Sharon Knight
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Sharon Elizabeth Knight |
| Genres | Celtic, Rock, Folk Metal, World, New Age |
| Occupations | Musician, Songwriter, Producer |
| Instruments | Voice, Guitar, Mandola, Percussion |
| Years active | 1986 - Present |
| Labels | Trance Jam Records |
| Associated acts | Pandemonaeon Sharon Knight & T. Thorn Coyle Hands Upon Black Earth First of May Raven |
| Website | Official website |
Sharon Knight is a San Francisco-based neopagan composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist known for writing, recording, and performing Celtic fusion music. She also records and performs harder edged music with Middle Eastern themes as the frontperson of the Pagan rock[1]/Folk Metal[2] group Pandemonaeon.[3] Knight is the co-owner of Trance Jam Records.
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[edit] Biography
Sharon Elizabeth Knight was born on January 8, 1966 and was raised in Redwood City, California. She studied in the Feri tradition of witchcraft with Gabriel Carrillo [4] and has also studied Thelema and Tibetan Buddhism.[5] In 1994, she married the German musician Winter, who has been her musical collaborator since.
[edit] Career
Sharon's first album, Incantation, was released in 1996, followed by the self-titled Pandemonaeon debut (2001), Temple of Dreams-Live! (2003), and her second solo album, Song of the Sea [6] (2004), which features two duets with Shay Black of the Black Family.[7] Two of Knight's songs from Song of the Sea, "May Morning Dew" and "Song of the Sea", also appear on Sequoia Records' Celtic Lounge I (2006) and Celtic Lounge II (2007). The latter also contains a music video for "Song of the Sea".[8] Knight has also collaborated with electronica artist Hands Upon Black Earth (Hands Upon Black Earth, 2004; Translucent, 2009), pagan author T. Thorn Coyle (Songs for the Waning Year: A Collection of Chants to Celebrate the Dark Time of the Year, 2008; Songs for the Strengthening Sun: A Collection of Chants to Celebrate the Return of the Sun, 2009), and on Raven's 345-S (2008). Her third Pandemonaeon album, Dangerous Beauty, was released in 2010.
[edit] Genre and Work
Sharon Knight's solo work has generally been classified as Celtic [9] / New Age [7] even though there are many more cross-cultural elements involved in her music. The same is true for her rock/folk metal band, Pandemonaeon, which due to its Middle Eastern and Goth influence, she describes as "music for bellydancers in combat boots."[10] In her Celtic work, Sharon Knight is most often compared to Loreena McKennitt and Stevie Nicks.[11] Sharon co-writes & co-produces most of her music with her partner, Winter.
[edit] Discography
Flowinglass Music
First of May, For Earth and Her People (1986)[12][13]
Morrigan Records
Various Artists, Fire & Stone: Pagan Rock Volume 1 (1999)[14]
Trance Jam Records[15]
Sharon Knight, Incantation (1996)
Pandemonaeon, Pandemonaeon (2001)
Pandemonaeon, Temple of Dreams - Live! (2003)
Sharon Knight, Siren Songs (2004)
Sharon Knight, Song of the Sea (2004)
Sharon Knight & T. Thorn Coyle, Songs for the Waning Year: A Collection of Chants to Celebrate the Dark Time of the Year, (2008)
Sharon Knight & T. Thorn Coyle, Songs for the Strengthening Sun: A Collection of Chants to Celebrate the Return of the Sun, (2009)[16]
Pandemonaeon, Dangerous Beauty (2010)[17]
Seqouia Records
Various Artists, Celtic Lounge I (2006)[18]
Various Artists, Celtic Lounge II (2007)[8]
Cyberset Music
Hands Upon Black Earth, Hands Upon Black Earth (2004)[19][20]
Hrair Tanielian
Raven, 345-S (2008)[21]
Asizazoon Music
Hands Upon Black Earth, Translucent (2009)[22]
[edit] Videos
Song of the Sea [23] (El Mundo Bueno Studios, 2007)
Stretched on Your Grave[24] (El Mundo Bueno Studios, 2009)
[edit] Other
Cry For the Forest [25] (Earthfilms, 1998, a short film about Julia Butterfly's Luna tree-sit, soundtrack use)
Dark Imaginations [26] (Anaar, 2008, bellydance instructional DVD, soundtrack contribution)
Beatific Vision [27] (Sountru, 2008, feature film, DVD, soundtrack contribution)
The Commune [28] (Elisabeth Fies, 2009, feature film, DVD, soundtrack contribution)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/2570/pagrock.htm&date=2009-10-25+10:47:36
- ^ http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/08/interview-with-sharon-knight-of-pandemonaeon.html
- ^ Interview in Crescent Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 1, March 2003, published by North Wind Studios, Pacifica
- ^ http://www.cog.org/wicca/trads/faery.html
- ^ Interview in Modern Pagans: An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Practices by John Sulak and V. Vale. San Francisco: RE/Search Publications, 2002. ISBN 1-889307-10-6
- ^ http://www.newagereporter.com/charts/top100.asp?m=9&y=2005
- ^ a b http://www.allmusic.com/album/r733929
- ^ a b http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1027484
- ^ http://cdbaby.com/cd/sharonk3
- ^ http://www.sharonknight.net/pandemonaeon.html
- ^ http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/digest/digest.php?a=viewr&id=620
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r760928
- ^ http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/WICCAREVIEW2.html#anchor_39
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000JZ7A/ladybridgetswicc#moreAboutThisProduct
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p278464
- ^ http://cdbaby.com/cd/sharonk5
- ^ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/pandemonaeon
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r817616
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r936204
- ^ http://www.musictap.net/Interviews/CochranBobbyHUBEInterview100705.htm
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1538302
- ^ http://www.rtfmrecords.com/artists/artist_hube.html
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXLuASouDDc&feature=channel_page
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9N8fW6dq0
- ^ http://www.earthfilms.org/havc/pages/music.html
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOv4f2ZzWg
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1315031/soundtrack
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104052/soundtrack
