About 20 years ago, in an upstairs bedroom of a mountain cabin, these songs were written and recorded by 2 sisters - Linde and Lora Craig. Their technology and equipment were limited and their creativity was often fuelled by nachos and margaritas.
They offered the album for sale in only a couple of places. Never the less, word of it spread through the pagan community and, eventually, it even found its way onto a new thing called "the internet" where copies were being bootlegged.
The sample songs below are from an old tape that was badly deteriorating. The CD, now offered for sale at: http://elsieandpooka.com , has been digitally re-mastered and restored.
Click on the titles
below to hear two Sample Songs from
Pan's Block Party
The "Sign of the Unicorn" spoken of in the song is a reference to Lancelot, the "unicorn" bred by Morninglory & Father Otter during the early 1980s. Many of us in the pagan community were quite excited about this at the time and took it as a sign that wicca, paganism and the goddess religion would soon be stepping out of the closet and onto the streets. This has indeed come to pass and I still like the romantic view that little Lancelot was perhaps a herald of the changing times.
Midnight Celebration
Hand in hand, slipping off into the moonlit woods -
a flirtatious, skirt flipping song written for a "new flame" in Lora's
life.
Although not part of the Pan's Block Party tape (it was recorded later) and very badly mixed - this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard! Linde wrote & recorded it for the baby that was growing within her at the time. This song is a celebration and a serenade for the Mother Goddess in every woman and for the Sacred Promise of New Life everywhere. If you don't get all misty-eyed and transported the way I do when I hear it, I'll eat my broom!
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**Something You Should Know** The
talent behind this music is my baby sister - Linde Craig-Moore. What I contributed in the way of lyrics or ideas regarding harmonies and instrumentation was brought to life by her genius. (Picture me jumping around the room waving my arms yelling, "I think we need really strong drums coming in here" (me, who has absolutely no sense of rhythm saying this!) or "Can you do a sort of 'a cappella', mysterious voice thingy without words in the middle of that?" - and Sis shaking her head and laughing or plugging her ears and groaning as I try to demonstrate. And then she comes out with something 10 times better than I was even hearing in my head. How'd she do that? I try to pretend that's what I meant all along....
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