Spirituals - A Mix

A little spiritual music for Easter week...

...ranging from the meditational to the flippant, the playful to the otherworldly, gospel to kosmische.

Enjoy.

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Susanna & The Magical Orchestra – Hallelujah
Homer Quincy Smith – I want Jesus to walk with me
Edward Williams – Japanese macaques: Warm baths in a snowscape (from the soundtrack of the tv series Life on Earth)
Scott Walker – Angels of ashes
Cluster – Sowiesoso (So not so so)
Silver Apples – Seagreen serenades
Bruce Haack – Cherubic hymn
The Beach Boys – Transcendental meditation
Dirty Projectors & Bjork – On and ever onward
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The road (from the soundtrack of the film The road)
Howe Gelb – Paradise here abouts
Gospel Artistics – Lord is it
The Velvet Underground – Jesus
Dylan Thomas – Do not go gentle into that good night
John Cale – Do not go gentle into that good night (live)
Nina Simone – I shall be released
Richard Osborn – Monastery
Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi – Quiet corner
Joe Hisaishi – Procession of the spirits (from the soundtrack of the film Spirited away)
Joanna Newsom – The sprout and the bean
Lambchop – The Saturday option
Gavin Bryars feat. Tom Waits and an unnamed tramp – Jesus’ blood never failed me yet (Tramp with Orchestra IV)
Bill Callahan – Faith/Void
Boards of Canada – Open the light
Serge Gainsbourg & Catherine Deneuve – Dieu est un fumeur de Havanes
Shearwater – God made me
Low – Holy Ghost
Big Star – I am the cosmos
Gram Parsons feat Emmylou Harris – In my hour of darkness
The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn! (To everything there is a season)
Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells – And so must we rest

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