Supernatural Music: Fairy Bagpipers, Phantom Fiddlers, and The Choir Invisible

***This episode has been our Jonah and has been cursed from the beginning! We are re-releasing it because the first version had fuzzy audio***Chris and Simon wind up the old gramophone and share some numbers from angelic choirs, the nodding ones beyond the grave, and from the rarely good people in the hollow hill. Sing along with a banshee! Trill to a phantom air from Dartmoor! Rhapsodize over an orca’s mermaid song! And shake your tambourine at yellow bats, breeding foxes, Dolly Parton and finger-chewing nereids! Are our listeners in harmony with the Music of the Spheres or are these mysterious melodies something more mundane? Kudos also to our organ player from Ohio and to the poltergeist who follows us through the recording BibliographyParacoustics: Sound & The Paranormal, edited by Steven T. Parson s & Callum E. CooperMusic from Elsewhere, Haunting Tunes From Mythical Beings, Hidden Worlds, and Other Curious Sources, Doug Skinner, 2024. Has music notation. “anomalous music”  including fairy, trow [troh or trouw ow and troll music, Spiritualist music, “music of the sky people”No Earthly Sounds- Faery Music, Song & Verse, John KruseMusic and the paranormal : an encyclopedic dictionaryMelvyn J. Willin (Author)Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the NightBy Wolfgang Behringer chapter on unearthly music in the AlpsThe Music of “An Adventure”, Ian Parrott, 1966Barbara Hillers: “Music from the Otherworld: Modern Gaelic Legends about Fairy Music” in Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Vol. 14 (1994), p59Ríonach Uí Ógáin: “Music Learned from the Fairies” in Béaloideas Bay la Gish 60-61 (1992-3), pp197-214 Chapter on fairy music in The Peat-Fire Flame: Folk-Tales and Traditions of the Highlands & Islands, Alasdair Alpin MacGregor 1937https://archive.org/details/peatfireflamefol00macg/page/30/mode/2up?q=gigha&view=theaterLovely and Mysterious: The Music of Fairyland, Chris Woodyard, Fortean Times October 2014NAD A study of Some Unusual “Other-World” Experiences, D. Scott RogoNAD Vol. 2 A psychic study of the “Music of the Spheres”, D. Scott RogoMusica Trascendentale, E. Bozzano, 1943