Firedance: Songs for Winter Solstice | 
 enlarge | Creator: Jaiya
Label: Indie
Category: Music
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 777880921120
EAN: 0777880921120
Release Date: December 12, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Dance To Your Shadow | | • | Yule Is Come | | • | To Drive The Cold Winter Away | | • | The Year Is Born Anew | | • | Bring Us In Good Ale | | • | Gaia's Lullaby | | • | The Old Yeare Now Away Is Fled | | • | The Turning Tide | | • | Taladh Chriosta | | • | Firedance |
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Product Description
Jaiya is the musical collaboration of three Mayne Island BC artists who share a deep connection with the land. The name Jaiya, meaning a celebration of victory, in Sanskrit, and bringing forth in Hindi, is emblematic of both their philosophy and their stirring compositions. Their unique sound is a blend of Celtic harp, jazz accordion, guitar, whistle, drums and two female voices in harmony. Miranda Brown, Lael Whitehead and Kim Darwin bring together many talents in Jaiya, including strong backgrounds in Classical, Jazz, Celtic and Folk music. Their songs express a pagan sensibility -- one that recognizes the power and beauty in the earth's yearly patterns without being tied to a particular religious tradition. Jaiya has produced two albums which are focused on powerful turning points in the earth s yearly cycle. Firedance: Songs for Winter Solstice, released in 2003, is both an exploration of the dark and a celebration of the return of the light. Their second CD, Beltane: Songs for the Green Time, refers to the Celtic word for May Day and celebrates the season of growth and renewal. Their upcoming third album, entitled Invocation: Songs for a New Earth, is a collection of earth-honoring chants, suitable for all seasons. All three members of Jaiya continue to draw inspiration from the rare wildness of their gulf island home. They feel privileged to live and work amidst the peacefulness and spectacular beauty of coastal BC.
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LOVE this CD!!! March 20, 2008
Sarah West (Albuquerque, Mew Mexico)
Just a beautiful caldron of passion and magnificence! Sarah Sanctuary The Sacred Pyramid Voices of Eternity
 Very pleasant, relaxing, inspiring background music January 21, 2008
Michael Tichenor (Portland, Oregon USA)
I really like this CD as it plays. I would not exactly call it energizing, but still it is good, and inspiring.
Ancient Songs in the Celtic Sphere. July 25, 2006
Green-man
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very rarely is one able to find songs that both date back to old times in Celtic and Northern European life and new songs that connect the ancient to the modern. But this album does just that.
The songs are good for celebrating the entire Celtic season of Samhain, and are good for both Christian and pagan purposes. Though the songs are all good, the best ones are probably tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 9.
Song one is about celebrating life in the midst of death, an old Celtic way of viewing the New Year. The second song is a mix of ways of celebrating Yule; it begins with a Medieval Gregorian chant, then moves onto an older Celtic view of Yule (using the same mellody). Track four is about the year being renewed by the beginning of winter; track five is an old (Northumbrian?) Medieval English song sung in pubs on cold nights. Song seven is the Greensleeves mellody with more traditional/ancient words. And song nine is an old Scottish-Christian tune about the Christ Child.
This is a wonderful collection of songs to either add some mystery (and older ways) to your Christmas holiday or to celebrate Christmas and/or the Winter Solstice.
Perfect Pagan Solstice Music June 17, 2006
MandolinOrange (Astoria, NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I adore this album for Solstice-time. "Yule is Come" is such a happy, upbeat song, that I've used in ritual since hearing it. "Gaia's Lullaby" is one of the most moving songs I've ever heard and makes me tear up. "Bring Us Good Ale" is hilarious and for some reason makes me think of Hobbits..."Dance to Your Shadow" will make you do just that.
Buy it, love it, and put it on constant repeat right after Samhain!
Firedance - a warming winter brew April 14, 2006
Sylvie Dupont (Quebec)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this music! I've always been really into Yule, but for years I've been looking for music that celebrates the season, not the Christian holiday. This is a lovely collection of songs, some traditional, some original, that remind us what Yule is all about: joy, light, music, good friends and warming celebrations during the darkest time of the year.
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