Artist description Beth The Sybil is a medieval rock sextet with a sound of music unlike anything you've heard. What we come up with is a collection of out-of-this-world contemporary sacred songs and love songs inspired from sources all around the Mediterranean which celebrate the earth, the sacred feminine, and the cosmic origins and destiny of the human soul.

Music Style Medieval Rock

Artist History Several years ago I began to be drawn to the fragrant air of medieval time and thought, and having rededicated myself to singing I began listening and researching the music of the time as well. We’ve intended to capture through this collection of songs the myst of a dreamlike time that lingers at the edges of our imagination and our fascination with a place where even the mundane is a source of wonder. For to the medieval mind, wonder itself is the miracle and all of creation are but divine external signs used by God to inspire and remind us of our own divine mystery. Simultaneously strange and familiar, the natural world and beastiary kingdom are enlivened allegories for human relations; animal love but a mischievous mirror of divine love. What is fascinating to learn is that many of the earliest songs were composed, sung and passed down orally by women eons before the male troubadours took historic precedence and music notation came into practice. Already in the 6th century religious councils condemn the women’s “lascivious and diabolical songs” and the witch hunt begins! The Mozarab Christian women for example (Spanish Christians living in Muslim communities,) were well known for both the sensuous and serious nature of their songs. Through this window of free spirited medieval thought, the female is reverenced through the bountiful Mother Earth, the Mother of Christ, as well as through every woman, each seen as a vessel of Her creative force and guardian of Her sacred knowledge. These songs come from early Christian, Jewish and Celtic communities from diverse regions around the Mediterranean. You can readily hear the intersecting influences of different cultures as people moved and shifted throughout the basin. King Nimrod for example is a case of identical melodies that emerged through both Christian and Jewish communities, each honoring their respective stories. In seeing the convergence of different people and beliefs unified through song, perhaps the wind whispers that there is finally only One song that all people, persuasions and longing hearts sing. Perhaps in looking back we are led to the grail right in front of us.

Group Members Beth Schneider - vocalsGreg Harris - piano, keyboardsAaron Malone - electric violinPat Byrne - BazookiAustin Wrinke - drums, percussionOrest Balaban - bass

Instruments keyboard, bazooki, bass, violin, percussion

Albums My Kind Nimrod

Location Burbank, CA - USA

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