#75 - SPELLLING's Tia Cabral

The Witch Wave

Pam Grossman

Arts, Visual Arts, Spirituality, Other, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

It’s the Season Finale of The Witch Wave! Tia Cabral is a Bay Area-based musician who performs under the magical moniker SPELLLING. She released her first moodily mystical full length Pantheon of Me in September 2017 to rave reviews including being Bandcamp’s #4 record of that year, and she followed it up in 2018 with her critically acclaimed darkly sparkling album Mazy Fly released on Sacred Bones Records. On both of these albums, she draws from dream imagery and esoteric symbolism to tap into the ethereal realm of emotion and spirit all spiraling from a synthy sonic palette.

Her brand new album, The Turning Wheel, marks a symphonic expansion for SPELLLING, with lush orchestral production that utilizes 31 musicians, and celebrates macrocosmic themes of “human unity, the future, divine love and the enigmatic ups and downs of being a part of this carnival called life. ” It feels very much like a Magnum Opus, and heralds a brilliant and bewitching music-maker at the height of her powers. The visuals for the album are maximalist as well with SPELLLING and co. donning elaborate costumes and metamorphic makeup. SPELLLING has toured with Boy Harsher and Amen Dunes and her live performances are regarded as revelations of spell and spectacle.

On this episode, Tia discusses her magical music theories, divine influences from Kate Bush to Sun Ra, and how occult practices like tarot and alchemy helped conjure her new album, The Turning Wheel.

Pam also talks about the sacred symbolism of the wheel, and answers a listener question about meeting the felines of her dreams.

Our sponsors for this episode are Moon Dust Press, Witch Baby Soap, Motherland, BetterHelp, Mithras Candle, and Maude’s Paperwing Gallery

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0:00.0	This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by Moon Dust Press.
0:06.4	Are there any little witches in your life? Moon Dust Press is an independent publisher of
0:12.4	children's books about witchcraft and magic, like Brena, a pagan picture book, and the C is for
0:22.4	Coven Board Book. Brena is a gentle introduction to magical paths like green witchcraft and kitchen
0:31.5	witchery, and C is for Coven teaches the ABCs by matching each letter of the alphabet with
0:39.0	witchy terminology like A is for alter, and B is for Bezzam. You can find these and more upcoming
0:48.1	titles for the little witches in your life by going to moondustpress.com.
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1:59.1	The world is filled with bewitching people, and you might be one too. Welcome to the podcast
2:05.0	where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. I'm Pam Grossman,
2:12.1	and this is The Witch Wave.
2:42.1	Hello, and welcome to the season finale of The Witch Wave. Yes, my friends, we've come to the
2:57.0	end of season 4, and I have got such a succulent sonic episode to share with you today.
3:07.2	But before I do, I just want to take a moment to say thank you for your continued presence and
3:15.7	support, certainly over the last four years, but especially over this past incredibly challenging
3:24.8	one. I am convinced that I have the world's greatest listeners and all of your kind messages
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