Copper Moon E-zine

Witch Web (CD) By Fiona Horne

Reviewed by Abel R. Gomez

Celebrity Witch and bestselling author Fiona Horne returns to her  musical roots in Witch Web. A Witchcraft concept album, the songs are intended to guide listeners to the magick and beauty of the Craft every moment, whether it be deep in ritual or simply taking a walk in the big city.

Witch Web is an album about celebrating the joyfulness of the Craft and the majesty of life on this planet. Fiona sings about the small things that make life wonderful in Simple Truths of a Modern Witch. In other tracts Fiona honors the Goddess, as in her rendition of the Gayatri Mantra, a Hindu chant to the Mother of all knowledge and Dark Goddess, a song dedicated to her patron Goddess Lilith.

Let It Begin Now: Music from the Spiral Dance (CD)

By Starhawk and Reclaiming & Friends
Reviewed by Abel R. Gomez

The Bay Area Reclaiming Community is renowned for their annual Halloween Spiral Dance ritual. Each year thousands flock to San Francisco to partake in the Spiral Dance remembering the beloved dead, journey to the Underworld, and dance the spiral the renews the world.

LET IT BEGIN NOW is the soundtrack to the magickal and inspirational music of the Spiral Dance. It opens with prayer to the four elements then proceeds into elaborate and colorful invocations to the elements, the Goddess, the God, and a journey to the Underworld. The ritual climaxes at the title track, Let It Begin now, during which participants dance the spiral and spin their musical spell to bless the world. Singers sing of this blessing: “Let it begin with each step we take, and let it begin with each change we make, and let it begin with each chain we break, and let it begin with each time we awake.”

InfraWarrior (CD)

By Monica Richards
Reviewed by Abel R. Gomez

InfraWarrior (‘power from within’) is the first solo project from Monica Richards.  One-half of the  Goth/Industrial duo Faith and the Muse, Monica Richards is passionate and enchanting.  The album opens with “Gaia”, a tribute to Mother Earth as a living being and the source of our lives, setting the tone of a magical, political, and an all-together innovative album.

Sellisternia (CD)

By High Priestess
Reviewed by Abel Gomez

Tribal, ecstatic, and transcendent are three words to describe the works of California based songstress High Priestess. Her first album, Sellisternia (‘Feast of the Goddess’) fuses elements of eletronica and acoustic instruments into a unique rhythmic experience.