Episodes

Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Is Music a Gift From ”The Other World”? - With musician and writer Joshua Cutchin
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Joshua is a tubist and writer. We discuss tuba music, gigging economy, faerie music and more.
Joshua's website: https://www.joshuacutchin.com/
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: https://musicmeaningandmystery.com
Originally recorded July 28 2022
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Sounds used in this podcast came from the below sources and used under fair dealing law of Canada; education:
Outro song - Firewater - Electric City

Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Can Music Produce Miracles? - with guest Solveig Englund, music therapist
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Solveig is a music therapist, a musician, and possibly a literal angel (?) according to at least one guy. We talk about music therapy as applied in pre-school to hospice care and the literal miracles it produces. And of course once again, music as medicine.
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: https://musicmeaningandmystery.com
Originally recorded August 5 2022

Friday Nov 25, 2022
What Is The Future Of Music? - With musician & astrologer, Zamboni Funk
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Zamboni is an astrologer and a musician. We have a discussion about the future of music and also about black music which takes us into a discussion on race and "whiteness".
Zamboni's website: https://www.zambonifunk.com
Zamboni Funk on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/69XoFcxl9COHiYXZtMdAAE?si=1ba98c3cf2894ce5
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: https://musicmeaningandmystery.com
Substack: https://musicmeaningandmystery.substack.com/
Originally recorded June 8 2022
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Sounds used in this podcast came from the below sources and used under fair dealing law of Canada; education:
Erykah Badu - On & On

Sunday Nov 06, 2022
What Shall We Do With Our Shadow? with guest: Seriah Azkath
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Seriah is a Heavy Metal radio DJ and also hosts a paranormal podcast. We talk about great concerts we've been to, haunted radio stations, can heavy music be medicinal?, and a paranormal experience Seriah had involving music.
Seriah's metal show: http://www.thelastexit.org/
Seriah's paranormal podcast: https://wheredidtheroadgo.com/
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: https://musicmeaningandmystery.com
Substack: https://musicmeaningandmystery.substack.com/
Originally recorded April 13 2022
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Sounds used in this podcast came from the below sources and used under fair dealing law of Canada; education:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg626BVWeXW4MBkQ3GAf8AA/about
https://www.youtube.com/c/ASMRReview/about

Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Can Birdsong Tell the Future? - Leina Savage: Bird Omens and the Music of Nature
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
This month’s podcast is a conversation with Leina Savage. Leina specializes in reading Bird Auspices. This means bascially, divination by bird. But not exactly as Leina explains. We discuss the history of bird augury, the music of the forest, the planetary associations of birds and more.
Leina's website: https://leinasavage.com/
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: https://musicmeaningandmystery.com
Substack: https://musicmeaningandmystery.substack.com/
Originally recorded May 9 2022
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Background bird sounds provided by youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/c/dhuting
Night nature sounds provided by youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZGidxwtLftHppm6UxJuDPQ
Toad croak from youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/c/MartyCalabrese
Black capped Chickadee sounds from youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/c/SerbiA66
California Quail call from youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyq1m1n9-6dNOEg5nfQG1eg
"Exceptional Blue Jay calls" from youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/c/MyBackyardBirding
Spotted Towhee calls from youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/c/LangElliott
"11 crow sounds and calls" by youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/c/KrariTheCrow
The above sounds used under fair dealing law of Canada; education

Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Kristen Houser - Animal Music
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Kristen is an animal communicator. We discuss what animal communication is, how the song of whales sparked a cultural revolution against industrial whaling, and a special message from the animals for musicians.
https://www.faunaspeak.com/
https://www.instagram.com/faunaspeak/
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: https://musicmeaningandmystery.com
Substack: https://musicmeaningandmystery.substack.com/
Originally recorded December 18 2021

Monday Aug 22, 2022
Evan Amoto: Rewire the West (beauty in the western classical music canon)
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Evan is inspiring others to enter into a relationship with the beauty of western classical music. We discuss why beauty matters, Evan's personal favorite pieces of music, Dante and much more.
Evan's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RewiretheWest
Evan's website: https://rewirethewest.com/
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: https://musicmeaningandmystery.com
The Music Meaning and Mystery Substack: https://musicmeaningandmystery.substack.com/
Originally recorded Nov 13 2021

Friday Jul 22, 2022
Su Terry Returns and a one year anniversary giveaway!
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Friday Jul 22, 2022
What are you gonna bring to the table when you're older and not cute any more?
A chat with Su Terry about vibes, why John Coltrane played so many damn notes, vertical music, Raw Sound as the Source and a story about Billy Taylor and Art Tatum.
Su Terry's website: https://suterry.com
The video with Bobby McFerrin and the pentatonic scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk
This podcast's accompanying article: https://musicmeaningandmystery.com/2022/07/21/of-frogs-and-birds-the-podcast-turns-1-giveaway-included/
Timothy Sailor's podcast: https://nightbirdpodcast.com/
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: https://musicmeaningandmystery.ca/
The Music Meaning and Mystery Substack: https://musicmeaningandmystery.substack.com/
Originally recorded October 4 2021

Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Bettina Rothe: Music, Body, Dance, Medicine
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Bettina is a dancer specializing in ecstatic dance. She believes dance can heal the wounds of fragmentation. We discuss music's effect on the body, her experiences with dance at the fall of the Berlin Wall, what is ecstatic dance and much more.
Bettina Rothe's website: https://www.bettinarothe.com/
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Music Meaning and Mystery website: om
The Music Meaning and Mystery Substack: https://musicmeaningandmystery.substack.com/
Originally recorded October 20 2021

Friday May 06, 2022
The Ethnomusicology of the Ancients with Drew
Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
Drew is an ethnomusicologist currently working in North Africa. We discuss the ethnomusicology of the Bible. This spins out into a discussion about how various pre-modern people's can teach us to deepen our relationship to music and learn to reprioritize it.
Drew has a youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/clobbort
Music Meaning and Mystery website: om
The Music Meaning and Mystery Substack: https://musicmeaningandmystery.substack.com/
Originally recorded October 11 2021