Interview:
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Crescent Magazine interviewed Pandemonaeon's
lead singer Sharon Knight at El Mundo Bueno Studios in San
Francisco, CA. We invite you to listen as Sharon describes
her passion for music and dance, and speaks of
her
views
on
magick — as well as the need for magick in our world.
The interview is presented in a three-part series; this online-only
feature
is
the third segment.
CM: What have your magickal influences have been, what kinds
of training and study you've done that has led you to where you
are now magickally?
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Sharon Knight: My root practice is within Victor
Anderson's line of the Feri Tradition, and from there I've also
gone
on to study Golden
Dawn style magick, Thelemic style magick... [and] Chaos magick
is of course in there. Also I've always been drawn to Celtic
and
British mythology so that gets woven in a lot.
CM: What have your musical influences been?
Sharon
Knight: Of
course traditional Irish music, Middle Eastern music as well
got added after I got interested in belly dancing. Early on
classic rock stuff, especially [music] that had mythical
elements like Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull. And since I've
been with Winter,
who is rock and blues influenced, we've added a lot more
of
that back into the music that I was playing at the time which
was very largely influenced by Celtic music.
CM: How
does dance and music reinforce your beliefs and your spirituality?
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Sharon Knight: I guess the way dance and music
reinforces my beliefs is in the way and the reason that I do
them. I almost always only sing about things that are magickal,
or mythical or at least very passionately based in aliveness.
And as far as dance, I am almost always invoking something or
doing some kind of magickal act when I dance and so then I get
the body memory — its like I can link the magick into my
cells. I'm sure you've probably noticed yourself, its not easy
to be the kind of people that we are in the world that we live
in because I think the magickal paradigm that I suspect consciousness
is evolving into is at its very beginnings. For those of us who
already have that starting to happen, its kind of hard to figure
out how to fit into the mundane world. Sometimes I feel deathly
bored with the routines that people expect us to go through,
sitting in a cubicle so we can get our rent and, you know, drive
a nice car and go to sports, and I so don't fit with that. I'm
not always sure how to fit. By taking the myth symbolism that's
important to me and bringing it to life in my world by making
songs and dances out of it, just makes the world a place that
I want to live in more.
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