiet, strained vocals really make it sound like it's coming through from another dimension.

[APeacefulWarrior]

@Spaced: That sounds like Devo and Oingo Boingo had a mutant lovechild. And I say this in the best possible way.

[Spaced]

@Spaced:  That sounds like Devo and Oingo Boingo had a mutant lovechild.  And I say this in the best possible way.  

Yeah i like Colin Newman. He was the lead singer of the band Wire, I'd suggest checking them out if you liked that.

Here's something maybe a little less frantic and more haunting:

[APeacefulWarrior]

OK, one (well, two) more from the "creepy, weird and alien" playlist and then I'll go look for some ear-bleach.  ;-)

Anyone remember the soundtrack to the original Ghost In The Shell?  I was always amazed at how the main titles sounded so alien, but still captured an incredible feeling of loneliness and melancholy:



Which then made it really amazingly powerful when the theme is revisited at the end, except with a growing humanization and more traditional harmonies, presumably representing Major Kusanagi coming to accept herself and be accepted by others:

[APeacefulWarrior]

Now for a little ear-bleach (of sorts) and then I'll quit cluttering up the thread.    Another of my favorite weirdo musicians is Susamu Hirasawa who is relatively popular in Japan, but is best-known internationally for scoring the animated movies and TV productions of the late great Satoshi Kon.  

I describe his tracks as being techno re-interpretations of folk music from another world.  They're weird, eerie, but oddly uplifting.

The Girl From Byakkoya



Switched On Lotus



Love Song (This one has a bit of a post-Genesis Peter Gabriel vibe...)

[APeacefulWarrior]

(Sorry, but when you ask for music from other dimensions, I am all over that sh*t, haha. )

And Dead Can Dance is awesome, great stuff Spaced. Although it's funny... In my earlier years, I preferred Lisa's contributions. These days, I find myself increasingly enjoying Brendan's work.

[Spaced]

I feel like we've got similar tastes APeacefulWarrior :thumbsup:

[sjel]

minipops67 is probably my favorite musical piece ive encountered thus far in my life. i have never heard anything so loaded with sounds and cosmic energies, all in perfect harmony together. I honestly feel like it is an example of fourth density interaction. intelligent energy manifest.

[Parsons]

I don't know about sounding from 'another dimension', but when I think of 'eerie', this music video is the first thing that comes to mind:

[sjel]

this one sends shivers through my soul. listen in the darkness.

[Dekalb_Blues]

The Eriest song I know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxKy1_c6DeM


 < A philosophical mule named Sal, having recalled the despairing words of mighty Ozymandias,* letting off a good horse-laugh at the surpassing vanity of Man and all his works    

*sigh* ... moving right along, this has some groovy moves goin' on (courtesy of two superior so-called "tribal" dancers)  'midst all kinds of bangin' music that's hard to pin down:



It's on the border between eerie and sort-of-alien outer-spacey (or mayber inner-spacey?) and just plain Other-ish, in a good way. What you're seeing, courtesy of these gals, is a blast from the past of millennia ago (when, for instance, the people of Ra actually were strolling around in the luminous Venusian flesh way-back-when in the olden days in Egypt)...



... when the Dance was an esoteric language understood by the adepts in the audience as articulating ideas too multifaceted and fluid for words, and meanwhile calling up certain crucial energies and transmitting them. The Sacred Dance was a big deal, and specialists among the original Isisian, Hathorian, and other priestesses and priests would give dances to the people the way preachers now spout sermons (except the overintellectualized and overemotionalized sermonizing of today is all but sterile of any real divine energy, alas). 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkbbJIh_BG4

Nowadays the Dance has largely devolved exoterically into mere erotic hootchie-cootchie bellydancing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmFp0I8AZqw (I must say, though, that this particular work has a lot to recommend it in sheer boldness of frank and amusingly clever expression in an overly politically-corrected puritanical world... note the drum-pattern very similar to the one in the above vid of Tahya's Hathorian troupe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsUWK-fixiA (Latter-day vestal definitely-not-virgins mammarifously channeling Great Gangsta Mammon/Moloch?)

... although there are those dancers who, while not being shy in exuberantly using their sometimes superabundant mortal physical framework for all it's worth, still succeed in making it something more  evocative of the sheer liveliness and mysterious brave beauty of incarnate human life as it dances merrily and purposefully despite the seemingly crushing prevalence of just those kinds of stark desert-wastes of resistance-is-futile-Nothingness in the howling darkness of the Endless Cosmic Void, so to speak-- which tends to get on the sensitive Wandering-soul's nerves a bit more than somewhat, causing him/her/it/unclassified to feel kind of blue, or worse --


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuoiRr6hLjg

-- but back then, it was a whole 'nother thing, especially when done in synchronized groups, as we see here. It still is, in certain protected cultural domains, serving to orient one choreographically within an inconceivably vast intelligent Cosmos-dance:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xpJRwIA-Q  

"Stop acting so small-- you are the Universe in ecstatic motion." -- Jalaluddin Rumi (13th-century Sufi and poet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmD1B3hBMKI


  

* http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/672/