Name: Joy Shannon covers David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down" by JoyShannon
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Description: Joy Shannon and the Beauty Marks cover David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down" from the film Labyrinth. Joy plays Celtic harp, harmonium and cello on the track.

Heilung is a new project between Kai Uwe Faust and Christopher Juul. Heilung is amplified history from early medieval northern Europe and should not be mistaken for a modern political or religious statement of any kind.

This track is from the "soon to be released" debut album Ofnir. feat. Maria Franz. 



Heilung - Krigsgaldr

Join me in an interview with Cassandra Vitale, she is a spiritual guide who uses yoga, tarot, reiki energy healing, and emotional freedom technique  as tools for healing and transformational living. Cassandra shares her personal journey towards healing the emotional body and how we can use ourselves and our own struggles as a vehicle for healing.

Healing the Emotional Body

Somatic Body Scan of the Emotions we experience. No judgement. Just notice what comes up. Where you feel each emotion. Is there a feeling, memory, thought, color, temperature that is triggered when thinking of the feeling? Possibly feeling the emotion in certain organs or areas of the body. Notice.

Feel Your Feelings

Appreciation Meditation

Joy Shannon and the Beauty Marks cover David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down" from the film Labyrinth. Joy plays Celtic harp, harmonium and cello on the track. 

Joy Shannon covers David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down"

Star Wars Cantina (live)

My band Hedgehog Swing was recently asked to play the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy for a gig. In order to arrange it for a gypsy jazz band, I recorded myself playing the different parts (poorly). This is just a teaser. The full arrangement will sound much better with Gage, Luca, & Benj on guitars and bass. Keep your ears open, and we just might play it live. Happy Holidays!

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

The peace that lay(with mariona aupí)snippet

Joy Shannon is an Irish harpist and singer whose ethereal and haunting songs come from depths of Irish folklore. Her melodies evoke images of witch’s lairs in dark woods or the distant echoes of the voices of spirits in the ancient places of the Irish countryside. 

Her 2015 album “Mo Anam Cara”, or Irish for soulmate or spiritual teacher, follows the ancient Celtic calendar, with a song for every pagan holiday. Songs like “Imbolc Invocation to Brigid”, resurrect the old traditions of how the Irish used to honour the goddess of light Brigid, with offerings of song and hospitality. 

Shannon’s 2017 album “Aes Sidhe”, Irish for “the spirits of the other world”, leads the listener through a musical journey through the Irish afterlife, from entering the dark of the burial mounds to the glorious peace of the Irish afterlife lands of “Tír na n’Óg”. On this album’s song “A Pause”, Shannon worked with guest artist Xasthur, the black metal project. 

In 2020, Joy Shannon released a sublime album called “The Cave”. This was recorded with producer Christopher Juul of the incredible band Heilung. “The Cave” was inspired by the ritualistic use of caves in ancient Ireland, where they were used as meditative places to connect with the gods and face one’s fears. The songs are, at times, droning and mesmerising and, at other times, they pulse with the heart beat of the earth. 

Joy Shannon’s upcoming release is an album called “An Chailleach”, or Irish for the crone or elder goddess. This album sees Shannon delving into the lore of the dark wintertime goddess of Ireland, with stark and stunning compositions. On this album, Shannon collaborates with the dark folk band Osi and the Jupiter, the ambient artist Leila Abdul-Rauf, singer and guitarist Jessica Way from the ethereal metal band Worm Ouroboros, the folk metal band Aerial Ruin, the haunting singer and songwriter Emily Jane White and throat singer and shamanic practitioner Kai Uwe Faust of Heilung.

Joy Shannon covers David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down"

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