Lute Music for Witches and Alchemists.
Lutz Kirchhof.

Sorry folks, but the title of this CD might be a bit misleading. You will not hear Halloween sound effects, or “A Night on Bald Mountain” Disney-style. Instead you will be treated to meditative music based on the theories of Ficino, Agrippa, and others. Kirchof does us all a favor by fleshing out what has previously been locked away in archives and rare publications and allowing us to hear each composition as it was originally meant to be heard. A good book to buy with this CD would be D.P. Walker’s classic Spiritual and Demonic [as in Socrates’ daemon, not the kind from the uh-oh place] Magic (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000). This music is meant to heal and not to hurt; meant to uplift and enlighten the mind and not to drown it in darkness. And besides all that folks, it’s just plain pleasant to drink wine and eat cheese to. In addition, Lute Music For Witches and Alchemists has great liner notes that give the low-down on each Hermetic ditty. M & M it’s not, thank Plato, Plotinus. Ficino, and the stars!